Sewanee - Univ of the South

[Anonymous]

I visited this campus many many years ago. Can anyone tell me about it now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I visited this campus many many years ago. Can anyone tell me about it now?

Beautiful. Seriously one of the nicest campuses in the country.

[Anonymous]

Gorgeous. Extremely remote. My son was admitted ams was treated very nicely by everyone there. We were impressed.

[Anonymous]

Fine if you’re white.

[Anonymous]

I remember applying to this school and loving it (25+ years ago!!)

Curious about what's changed.

[Anonymous]

I have visited Sewanee--a friend teaches there. As others have said, a gorgeous campus in a gorgeous, though isolated, setting. Faculty are very accessible to students and take teaching very seriously, as one would expect at a good SLAC. They attract some very bright, talented students (based on job placements out of college) along with some run-of-the-mill students. The fraction of non-white students is very low (around 20%). They have been in the news recently. A Q&A with the newish vice-chancellor, who moved there from GW, might be informative:

https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2021/02/17/qa-sewanees-first-black-vice-chancellor-reflects-on-episcopal-universitys-efforts-to-confront-racist-history/

[Anonymous]

White, southern rich kids.

[Anonymous]

You say that like it's a bad thing . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember applying to this school and loving it (25+ years ago!!)

Curious about what's changed.

I wasn't white and applied there.. (asian). Loved the entire vibe of that place. I did grow up in a Southern metro area though, so was quite comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have visited Sewanee--a friend teaches there. As others have said, a gorgeous campus in a gorgeous, though isolated, setting. Faculty are very accessible to students and take teaching very seriously, as one would expect at a good SLAC. They attract some very bright, talented students (based on job placements out of college) along with some run-of-the-mill students. The fraction of non-white students is very low (around 20%). They have been in the news recently. A Q&A with the newish vice-chancellor, who moved there from GW, might be informative:

https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2021/02/17/qa-sewanees-first-black-vice-chancellor-reflects-on-episcopal-universitys-efforts-to-confront-racist-history/

Man....not sure I could ever send my kids here. Whoa.

[Anonymous]

But why?

[Anonymous]

I am the PP who has a friend teaching at Sewanee. I am non-white and tried to get my DC interested in applying there given what I saw of it during my visit. This was before the incidents mentioned in the article I linked. The incidents really didn't change my opinion of the school--racist incidents occur all over the place, including at universities here in DC.

[Anonymous]

A few years ago, it seemed a lot of kids in the DMV were looking at Sewanee as a SLAC that wasn't ridiculously hard to get into.

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine, a Black woman, was teachng there in the early 2000s. It sounded really rough. Among other things, I remember her sending me the link to a blog by some women students that was so intensely old school racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You say that like it's a bad thing . . .

David Duke in da house!