In keeping with its mission to sustain a dynamic community that respects the inherent worth of all people, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion is going about the business of securing funding for a number of initiatives on campus. Four different organizations have been named award recipients by the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.<\/p>\n
Pam Davis, Director of Bridges to a Brighter Future, was awarded a grant for training Bridges Foundation summer program counselors and staff.<\/p>\n
With grant funds awarded to Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES), Director Beth Crews aims to extend Furman\u2019s reach into the Hispanic adult community through articles and advertising in Latino <\/em>newspaper.<\/p>\n Onyx Henry, Adjunct Professor in Modern Languages & Literatures, received funds to bring students from Shelby High School to the Furman campus for a day.<\/p>\n Another grant recipient, international student advisor Chrissy McCrary, will attend \u201cCrossing Cultures with Competence\u201d train-the-trainer program.<\/p>\n Additional small grant applications will be available through the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in early fall 2016. For more information contact the office at 864. 294.2202.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In keeping with its mission to sustain a dynamic community that respects the inherent worth of all people, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion is going about the business of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,16,47,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-study-away-and-international-education","category-undergraduate-evening-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}