Three Memphis colleges unite to celebrate homecoming
The University of Memphis, LeMoyne-Owen College and Rhodes College will celebrate Memphis Homecoming Week from Oct. 18 to 25.
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The University of Memphis, LeMoyne-Owen College and Rhodes College will celebrate Memphis Homecoming Week from Oct. 18 to 25.
Beleaguered CBU lost a third of its student population from last year while other local colleges saw modest declines or, in the case of LeMoyne-Owen, a small increase.
Rhodes moved from Clarksville to Memphis in September 1925. A hundred years later, the college and the city still rely on each other to thrive.
Julian Bolton, an attorney who also mentored younger politicians in the community after leaving the County Commission in 2006, died Monday. He was 75.
“A lot of people (criticize) Memphis, including Memphians,” singer Zoë Dominguez said. “But because of that, people really want to try and make it better. That’s what I’m all about.”
“I am excited to grow creative collaborations around environmental humanities, especially care for water as our lifeblood,” Gretchen E. Henderson said.
Some state humanities councils, funded primarily by the agency, will begin closing in the next month, Shelly Lowe said.
Rhodes College students Sandy Mansour and Kai Virani have advanced to the finals of a national undergraduate entrepreneurship competition in Minneapolis.
Shelly Lowe, who was asked to step down as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities by President Donald Trump in March, is giving a public lecture Thursday.
Rhodes College student Andrew Rainer’s family packed the courtroom Monday with about 15 members present including his parents.
Moderator Michael LaRosa’s latest book, cowritten with a Memphis attorney, will be released the same day.
Sheila E., a Grammy- and Emmy-nominated musician and percussionist, will discuss her music and career at Rhodes College Oct. 28 as part of its Springfield Music Lecture Series.
A weekend pop-up at clinic Oct. 19-20 at Neighborhood Christian Center will offer general medical exams, dental cleanings, extractions, eye exams and prescription glasses made on-site.
The chair of Rhodes’ department of art and art history said the gift gives students the opportunity to develop a professional network to rely on once they graduate.
The festival is supported by a grant from Albertine Cinémathèque, which aims to bring contemporary French cinema to American campuses.
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.”
“This affects millions, millions of people in our country. The stakes are high because the ripple is wide,” said one local career adviser.
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.
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%.
Crime is down in the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood this year compared to last. But some residents still don’t feel safe.
“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.
Memphians Deanie Parker and William C. Rhodes III will receive honorary doctor of humanities degrees.
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.
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.
The plaza commemorates the nine historically black fraternities and sororities founded at American universities during the 1900s.