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Linda Flaherty-Goldsmith,
President
David M. Smith ’79, Chair,
Board of Trustees
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Executive Editor:
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Art Director:
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Contributing Writers:
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Pat Kindall
Chad Wachter ’87
Hannah Wolfson
Amy L. Foster, The Lawlor Group
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Scott Butler
Alecia Cockrell
Traci Edwards
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Editor’s Note
A bold move for BSC
We don’t often break news in ’Southern—but we don’t often have such big news. BSC is
announcing this September that next year, it will reset tuition back to 2002 levels in a direct response
to students’ and families’ concerns about the skyrocketing price of college.
BSC President Linda Flaherty-Goldsmith said recently while announcing the move to faculty
and staff that taking a step like this requires “vision and courage.” She has displayed both. She
put the idea of a tuition reset on the agenda in her rst days in of ce a little over a year ago. In the
intervening months, she has directed her team to conduct extensive research, crunch the numbers,
and gure out just how to make this work for Birmingham-Southern College. You’ll read more details
about how the reset will work in our cover story inside these pages.
You’ll also nd stories that demonstrate why we want to make the BSC experience available to even
more students: stories about graduates making a difference in the lives of the hearing impaired, those
with medical need in impoverished countries, and even a little boy with a big dream. These are just a
few examples of ways BSC alumni lead lives of signi cance every day.
You may have your own questions about how the upcoming tuition reset might affect the value
of your degree. It will only make it better. A transparent pricing system will encourage more talented
students to consider Birmingham-Southern, including many who until now have thought that the
life-changing education we provide was simply out of their reach. It will increase the size of the
student body, increase the number of ’Southern alumni making a difference out there in the world,
and spread the word of BSC’s innovation and bravery far and wide. Vision and courage, indeed.
Forward, Ever!
Hannah Wolfson, Director of Communications
‘SOUTHERN MAGAZINE //
VOLUME 42, NUMBER 2
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