Among the congratulations and well-wishes @ReubenBrigety has received since being elected Sewanee’s 17th vice-chancellor are notes from every living former president of the United States. Read them all here …
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The University of the South, familiarly known as Sewanee, is one of America's premier small liberal arts colleges.
- The @nytimes looks for an historical forerunner of today's powerhouse college football teams and finds it in Sewanee’s Iron Men of 1899.
- Please join us in congratulating Klarke Stricklen, C'22, who has been named Sewanee's 27th Rhodes Scholar. Read more here …
- Sewanee earns a Top 10 spot in the Princeton Review's new "Most Beautiful College Campuses" rankings.
- Big news from the Mountain today: Sewanee announces that it will meet the full financial need of admitted students, starting with first-year students who arrive in fall 2020. Read the full story here: new.sewanee.edu/news/sewanee-e…
- If you want to be a Rhodes Scholar, you could go to one of the seven Ivy League schools on this list. Or Stanford, MIT, Duke, UVA, or Vandy. Or you could consider the one small Southern liberal arts school that made the cut.
- We’re thrilled to announce that the Board of Trustees has elected the University of the South’s 17th vice-chancellor: distinguished scholar and global statesman Ambassador Reuben E. Brigety II. Learn about his remarkable career and vision for Sewanee here: new.sewanee.edu/sewanee-s-17th…
- Less than two weeks after naming Sewanee one of the “50 Most Beautiful Small Towns in America,” Architectural Digest doubles down and names the University of the South to its “50 Most Beautiful Colleges in America” list. Makes sense to us. architecturaldigest.com/gallery/most-b…
- On Monday, @ClemsonFB scored 44 points to beat @AlabamaFTBL and win the CFP national championship. The last time a Crimson Tide football team gave up 50+ points in regulation was a 54-6 loss to the 1907 Sewanee team. The Tigers went 8-1 that season, outscoring opponents 250 to 29
- In a historic move today, the University’s Board of Regents categorically rejects the University’s past veneration of the Confederacy. Read the board’s statement, a letter from the vice-chancellor, and a research summary by the Roberson Project here ...
- Vice-Chancellor Brigety announced today that the University is instituting a campus-wide COVID-19 vaccination requirement. For details, see the full text of Vice-Chancellor Brigety’s email: new.sewanee.edu/2019-novel-cor…
- The view of the eclipse from Sewanee made it onto the @NatGeo blog, thanks to Stephen Alvarez, C'87.
- Looking for Sewanee on College Consensus’s list of the best colleges and universities in Tennessee? Don’t worry, you won’t have to scroll very far to find us. collegeconsensus.com/rankings/best-…
- We're thrilled to announce that the Board of Trustees has elected the University of the South’s 18th vice-chancellor. Robert W. Pearigen, C’76, the president of Millsaps College, will take office on July 1, 2023. Read more here: new.sewanee.edu/about-sewanee/…
