Music Performance Grad Wins Pat Conroy Literacy Center Award
Masters of Music in Piano Performance graduate, David Kiser ’15, was named the winner of the first Pat Conroy Literacy Center Writer’s Residency Award. He …
Community News
Raising the Curtain on Growing Old
Theatre Converse’s recent devised theatre production, Growing Old, might be considered a mashup of oral history, dramatic improv, and reality tv, all about issues facing …
Professor Varnon Researches Honey Bees and Shock for PLoS ONE Article
Assistant Professor of Psychology Chris Varnon published a paper titled “Conspecific and interspecific stimuli reduce initial performance in an aversive learning task in honey bees …
Converse and Spartanburg School District Seven Announce Valkyrie Middle College Program
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Converse College and Spartanburg School District Seven announce a new collaborative program aimed to create a pipeline for highly qualified K-12 educators in …
Petrie and Lawson Academy Students Have Major Wins at NATS Auditions
Converse singers from the School of Music and the Lawson Academy competed at the spring classical music South Carolina National Association of Teachers of Singing …
Professor Thomas’ Work Featured at Contemporary Art Museum Opening
Jena Thomas’ piece titled ‘Beautifully Dirty.’ Professor Jena Thomas exhibited her work at The Momentary, a new, cutting-edge, contemporary art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. The …
See Video Highlights from the Petrie School of Music Trip to Germany
Twenty Converse students and six faculty from the Petrie School of Music were the featured artists at a music festival, The Festwoche Classiker Musik, in …
Interior Design Students: Improving the Quality of Life Through Design
A springtime Thursday afternoon finds two state administrators in the Montgomery Student Center, where converse interior design students lead them through a series of sophisticated …
International Public Speaker Katherine Jeter to Speak at Converse College’s President’s Leadership Forum
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (February 18, 2020) – The Upstate community is invited for a free professional development and networking event on March 9. Converse’s 3rd annual …