Furman University

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Furman University
Furman U Seal.png
Former names
Furman Academy and Theological Institution
(1826–1829)
Furman Theological Institution
(1829–1834)
Furman Institution
(1837–1851)
MottoChristo et Doctrinae
Motto in English
For Christ and Learning
Type Private liberal arts university
Established1826;198 years ago (1826)
Academic affiliations
Endowment $812.3 million (2022) [1]
(Beneficiary of the Duke Endowment, 1924)
President Elizabeth Davis
Academic staff
321 [2]
Undergraduates 2,443 (Fall 2022) [2]
Postgraduates 160 [2]
Location
Greenville, South Carolina
,
U.S.
CampusSuburban, 750 acres (304 ha)
Colors     Purple & white [A 1]
Nickname Paladins
Mascot Paladin
Website www.furman.edu
Furman Logo.png

Furman University is a private liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina. Founded in 1826 and named after Baptist pastor Richard Furman, [A 2] Furman University is the oldest private institution of higher learning in South Carolina. It became a secular university in 1992, while keeping Christo et Doctrinae (For Christ and Learning) as its motto. As of Fall 2021, it enrolls approximately 2,300 undergraduate students and 150 graduate students on its 750-acre (304 ha) campus. [2]

Contents

History

Beginnings (19th century)

Furman Academy and Theological Institution was established by the South Carolina Baptist Convention and incorporated in December 1825 in Edgefield. With 10 students, it held its first classes January 15, 1828; [D 1] although another source says it opened in January 1827. [3] Through 1850, average enrollment was 10 students, and it constantly tottered on the edge of insolvency. From 1829 to 1834, it operated in the High Hills of the Santee (now Stateburg, South Carolina). Furman closed from 1834 to 1837. [3] When the school reopened, at the urging of the Reverend Jonathan Davis, chairman of the Board of Agents, the school moved to his native Fairfield County, near Winnsboro.

In 1850, the state legislature chartered Furman University. [3] It was not until 1851 that South Carolina Baptists were able to raise the necessary funds for the removal of the school to Greenville, South Carolina.

The university closed from 1861 to 1866, when "most students and several faculty members enlisted in the Confederate forces." [3]

The Furman Institution Faculty Residence serves as a visible reminder of the early history of Furman University and its brief establishment in Fairfield County. [D 2] [D 3]

Growth and expansion (20th century)

Furman University has been in its current location since 1958. The Furman Lake and Bell Tower (background; right) are prominent elements of the campus. Furman Lake.jpg
Furman University has been in its current location since 1958. The Furman Lake and Bell Tower (background; right) are prominent elements of the campus.
Located in Upstate South Carolina, Furman University gets snow in the winter, as seen in 2016. Furman University, Greenville, United States.jpg
Located in Upstate South Carolina, Furman University gets snow in the winter, as seen in 2016.

The first school building from the downtown Greenville campus was transported to the current campus, where it still stands. In 1933, students from the Greenville Women's College began attending classes with Furman students. Shortly thereafter, the two schools merged to form the present institution.

In 1924, Furman was named one of four collegiate beneficiaries of the Duke Endowment. Through 2007, Furman has received $110 million from the endowment, which is now one of the nation's largest philanthropic foundations. Three other colleges—Duke, Davidson and Johnson C. Smith—also receive annual support and special grants from the endowment. [A 3]

In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education found the "separate but equal" policy to be unconstitutional, starting the lengthy process of desegregating public schools. As of that date, Furman, like most Southern colleges, did not accept African Americans as students. Some Furman students began to press for change. [B 1] In 1955, some students wrote short stories and poems in The Echo, a student literary magazine, in support of integration; school administrators destroyed all 1,500 printed copies. [B 1] In 1953, Furman began construction on its new campus, [A 4] five miles (8 km) north of downtown Greenville. Classes on the new campus began in 1958.

