Dr. Jeff Barker co-coordinated a workshop for new academic leaders at the dean-level and above at the annual Chief Academic Officer Institute of the Council of Independent Colleges. Dr. Barker …
Sarah ‘Sally’ Ruth Clancy-Ballard ’66 recently published Control Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Establishing Positive Classroom Behavior for the Year in the First Five Days. She earned her BA in …
Dr. Julie Jones’ ‘Social Studies for the Child’ class recently used arts-integrated tableaus, an innovative teaching tool, as part of an in-class activity. For this technique students depict scenes and …
Kishni Neville ‘08 was recently honored with the Spirit of Ruth Patrick Award. Dr. Ruth Patrick was a world-renowned scientist who studied the South Carolina waterways for more than sixty …
Art Education Instructor and Converse grad Andrea Elliott ’03 presented “The Secret Life of Pets: How to Teach Art History within the Elementary Art Curriculum,” at the annual Olde English …
Dr. Laura Feitzinger Brown presented a paper, “Latin vs. Lace: Mary Ward’s ‘Jesuitesses’ and Teaching Girls Latin,” at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Milwaukee. Learn More! Dr. Laura Feitzinger …
Converse College professor Dr. Angela Esco Elder is the winner of The Southern Historical Association’s 2017 C. Vann Woodward Award for the best doctoral dissertation in Southern history. Her dissertation, …
At the stroke of midnight on November 9, ‘Rock the Tower’ took over the Converse website and social media channels for the College’s second annual day of giving This 24-hour …
MFA Young Adult Fiction student, Gwen Holt ’18, recently published her newest novel, Daughter 4254. Gwen, who publishes YA novels under the pseudonym of Leigh Statham, published Perilous Journey of the …