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Samford University

Samford University
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Former name
Howard College
Motto For God, For Learning, Forever
Type Private
Established 1841
Affiliation Alabama Baptist Convention
Endowment $272.8 million (June 2016)
President Andrew Westmoreland
Academic staff
353
Students 5,471 (Fall 2016)
Undergraduates 3,341 (Fall 2016)
Postgraduates 2,130 (Fall 2016)
Location Homewood, Alabama, U.S.
Campus Suburban
Colors Blue and Red
         
Nickname Bulldogs
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division ISouthern Conference
Website www.samford.edu
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Samford University is a private, coeducational, Christian university located in Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. In 1841, the university was founded as Howard College. Samford University is the 87th oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford University is Alabama's top-ranked private university. The university enrolls 5,471 students from 47 states and 29 countries. Samford University has been nationally ranked for academic programs, value and affordability by Kiplinger's Personal Finance and The Princeton Review.

In 1841, Samford University was founded as Howard College in Marion, Alabama. Some of the land was donated by Reverend James H. DeVotie, who served on the Samford Board of Trustees for fifteen years and as its President for two years. The first financial gift, $4,000, was given by Julia Tarrant Barron and both she and her son also gave land to establish the college. The university was established after the Alabama Baptist State Convention decided to build a school for men in Perry County, Alabama. The college's first nine students began studies in January 1842 with a traditional curriculum of language, literature and sciences. In those early years the graduation addresses of several distinguished speakers were published, including those by Thomas G. Keen of Mobile, Joseph Walters Taylor, Noah K. Davis and Samuel Sterling Sherman. In October 1854, a fire destroyed all of the college's property, including its only building. One student and a slave owned by the University's president died in the fire. The slave, Harry, was subsequently buried in the city cemetery with a significant obelisk marking his grave and honoring him for sacrificing his life to save the students. Harry was remembered as a "faithful" servant. While the college recovered from the fire, the Civil War began. Howard College was converted to a military hospital by the Confederate government in 1863. During this time, the college's remaining faculty offered basic instruction to soldiers recovering at the hospital. For a short period after the war, federal troops occupied the college and sheltered freed slaves on its campus. In 1865 the college reopened. Howard College's board of trustees accepted real estate and funding from the city of Birmingham, Alabama in 1887.


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