Rhodes College hosting free French film festival
The festival is supported by a grant from Albertine Cinémathèque, which aims to bring contemporary French cinema to American campuses.
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September 2024
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August 2024
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Freshmen are moved in, but local college enrollment is down
One Memphis-area school says numbers are down because standards are up: “If that means we experience a bit of pain for a few years with a decline in freshman enrollment, then so be it.”
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College admissions officers crossing fingers for new FAFSA
“This affects millions, millions of people in our country. The stakes are high because the ripple is wide,” said one local career adviser.
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July 2024
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Rhodes professor wrote the book and so much more on W.E.B. DuBois
Due to the work of Earl Wright II, DuBois now gets credit for conducting the first scientific urban sociological research. When Wright was in college, that credit went to the University of Chicago.
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June 2024
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Lower U of M freshmen enrollment numbers rock the boat
As the University of Memphis prepares to cut the ribbon on a $40 million STEM building, first-time freshmen enrollment numbers are down nearly 25%. At Rhodes, the class is down about 20%.
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Local leaders hear fears about crime from Vollintine-Evergreen residents
Crime is down in the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood this year compared to last. But some residents still don’t feel safe.
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May 2024
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Rhodes professor receives international award for book
“The Fruit of Her Hands” explores how gender and religious identity shaped the labor options available to Jewish and Christian women in the medieval Mediterranean.
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More than 400 to graduate from Rhodes
Memphians Deanie Parker and William C. Rhodes III will receive honorary doctor of humanities degrees.
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From the stage to the studio: Rhodes graduate fine-tunes music career
While her childhood consisted of standing on tabletops and performing for family and friends, a singing career was initially just an afterthought for Cordova native Raneem Imam.
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AAPI Heritage Month Memphis returns with food tour, art exhibitions
An Asian restaurant food tour, a Laotian happy hour and dinner, a night market and two art exhibitions are on the calendar for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Memphis.
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March 2024
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Rhodes College unveils National Pan-Hellenic Council Plaza
The plaza commemorates the nine historically black fraternities and sororities founded at American universities during the 1900s.
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February 2024
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Financial aid or not? Delays in FAFSA rollout ripple through region
“This is the biggest change in the financial aid field in 30-40 years,” said Andrew Linn, head of U of M office of financial aid and scholarships.
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The To-Do List: ‘Black Magic,’ Irish dance, old coins and blue bottles
This week, Sean Murphy performs Crosstown soundscapes, percussionist Chris Corsano plays Goner and a break-up drama plays out at Elmwood.
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Fresh off Grammy wins, Jason Isbell stops at Rhodes
“Music is what we have in common with strangers,” said Jason Isbell, now six-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, to a near standing-room-only crowd at Rhodes College.
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The To-Do List: Les Mis, Lunar lion dances and a Superb Owl field day
This week, “Confederates” at Hattiloo explores racial and gender bias, singer-songwriter Jason Isbell speaks at Rhodes and adults get play time at CMOM.
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January 2024
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Here are the colleges, universities closed Tuesday
All University of Memphis campuses are closed Tuesday, Jan. 16.
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December 2023
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Rhodes College graduate to become Rhodes Scholar
As a Rhodes College student, Mariam Khayata explored questions central to her identity and her experience living in Syria. Last month, she got the opportunity to continue those studies at the University of Oxford in England.
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November 2023
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Herrington: Rhodes’ BDSM brouhaha should have been a blip
When I saw the story from Rhodes, I flashed back to a strange footnote in my own collegiate history: “the naked floor,” a dorm dedicated to, well, free expression.
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BDSM lecture causes Rhodes uproar
The Rhodes College chaplain invited a dominatrix to lead a discussion, but college administrators canceled it.
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October 2023
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From the courtroom to campus, new Rhodes president always had a mission
A former prosecutor who once tried a serial killer, Rhodes College president Jennifer Collins is smart, prepared, serious and relatable.
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September 2023
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Raising the Bar: Author and political commentator David Brooks believes we all can do better
Brooks will be the featured speaker at the MIFA annual luncheon Sept. 21, and also will speak at Rhodes College while in Memphis.
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New Rhodes exhibit ‘in conversation’ with Brooks’ ‘Black American Portraits’
Four years ago, Joel Parsons was in Bronxville, New York, when he saw something he wanted to bring back to Memphis.
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The To-Do List: Gladys Knight, Cheap Trick and oodles of noodles
This week, the dream of the 2000s is Live at the Garden, an art exhibition at Rhodes is in “conversation” with one at the Brooks and the weenies will be running in Germantown.
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August 2023
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The To-Do List: Beyonce, zines and many ways to celebrate 901 Day
This week, WLOK’s Stone Soul Picnic moves indoors, the Central Library hosts an LGBTQ 1980s dance party and former members of R.E.M. sing songs about baseball.
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Freshmen classes are more diverse, but enrollments are largely down
Undergraduate enrollment at the University of Memphis, for example, had fallen about 11% between 2016 and last fall when it reported having 14,366 students.
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