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Crisis of the Working Poor series continues Tuesday
The Riley Institute and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University present Straight Talk SC, their fourth annual weekly series. The third session in the series, “Can’t Win for Losing: The Crisis of the Working...
Continue ReadingBreaking 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 ReadingFostering community, cultivating leaders
Seventeen rising seniors from high schools across the state recently came to Riley Institute’s Emerging Public Leaders program at Furman University to learn more about service-oriented leadership and begin local projects to improve their communities....
Continue ReadingRiley Institute Selects Emerging Public Leaders
The Richard W. Riley Institute at Furman University has named 16 participants for its 2014-2015 Emerging Public Leaders Program. The award-winning Emerging Public Leaders Program is offered free of charge and is designed for a select...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute celebrates 10 years of DLI
More than 80 business, education and community leaders gathered at Michelin North America Monday morning to help the Riley Institute at Furman celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its highly successful Diversity Leaders Initiative (DLI) program. The...
Continue ReadingDLI Anniversary Celebration
The Diversity Leadership Initiative, part of Furman University’s Riley Institute, celebrated 10 years of achievement and unveiled Unite South Carolina, a magazine that looks at 10 of those successes, at a breakfast hosted by Michelin North...
Continue ReadingOrganize, educate, and elevate
Images from the evening The future belongs to those who celebrate the differences of others while working together to create practical solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow, former President Bill Clinton said at...
Continue ReadingDuke Endowment awards Riley Institute $1 million grant
The Duke Endowment of Charlotte, N.C., has awarded Furman a $1 million grant to support the work of the Riley Institute at Furman, a highly respected public policy organization devoted to driving significant social and...
Continue ReadingStudents serve as delegates to APEC summit
While the U.S. debt crisis and a government shutdown prevented President Barack Obama from attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Indonesia last week, four Furman students made the trip. The summit, a meeting...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute names semifinalists for award
The Riley Institute at Furman and South Carolina Future Minds have announced the ten semifinalists for the Third Annual Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSCsm Award for Excellence. Presented in conjunction with the South Carolina Chamber of...
Continue ReadingRiley Center names fellows
Fifteen leaders in the afterschool and expanded learning fields nationwide have been selected as White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellows as part of a partnership between The Riley Institute at Furman University and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation....
Continue ReadingThe health care debate at Furman
The South Carolina General Assembly has gone home for the year, but the fight over Medicaid expansion—a major building block of the federal Affordable Care Act and one of the most contested issues of the...
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