continuing-education
Breaking the cycle
South Carolinians who are struggling need a living wage if they are ever to climb out of poverty, said a state representative at the summer series of StraightTalkSC, sponsored by the Riley Institute at Furman...
Continue Reading“Crisis of the working poor” series continues
The Riley Institute and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University present Straight Talk SC, their fourth annual weekly series. The second session in the series, “Can’t Win for Losing: The Crisis of the Working...
Continue Reading2014 Furman grad is high tech CEO
Anja Smith is CEO of Sabai, a fast-growing, tech company in Simpsonville that provides virtual private network routers to more than 120 countries. She also happened to graduate this spring from Furman’s Undergraduate Evening Studies...
Continue ReadingUES students receive top honors
On Friday March 28, seven students in the Undergraduate Evening Studies program were inducted into Furman University's Gamma Theta chapter of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society. The honorees are Margaret Fiske ’13, Jennifer Grissop...
Continue ReadingScopes: Enriching summer fun
Jaye Lasseigne wasn’t sure how elementary school students would react to learning Japanese during a summer camp. After practicing greetings and commonly used terms, Lasseigne was taken aback when students not only began responding to...
Continue ReadingBuilding bridges to college
Nelson Mandela once called education the most powerful tool for world change. Furman’s Bridges to a Brighter Future, an intensive, seven-year college access program for Greenville County students, is doing its best to promote the...
Continue ReadingBechtold talks about BEST program
Furman’s Center for Corporate and Professional Development has introduced a new corporate sustainability program called BEST, which can help businesses lower operational costs in the areas of energy, water and waste management. UpstateBizSC.com interviewed Brad...
Continue ReadingOsher Foundation awards $1 million to OLLI @ Furman
NOVEMBER 17, 2011 by Vince Moore, Media Relations Director The Bernard Osher Foundation of San Francisco has awarded the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Furman University a $1 million grant in support of the...
Continue Reading- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 11
- 12
- 13