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Philanthropic Support of Davidson Increases this Fiscal Year

The Davidson College community raised more than $58 million this fiscal year, an increase of 3.4 percent over the past year, to strengthen the college’s capacity to assist students in developing the skills and character to lead and serve.

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Honoring and Remembering Begins With Stories Rather Than Stone

The Trustees’ Special Committee on Commemoration started with a clear focus: It’s about the people. The committee began with the fundamentals of understanding those whom the college seeks to commemorate – the enslaved persons and others whose labor was exploited for the college.

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For Trustees, Learning Comes Before Deciding

A special committee of trustees, whose members range from a business owner to a congressional staffer to an advertising executive, was tasked in the fall of 2020 with working toward a college policy on naming and acknowledgment.

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Professor Jeanne Marie Neumann Wins Triple Crown

Davidson College Classics professor, Jeanne Neumann, is awarded her third teaching award, recognizing a career that is continuously dedicated to student success, evidence-based pedagogy and innovation.

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Prof. Alice Wiemers Publishes New Book

Congratulations to Prof. Alice Wiemers on the publication of her new book, Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in 20th-Century Ghana with Ohio University Press.