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School 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...

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Undergraduate 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...

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A “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...

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An 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...

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Sustainability 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.

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Furman 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....

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Slavi 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...

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Furman 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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Steve Watson’s Career is Musical Medley

Steve Watson's music career is studded with names like Bruce Hornsby, Dolly Parton, and noted music producer Michael Post. In the '80s, Watson spent about 10 years in LA as a studio musician playing for...

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The right place at the right time

When Furman announced it's new strategic vision in October—The Furman Advantage, an ambitious effort to transform the student experience and address critical community issues, some likely asked how such an experience would defined. It dawned on me that...

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Jean Yarbrough of Bowdoin College Opens Tocqueville Series Feb. 1

Bowdoin College government and social sciences professor Jean Yarbrough will open the Tocqueville Program lecture series Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101 on the Furman University campus. Her talk, “Tocqueville on...

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Riley Institute Co-Sponsors Symposium on Immigration

Immigration attorneys, practitioners and scholars will examine major issues related to immigration policy at a day-long symposium hosted by the Charleston Law Review of the Charleston School of Law and the Riley Institute at Furman...

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