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[caption id="attachment_34381" align="alignright" width="471"] Paige Flagge ’18, Ellie Erickson ’20, Janet Kwami, Yinglu Wang ’18, and Cynthia King try their hands at Adinkra stamping. The Adinkra cloth is a hand-printed fabric made by the Ashanti...
Continue ReadingNew indoor soccer park more than a place to play
Furman alumni Anthony Esquivel (Class of 2003) and Olivia (de Castro) Esquivel (Class of 2006) have opened Copa Indoor Soccer near Berea, a community where 25 percent of the population is Hispanic/Latino. Anthony, a political...
Continue ReadingMay X takes the field
Baseball’s the all-American game. But it’s also an intricate microcosm of economics, history and geography—just the thing for summer study. Two of Furman’s 2017 May X classes used baseball to explore broader academic themes: The...
Continue ReadingHow poor schools cheat smart students
[caption id="attachment_31822" align="alignright" width="229"] Able '18 is a Communication Studies major from Saluda, S.C.[/caption] Furman Communication Studies major Allie Able '18 says poorer South Carolina schools set the bar low in terms of college and...
Continue ReadingA life of miracles
Reflecting back on nearly a century of memories, Trude Heller describes her life as one “full of miracles.” She remembers the early years growing up as an only child in Vienna, Austria. She liked school....
Continue ReadingWelcome to Phi Beta Kappa
GREENVILLE, S.C.—Sixty-six Furman University students have been elected to the school’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic society. The newest members were inducted during a special initiation ceremony and...
Continue ReadingCommunication Studies receives diversity award
The Furman University Department of Communication Studies has received The Minority Recruitment and Retention Award from the Southern States Communication Association, (SSCA). The award will be presented during the association’s 87th annual meeting to be...
Continue ReadingBest-selling author David Shields on campus March 29 & 31
The New York Times best-selling author David Shields will speak about his latest book, as well as talk about a film based on his work and directed by James Franco in two separate events March...
Continue ReadingInvesting in the Furman community and beyond
In the fall of 2015, Furman English and communication studies double major Erin Mellor ’17 noticed a campus advertisement for an internship with the university’s Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES) program. She was drawn to the opportunity to gain...
Continue ReadingAbout Those Professor Watchlists
A conservative nonprofit organization has created a new website that lists college professors who are said to discriminate against conservative students and “advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” In a story in The State newspaper,...
Continue ReadingCrystal Brockington awarded the Furman Metropolitan Fellowship
Crystal Brockington ’18 has big dreams for a career built on the spoken word, but her polished oratory skills went silent when she found out she’d been selected to receive the Furman Metropolitan Fellowship (FMF)....
Continue ReadingUniversity Launches ‘The Furman Advantage’
Visit The Furman Advantage website The Furman Advantage in the News Furman University today announced an ambitious effort to transform the student experience and address critical community issues. The new strategic vision—called The Furman Advantage—will...
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