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Violins Against Violence: Sister Peggy O’Neill
By Mary O’Neill “VIVA LA PAZ! VIVA LA PAZ!! VIVA LA PAZ!!!” We work our way up to a shout (there are only five of us), and our voices roll across the rocky, empty slope...
Continue ReadingEducation program makes NCTQ honor roll
IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a top teacher education program, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) reports that Furman’s is among the best. Furman was one of only four universities in the nation to receive...
Continue ReadingRetiree tribute: Professor Maurice Cherry
MAURICE CHERRY taught me Spanish when I was a Furman undergraduate. He then taught me how to teach Spanish when I was a Furman graduate student. When I student-taught, he supervised all Furman foreign language...
Continue ReadingCommentary: Meritorious Teaching and Advising recipients
AS IS TRADITIONAL AT FURMAN, the 2013 Commencement featured the presentations of the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Awards for Meritorious Teaching and Advising to four deserving faculty members. The advising honorees...
Continue ReadingFrom the President
NOW THAT I AM BACK in an academic environment, memories of the dreaded first English class writing assignment following summer vacation come to mind — having to write about long car trips with the family...
Continue ReadingRinkers’ commitment boosts study away programs
FIVE FURMAN STUDENTS received scholarships this spring to participate in a study away program during May Experience, the university’s three-week semester that bridges the end of the academic year and the start of summer school....
Continue ReadingA Healthcare Primer: The Basics of the Affordable Care Act
By Tony Caterisano and Si Pearman FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS, healthcare has been an issue in American politics. Theodore Roosevelt emphasized it during his unsuccessful “Bull Moose” campaign for the presidency in 1912. Presidents...
Continue ReadingFull Circle: Carl and Lynne Kohrt
BACK IN 1965, while Carl Kohrt was completing his senior year as a chemistry major under the watchful eye of such legendary Furman professors as Stuart Patterson, John Southern and Don Kubler, his wife, Lynne,...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute helps with new approach to education
Two of South Carolina’s poorest school districts have teamed up with Furman to offer high school students a new way to learn. Scott’s Branch and Colleton County high schools have adopted the New Tech education...
Continue ReadingTeaching, learning in Japan
Elisa Edmondson spent most of her summer in the classroom. But here role was dual, as an instructor and student. And she was half a world away. The Communication Studies major, was in Tokyo teaching and...
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