Davidson College wrestler Dan Hagemann discusses his time at the school with a Dinner at Davidson guest Friday night (Tommy Rhodes photo)

By LINCOLN DAVIDSON
DavidsonNews.net

A meal planned, cooked and served by Davidson College students; exhibitions on the impact of Davidson College, designed, created or performed by Davidson College students; more than $200,000 raised for financial aid since 2010. That’s the legacy of Dinner at Davidson, an annual student-run fundraiser in support of the Davidson Trust, Davidson College’s commitment to meet students’ demonstrated financial need without loans. Read the full story

Student organizers of the 2011 Dinner at Davidson posed for a picture. (Haley George photo)

By LINCOLN DAVIDSON
DavidsonNews.net

Davidson College’s annual Dinner at Davidson financial aid fundraiser is next week, and students are promoting it with 10 days of events highlighting the college’s efforts to make itself more affordable and help students graduate without loans. The dinner, a student-led benefit for the college’s Davidson Trust financial aid program, will be on Friday, Feb. 6 in the Chambers Building.
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Barack Obama (White House/Pete Souza)

Carol Quillen

By LINCOLN DAVIDSON
DavidsonNews.net

President Barack Obama has been leading a national conversation about educational opportunity, focusing on the topic in his State of the Union Speech Tuesday. It’s a conversation on many fronts that has reached to Davidson College, where President Carol Quillen also has been pushing to ensure a college education is accessible to all young Americans. Read the full story

Davidson College has won another $6 million grant for financial aid from its from longtime donor The Duke Endowment. The college said the gift announced Thursday will provide $2 million a year for the next three years to help recruit students who need financial aid. Read the full story

Davidson College and eight other colleges and universities have joined a nationwide nonprofit called Say Yes to Education in a campaign to make a college education more accessible and affordable for lower income students. Read the full story

Davidson College president Carol Quillen talked at a Lake Norman Chamber lunch Friday at River Run. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

The world is changing, business is changing, and colleges and universities must change, too, Davidson College president Carol Quillen said Friday at a Lake Norman Chamber Power Lunch at River Run Country Club.

Quillen, who has been Davidson’s president since 2011, spoke on the topic “The Entrepreneurial Spirit of the Liberal Arts” to about 75 local business and civic leaders, from entrepreneurs to corporate executives to town commissioners.
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Davidson College sophomores Scott Cunningham and Zach Blount performed Wednesday night in an event to promote Davidson fundraiser and showcase student talent.  (Lincoln Davidson/DavidsonNews.net)

By LINCOLN DAVIDSON
DavidsonNews.net

Student performers celebrated the Davidson Trust, Davidson College’s loan-free financial aid fund, at a kickoff event for the annual Dinner at Davidson fundraiser Wednesday night. Singing, dancing and reciting poetry, students explained the importance of the trust and urged others to get involved in this year’s dinner, which is scheduled in February. Read the full story

Students celebrated a great catch during one of Saturday’s kickball games.

John Frankel

It was a beautiful day for some kickball Saturday, April 13, as the brothers of Davidson College’s Kappa Sigma Fraternity and women of Connor Eating House staged their the third annual Frankelfest Kickball Tournament.  Since 2011, the tournament has honored the life and memory of John Frankel, a Davidson College senior and then-vice president of Kappa Sigma, who passed away in a car accident during the 2010 winter break. Read the full story