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TIME
MAGAZINE HONORS SECRETARY RILEY WITH TOP 10 RANKING
Recently,
Secretary Richard Riley was named one of the "Top Ten
Cabinet Members of All Time" by Time magazine.
Executive Director of the Riley Institute, Don Gordon, says
"Almost every time we have a Riley Institute program
somewhere in the state, someone mentions that Secretary Riley
is a wonderful, unselfish leader, and the best and most effective
South Carolina Governor we've ever had. It really is no surprise
that the same sentiment is shared at the national level about
Secretary Riley's service as US Secretary of Education."
To view the article, click
here.
Read
the Time story
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(l-r) Matt Springate,
Evelyn McKinney, Rachael Parrish, APEC Representatives,
Emily Hunter |
APEC
2008 in Lima, Peru
November 16-22, 2008
Five
Furman students—Abby Elsener, Emily Hunter, Evelyn McKinney,
Rachael Parrish and Matt Springate—along with Professor
of Political Science Cleve Fraser and Professor of Economics
Nathan Cook, participated in the APEC "Voices of the
Future" program held in Lima, Peru.
For more information, click
here; to view past APEC programs, click
here; to view the students' blog, click
here.
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Marshall
I. Goldman |
PROFESSOR
MARSHALL I. GOLDMAN
November 19, 2008
The
Riley Institute welcomed Professor Marshall I. Goldman to
Furman to deliver a public address, " Petrostate: Putin,
Power, and the New Russia" at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November
19, 2008 in Shaw Hall, Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference
Center.
Professor
Goldman is Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics
(Emeritus) at Wellesley College. An expert on the Russian
economy and the economics of high technology, he joined the
Wellesley faculty in 1958. He is currently Senior Scholar
at the Davis Center for Russian Studies and Eurasian Affairs
at Harvard University after having served as Associate Director
from 1975 to 2006.
An
internationally recognized authority on Russian economics,
politics, and environmental policy, Professor Goldman is known
for his study and analysis of the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev
and Boris Yeltsin. He is the author of over a dozen books
on the former Soviet Union, including The USSR in Crisis:
The Failure of an Economic System, and Gorbachev's
Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology
(1987), in which he envisioned the monumental problems that
would confront Perestroika and which threw the country into
economic and political turmoil. His most recent book is Petrostate:
Putin, Power and the New Russia (Oxford University Press,
April 2008).
A frequent
visitor to the republics of the former Soviet Union, Professor
Goldman was present during the August 1991 coup attempt. He
has met with Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, former President
George Bush, and President George W. Bush and continues to
meet regularly with business leaders, diplomats, and government
officials at the highest levels in both countries.
More
. . .
MICHELIN
NORTH AMERICA
DONATES TO SOUTH
CAROLINA
"SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE" PROJECT; RILEY INSTITUTE
IS PARTNER ON PROJECT
The South
Carolina National Commission on Teaching and America’s
Future Coalition today announced that Michelin North America
donated $25,000 toward the state’s first Inside-Out
Centers for Learning. Michelin announced its corporate partnership
last evening at a celebration and fundraiser it sponsored
for the project. Located in Anderson Five and Lexington One
counties respectively, both Nevitt Forest and Forts Pond Elementary
Schools will develop and pilot initiatives that transform
teaching and learning for the future. For the press release
in its entirety, click
here.
The Riley
Institute co-sponsored the event and is also a partner on
the Inside-Out project. Inside-Out Centers for Learning build
on the results of the Riley Institute's large statewide study
of public education in South Carolina, directly addressing
some of the strategies highlighted in the study as essential
for improving our public schools.
South
Carolina was one of two states to receive this award. To read
more about the state of South Carolina's strong commitment
to supporting state-wide reform, click
here. To access information and findings of the the Riley
Institute's education study, you may click on the tab above,
"Education", or click
here to go directly to the site.
Recently,
following a presentation by the Riley Institute in Barnwell,
South Carolina on findings from the Institute's education
study, Barnwell community members got together to brainstorm
solutions to problems within their county’s schools.
To view an article that appeared in The
People-Sentinel,
click here.
HEWLETT FOUNDATION AWARDS RILEY INSTITUTE
AT FURMAN ADDITIONAL $400,000 TO SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION
STUDY
Grant
brings total funding for Riley Institute project to $1 million
The William
and Flora Hewlett Foundation has awarded the Riley Institute
at Furman University a $400,000 grant to support its continuing
research and policy programming on public education in South
Carolina.
The full
press release is available here;
to view The Greenville News article, click
here. To access information and findings of the education
study, you may click on the tab "Education", or
click here to go directly
to the site.
RECENT
EVENTS
Missed
one of our events, but still want to hear John Glenn's and
Mike McConnell's address as well as others including Lesley
Stahl and Newt Gingrich, view them on-line at furmanchannel.com
- Secretary
Riley inducted into
the SC Higher Education Hall of Fame. For the news release
in its entirety, click
here.
- The
Riley Institute Releases the Results of a Two-Year Public
Education Study. For more information, click
here.
The
Riley Institute is deeply saddened by the loss of one of
our own, Mrs. Ann "Tunky" Yarborough Riley, the
former First Lady of South Carolina, and wife of former
Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley.
To view The State article, click
here; a second State article, click
here.
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