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Minor Mickel Shaw receives national award for higher education support
Civic leader and philanthropist Minor Mickel Shaw is this year’s recipient of the Council of Independent Colleges' Charles W. L. Foreman Award in recognition of her stalwart support of South Carolina’s private colleges and universities....
Continue ReadingSpartanburg’s Northside Initiative honored by Furman’s Riley Institute
Spartanburg’s Northside Initiative received the inaugural OneSouthCarolina Partners in Progress Award from Furman University’s Riley Institute. The award, which was presented by former South Carolina governor and U.S. Secretary of Education Dick Riley, recognizes achievements...
Continue ReadingFurman named a Best Value College for 2022 by The Princeton Review
Furman University has been named a Best Value College for 2022 by The Princeton Review based on data from its surveys of administrators at about 650 colleges in 2021-2022. The company also factored in data...
Continue ReadingPathways course approved to guide students through The Furman Advantage
Furman University faculty have voted to make Pathways, a two-year program central to The Furman Advantage, a graduation requirement for all students starting in Fall 2022. Pathways is a one-credit class each semester for first-...
Continue ReadingSecretary Riley receives lifetime achievement award
The American Bar Foundation (ABF) has presented the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in Law and Education to former Secretary of Education and South Carolina Governor Richard “Dick” W. Riley ’54, for whom The Riley Institute...
Continue ReadingOn her daughter’s birthday, mother urges SC lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana
Cathy Stevens, a parent advocate for her daughter Halle, writes an opinion letter in The State. In it, she urges lawmakers to pass the South Carolina Compassionate Care Act (S.150), which legalizes the controlled use...
Continue ReadingEducation as a bridge to the future
In a piece she contributed to Greenville Business Magazine, Elizabeth Davis, president of Furman University, lays out what it takes to ensure the Upstate region "continues to grow and progress in ways that are robust...
Continue ReadingReading Partners South Carolina wins statewide award from The Riley Institute
Reading Partners South Carolina received the eleventh annual Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award for Excellence and corresponding $10,000 prize during a virtual celebration of South Carolina public education presented by Furman University’s Riley Institute...
Continue ReadingSC Education Department, Riley Institute to invest $1.3M in learning leadership program
South Carolina’s Department of Education is partnering with the Riley Institute at Furman University to invest $1.3 million in a new after-school and summer-learning leadership program. The initiative, called Afterschool Leaders Empowered, will train a...
Continue ReadingKimberly Witherspoon named a Bond Buyer 2021 Rising Star
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd has announced that Kimberly Witherspoon '06, a public finance attorney, has been named to The Bond Buyer’s 2021 Rising Stars list. The news was picked up by UpstateBizSC. The Bond Buyer Rising...
Continue ReadingFurman climbs in US News ranking; voted ‘most innovative’ 5th straight year
For the fifth consecutive year, Furman University is one of the “Most Innovative Schools” among national liberal arts colleges and universities, according to the U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings released today. Furman...
Continue ReadingRemembrance, reflection, renewal: Furman remembers 9/11
Twenty years ago, Furman’s Class of 2005 was beginning its first day of class. The day was warm but cloudy, far from the brilliant, clear skies over New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania,...
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