The South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-SC) presented its highest design award for Converse College’s The Heath apartment housing, a LEED-certified project by architectural firm LS3P, …
In a world where religion plays a key role in geopolitical conflict, studying world religions is a weighty undertaking. Dr. Sherry Fohr, Associate Professor of Religion, says that teaching World …
As White House chief of staff and a co-chairman of The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, the news-churning deficit-reduction panel popularly dubbed “Simpson-Bowles,” Erskine Bowles knows a thing …
Graduation days are all about success stories, and when Blue Ridge Community College graduates walked across the stage Friday night, one among them received, in addition to her degree, an …
Mary Lapsley Daly came into this world three months early, weighing a little more than two pounds. She would soon be burdened with staph infection and cerebral palsy. Yet her …
Converse associate professor of biology Dr. Edna J. Steele was honored by South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (SCICU) with the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award on April 16. A …
Amberlyn Smith ’14 never expected that her Converse education would involve vaccinating cattle. But that’s exactly what she found herself doing in May 2012 when she was part of a …
Converse College was set to host a Tunisian activist for an event focused on the international uprisings commonly known as the Arab Spring. Instead, the school will honor the memory …
A grazing herd on Converse College’s front lawn is turning heads. Seven horses made from a hodgepodge of materials — scrap metals, wires, road signs, tires, gears and pipes — …