Evy Leibfarth has been kayaking and canoeing in whitewater for her entire life. Now, the 17-year-old from western North Carolina will paddle in the Tokyo Olympics. The prodigy found her passion and talent in the sport at an early age.
International students are eager to get to campuses, and schools are hungry for their tuition and housing dollars. Pandemic fallout is complicating the trip.
An anonymous open letter has reignited calls at Howard University to raise salaries, as well as end policies that require non-tenured lecturers to leave their teaching position after seven years and to reapply for their jobs at the end of each school year.
The divisions at Washington and Lee reflect similar scenarios unfolding on campuses throughout the country, as schools revisit institutional ties to slavery as well as legacies stemming from the Confederacy.