Betrayed BSC: Making Sense of Birmingham-Southern College’s Closure, a work of in-depth investigative journalism, provides a comprehensive account of Birmingham-Southern College's 168-year history and a close-up critical examination into the wide-ranging mechanics of The College's regrettable closure.

Half of the proceeds of this work will go towards “Project BSC” ventures, the effort to promote activities which honor and commemorate The College’s legacy.

Placing BSC’s closing in the national context of the rapidly vanishing liberal arts education, this work outlines a historical mapping and analytical overview of the various events, factors, forces, and decisions involved in the death of Birmingham-Southern College.

Birmingham-Southern College's unfortunate fate is not a unique one. Many small, private liberal arts colleges struggle across the nation, forced to permanently close their doors due to financial constraints and lack of public sympathy and support for the classical educational model they offer.

The reverberations of Birmingham-Southern College's death will be felt in the Birmingham community locally, in the South generally, and in our nation as a whole as we continue chopping away at liberal arts values.

The death of the liberal arts education is an epidemic corrupting American society. The ramifications of this widespread withering will be ruinous for all.

Informed by the numerous insider accounts of faculty, board members, alumni, administrators, and others close to The College, this book tells the tragic tale (a cautionary one) of a small private liberal arts college in the American South (a dinosaur in our modern age of professional specialization) and its desperate quest to survive in a society bent on stifling its flame.

Forward, Ever.

“Cherished by us all forever,

Alma mater strong,

Hold our faithful hearts and minds

As we sing this song.”