Rhodes College

Rhodes College is a private, overwhelmingly undergrad, human sciences school situated in Memphis, Tennessee. Partnered with the Presbyterian Church (USA), Rhodes is licensed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and enlists roughly 1,800 understudies.

Rhodes College was established in 1848 in Clarksville, Tennessee as the Masonic University of Tennessee (and quickly as Montgomery Masonic College), the Institution was renamed Stewart College in 1850 to pay tribute to its leader, William M. Stewart. Under Stewart's initiative in 1855, control of the school went to the Presbyterian Church. In 1875, the school included an undergrad School of Theology and got to be Southwestern Presbyterian University. The School of Theology worked until 1917.

In 1925, president Charles Diehl drove the move to the present grounds in Memphis, Tennessee (the Clarksville grounds later got to be Austin Peay State University). The school abbreviated its name to Southwestern. In 1945, the school embraced the name Southwestern at Memphis, to separate itself from different universities and colleges containing the name "Southwestern."

At last, in 1984, the school's name was changed to Rhodes College to respect previous school president, and Diehl's successor, Peyton Nalle Rhodes. Since 1984, Rhodes has developed from a provincially perceived establishment to a broadly positioned human sciences school. As enlistment has expanded in the course of recent years, so has the extent of understudies from outside Tennessee and the Southeast district.

Dr. James Daughdrill served as president for over a quarter century, from 1973 to 1999. His successor is Dr. William E. Troutt, the nineteenth president of the school.