Chick-fil-A’s opening date continues to be delayed Winthrop announced the opening of Chick-fil-A over the summer, in response to the nation wide closure of Popeye’s on college campuses. Aramark, the company in charge of food service through the school, and Winthrop have been working together to bring the new Chick-fil-A on campus. This is due to the amount of requests Winthrop and Aramark received from the students and faculty members. The school originally claimed they would have the new edition to Markley’s open before the beginning of the fall semester, but they have not lived up to these statements and continue to push back the opening date. The student body has received no explanations and the school has not communicated with the students since the original opening date in August.…
Winthrop students and accredited institutions alike praise the university Winthrop has claimed a spot as second place for minority graduation rates in an Education Trust national report, one of the 140 “Best Schools in the Southeast” from the Princeton Review and was named in the U.S. News and World Report’s top 10 southern public schools and best college for veterans. Earlier this year, Winthrop was named number two in the nation for minority graduation rates from an Educational Trust national report, with a 56.2 percent graduation rate for black students. In Princeton Review’s 2018 ranking of best schools in the southeast, it picked 140 schools from 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The website listed some of the…
