2025 Converse MFA Alumni Book Award Winners Announced
The Converse Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the winners and finalists for the 2025 Converse MFA Alumni Book Award. This year’s award series was judged by award-winning writer …
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Chloe Cleland ’25 Named Finalist for Prestigious Murphy Osborne Award
Triple major Chloe Cleland ’25 (History, Psychology, Philosophy; Nisbet Honors) was named as a finalist for the 2024-25 Murphy Osborne Award. Cleland has been a member of Converse’s Acrobatics & Tumbling …
Communications Staff Win Three Awards from Media Women of SC
Four Converse Communications and Marketing staff members and three students have earned top honors in three categories of the 2025 Media Women of South Carolina (MWSC) Communications Contest. The contest, …
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 and Converse students connected with …
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 classroom, exhibiting the lesson of …
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 for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics …
Refusing To Be Discouraged: Meet Betty A. Bishop ’26
Written by Amanda Mathis If life’s a journey, Betty A. Bishop ’26, a Converse II student, has passed a milestone at Converse University. A determined young woman majoring in Child & Family …
A Legacy of Service: Larry Jones Reflects on His 32-Year Converse Career
Written by Amanda Mathis When he started his career at 19, Converse University’s Campus Safety Director, Larry Jones, never saw himself in South Carolina. Born outside of Pittsburgh in the small …
Alumni Continuing Converse’s Legacy of Community and Philanthropy
Written by Amanda Mathis When Yolanda Escudero ’24 started her first day at the Spartanburg County Foundation’s Robert Hett Chapman III Center for Philanthropy, she was continuing the Converse University legacy at …