{"id":42432,"date":"2026-05-21T09:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42432"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:07:15","slug":"furman-board-of-trustees-approves-faculty-promotions-and-tenure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-board-of-trustees-approves-faculty-promotions-and-tenure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Board of Trustees approves faculty promotions and tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Board of Trustees approved promotions and tenure for more than two dozen faculty members during its spring meeting. The recommendations for promotion and tenure are effective Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The following faculty members were granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Veronica Flores (Psychology)<\/li>\n<li>Lauren Jarocha (Chemistry)<\/li>\n<li>Camille Lewis (Communications Studies)<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Sauve-Syed (Economics)<\/li>\n<li>Mai Nou Xiong-Gum (Communication Studies)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following faculty members were promoted to the rank of Professor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Fink (Religion)<\/li>\n<li>Erin Wamsley (Psychology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following faculty members were granted tenure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronwen Forbay (Music)<\/li>\n<li>Gary Guillet (Chemistry)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following faculty members were granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Professor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francis Kim (Business and Accounting)<\/li>\n<li>Geniece Mond\u00e9 (Sociology)<\/li>\n<li>Steven Stewart (Business and Accounting)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following faculty members were promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Dingledine (Music)<\/li>\n<li>Craig Price (Music)<\/li>\n<li>Claude Stulting (Religion)<\/li>\n<li>Izumi Tokunaga (Asian Studies)<\/li>\n<li>Ed Yazijian (Religion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following faculty member was promoted to the rank of Librarian:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patricia Sasser (Library)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following faculty members were granted emeritus status, effective upon their retirement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Barrington (History)<\/li>\n<li>Harris Heath (Education)<\/li>\n<li>Stephen O&#8217;Neill (History)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Letteri (Communication Studies)<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Radel (English)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Underwood (Business and Accounting)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Wagenknecht (Chemistry)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University Board of Trustees approved promotions and tenure for a number of faculty members during its spring meeting in May. All recommendations for promotion and tenure are effective Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":42433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,99,3,71,45,56,19,2944,20,53,64,51,33,40,101,37,46,28,31,95,21,42,52,50,44,16,39,79,36,49,32,59,75,48,94,23,22,41,66,80,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-africana-studies","category-alumni","category-anthropology","category-art","category-asian-studies","category-biology","category-board-of-trustees","category-business-and-accounting","category-chemistry","category-classics","category-communication-studies","category-computer-science","category-continuing-education","category-data-analytics","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-economics","category-education","category-english","category-faculty-development-center","category-health-sciences","category-history","category-library","category-mathematics","category-military-science-rotc","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-music","category-neuroscience","category-philosophy","category-physics","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-pre-health","category-pre-law","category-psychology","category-public-health","category-religion","category-sociology","category-theatre-arts","category-undergraduate-evening-studies","category-urban-studies","category-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42434,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42432\/revisions\/42434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}