Furman has released the names of the students who made Dean’s List for the 2012 spring term. The honor is awarded to full-time undergraduates who earn a grade point average of at least 3.4 during the university’s fall and spring semesters. The students are listed alphabetically by state.
MAY 5, 2012
by Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations
Furman awarded 677 undergraduate and master’s degrees and presented a number of its top academic honors during graduation exercises Saturday, May 5. Former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley delivered the commencement address. The student speaker was graduate Katherine Barnett Love of Columbia, an economics major.
MAY 2, 2012
by Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer
Furman University will begin offering a new major in anthropology and a new minor in film studies. Both offerings will be available beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year. Furman’s anthropology major will require eight four-credit courses, and will have 24 course offerings covering the discipline’s subfields: cultural, linguistic, archaeological and physical anthropology. To satisfy the requirement for the Film Studies minor, students must complete at least four courses including one required, Introduction to Reading Film.
MAY 1, 2012
by Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations
The Furman Board of Trustees has announced that the late C. Dan Joyner of Greenville is the first recipient of the newly created Richard W. Riley Medal for Promise and Achievement. The award will be presented at Furman’s commencement exercises Saturday, May 5. Members of the Joyner family will accept the award. At its spring meeting in April, the Furman trustees voted unanimously to establish the medal and name Joyner, a 1959 Furman graduate, as its first recipient.