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Riley Institute Selects 10th Class of Midlands Diversity Leaders
Forty-three participants from the Midlands and surrounding areas will begin the Riley Institute’s Diversity Leaders Initiative (DLI) this spring. Selected for their leadership and community engagement, the participants join more than 1,700 Riley Fellows statewide....
Continue ReadingMarakoff ’16 honored with SCCTE leadership award
Kristen Marakoff ’16 was recognized with the South Carolina Council of Teachers of English (SCCTE) Leadership Development Award at the annual SCCTE conference January 27-28 in Kiawah Island. Marakoff, an English teacher at Travelers Rest...
Continue ReadingAfter tragedy in Charleston, a requiem in Florence
Charleston native Sarah Horick, a 2006 Furman University music theory graduate, was commissioned by the Florence Symphony Orchestra to compose music honoring those who died in the shooting at Emanuel AME Church. The world premiere...
Continue ReadingFSO Spotlights Student Soloists in Feb. 17 Concert
The Furman Symphony Orchestra will present a concert Friday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus. Presented biennially, the Furman Symphony Orchestra Concerto Concert features student soloists selected by competitive audition who...
Continue ReadingSchool choice should not ignore diversity
Furman education professor Scott Henderson writes about school choice in an article appearing in The Greenville News. He cites a 180-year-old experiment undertaken by Horace Mann who in 1837 was determined to assimilate immigrants into...
Continue ReadingUndergraduate Evening Studies Establishes Advisory Council
Furman University Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES) has established an Advisory Council. Council members met Jan. 19 in the inaugural meeting of the group. Members of the council include Upstate business and community leaders, as well...
Continue ReadingA “profound” accomplishment
Furman alum Jason Terrell ’12 is the co-founder of Profound Gentlemen, an organization that seeks to “build a community of male educators of color who provide a profound additional impact through social-emotional learning and cultivating...
Continue ReadingAn honor of the highest order
The National Inventors Hall of Fame just announced its Class of 2017, which includes Furman alum Fran Ligler ‘73. She was honored for her work to "make optical biosensors smaller, more versatile and more sophisticated." Ligler...
Continue ReadingSustainability good for business
John Meindl, a senior associate with Furman's Center for Corporate and Professional Development, is interviewed by Mike Switzer about the importance of sustainability in business.
Continue ReadingFurman Listed Among 200 Colleges “That Pay You Back”
Furman University is among the colleges and universities featured in the 2017 edition of The Princeton Review’s Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck....
Continue ReadingSlavi Georgiev’s American Education
Slavi Georgiev was 12 in 1989 when the communist regime in his home country of Bulgaria fell. They were in the middle of the school year, he remembers, when teachers came in and instructed them...
Continue ReadingFurman Alum Noel Painter Named EVP and Provost at Stetson
1991 Furman University music theory graduate Noel Painter has been named Executive Vice President and Provost at Stetson University (Deland, Fla.). Painter joined the faculty of Stetson University School of Music in 1999, and served as...
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