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Providing commentary on midterm elections
When South Carolina ETV provided live, election night coverage during the 2014 midterms, Furman political science professor Brent Nelsen and two Furman students, Courtney Thomas and Andrew Smith, monitored social media channels and provided commentary...
Continue ReadingWeighing the costs of ‘improvement’
The city of Greenville is growing, and growing in ways that are heralded as beneficial—change for the better some say. But one question too often ignored, or perhaps simply not thought of at all, is...
Continue ReadingLaying a foundation for childhood success
The Institute for Child Success recently offered a snapshot of the well-being of South Carolina’s youngest citizens in a newly-released publication, the South Carolina Early Childhood Annual Data Report for 2014. Two Furman alumnae and...
Continue ReadingWhere is U.S. foreign policy headed?
The recent midterm elections brought a clear defeat for the Democrats and a near-sweeping victory for the Republicans, who now control both chambers of Congress. But how will the new distribution of power in Washington...
Continue ReadingPartners in crime
It’s only fitting that Furman, a household name in the world of college mock trial, would forge a partnership with the organization responsible for one of the largest high school mock trial tournaments in the...
Continue ReadingMaking sense of the midterm elections
The midterm elections on Nov. 4 delivered a big victory for the Republicans, who now have control of both the House and Senate. But what actually happened? Was the Democrats’ defeat a rejection of President...
Continue ReadingA new wall in Germany
Brandon Tensley, a 2012 Furman graduate, has published an op-ed in Time magazine that looks at Germany 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tensley writes that even though the Berlin Wall no...
Continue ReadingFurman Standard honors ten
[caption id="attachment_15126" align="alignright" width="300"] Top left and continuing clockwise, George (left) and Fran Ligler (right) honored Carl Kohrt, who is photographed with his wife Lynne, and Charles Brewer. Brewer was also honored by Genie Gullick....
Continue ReadingA circuitous journey into politics
Madeline Rogero took a circuitous path to her current position as mayor of Knoxville, Tenn. After graduating from Furman with a degree in political science in 1979, Rogero worked with César Chávez's United Farm Workers,...
Continue ReadingThe Washington Experience
[caption id="attachment_14779" align="alignright" width="300"] Stewart Atkins and Congressman Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Leader[/caption] For Carson Priest ’15, his summer as an intern in Washington, D.C., was anything but boring as he learned everything from how...
Continue ReadingRepublicans poised for big gains, says Vinson
The Republican Party will emerge as the winner in next month's midterm elections, Furman University Political Science Professor and Chair Danielle Vinson told a crowd of about 100 people Wednesday at the Upcountry History Museum....
Continue ReadingA Republican Rout at the Midterm Elections?
With the 2014 midterm elections less than a month away, what is likely to happen? The conventional wisdom says the Republicans will remain in control of the House of Representatives and the Democrats could well...
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