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Furman University
Image:Furman Wordmark.gif
Established: 1826
Type: Private
Endowment: US$544. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point For the film of this title see Private School (film. Private schools, or Independent schools are Schools not administered A financial endowment is a Transfer of Money or Property donated to an Institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested 6 million [1]
President: Dr. University president is the title of the highest ranking officer within a University, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as David Shi
Faculty: 272
Undergraduates: 2,550
Postgraduates: 525
Location: Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Campus: Suburban
750 acre (3 km²)
Athletics: 21 varsity teams
Nickname: Paladins
Website: Official website
The Bell Tower
The Bell Tower

Furman University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. A faculty is a division within a University. The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. See also Postgraduate Training in Education Postgraduate education (synonymous in North America with graduate education, and sometimes described Greenville is a mid-sized city located in the upstate of South Carolina. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a University or College within the United States is the name officially adopted by A paladin (from Latin palatinus, plural palatini; cf derivative spellings below was a high-level official in numerous countries of medieval A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Unlike Public universities, private universities generally do not receive direct operational funding from national or subnational governments and thus rely on private Mixed-sex education, (or just Mixed education) also known as Coeducation, is the integrated education to males and females at the same school facilities A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects Greenville is a mid-sized city located in the upstate of South Carolina. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Furman is the oldest, largest and most selective private institution in South Carolina and is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States. Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of Higher education in the United States. [1] Founded in 1826, Furman enrolls approximately 2,550 undergraduate and 525 graduate students on its 750 acre (3 km²) campus. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of Its current president is David Shi, who graduated from Furman in 1973.

Furman is best known for its chemistry, history, music, religion, political science, and psychology departments. Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem meaning "earth") is the Science concerned with the composition structure and properties History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and The psychology, computer science, and chemistry departments have earned high marks among professional organizations spanning the sciences (social, applied, and basic), notable for a liberal arts institution of Furman's size.

Furman University students have an unusually high acceptance rate into graduate schools. Approximately two-thirds of Furman students will earn graduate degrees. More of Furman University’s graduates have gone on to earn Ph. D. degrees in recent years than any other private liberal arts college in the South, according to a survey conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. The National Opinion Research Center (NORC established in 1941 is one of the largest and most highly respected Social research organizations in the United States [2]

Furman University emphasizes "engaged" learning in which professors encourage undergraduate students to author articles, participate in internships, and volunteer in their respective fields of study. The Furman Advantage program funds research projects between professors and students. Furman receives funds annually from The Duke Endowment for general operating support and for special projects and programs. The Duke Endowment is a private foundation established in 1924 by Industrialist and Philanthropist James B The center of engaged learning is the Max and Trude Heller Service Corps, formerly CESC, one of the nation's largest collegiate service-learning organization.

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History

Furman was founded in 1826 as a Men's Academy and Theological Institute finally locating in Greenville, South Carolina in 1850, named after Dr. Greenville is a mid-sized city located in the upstate of South Carolina. Jason Furman who set up a private trust to fund the original campus infrastructure. The original school building from that campus is located on the current Greenville campus today. 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. Furman began construction on its new campus, just five miles (8 km) north of downtown Greenville, in 1956. Classes on the new campus began in 1958. Now a private, non-religiously affiliated university, Furman was founded by, and affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention until separating in the 1991 - 1992 school year. The Southern Baptist Convention ( SBC) is a United States -based mostly conservative Christian denomination However, the university's motto remains Christo et Docrinae (For Christ and Learning), and, according to Furman University's official website, "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. . . "

Rankings

Furman was ranked no. 15 in the Washington Monthly's Top US Liberal Arts Colleges Rankings based on its production of research valuable to society and its commitment to national service. The Washington Monthly is a monthly Magazine of United States Politics and Government that is based in Washington D [3] Furman has been ranked no. 4 in U. S. News Best Undergraduate Research Programs along with MIT, Stanford and Michigan. [4] The university's engaged learning academic program, which promotes problem-solving, project-oriented, experience-based education, has received high praise from The Princeton Review, Peterson's Competitive Colleges , The Fiske Guide to Colleges and The College Board College Handbook . In terms of input, meaning the quality of the students the institution attracts, Furman was ranked no. 30 in the SSRN's U. S Colleges and Universities Preference Rankings (based on the choice to enroll of high-achieving students in US)[5] The Chronicle of Higher Education also ranked Furman no. 32 in the nation for the percentage of National Merit Scholars in its 2005-2006 freshman class. [6]

According to a report from the American Institute of Physics, Furman is one of 35 schools whose physics departments offer a bachelor’s as their highest degree to average 10 or more undergraduate degrees for the classes of 2003, 2004 and 2005. The American Institute of Physics (AIP is an international body representing Physicists and publishing physics related journals [7]

Campus

A 40-acre (0. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U 1-km²) lake is at the center of the 750 acre (3-km²), wooded campus. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of Many academic buildings and student residences stand around the lake, including the Bell Tower. The Bell Tower figures highly in school insignias and is a replica (within 1/16th of an inch) of the tower that once existed on the men's campus in downtown Greenville. Today, the campus is anchored by its newly expanded 128,000 square foot (12,000 m²) James B. Duke Library. Informally known as "The Country Club of the South," Furman was named one of the 362 most beautiful places in America by the American Society of Landscape Architects. The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA is the national professional association representing landscape architects, with more than 17000 members and 48 chapters The fall 1997 issue of Planning for Higher Education names Furman as a benchmark campus for its landscaping as well. To add to the campus's extensive merit for aesthetic beauty, the 1996 Fisk Guide to Colleges referred to Furman's campus as a "shining jewel. " Also, the 1997 Princeton Review ranked Furman fifth in its list of beautiful campuses, this based on student ratings of campus beauty. Students are required to live on campus all four years. However, during a student's senior year, s/he may be eligible to live off campus through a lottery. There are two residence complexes (called Lakeside and South Housing), as well as four housing cabins which make up Bell Tower Housing. Most juniors and all seniors live in North Village Apartments, located near the Bell Tower.

