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The Warmth of Her Sun

Posted by on January 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Four reasons to admire Isabel Wilkerson. BY: BRIANA BARNER If Isabel Wilkerson had gone to Bennett College, she would have been the Bennett ideal. She is elegant, smart, and knows how to rock a set of pearls. The award-winning journalist, author, and professor fit right in when she visited Bennett in October to give the [...]

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Phenomenal Women

Posted by on May 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Bennett graduates go on to do amazing things with their lives. By: IME EKPO Dorothy Brown was the chief surgeon at the now-defunct Riverside Hospital in Nashville from 1957 to 1983. In 1966, she became the first African-American female to be elected to the Tennessee General Assembly. During her career, Brown also became involved in [...]

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She’s Your Queen

Posted by on April 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Campus queens provide service and support to their sisters By: COURTNEY WARD “The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them,” Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Ireland said. Each year Bennett has a coronation to celebrate more than 50 campus queens  Yet when the occasion comes [...]

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Rev. on Sunday, Prof. on Monday

Posted by on February 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

By ABINA JOHNSON The next time you need spiritual counseling, talk to your professor. Odds are he or she is a minister. A disproportionate number of Bennett college faculty and staff members are also preachers and pastors. The most well-known minister on campus is the college chaplain, Rev. Natalie McLean, Ph.D. For the past seven [...]

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Global Citizens

Posted by on February 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

By SHANAY BROWN with reporting by LAUREN WATERS Bennett College is going global with new international students and faculty. In addition to international students from Russia, the college welcomes faculty members from Turkey, Morocco and North and West Africa. Aisula Utesheva is a student from West Kazakhstan, a small country in central Asia. The Global Undergraduate [...]

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