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Is Lindsey Graham actually in trouble in S.C.?
After announcing his bid for the South Carolina U.S. Senate race in 2019, Democrat Jaime Harrison is gaining steam in campaign financing, nearly neck-and-neck with incumbent Lindsey Graham. Still, the challenger is facing an "uphill...
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 impact adds hurdles to economic growth
Furman University's Kailash Khandke, an economics professor, has written an opinion piece in Greenville Business Magazine. In it, he draws comparisons of our COVID-19 times to the Great Depression and the Great Recession and makes...
Continue ReadingMayor White: COVID-19, police accountability slow Confederate monument plans
Three years after expressing support for supplemental signage that would provide historical context for the Confederate monument in Springwood Cemetery, Greenville Mayor Knox White says different city council priorities have taken the front burner. As...
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 and the gig economy: Three opera stars press onward
Soprano Alicia Russell was set to debut at Chicago’s Lyric Opera in “Blue,” a timely modern work about police brutality, when everything changed for her and other artists. COVID-19 has scrubbed performing arts calendars for...
Continue ReadingA community conversation with Don Gordon
Don Gordon, executive director of the Riley Institute at Furman University, has a virtual community conversation with Jane Robelot of WYFF News 4. Gordon says the pandemic has further distanced people from one another and...
Continue ReadingDoing the math: COVID-19 and social inequity
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Faced with the disruption that is COVID-19, professors everywhere have put their virtual heads together to craft ways to tackle new topics and learning environments. And thanks...
Continue ReadingFlexibility and power of community, keys to making right choice for students
M. Carmela Epright, a philosophy professor at Furman University, and Michael Seemuller, medical director for AnMed Health Wren Family Medicine, have written an opinion piece in The Post & Courier about reopening schools amid the...
Continue ReadingUSGS, partners track and remove Burmese pythons
Where there are male pythons, females are not far away. That's the idea for an initiative to track and remove invasive Burmese pythons that are wreaking havoc on South Florida's ecosystems and endangered species. Male...
Continue ReadingFurman KA alumni seek to break ties with Robert E. Lee
The Kappa Alpha Order has for 100 years acknowledged Confederate general Robert E. Lee as its "spiritual founder." Eighty-four alumni of Furman's Iota Chapter have signed a letter aimed at severing ties with Lee, who...
Continue ReadingI, too, am a Southerner!
In the wake of protests and conversations over Confederate monuments, Teresa Cosby, a Furman University politics and international affairs professor, pens a column for the Greensboro News & Record. A child during the time of...
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