undergraduate-evening-studies
In praise of faculty scholarship
Watch a video about the 2018 Faculty Scholarship Reception Faculty scholarship is happening all around Furman. Even on top of classroom requirements, advising, grading, serving on committees and attending meetings, professors from all disciplines are...
Continue ReadingMelissa Ranhofer receives Outstanding UES Faculty Award
In 2011, Furman Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES) created the annual Outstanding UES Faculty Award to honor a faculty member who has supported students through outstanding teaching, service, and dedication to improving and building the UES...
Continue ReadingUndergraduate Evening Studies presents art exhibition
Art by students and faculty of Furman University Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES) will be on display Oct. 20-Nov. 20 in the Baiden Gallery of the Herring Center for Continuing Education on campus. Baiden Gallery hours...
Continue ReadingDefining value
What do the liberal arts do for students? On Tuesday, February 21, Furman Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost George Shields attempted to answer this before a group of faculty and staff. There have...
Continue ReadingInvesting in the Furman community and beyond
In the fall of 2015, Furman English and communication studies double major Erin Mellor ’17 noticed a campus advertisement for an internship with the university’s Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES) program. She was drawn to the opportunity to gain...
Continue ReadingA Furman education opens doors
Greater Greenville Sanitation executive director Steve Cole ’00 graduated from high school in 1990. “At the time,” he says, “getting a car was more important to me than getting an education.” So he went to...
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 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 ReadingUndergraduate Evening Studies Helps Adults Obtain Degree
According to data from the National Student Clearinghouse, the number of people over the age of 25 going to college to get their first undergraduate degree has dropped since 2012. Matthew Clark of GSA Business...
Continue ReadingLocal Business Taps Talents of Family Members
It takes multiple skills and talents to start a business and keep it running on all cylinders--technical trade expertise, finance and banking, operations, customer service, logistics, human resources expertise, marketing and branding smarts, and the...
Continue ReadingUES Student Gordievsky Receives United Way Scholarship
As a recipient of United Way’s Women’s Leadership Jobs to Careers Scholarship, Julia Gordievsky’s next step toward a better life became a little easier this year. Gordievsky, a Furman University Undergraduate Evening Studies student, and...
Continue ReadingTranscending Her Role on Campus
Beth Crews’ leadership in adult education transcends her role at Furman. She’s the director of Furman’s Undergraduate Evening Studies program, but she has also been forced to make transitions in life like many of the...
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