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The new school year is here
Furman’s 2014-15 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 26 when students attend their first day of classes. Approximately 750 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 22 and take part in four days of...
Continue ReadingAdam Scheuch ’98 named Teacher of the Year
Adam Scheuch ’98 knew when he was a still a student himself he wanted to teach. It was a fire fueled by a fundamental drive to “touch the life of an individual in a positive...
Continue ReadingArt by Noelle Allen
Works by Noelle Allen, Associate Professor of Art at Dominican University (Chicago), will be on display Aug. 25-Sept. 27 in Thompson Gallery of the Roe Art Building on the Furman University campus. Thompson Gallery hours...
Continue ReadingDoes flexible work schedule benefit everybody?
Flexible work is often touted as the answer to everything that’s wrong with the modern workplace. If workers can use technology to set their own hours, and work when, where and in whatever manner they’re...
Continue ReadingUsing music to teach the lessons of life
Furman graduate Adam Scheuch is band director at Mauldin High School. And on Aug. 14, he learned he had been named Greenville County Schools' Teacher of the Year for 2014-15. Scheuch said he sees himself...
Continue ReadingGil Allen authors collection of poems
Greg Williamson describes Gil Allen's new volume of poems this way: "With a big heart and an expert pen, he draws our attention to things we might have looked at once but didn’t really see...
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 ReadingWelcome to Furman
On behalf of Parents Council, we would like to welcome the parents of the Class of 2018 and new transfer students to Furman! You have become members of a very special family…the Furman family. Furman...
Continue ReadingChoosing the right public school policies
What do third-grade retention policies based on reading tests and charter schools have in common? For one thing, the research base on these policies has shown repeatedly that they do more to fail students than...
Continue ReadingTracking democracy in Turkey
Until very recently, Turkey represented the state of the art in the Middle East and the Muslim world as far as democracy is considered. But as the expectation was building for the final push of...
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...
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