Stories
My Davidson, My Daughter’s Davidson
Having a child attend your alma mater can be dicey. As well as you think you know the college and your offspring, something could still go wrong and your child not find the college a good choice. When I graduated…
The March Madness Application Bump
Originally featured, before March Madness, in The Atlantic. Author Haley Glatter. Brackets are about to be busted. It is not a question of if, so much as one of when and by whom. Maybe Iona College will make a deep…
The Daughter of a Mother Who Works in a Nail Shop
Uyen Nguyen ’20, a Davidson student and future world changer, wrote a letter to her mom, who came to this country at age 39 and began working in a nail salon. These excerpts are from the full version that first…
A Named Professorship Brought Me Here; Your Students Keep Me Here
Having attended a liberal arts college as an undergraduate, I needed no convincing that teaching at Davidson was a great fit for me. But as a historian, I needed to keep doing research and writing outside the classroom to continue…
