Converse College produces passionate, service-oriented, global citizens who lead in their professions and communities.

Our graduates are artists and educators, lawyers and doctors, entrepreneursand business executives who are committed to making a positive impacton our world.

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At Converse, leadership means stepping out of the norm, seizing new opportunities and conquering

roads less traveled. Converse students do just that.

Ranked in the nation’s top 5% for research, service, and social mobility by Washington Monthly,

Converse is a master’s university whose students exude creativity, courage and charisma. Our liberal

arts education prepares students to think critically and creatively—benefiting every field and community

in which they serve.

Courses such as Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature and Movements explore film and historical

writings, while provoking thought about the current use of media like Instagram. Travel experiences

like those to Madrid and Barcelona to study Picasso’s Guernica and Antoni Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia

create a platform for conversations about war and religion and their effect on who we are today.

Coupled with independent and faculty-mentored research, internships, and other experiential learning

opportunities, a Converse education takes students beyond their comfort zones and expands their

worldview.

Converse College is a training ground for future leaders to effect positive, sustainable change in South

Carolina and beyond with 75% of students involved in service projects and over 60% participating in

leadership roles.

• Earn a PhD

• Attend Medical School

• Be involved in Philanthropic Activity

• Attain Higher Positions in their careers

• Earn Higher Incomes

WOMEN’S COLLEGES ARE

GRADUATES OF

2x more likely than their

Co-Ed counterparts to

12:1STUDENT/FACULTYR A T I O

of the

CLASS OF 2016

had jobs or graduate school acceptances in-hand

upon graduation

60%

Converse made national headlines when it

REDUCED TUITION BY 43%proving a top-ranked private college education can be

AFFORDABLE.

CONVERSE STUDENTS REPRESENT

“Great Schools at Great Prices”

of employers say all students shouldacquire a broad knowledge of arts and sciences. Converse’s liberal arts-based education provides this solid foundation.

LIBERAL ARTS=SUCCESS

TINA R. ’07

Investment Specialist at Asian Development Bank (Philippines)

Major(s): Economics, Politics

After completing undergraduate degrees in economics and politics at Converse, Rohner turned down offers from Harvard and Yale to pursue master’s degrees in public affairs and public policy in Paris and Singapore. She worked for Goldman Sachs, focusing on equity capital markets in Asia and principal investments in the technology sector. Today, she travels from Armenia to Pakistan for Asian Development Bank as a member of the Private Sector Financial Institutions Division working on investment strategies to support the company’s mission for a “poverty free Asia.”

A CFA Charterholder who speaks English, German, French, and Mandarin Chinese, she was recently named among 20 young leaders worldwide to the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Fellowship.

Experiential Learning

At Converse, we value creativity, collaboration, and learning through doing — so much so that

every student has the opportunity to participate in experiential learning. Whether it is through study-

travel, research or our model programs, the doors are wide open for exploration.

Study Travel

Converse's unique January Term allows

you to travel for 2-4 weeks to get

your feet wet abroad. Participate in

this short term travel option with your

professor and other students to learn

and experience what you are studying

in your textbooks or take a whole

semester abroad to immerse yourself

in language and culture. Scholarships

are available for our travel programs as

well as college credit.

AMBERLEIGH D. ’16 pursued an internship working with a conservation and rehabilitation program in Thailand.

Research

Every Converse student has the opportunity to participate in faculty-mentored undergraduate

research or a creative independent project. And more than half of them seize the opportunity –

completing unique projects that make employers and graduate schools take notice. Converse

students have won awards at state, regional, and national conferences. In fact, Converse is a

leader in the state in the number of student/faculty research proposals funded by the South

Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (SCICU) consortium. SCICU’s president said:

“Since the inception of the SCICU Undergraduate/Faculty Research Grant Program, Converse

College has consistently submitted outstanding proposals resulting in significant findings and

presentations at SCICU’s annual Research Symposium.

NATACHA K. ’15

Pursuing Doctorate in Chemistry at Texas A&M with a full scholarship

Major: Chemistry

While at Converse, Karambizi had the opportunity to conduct chemical research with professor Sheri Strickland and received project funding through S.C. Independent Colleges and Universities. She presented her grant-funded work at the Western Carolinas American Chemical Society meeting at Furman in 2014. Karambizi is continuing her studies in chemistry and pharmaceutical design and development with a full scholarship at Texas A&M and plans to make a difference in her native country of Rwanda where malaria and other diseases continue to be significant issues.

CASEY A. ’04

Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State Major(s): Economics, Politics

A standout member of Converse’s Model Arab League delegation, Addis joined

the U.S. Department of State as a career member of the Foreign Service

in 2011. She served as consul at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad where she

managed the Special Immigrant Visa Program for Iraqis who served alongside

the United States. She was also responsible for American Citizen Services and

Crisis Preparedness. In 2012, Addis was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in

Tripoli, Libya where she covered Libyan elections and government formation.

From 2011-2013, she was the primary Middle East Advisor for the U.S.

Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council at the U.S. Mission to the United

Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Prior to joining the State Department, Addis was a Middle East Analyst at the

Congressional Research Service in Washington, D.C. She holds a Master of

Public Affairs degree and a Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies degree

from the University of Texas at Austin (2008). After completing language

training in the nation’s capital, her next assignment is as a State Department

representative in Iraq.

Model ProgramsConverse is the nation’s top Model Programs diplomatic simulation team. As one commentator called it, we

are “the gold standard for such activities.” Our teams have bested Harvard University and other Ivy League

institutions, the US Military Academy, US Air Force Academy, American University of Cairo, University of California

Berkeley, Northwestern and George Washington University, as well as several European universities. Converse’s

two programs, International Model NATO and Model Arab League, are competitive simulations in which students

write, debate, and pass resolutions on issues of international concern. We put students in situations to develop

their analytical, speaking, writing and administrative skills. More than 20 Converse delegates have been awarded

full or partially funded study/travel trips to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates,

and several European countries through Model Programs.

96%of full time faculty holdterminal degrees in their fields

More than 50 titles published by

Converse faculty in the past decade

Professor of Music Education in The South Carolina Music Educators Association Hall of Fame

Converse faculty members were named South Carolina

Professor of the Year in 2007, 2010 and 2013

SUSANA LALAMA (Music) In January, Susana presented at the Florida Music Educators Association

annual conference a research poster titled “Reflections on Becoming Music Teachers” and a breathing

clinic titled, “Take a Deep Breath, the Lung Trainers Way.” These two presentations will be repeated at

the South Carolina Music Educators Association Conference this month along with leading a discussion of

collegiate music education majors on “Why Be a Music Educator?

JESSICA WILLIAMS (Mathematics and Computer Science) presented “A Novice Attempt at IBL Real Analysis,”

and “Effects of Active Learning on Precalculus Students’ Beliefs” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, the

largest national mathematics conference. Jessica will continue as a contributor to a blog on Inquiry-Based

Learning in mathematics, titled “A Novice IBL Blog.

RICK MULKEY (English) published in October “An Explanation,” selected

for the Editor’s Choice Award in Still: The Journal, and the following four

poems in Serving House Journal—“Panther, Gestation, Cheerleaders at

Forty,” and “Gender Studies: How Men Fail at Small Talk.”

Meet some of our faculty

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