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Rhodes College has been named a Best Buy school in the 2014 edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges. It is one out of only 41 institutions—21 public and 20 private—in the country that can boast the Fiske Best Buy title.
Authored by Edward B. Fiske, who served for 17 years as education editor of The New York Times, the guide assesses institutions on qualities such as academic ratings, financial aid, and quality of student life on campus.
By Lynn Conlee and Caroline Ponseti ’15
The poet Robert Frost writes of taking a road less travelled and concludes by speculating that, in his golden years, that road will have made all the difference in life. Perhaps that is how students who pursue self-designed interdisciplinary courses of study will feel when they look back on their years at Rhodes.
Rhodes is joining Ursinus College, College of the Holy Cross, and Lawrence University to further the national conversation about the role of liberal arts colleges in the 21st century, to identify best practices in core curricula, and to communicate the value of a liberal arts education to wider audiences.
By Richard J. Alley
Society has always had a fascination with the law and legal proceedings. It is the stuff of literature and theatre, the big screen as well as prime time television. Many dream of becoming a lawyer and protecting the poor and downtrodden from certain injustice, of becoming Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, Jimmy Stewart′s Mr. Smith filibustering Congress, or Perry Mason calling a surprise witness at the last minute. But how many see that dream fulfilled? How many, in the parlance of the court, may approach the bench?
This summer, Rhodes is partnering with the Center for Transforming Communities to work with local youth to preserve the history and tell the story of their communities.
This year marks the 100th birth year of acclaimed surrealist and realist painter Carroll Cloar (1913-1993) who graduated with a B.A. degree from Rhodes in 1934.
Dr. Charles Hughes, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Memphis Center, has discussed recent controversies surrounding the relationship between race and country music. Earlier this month, he participated in a roundtable on African Americans and country music on HuffPost Live.
Hughes also was interviewed for MusicTomes.com about a published essay on a similar subject.
Rhodes is a small campus in a big city. Here’s 5 ways to get around if you don’t have a car, or if you’re short on gas money.
Young writers from around the country have been participating in Rhodes’ 35th annual Summer Writing Institute that began last week. June 28 is the last day of the intensive, residential program committed to developing critical thinking and writing skills.
Dr. Michael Leslie’s Cultural History of Gardens (Bloomsbury Academic) is scheduled to be released in July. This set of six volumes covers over 2,500 years of gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces, combining the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on gardens through history.