Dr. Mangum Wins SCICU 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award
Converse Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science Dr. Amanda Mangum was one of only 21 exceptional faculty members recognized by South Carolina Independent Colleges …
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Converse Celebrates 2025 Emerging Young Artists Winners
Converse’s Department of Art, Design & Letters held its annual Emerging Young Artists Juried Exhibition this spring. The Converse Emerging Young Artists Exhibition provides a venue …
Converse Attends Higher Education Day at the State House
In early April, Converse leaders and students traveled to Columbia, SC, to represent the University at the SCICU Higher Education Statehouse Day. Converse President Boone J. Hopkins …
The Challenge Of A Lifetime: The Impact of Professor Emerita Janis Dengler
Written by Amanda Mathis Professor Emerita Janis Dengler, affectionately referred to as Profesor D, made a plan to support students she would never teach in the …
Comedy With Heart: Converse Professors Hatch “Waiting for You,” a Musical Perspective of the Afterlife
Heaven. Men aren’t allowed. Two men show up. All hilarity breaks loose. That’s the premise of Waiting for You, the first-ever musical comedy hatched and premiering …
Call Me MiSTER® Cohort Has Leadership Retreat in Charlotte
Converse’s Call Me MiSTER® participants spent the weekend in Charlotte, NC, for a leadership retreat. The Call Me MiSTER® program is an award-winning teacher recruitment …
Professor Tekulve’s New Book Receives Great Press
Professor Susan Tekulve‘s new book, Bodies of LIght, was selected by the Community of Literary Magazines and Small Presses (CLMP) as one of their Women’s History Month Reading …
Faculty & Students Present at Nebraska Conference for Women in Math
Sloane Kinley ’26 (Nisbet Honors, CCW) and Tabitha Merrithew ’25 (Nisbet Honors, CCW) recently traveled with Dr. Amanda Mangum to the 27th annual Nebraska Conference …
Dr. Joe P. Dunn Receives the Daniel Hollis Award
At the South Carolina History Conference, held March 1, 2025, at Francis Marion University, Joe Dunn was awarded the prestigious Daniel Hollis Prize (named for …
