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Lisa Cassidy ’02 to lead Liberty Middle School
Liberty Middle School will welcome Lisa Cassidy ’02 as its new principal for the coming school year. Cassidy comes to Liberty from Anderson School District One, where she has served as the director of planning...
Continue ReadingFurman addresses connection to slave owners
Furman University is among many universities embarking on a quest to understand historical ties to slavery. In an article appearing in the Greenville Journal, Cindy Landrum starts at the beginning - with Furman namesakes, Richard...
Continue ReadingPresident Davis featured guest on PBS’s Carolina Business Review
Watch the interview with President Davis Furman University President Elizabeth Davis is the featured guest on the current edition of television program “Carolina Business Review,” which has its first airing on the evening of Friday,...
Continue ReadingBridges to a Brighter Future outreach program names new class
Twenty-six Greenville County high school students have been invited to participate in Bridges to a Brighter Future at Furman University, a program whose mission is to give students the tools and support they need to...
Continue ReadingVice President Mike Pence retains Furman alum as legal counsel
The Washington Post was the first to report that Pence had “hired outside legal counsel to help with both congressional committee inquiries and the special counsel investigation into possible collusion between President Trump’s campaign and...
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 ReadingEntrepreneurship, philanthropy and success
Since graduating from Furman in 1977, David Trone has been on a mission. First, that mission took the form of entrepreneurship, then philanthropy, and, most recently, politics. Trone, who is a member of Furman’s Board of...
Continue ReadingBaez joins Furman as director of counseling center
Thomas Baez, who has served as director of counseling services at the University of Texas at San Antonio for the past 11 years, has joined Furman University as director of the counseling center. He began...
Continue ReadingColleges get proactive in helping students
An article in The New York Times looks at how colleges and universities are increasingly focused on trying to understand what interventions work best for students who are “facing mental- and emotional-health troubles.” The article...
Continue ReadingHeading South to college
Four years ago, as a resident of Edina, Minn., Mark Lerner often found himself “explaining, even defending,” his son’s choice to attend college in the South. But four years later, Miles Lerner graduated from Furman...
Continue ReadingDon’t give up, but do lighten up
Frank O’Brien-Bernini, vice president and chief sustainability officer at Owens Corning, spoke recently to the graduates who received Furman’s Post Graduate Diploma in Corporate Sustainability. O’Brien-Bernini’s commencement speech included his "top nine" observations of successful...
Continue ReadingHelping the refugees
Whenever Furman English professor Melinda Menzer has a problem to solve, she likes to swim as she’s working on an answer. On June 4, she took an issue all the way to the Tennessee River,...
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