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Does flexible work schedule benefit everybody?
Flexible work is often touted as the answer to everything that’s wrong with the modern workplace. If workers can use technology to set their own hours, and work when, where and in whatever manner they’re...
Continue ReadingUsing music to teach the lessons of life
Furman graduate Adam Scheuch is band director at Mauldin High School. And on Aug. 14, he learned he had been named Greenville County Schools' Teacher of the Year for 2014-15. Scheuch said he sees himself...
Continue ReadingGil Allen authors collection of poems
Greg Williamson describes Gil Allen's new volume of poems this way: "With a big heart and an expert pen, he draws our attention to things we might have looked at once but didn’t really see...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute announces new Upstate DLI Class
Forty-four leaders from the Upstate have been selected to participate in the Riley Institute at Furman’s Diversity Leaders Initiative program. It is DLI's 18th class of Riley Fellows, and the group will join more than...
Continue ReadingWelcome to Furman
On behalf of Parents Council, we would like to welcome the parents of the Class of 2018 and new transfer students to Furman! You have become members of a very special family…the Furman family. Furman...
Continue ReadingChoosing the right public school policies
What do third-grade retention policies based on reading tests and charter schools have in common? For one thing, the research base on these policies has shown repeatedly that they do more to fail students than...
Continue ReadingTracking democracy in Turkey
Until very recently, Turkey represented the state of the art in the Middle East and the Muslim world as far as democracy is considered. But as the expectation was building for the final push of...
Continue ReadingRiley Institute announces Excellence Award semifinalists
Furman's Riley Institute has announced the 2014 semifinalists for the annual Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award for Excellence. The semifinalists will be recognized Oct. 2 at the fourth annual WhatWorksSC awards luncheon to be held...
Continue ReadingThe weight of poverty
If you’re poor, others look at you as something less than a real person, more of a number in the system, said two women who fell into poverty and with the help of others climbed...
Continue ReadingSeeking justice in El Salvador
Furman religion professor Echol Nix visited El Salvador July 24-Aug. 1 as part of a U.S. delegation interested in learning more about the six Jesuit priests who were murdered nearly 25 years ago during the...
Continue ReadingFurman to hold summer commencement Aug. 16
Shirley Ritter, Professor of Education Emerita at Furman, will serve as speaker when Furman holds its summer commencement exercises Saturday, Aug. 16 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. The university will award approximately 55 undergraduate and...
Continue ReadingCostco cofounder Sinegal to wrap up “Working Poor” series
Jim Sinegal, Costco cofounder and former Director of Costco Wholesale Corporation will speak in the final session of “Can’t Win for Losing: The Crisis of the Working Poor.” The event, "Revitalizing the American Dream," is...
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