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Furman celebrates honors graduates, class of 2020
In an unprecedented year for college graduates everywhere, the class of 2020 at Furman University included 671, who were recognized in a virtual ceremony on May 9, 2020. More than half of those graduates, 339...
Continue ReadingBlack History Month: Furman University’s Dr. Cynthia King
FOX Carolina shines a light on Furman University's Cynthia King during Black History Month. King, the first Black faculty member to chair a department at the university, speaks to a reporter outside Furman gates about...
Continue ReadingA picture’s worth a thousand words
Furman University's iconic bell tower is featured in the SC Picture Project, as reported by GVL Today. The photo is part of a digital repository of 2,300 South Carolina landmarks that are searchable by city,...
Continue ReadingNo joke: Using humor in class is harder when learning is remote
Educators everywhere have found out the hard way that incorporating humor in the online classroom is a tough nut to crack. Scott Henderson, an education professor at Furman University, takes a look at humor in...
Continue ReadingFor the love of elephants
“If elephants didn’t exist, you couldn’t invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely, they challenge credulity and common sense.” – Lyall Watson (1939-2008), South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist...
Continue ReadingVocation and ministry students: ‘What Does it Mean to be White and Anti-Racist?’
It turns out that a year of challenges also can be a year of opportunity. COVID-19 prevented students in Furman’s Exploration of Vocation and Ministry (EVM) from taking community internships this school year. But the...
Continue ReadingWhat will Greenville lose when Tommy’s Country Ham House closes?
When the Greenville News reported on the retirement of Tommy Stevenson '65 and the closing of Tommy's Country Ham House, they spoke with Furman President Elizabeth Davis. "There's no pretense, nothing really to have to...
Continue ReadingDr. George Lipscomb on virtual education in the age of COVID-19
FOX Carolina taps the expertise of Furman University's George Lipscomb in its "The School Station" segment about how COVID-19 is impacting learning in K-12 education. A professor in the education department at the university, Lipscomb...
Continue ReadingHighlighting Joseph Vaughn
Lillian Brock Flemming '71, '75 (M), '14 (H) reflects on Joseph Vaughn Day at Furman University on Jan. 29. In an interview outside Furman gates, Flemming told FOX Carolina that "we need more Joseph Vaughns."...
Continue ReadingWhy SC is wrong to ‘jump on the bandwagon’ of ‘science of reading’ movement
Paul L. Thomas, a Furman University education professor who taught nearly two decades in the South Carolina public school system, writes an opinion piece in The Greenville News about the folly of the state's latest...
Continue ReadingBlack History Month 2021
Furman University is celebrating Black History Month in a variety of ways throughout February. Read about the achievements of African American alumni, such as renowned opera singer Sarah Reese ’71, celebrated liturgist Rawn Harbor ’71 and...
Continue ReadingDes Moines University President Angela Franklin ’81 leads historic transformation
Angela Walker Franklin ’81 has been some combination of “only” or “first” so many times in her life she’s lost count – probably because it never mattered much to her either way. “I was the...
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