Birmingham-Southern, a nearly 170-year-old, private Christian institution in the heart of the South, is set to close its doors.
The school disclosed the news Tuesday after it failed to secure an emergency loan from the Alabama state legislature that could have allowed the Methodist institution to stay afloat.
Its last day will be May 31.
"The Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to close the College after a 2024 bill designed to amend the 2023 legislation that established the loan program on which our future depended failed to win sufficient support in the Alabama House of Representatives," Rev. Keith D. Thompson, chairman of Birmingham-Southern's board of trustees, said via letter. "Without that funding, the college does not have the resources to continue."
BSC fielded 20 total sports teams and competed at the NCAA Division III level.
The school played its first football season in 1918 and just three years ago advanced into the Second Round of the NCAA Division III Playoffs where it lost to perennial power Mary Hardin-Baylor.
BSC did not field a football team for nearly 70 years but revived the program in 2007.
Eddie Garfinkle served as the revived program's second head coach and had an extended run that included BSC's first winning season, in 2010, since 1937.
Tony Joe White led the team to four winning seasons in five years from 2018-2022, and Anthony Colucci served as the program's last-ever head coach in 2023.
More than a year ago, the school revealed its financial situation was dire and asked for tens of millions of dollars in loan relief to keep the institution open.
It received a temporary reprieve last April, but that lasted just a year.