Conner Hayes, a small business owner based in Nashville, TN, and a 2017 alum of Birmingham-Southern College, writes: Birmingham-Southern College, a Wall Street Journal “2024 Top Liberal Arts Colleges” institution; a college that battled for its existence for nearly two years; an institution jerked around by a fickle and unsympathetic state Legislature, has finally and formally been declared dead. Who delivered this deadly diagnosis? We did.