Charles L. Brewer, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Furman University, died on March 30 at the age of 85. \u00a0He joined the Furman faculty in 1967 and retired in 2014 after an illustrious teaching career.<\/p>\n
A celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Brewer will be held Sunday, May 6, from 2-4 p.m. at the Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center on campus.<\/p>\n
Dr. Brewer chaired Furman\u2019s psychology department between 1972 and 1984 and was the first winner of the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching in 1969.\u00a0 He won the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Advising in 2010, and is one of only two faculty members to have won both the teaching and advising awards.<\/p>\n
He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Furman in 2012.<\/p>\n
Dr. Brewer was well known for his contributions to the teaching profession and served as editor of the journal Teaching of Psychology from 1985 to 1996. He won numerous awards from professional psychology organizations, including the Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology from the American Psychological Association (1996) and the Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award from the American Psychological Foundation (1989). In 2003, the American Psychological Foundation named that teaching award for Dr. Brewer.<\/p>\n
He was also a recognized authority on noted American psychologist John Broadus Watson, an 1899 Furman graduate who was born in Travelers Rest and is known as the \u201cfather of behaviorism.\u201d<\/p>\n
A native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Dr. Brewer received his bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Hendrix College and his master\u2019s and doctorate degrees in experimental psychology from the University of Arkansas. Before coming to Furman, he also taught at The College of Wooster, the University of Arkansas and Elmira College.<\/p>\n
In February of this year, Dr. Brewer was interviewed about his teaching career by representatives from the American Psychological Association\u2019s Division 2, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.\u00a0 That interview is available as a podcast here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Donations may be made to the Charles L. Brewer Endowment Funds at either Hendrix College or Furman University or the Archives at the Cummings Centre for the History of Psychology at the University of Akron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Charles L. Brewer, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Furman University, died on March 30 at the age of 85. \u00a0He joined the Furman faculty in 1967 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,48,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-psychology","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}