Published on December 11, 2017  

(With all the fun in the snow on the quad, I knew they would soon be hungry!)  In the cafeteria, half-lit through the windows at the front of the room, I found Michael Scheffres and his staff, calmly proceeding with meal preparations and making contingency plans for whatever circumstances might lie ahead.  Though employees of Sodexo, our food service provider, they were demonstrating on Friday morning that their primary interest was taking care of Samford students.    

The world is better because of the men and women who provide our meals each day, sometimes under challenging circumstances.

 
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.