Rhodes College
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The Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee. The college was originally founded in 1848 by Freemasons in 1855 affiliated to the Presbyterian churches. The approximately 1700 enrolled students strive especially for undergraduate as well as graduate degrees. The college is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
History
The origins of the Rhodes College date back to the 1848 in Clarksville, Tennessee, was founded by the Grand Masonic Lodge of Tennessee Masonic University of Tennessee. The college was renamed in 1850 in Montgomery Masonic College and later in honor of her then-President at Stewart College ( 1855). Under Stewart's leadership, the control was transferred to the Presbyterian Church on the College of the Freemasons. 1875 a theological faculty was established, which existed until 1917, and renamed the College in Southwestern Presbyterian University.
Initiated in 1925 President Charles Edward Diehl moving to Memphis, Tennessee. The campus in Clarksville Austin Peay building later became the State University. During this time the name was shortened to South Western to 1945 then again be in Southwestern of Memphis changed, for better differentiation from other institutions with the name " Southwestern. "
1984 received the College in honor of its former president and successor Diehl, Peyton Nalle Rhodes, its present name Rhodes College. Since 1984, Rhodes has evolved from a regionally accredited into a nationally the ranked liberal arts college. With the increase in enrollment has also increased the proportion of students from outside of Tennessee and the southeastern United States.
The current ( and 19th ) President of Rhodes College since 1999, William E. Troutt.
Teaching
The academic life at Rhodes College is characterized by courses in small groups. Students are encouraged to volunteer work, what college 2010 1st place earning social commitment in the area in an article published by Newsweek high school rankings.
Approximately one-third of the graduates attend right after graduation graduate studies ( Graduate School ). The acceptance rate of Rhodes alumni to law and business schools is about 95 %, while the transition rate at medical schools is almost twice as high as the national average.
Rhodes was included in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives, and released in 2008 on the title page of the Princeton Review Complete Book of Colleges. U.S. News and World Report entwines Rhodes resistant in the nationwide " Top Tier " of liberal arts colleges, in 2012 at No. 52 Forbes ordered Rhodes 2010 in its publication America's Best Colleges ranked number 47 of all U.S. colleges a.
Campus
The campus covers 40 hectares (100 acres) of grounds in Midtown Memphis, across from Overton Park and the Memphis Zoo located. The often praised for their beauty system is characterized by buildings in the Gothic style, of which currently 13 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The oldest buildings, Palmer Hall ( 1925), Kennedy Hall ( 1925), and the Robb White and dormitories (1925 ), were built by Henry Hibbs, in collaboration with Charles Klauder, the architect of many buildings in Princeton.
Rhodes retains its Gothic architecture college today. The most recent example is the 2005 Paul Barrett Library Built in the style of a Gothic cathedral.
1984, the film Making the Grade was shot on the campus of Rhodes College.
Students and teachers
Currently 1712 students are enrolled from 46 states, of which 58 % are female and 42 % male. Moreover studied 2010/2011 74 foreign students from 15 countries at Rhodes College, organized in the International Students Association since 2010. The staff-student ratio was 10:1, and the average group size in the events 13 students. On 32 majors (including interdisciplinary 8 ) are the most popular biology, history, English, economics and psychology.
College Sports
The mascot of the Rhodes College is the lynx, the colors black and red
The teams compete in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference to within NCAA Division III. Rhodes is on 5 national championships reject one of them in 1961 in baseball, the other four in the "mock trial".
Famous people
Teaching
- Susan Bies, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
- Andrew A. Michta, M. W. Buckman - excellent Professor of International Relations
- Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of All The King's Men, his teaching career began in 1930 in Rhodes
- Dave Wottle, coach athletics, dean of admission and financial aid, Olympic champion in the 800 meters in 1972 in Munich
Alumni
Science
- David Alexander, president of Rhodes College and Pomona College
- Harry L. Swinney, director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Mark D. West, University of Michigan Law School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Nippon Life Professor of Law
Economy
- John H. Bryan, former CEO of Sara Lee and a member of the board of Goldman Sachs
Politics and Military
- Bill Alexander, U.S. Congressman from Arkansas (1969-1993), Deputy Whip of the Democrats in the House of Representatives
- Theodore M. Brantley, Chief Judge of the Montana Supreme Court (1899-1922)
- Abe Fortas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1965-1969), inferior candidate for the post of the chief judge of the United States
- Claudia Kennedy, the first woman to the rank of three - star general in the U.S. Army, member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame
- Alison Lundergan Grimes, first woman as Secretary of State of Kentucky
Literature and Art
- John Boswell, author and publisher Frazier Jielke Amphitheatre
- Dixie Carter, actress Emmy nomination
- Charlaine Harris, bestselling author
- George Hearn, actor and singer on Broadway
- Sarah Lacy, technology journalist
- Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, author, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Verner Moore White, well-known landscape and portrait painter