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THE FORD BELL R ECI TA L H A L L
Philadelphia area and then college
at Wake Forest. He went on to get
his Ph.D. in psychology from the
University of Texas. His first job out
of school was up the road at the
University of Tulsa, where he got his
first taste of the administrative world
as acting dean of Arts and Sciences.
facil i t i es, s po rts & t u i t i o n
Asked how Berry has changed
since his tenure began, Briggs says,
“I like to think of it as we haven’t
changed direction as much as we
have moved further down the path
“We’ve strengthened our sports
considerably. We strengthened our
music and theater programs. We’ve
beautified the campus in many ways.
And we have great, great students.
One of the things you always want to
do is to have great spaces so they can
have great performances, whether on
the athletic field or on the stage.”
As with likely all private colleges, tuition is a challenging topic.
“It can be hard for people to understand this, but we subsidize every
that we’re on. I loved the identity,
student we educate. No students
the direction that Berry had, and
pay anywhere near the full cost of
many aspects are enduring, but
with each decade, you have to keep what it costs to educate them. So
adapting to what’s ahead and what’s we’re fortunate to have a lot of gifts
from people,” Briggs says.
happening around you.”
Berry has a large endowment that
The school has grown by a few
supports the students. What it tries
hundred students since Briggs
to do is keep the tuition that students
arrived and more of them are living
pay as reasonable as possible in order
on campus. The student body is
to attract students from cities and
more diverse, and the college has
upgraded a number of buildings and rural areas as well as suburbs.
“We want a broad array of studormitories over the years. It has
dents who rub shoulders every day
also enhanced the extracurricular
and learn to work together, and like
community.
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