Converse Announces 2025 Alumni Achievement Award Winners
Each year during Reunion, Converse University’s Alumni Association Board recognizes and celebrates outstanding alumni who demonstrate high levels of achievement and/or service in one or …
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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 …
Doing Unto Others: How One Converse Student Made a Tangible Impact After Hurricane Helene
Written by Amanda Mathis Friday, September 27, 2024, changed thousands of lives in Upstate South Carolina and Western Appalachian North Carolina. Hurricane Helene, a deadly …
From the Soccer Field to the Art Studio: Alum Joel Houston’s Journey
Written by Luciana Ugalde Garcìa ’27 When Joel Houston ’24 first stepped onto the campus of Converse University, he envisioned his college years as a soccer …
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 …
Converse Wins Two Delegations at 2025 SE Model Arab League Conference
The Southeast Model Arab League conference was held from March 14 through March 16, 2025, at Converse University. Converse’s two delegations, representing Oman and the …
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 …