\u201cThis will be one of our most visible commitments to connect Furman\u2019s main campus with the local community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The One City Plaza location is the latest example of Furman\u2019s growing presence and engagement with the community, said Liz Seman, chief of staff and liaison to Furman\u2019s Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the West End to Heritage Green, to our beautiful campus on Poinsett Highway, Furman is proud to be Greenville\u2019s University,\u201d said Seman. \u201cWe are excited to add the space at One City Plaza to our downtown footprint. Students, faculty, staff and alumni will now have the opportunity to engage with the Greenville community at Fluor Field, M. Judson Booksellers, the Upcountry History Museum and the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. All of these venues provide unique opportunities for collaboration and high-impact experiences, which are the hallmark of The Furman Advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n
A multipurpose area with flexible furniture, the space will be quickly convertible to host a wide array of programs, workshops and events, Herrera said. Select graduate and undergraduate courses, continuing education certificates, workshops, speaker series and networking events will be delivered throughout the week to develop leaders and \u201clifelong learners\u201d throughout the city.<\/p>\n
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Liz Seman, chief of staff and liaison to the Board of Trustees.<\/p><\/div>\n
Along with the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Furman\u2019s three other institutes \u2013 The Riley Institute<\/a>, The Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities<\/a> and The Institute for Advancement of Community Health<\/a> \u2013 will offer programming. Furman\u2019s Center for Corporate and Professional Development<\/a> and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute<\/a>, as well as the school\u2019s academic, alumni relations and athletics departments, will also present events.<\/p>\n The facility, expected to open later this year or soon after the new year, can benefit both Furman and Greenville by encouraging students to ultimately get full-time positions and stay in the city, said Herrera.<\/p>\n \u201cThis space will connect our students and faculty more intentionally with the business and nonprofit community for a pipeline of talent for internships, full-time jobs, research and impactful collaborations,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will further carry out Furman\u2019s mission of delivering transformative experiences for lifelong learners. We want to expand our commitment to serving the Greenville community and ensuring Greenville continues to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n Another catalyst for the development is this fall\u2019s launch of the GVL Starts<\/a> program, an eight-week program for aspiring entrepreneurs to network and learn skills to develop their potential startups and small businesses, he said.<\/p>\n The ground floor space won\u2019t be the only place to find Furman purple in the former Bank of America building. In December 2020, Furman University President Elizabeth Davis announced<\/a> that the\u00a0Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship<\/a>\u00a0will join the city of Greenville\u2019s economic development team in locating offices in downtown Greenville with\u00a0NEXT<\/a>, an entrepreneurial-support organization that operates under the Greenville Chamber Foundation, on the third floor of 101 N. Main St.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Furman is expanding its downtown presence \u2013 and planning one of the school\u2019s greatest investments in the Greenville community \u2013 with the addition of a 2,000-square-foot space on the ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":9508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17,62,81,65,29,18,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-centers-and-institutes","category-corporate-and-professional-development","category-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","category-institute-for-the-advancement-of-community-health","category-riley-institute","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities","category-top-four-news-4th-story","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507","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=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33389,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions\/33389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}