Finally, after months of uncertainty and seemingly few promising prospects, Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) has entered into a purchase agreement for the sale of “The Hilltop” campus in West Birmingham to Miles College.
Someone recently told me that Birmingham-Southern College’s (BSC) attempted sale is “a fix.” Unsure at first, I can’t help shaking the unsettling feeling that perhaps it is.
What we have hoped for all along – for The Hilltop to remain a site of higher education – appears to be another betrayed dream doomed to become another waking nightmare for the BSC faithful.
Unless Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) has suitors bidding in the shadows, Miles College is the only one left standing in the race to acquire BSC’s West Birmingham campus.
The State of Alabama could not provide a loan to financially distressed Birmingham-Southern College (BSC), but they have made it clear they can buy.
BSC has already failed. It isn’t coming back. What is selling off the physical remnants of the place going to do for anyone?
Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) needed money to fund its expensive capital projects, ornamenting its gated “hilltop in the hood,” as some occasionally called it.
BSC was pronounced dead and DNR (do-not-resuscitate) over the last several years by an Alabama Legislature largely unsympathetic to its plight. But we only see the tip of the iceberg.