By 1963, enough faculty were siding with the students over racial desegregation that Furman's board of trustees voted to admit Black students. Action on the trustees' decision was postponed and it was later overturned by South Carolina's Baptist Convention; desegregated admission was not implemented at Furman until its incoming president, Gordon W. Blackwell, a past president of Florida State University, made it a condition of his acceptance of the new position. [B 1] In 1965, Joe Vaughn was the first black undergraduate to enroll. [B 1]

In 1992, the South Carolina Baptist Convention ended its affiliation with Furman. [A 5] Furman's "heritage is rooted in the non-creedal, free church Baptist tradition which has always valued particular religious commitments while insisting not only on the freedom of the individual to believe as he or she sees fit but also on respect for a diversity of religious perspectives, including the perspective of the non-religious person." [A 6]

Recent history (21st century)

In 2012, a new facility, named for alumni Sarah and Gordon Herring, was built for continuing education. [D 4] The student center was expanded and renovated in 2012. David Trone, a Furman alumni, together with his wife June, participated through a $3.5 million gift resulting in the center being named the Trone Student Center. [A 7]

Task Force on Slavery and Justice

In October 2018, a Task Force on Slavery and Justice, set up by Provost George Shields, issued a report, Seeking Abraham, making recommendations "to acknowledge the role slavery and racism had in the school's history." [4] The task force is a response to the article, "Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation: What is the Furman Legacy?", published in October 2016 in the university newspaper, pointing out that Richard Furman, the university's namesake, and even more so his son James Clement Furman, Furman's first president, were not only slave owners but active defenders of slavery. "Abraham" is a reference to Abraham Sims, a slave at the house of James Furman.

The task force issued 19 recommendations, which were unanimously accepted by Furman's board of trustees. [5] James C. Furman Hall will be renamed Furman Hall, and a statue will be erected to honor Joseph Vaughn, "the first Black student to attend the school". [4] A tour of the university, "Seeking Abraham", looks at campus "from the perspective of the native people who first called the campus home, the enslaved and laborers, the women who pushed against the Furmans' views, the eventual students and faculty who pushed desegregation forward, and the Baptists who eventually broke with their own Convention.... Much of this history is 'hidden' in the current landscape." [6]

Campus

The Furman Hall is centrally located on campus. James C Furman Hall - panoramio.jpg
The Furman Hall is centrally located on campus.

Furman University's campus is located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the upstate region of South Carolina.[ citation needed ]

Furman's campus has been named one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation. [7] [8] [9] In 2016, USA Today named Furman's campus as the 4th most beautiful campus out of 10. [10] Times Higher Education named it ninth out of the ten most beautiful campuses in the nation in 2017. [9] In 2019, Travel + Leisure listed Furman as 23rd out of 25 of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States. [11]

Timmons Arena

Timmons Arena is a 4,000-seat multi-purpose arena. [D 5] It is home to the Furman University Paladins basketball team since its opening on December 30, 1997. [A 8] [D 6]

Cliffs Cottage

A Southern Living showcase home called Cliffs Cottage opened in 2008. The building is solar-powered using two panels, and features geothermal heating. [B 2] [D 7] Cliffs Cottage was the first sustainable showcase home for Southern Living magazine, which featured it in the article Our Most Innovative House Ever, detailing how to create a house that requires less energy and generates power. [D 7]

Place of Peace and Asian garden

The campus also includes an Asian garden, the centerpiece of which is the Place of Peace, a Buddhist temple moved to the site from Japan. A replica of the cabin that Henry David Thoreau inhabited while writing On Walden Pond is located on the west side of the lake. [A 9]

Environmental sustainability

Furman works to conserve, reduce, and recycle on campus, has constructed green buildings and provided students with alternative transportation. Furman has a farm on campus. The Furman Farm is a quarter-acre garden located beside the Cliffs Cottage and the Furman Lake. A wide variety of produce is grown throughout the year using sustainable agricultural practices such as crop rotations, composting, drip lines, natural fertilizers, and integrated pest management. [A 10] Furman also has installed a 6-acre solar farm with a 743 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) array near the campus entrance. The university hopes to achieve carbon neutrality by 2026. [A 11] [12]

The Princeton Review featured Furman in its 2023 list of 455 Green Colleges; it received a green rating of 90, within a possible range of 60-99 . [13] In. 2015, the Sierra Club included Furman in its list of the top 50 eco-friendly universities in America. [14] Furman received a grade of "A−" from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card in 2011 along with 52 other institutions. [15] Furman takes part in the voluntary self-reporting Sustainability Tracking Assessment Ratings System (STARS), in which it received a gold rating in 2021. [16]

