Published on July 27, 2015  

How College Works is a book written a couple of years ago by Dan Chambliss and Christopher Takacs.  Chambliss is a long-time faculty member at Hamilton College in New York, where he has studied the factors that contribute to the success of college students.  A very simple summary of the book is that a great college experience is built on relationships with two or three friends and meaningful encounters with one or two faculty members.  Everything else pales by comparison.  On the basis of hundreds of conversations with our alums, my guess is that this thesis is correct, at least as far as Samford is concerned.  For all the efforts throughout higher education today to provide every possible environmental factor to improve college life, key relationships will always have the greatest influence.        

The world is better because relationships are cherished at Samford.

 

 
Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 5,791 students from 49 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.