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It is No. 65 among the 500 colleges listed overall by personal finance and business organization Kiplinger. At Rhodes, students enjoy world-class academics and a learning environment that inspires life-changing discovery.
One Rhodes rising junior has been at the center of the action for the last six months, preparing for the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Forty-six of the top 50 players in the world will be participating and, as golfers and golf lovers from around the world descend on Memphis July 24-28, Paris hopes their star power elevates Memphis and recruits more supporters for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Ben South ’19 has been awarded a highly competitive 2019-2020 teaching assistantship by the Assistants de langue en France program.
Three Rhodes faculty members have joined the Office of Academic Affairs, which is dedicated to empowering a community of strong teacher-scholars and developing transformative programs and experiences for a talented student body. They are Dr. Tim Huebner, associate provost; Dr. Natalie Person, dean for curricular development; and Dr. Amy Jasperson, dean for faculty development. They assumed their new roles July 1.
Rhodes College, with a learning environment that is beautiful, community-centered, and transformative, is once again featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges. The 2020 guide delivers an insider’s look at what it’s really like to be a student at the “best and most interesting” schools in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland.
Dr. Alicia Golston has been promoted to dean of students at Rhodes College, effective July 1, 2019. She served as associate dean of students in 2017 and became associate dean for student experience in 2018.
For Diana Azcarate '19, the decision to join the Master of Arts in Urban Education program after graduating from Rhodes was simple. As a product of Shelby County Schools, Azcarate experienced firsthand some of the challenges public schools face today. Azcarate’s time in the program prompted a period of reflection that has ultimately helped her empathize and better understand the needs of students sitting in classrooms today.
Her new novel, The Gone Dead, has been featured by The New York Times as one of the “12 New Books to Watch For in June.”
Study abroad is an integral part of a liberal arts education at Rhodes, introducing students to courses, internships, and research opportunities around the globe. The college is now making it possible for students to use their federal and institutional aid on any one of more than 300 Rhodes- affiliated semester-long study abroad programs.
Based on qualitative fieldwork, the 240-page book explores the strategic decision-making of six Islamic political movements in Jordan, Morocco, and Turkey.