UAB and the Alabama System Board of Trustees

UAB football boosters are waiting on a June first deadline to hear whether school leaders will reinstate its football program.  But university president Ray Watts’ decision to cut the football, rifle and bowling programs in December sparked a larger conversation about whether the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees exerts too much influence over the Birmingham campus.  It may be an education matter, but the business community is weighing in too.  We talk about it in this week’s Magic City Marketplace with Cindy Fisher Crawford.  We’ll also hear about a wave of hotel development in Birmingham’s city center.