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Programs & Opportunities

Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders, change agents, and decision makers. As educators, it is imperative we help students develop a sustainability worldview through sustainability education and opportunities that will shape their values, perceptions, and mindset and guide their behavior and actions toward creating a more sustainable world. The Shi Institute offers an array of student programs and resources designed to develop this sustainability worldview.

  • The Student Fellowship Program engages students in real-world, campus and community sustainability fellowships, with offerings during the summer and the academic year.
  • The Furman Farm is an organic-practice farm that provides produce for the dining hall, has a comprehensive composting program, and is a hub for the practice of small-scale sustainable food production.
  • The Greenbelt Community is an intentional living/learning community intended to foster sustainable living and lifestyle choices among its student residents.
  • Eco Rep programming instills a sense of sustainability into Furman’s culture by promoting sustainable behaviors through education, awareness, and sustainability themed events.
Student Fellowship Program
Furman Farm
Greenbelt Community ↗︎
Eco Reps Program

Resources

The Shi Instiute offers a variety of resources that help students engage in a sustainable lifestyle while they live on Furman's campus.

  • Quickly travel across campus with one of our rental bikes.
  • Send your food waste to our on-campus composting program instead of the landfill.
Bike Rentals
Composting
Green Guide

Student News

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Garden Pace: How Working on a Farm Displays the Relativity of Time

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Wait, what exactly are you doing at these bus stops?

“Are you just riding the bus everywhere?” “What are you actually doing at each stop? “You’re taking how much to each stop?”   The chorus of my summer. My friends and family assume they understand when I tell them that I’m...

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Student Fellows Blog

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Impact is a Two-Way Street

If you peeked into a classroom at the Greenville Zoo one morning in July, you would have seen me introducing a class of 9-year-olds to a chinchilla named Kenickie. And in the back of that...

Continue Reading >

Garden Pace: How Working on a Farm Displays the Relativity of Time

As humans, we are used to experiencing time in a very specific way. Human society is structured around, unsurprisingly, human time. The average life cycle of a person stays pretty much the same wherever you...

Continue Reading >

Wait, what exactly are you doing at these bus stops?

“Are you just riding the bus everywhere?” “What are you actually doing at each stop? “You’re taking how much to each stop?”   The chorus of my summer. My friends and family assume they understand when I tell them that I’m...

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