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Juneteenth is an opportunity to reflect

President Elizabeth Davis sent the message below to the campus community on Friday, June 18, 2021. Dear Campus Community, The first time I heard about Juneteenth I was a first-year student in college at Baylor...

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‘No prisoner in this lonely room’

Elizabeth Collins '21 created a public humanities outreach program to bring poetry therapy to cancer patients in the Greenville community. The program, What a Word’s Worth, was offered through Furman and the Cancer Support Community...

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MayX Snapshots

Presenting some highlights from the 2021 May Experience – a chance for students to explore topics beyond the typical academic year. The truth behind true crime [caption id="attachment_50936" align="alignleft" width="150"] Podcaster Brad Wills chats during...

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Furman University Board of Trustees Approves Faculty Promotion and Tenure

During its spring meeting on May 20, the Furman University Board of Trustees approved the promotions and/or tenure for a number of faculty members. Eight members of the faculty were promoted to the rank of...

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Students, faculty honored at 2020 and 2021 commencement ceremonies

Student and faculty awards and honors were handed out at the commencement ceremonies for the class of 2021 on Saturday, May 8, and for the class of 2020 on Saturday, May 15. The Donaldson-Watkins and...

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Unveiling of Joseph Vaughn statue captures media attention

The April 16 unveiling of a life-size bronze statue of Joseph Vaughn on the campus of Furman University sparked a flurry of media coverage across the Upstate. Graduating cum laude in the class of 1968,...

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Margaret ’83 and Robert Hill ’83 receive OneJax humanitarian award

The OneJax Institute in Jacksonville, Florida, honored Robert ’83 and Margaret Hill ’83 with their humanitarian award on April 15. OneJax is a nonprofit interfaith organization dedicated to achieving civility, understanding and respect for all...

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Furman University unveils statue of Joseph Vaughn

During Friday's unveiling of the Joseph Vaughn statue honoring the first Black man to enroll at Furman University, family members and others from the Furman community gathered to celebrate and reflect on Vaughn's legacy. Furman...

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For a former student, Joe Vaughn’s gift won’t be forgotten

As Furman University unveils a sculpture of Joseph Vaughn '68, the first African American to enroll at the university, Furman alumnus Steve Cothran '86 offers a tribute to Vaughn in The Greenville News. Cothran's senior...

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Statue honoring Furman’s first Black student can help change ‘reality of racism’

On the eve of the unveiling of the Joseph Vaughn statue on the campus of Furman University, The State publishes an op-ed by Elizabeth Davis, the university's 12th president. In it, she chronicles the history...

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Recovering the life stories of the Zealy daguerreotype subjects

Furman University's Gregg Hecimovich, chair of the English department at the university, speaks with Henry Louis Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of Harvard's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, about...

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How Greenville group is confronting racism and nation’s ‘biggest lie’

In a opinion piece appearing in The Greenville News, former Furman University Board of Trustees member Baxter Wynn wrote, "I have come to believe that deep-seated personal racial bias, often unintended, unconscious, and difficult to...

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