Student life

Furman University Student Government (known as AFS or Association of Furman Students) works under a semi-Presidential system. AFS is made up of the executive council, and president, secretary, and two senators for each class. The class officers are assigned within one of six committees to specialize in a particular area of student needs. The current AFS Student Body President is Nick Holsinger, class of '09.

Athletics

Furman Paladins logo
Furman Paladins logo

Furman competes in NCAA Division I athletics as the Paladins. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations A paladin (from Latin palatinus, plural palatini; cf derivative spellings below was a high-level official in numerous countries of medieval The university is a member of the Southern Conference. The Southern Conference (or SoCon) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA 's Division I In 1988 Furman won the NCAA I-AA National Football Championship. Furman also appeared in the 1985 and 2001 NCAA I-AA National Football Championship game, but lost (to Georgia Southern and Montana, respectively). Georgia Southern University (GSU is a public co-educational Regional Research University located in Statesboro, Georgia, USA The Montana Grizzlies football program (or "Griz" represents the University of Montana in the NCAA Division I Championship Subdivision, better Furman, Colgate and Lehigh remain the only private universities that have appeared in the I-AA Football Championship game, and Furman is the only private school to win it. Colgate University is a private liberal arts college located in the Village of Hamilton in Madison County New York, USA The Lehigh Mountain Hawks are the athletic teams representing Lehigh University in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Over the past few years, Furman's football team has been consistently ranked in the top 3 spots in the NCAA I-AA polls, and recently climbed to no. 1 in the nation in the latest Sports Network polls [8]. The Paladins have also claimed 12 Southern Conference football titles, more than any school in league history.

The men's soccer team has been ranked as high as no. 3 in the nation and has produced a share of professional players. [9] Former star Clint Dempsey was the only American player to score a goal at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. Clinton Drew "Clint" Dempsey (born March 9 1983 in Nacogdoches Texas) is an American Football (soccer player who plays midfield for Fulham The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th instance of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament [10] Few collegiate woman golf programs have produced more outstanding professionals than Furman, which boasts 11 former Lady Paladins on the LPGA tour, including two Hall of Fame inductees (Betsy King and Beth Daniel). The World Golf Hall of Fame is located in St Augustine Florida, in the United States, and it is unusual among sports halls of fame in that a single site Career King played collegiately at Furman University, where Beth Daniel was a teammate Amateur career Daniel played her collegiate golf at Furman University and was on the 1976 national championship team included Betsy King, and future LPGA players Furman men's tennis coach Paul Scarpa is only the fourth college tennis head coach in history to reach 700 wins. He is currently the winningest active coach in the NCAA's and has coached 108 All-Southern Conference players. Furman's Rugby Club team has also proved notable in recent years, winning the East Coast Collegiate Championship five out of the last six years. [11] Started in 1998 by John Roberts, the club continues to excel in Division III rugby in the southeast with many accolades. Despite winning the past few Division III titles, Furman makes a controversial decision to remain in Division III and not move up a level to face stiffer competition. This has been met with critiscm as the past few years, Furman has outplayed their Division III counterparts. Furman is the only liberal arts college to be ranked in Sports Illustrated Top 100 America's Best Sports Colleges[12] and has 32 former student-athletes competing at the professional level- the most of any Southern Conference member school.

Notable alumni

Athletes

Notable faculty

Majors and concentrations

Social Organizations

Points of interest

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.furman.edu/press/pressarchive.cfm?ID=3871
  2. ^ http://www.collegenews.org/x5417.xml
  3. ^ http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0509.collegeguide.html
  4. ^ http://www.alverno.edu/news_events/usnews.pdf
  5. ^ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105
  6. ^ http://cgi.greenville.com/news/furman0206.html
  7. ^ http://www.furman.edu/?articleid=2386
  8. ^ http://www.ncaasports.com/football/mens/polls/rankings/diviaa
  9. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/soccer/2002-09-11-furman_x.htm
  10. ^ http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/match/42/mr.html
  11. ^ http://www.usarugbysouth.com/competition/collegiate%20HISTORY/default.htm
  12. ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2002/10/01/1_10/
  13. ^ http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/rushia_brown/index.html
  14. ^ http://www.minitenniscourt.com/
  15. ^ http://www.kcchronicle.com/SportsSection/309408355105817.php
  16. ^ http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/187579
  17. ^ http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/553462
  18. ^ http://www.studlife.com/media/storage/paper337/news/2006/01/27/Sports/World.Record.Holder.Jason.Pagan.Wows.Gives.Advice.To.Weightlifters.In.Activity.C-1514888.shtml?norewrite200611012140&sourcedomain=www.studlife.com
  19. ^ http://www.aarome.org/rome_prize/2003winners.htm

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