Published on June 8, 2015  

We’re hosting another wave of new students and family members this morning for orientation.  In a few minutes I’ll have the honor of speaking to them in the Wright Center, welcoming them to the next chapter of their lives.  In my years at Samford, as I’ve asked hundreds—perhaps thousands—of students why they were drawn to this place, perhaps the most common reply is that “it felt right to me.”  That’s shorthand, I think, for reasons that are probably too numerous to mention, but it is impossible for most of us to separate a “right feeling” about a place from the people we encounter there.  Samford feels right for so many students and families because of the quality of our people.  

The world is better because of the people—students, alumni, friends, and employees—of 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.