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Sustainability and collaboration
Furman is well known for its beautiful campus, commitment to sustainability and opportunities for deep undergraduate student research. These three components came together when the campus was recently designated as a Level I arboretum through...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute announces new Upstate DLI Class
Forty-four leaders from the Upstate have been selected to participate in the Riley Institute at Furman’s Diversity Leaders Initiative program. It is DLI's 18th class of Riley Fellows, and the group will join more than...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute announces Excellence Award semifinalists
Furman's Riley Institute has announced the 2014 semifinalists for the annual Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award for Excellence. The semifinalists will be recognized Oct. 2 at the fourth annual WhatWorksSC awards luncheon to be held...
Continue ReadingThe weight of poverty
If you’re poor, others look at you as something less than a real person, more of a number in the system, said two women who fell into poverty and with the help of others climbed...
Continue ReadingCostco cofounder Sinegal to wrap up “Working Poor” series
Jim Sinegal, Costco cofounder and former Director of Costco Wholesale Corporation will speak in the final session of “Can’t Win for Losing: The Crisis of the Working Poor.” The event, "Revitalizing the American Dream," is...
Continue ReadingFurman offering course on sustainability in business
Furman is offering a program in the spring of 2015 that will help executives manage the challenges of a socially conscious business environment. The five-session course, offered by Furman’s Center for Corporate and Professional Development in...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute selects fellows to develop state-level afterschool policy
Sixteen 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. In...
Continue ReadingThe good neighbors
Breaking the cycle of poverty is not an easy task and will require systemic changes, deep interpersonal relationships with the poor, and a major investment of state and federal resources, said one of the speakers...
Continue ReadingCrisis 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 ReadingFurman lauded for doing “green” right
Furman is featured on a new nationwide list of 100 colleges that do an outstanding job of teaching sustainability and promoting it in their communities. The university was included in Teaching Sustainability: 100 Colleges Doing “Green” Right,...
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 ReadingHestermann named executive director of GHS partnership
Furman University and Greenville Health System (GHS) announced today that Furman biology professor Eli Hestermann will assume the responsibilities of overseeing the new academic partnership between the two organizations. As Executive Director of Health Education/Undergraduate Studies...
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