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- Furman University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. It has a historical affiliation with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, though formal ties with the church were severed in 1992.
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Furman Academy and Theological Institution was established by the South Carolina Baptist Convention and incorporated in December 1825 in Edgefield. With 10 students, it held its first classes January 15, 1828; [D 1] although another source says it opened in January 1827. [3]
The South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBC) established Furman’s original campus in Edgefield, S.C., but over the next three decades, the campus changed locations two times before arriving in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, in 1851.
Universities, colleges, and seminaries currently affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention or affiliated with state conventions that are associated with the SBC . The Southern Baptist Convention maintains a directory of Southern Baptist related colleges and universities. [1] Anderson University (Anderson, South Carolina)
May 15, 2017 · Columnist. 0:02. 1:17. Furman University’s Board of Trustees voted on Oct. 15, 1990, to choose their own successors in office. By doing so, they began a process that ended 18 months later with...
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May 17, 2016 · At the urging of Dean Frances Bonner, incoming president Gordon Blackwell, and the rest of the university community, the board of trustees affirmed its support of integration in December 1964, despite protests from the state Baptist Convention.
Furman’s namesake, Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, ironically furthered the increasingly disparate ideologies espoused by the university and its Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) state affiliate, the South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBC).4 Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, National Association for the Advancement of Colored
Furman University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. It has a historical affiliation with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, though formal ties with the church were severed in 1992.
