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Converse College For Women Exceeds Expectations for Service Project
The Converse College for Women partnered with the Spartanburg Chapter of the Homeless Period Project for the college’s fall service project. Members of the Converse community donated and compiled packs …
Alumna & Petrie Staff Accompanist Wins Fran Pinson Pianist Award
Julie Madsen Smith ’70, staff accompanist at the Petrie School of Music and Converse alumna, is the 2021 recipient of the Fran Pinson Collaborative Pianist award. The award, from the …
Converse Awards Five C3 Grants for the 2021-2022 Year
Converse’s Creativity, Community, and Cultural Enrichment Grants (C3 Grants) celebrate the creative solutions that result from thinking in new ways and across disciplines, backgrounds and cultures. Students, faculty and staff …
Alumna Finds Family Roots in Mickel Library Music Room
During a trip to the East Coast from California, alumna Buffie Tronnes Wong ’85 stopped in Converse’s Mickel Library, inquiring about a plaque honoring one of her relatives, alumna Mary …
2021 Accounting Grad Lands Job Thanks to Career Development Skills
Tykeria Dawkins ’21 landed a full-time accountant position with OTO Development, Johnson Family of Companies, soon after completing a competitive internship with them. Tykeria faced some challenges at the start …
Converse Secures Dynamic Space in Drayton Mills Marketplace for Inaugural Esports Program
The above Interior Design 3D rendering was created by Meirav Goldhour, Assistant Professor of Interior Design. Subject to change. Converse University has secured a dynamic space within the historic Drayton …
Converse College to Become Converse University July 1, 2021
On July 1, 2021, Converse College will acknowledge its long-held university status with an official name change to Converse University, in a major step towards targeted growth and competitive advantage …
Act Justly – June 2021 Update
Converse has implemented multiple initiatives as we continue to strive towards becoming an inclusive campus community that truly Acts Justly. Gifts to Support Diversity Initiatives We have received two gifts …