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JULY 18-24: Teachers of Government program

JULY 22-25: South Carolina United.
For the Schedule of Activities, click here.

OCTOBER 28: Hodding Carter, Director of Americans for Campaign Reform

JANUARY 11, 2010: David H. Wilkins Legislative Leadership Program

MARCH 1-3, 2010: Governor Christine Todd Whitman



 

 

The 2008-09 EPL group in
downtown Greenville

THE EIGHTH ANNUAL EMERGING
PUBLIC LEADERS PROGRAM 2009
June 21-27, 2009

The Riley Institute at Furman welcomed the 2009-10 Emerging Public Leaders (EPL) participants to campus on June 21 - 27, 2009 for a week filled with activities and opportunities to learn about public leadership. This year's participants will come from Indiana and from across the state of South Carolina. For the Schedule of Activities, click here.

The Emerging Public Leaders' program is funded by KnowledgeWorks Foundation with headquarters in Cincinnati, OH.

More information on the Emerging Public Leaders program and the participants . . .

 

U.S. Congressmen & House Majority Whip James Clyburn with the 2008 TOG participants

THE NINTH ANNUAL TEACHERS OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAM 2009
July 18-24, 2009

The Riley Institute at Furman will welcome the 2009 Richard W. Riley Summer Institute Teachers of Government participants to Furman's campus on July 18, 2009. The group will be traveling to Washington, D.C. where they will meet with government officials, politicians, non-governmental activists and members of education policy-making agencies. Dr. Elizabeth Smith, a Furman professor of political science, will lead the participants through Washington, D.C. and engage the group in evening discussions and seminars on relevant readings and political topics. The combination of intensive learning, networking and exposure to decision makers is designed to increase the knowledge and expand useful contacts of teachers which both support improved teaching skills. The 2009 participants are:

John Brasfield, Generations Group Homes, Fountain Inn, SC
Benjamin Clark,
Harold C. Johnson Middle School, York, SC
Cynthia Cordell
, Saluda Middle School, Saluda, SC
Derrick Gunter
, Gilbert High School, Gilbert, SC
Marianne Haney
, Gilbert High School, Gilbert, SC
Marlene Lemon
, Rollings Middle School of the Arts, Summerville, SC
Jennifer Olson, Mauldin Middle School, Simpsonville, SC
Teresa Posey, Aiken High School, Aiken, SC
Lindsay Skillman, Charleston, SC
Gregory Snoad, Mauldin High School, Mauldin, SC

More information on the Teachers of Government Program . . .

 

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