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Justin Toliver ’15, a Rhodes defensive back from Canton, Ga., has been selected to serve on the NCAA Division III National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) through May 2016.

Twenty-four members from across the country will serve on the committee to provide insight on the student-athlete experience. The SAAC also offers input on the rules, regulations and policies that affect student-athletes′ lives on NCAA member institution campuses.

Toliver is an international studies major at Rhodes and a graduate of Woodstock High School in Georgia.

Dear Friend,

Graduation at Rhodes is truly a wonderful, poignant, and meaningful celebration. Viewing this festive ceremony on May 11 brought back wonderful memories of my own graduation. But this year’s commencement had new meaning for me because my son, Josh, will enter Rhodes in August as a member of the Class of 2017. As the faculty filed past me adorned in a colorful array of gowns, hoods, tams, and the occasional baseball cap proclaiming a favorite team, I found myself imagining my own son’s graduation four years into the future.

By Lynn Conlee

As a high school student, Elizabeth Ross ′15 invented a breathalyzer for diabetics—a rather auspicious prelude to entering Rhodes in 2011. We wondered how having two years of Rhodes under her belt has changed her.

Rhodes Magazine: Given your invention, many people would assume that you would be a science major, possibly planning to attend medical school. Is that the case?

McCarthy has been tapped by the Smithsonian Institution to select an example of H.C. Westermann's  handwriting and write about it for its summer exhibition

This summer, The Bridge made history again in a way that could reap rewards for other young Rhodes entrepreneurs like Ekenstedt and Katz.

Alison Lundergan Grimes announced Monday she will run against Mitch McConnell in 2014 for his U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky.

Each summer, Rhodes magazine asks three faculty members to share their summer reading list.

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.