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Ken Peterson assumes position of Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Ken Peterson, who has served as Dean of the Faculty at Furman University since February 2017, is the university's new Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost as of Aug. 1. Furman President Elizabeth Davis...

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Meet your campus troubleshooter

Furman Professor of Biology Victoria Turgeon had already earned the trust of her fellow faculty members, so it was no surprise that she agreed to become the university’s faculty ombudsman four years ago. In a...

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MS-CEM Program welcomes new class

When Furman’s Master of Science in Community Engaged Medicine (MS-CEM) program welcomed its second class in June, very little had changed from the year before. Same 34-credit course mix of hard science and public health...

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Meet Jason Donnelly, Furman’s new athletics director

[caption id="attachment_39866" align="alignright" width="240"] Jason Donnelly[/caption] Jason Donnelly, Furman’s new athletics director, will be formally introduced to the university community at a 10 a.m. news conference on campus Thursday, Aug. 1. The introduction, to be...

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Katherine West ’19 named national leader of the year by Omicron Delta Kappa

Katherine West, a 2019 Furman University graduate from Edgewood, Kentucky, has been selected as the 2019 National Leader of the Year by Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. An initiate of the Furman...

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Riley Fellows unveil new food truck for Greenville County students

A group of Riley Fellows from the Riley Institute at Furman University will unveil a new food truck for its first service of meals to Greenville County students at noon, Wednesday, July 31, at Travelers...

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Villanova’s Jason Donnelly named athletics director at Furman

Furman University President Elizabeth Davis announced today that Jason Donnelly, senior associate athletics director and executive director of athletics development at Villanova University, has been named athletics director at Furman. Donnelly will begin his duties...

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Happiness, education and wilderness highlight 2019 MayX courses

Furman’s May Experience (“MayX”) is an optional three-week term following the spring semester, and the topics students explore in courses that are not offered during the academic year are limited only by the imagination of...

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Time for schools to ‘scrap the machine’

Furman Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness Dave Eubanks urges colleges and universities to "scrap the machine" in a recent column penned for Inside Higher Ed. "Imagine if instead of spending the last twenty years...

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The importance of South Carolina’s black voters to Democratic candidates

NBC News recently followed former vice president Joe Biden as he campaigned in South Carolina and quoted Furman Professor of Politics and International Affairs Danielle Vinson about what winning — or not winning — the...

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