Organization and administration

University presidents
PresidentYears
James Clement Furman1859–1879
Charles Manly1881–1897
Andrew Philip Montague1897–1902
Charles Hallette Judson1902–1903 (acting)
Edwin McNeill Poteat1903–1918
Sidney Ernest Bradshaw1918–1919 (acting)
William Joseph McGlothlin1919–1933
Bennette Eugene Geer1933–1938
Robert Norman Daniel1938 (acting)
John Laney Plyler1939–1964
Gordon Williams Blackwell 1965–1976
John Edwin Johns1976–1994
David Emory Shi1994–2010
Rodney Alan Smolla2010–2013
Carl F. Kohrt2013–2014 (interim)
Elizabeth Davis2014–present
The old campus of Furman University, prior to its relocation under the presidency of John Laney Plyler Oldfurmanpostcard.jpg
The old campus of Furman University, prior to its relocation under the presidency of John Laney Plyler

Leadership and guidance to the university is provided by a board of trustees, whose 36 members meet at least three times per academic year and are elected for three-year terms.[ citation needed ] Former board members may be designated as 'Trustees Emeriti'. These include former Governor and U.S. secretary of education Richard Riley. [A 12] As of 2023, current board members include David Trone, U.S. representative for Maryland's 6th congressional district, and William Byrd Traxler Jr., Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals. [A 13] Board members also come from private companies [A 13]

Under the governance of the board of trustees, Furman is led by a President. Elizabeth Davis became Furman's president on July 1, 2014. She is the 12th president of the institution, or 16th when also counting interim presidents. As of 2023 eleven senior administrators manage academic and administrative departments. These administrators are composed of a provost, a dean of faculty, and nine other members. [A 14]

Academics

The Bell Tower, an icon of the university Furman-Belltower2.jpg
The Bell Tower, an icon of the university

Furman offers majors and programs in 42 subjects. All students must complete general education requirements as part of the liberal arts curriculum. The general education requirements include mind and body wellness, textual analysis, two natural sciences, math/formal reasoning, two empirical studies of human behavior, history, ultimate question, foreign language, and world culture. Furman is not divided into colleges, but includes centers and four institutes. Furman's four institutes are the Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Richard W. Riley Institute, the Institute for the Advancement of Community Health, and the Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Its most popular undergraduate majors, by 2021 graduates, were: [17]

Furman has produced 20 Truman Scholars, [18] as well as several Rhodes scholars and recipients of Goldwater, Fulbright and National Science Foundation Awards. [19]

Reputation and rankings

Academic rankings
Liberal arts
U.S. News & World Report [20] 46 (tie) of 185
Washington Monthly [21] 87 of 199
National
Forbes [22] 167 of 498
WSJ / College Pulse [23] 233 of 400

In 2023, Furman was ranked 46th out of 185 in U.S. News & World Report's 2023 National Liberal Arts Colleges rankings [24]

As of 2023, Furman is also featured in The Princeton Review's "Best 378 Colleges" list and was named as one of 143 "Best Southeastern Colleges" [25] The Princeton Review also ranked Furman in 5th place on its list of universities committed to national service in 2016. [26]

In 2019, Furman University was ranked 21st in a list of 25 colleges and universities in the South by Forbes ,. [27] [28]

Furman ranked 23rd among all liberal arts colleges in number of graduates who went on to receive PhDs from 1990 to 1995. [29] Furman ranked 76th among all universities in the nation of graduates that went on to receive PhDs from 2008 to 2017. [30]

Student life

Athletics

The Timmons Arena Timmons Arena.jpg
The Timmons Arena

Furman competes in NCAA Division I athletics, and at the FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) level in football. Furman fields seven men's teams and nine women's teams, as well as 16 club sports and many intramural teams. [A 15] The university is a member of the Southern Conference.

In 2018, Furman was placed 73rd out of 291 colleges in the NACDA Directors' Cup Division I Final Standings, highest among Southern Conference members. [31] In the 2019–2020 season, Furman finished in 32nd place out of 157 institutions in the NACDA Director's Cup Final Fall Standings. [32]

Notable people

Notable alumni


Notable faculty

See also

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