Published on April 6, 2020  

 Two trustees, J. B. Lovelace and W. W. Wilkerson, purchased the assets at auction and returned them to the Board of Trustees, securing the institution’s survival.

We have seen hard times before.  We’ll see hard times again.   

The world is better because of the grit of Samford people.

 
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.