{"id":1214,"date":"2020-07-29T17:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/?post_type=furman-event&#038;p=1214"},"modified":"2020-08-13T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:16:58","slug":"first-year-discovery-series-what-is-liberal-education","status":"publish","type":"furman-event","link":"","title":{"rendered":"First Year @ Furman Discovery  Series:  What is Liberal Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">According to the AAC&amp;U, liberal education is \u201can approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. It provides students with broad knowledge of the wider world (e.g. science, culture, and society) as well as in-depth study in a specific area of interest.\u201d Given prominent national conversations about the value of liberal learning, we kick-off our discovery series with a conversation about how liberal learning is conceived at Furman and how we engage with and articulate that vision in the classroom and beyond<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><i>\u00a0Facilitators: Jenna and Ben Storey<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the AAC&amp;U, liberal education is \u201can approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. It provides students with broad knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1215,"template":"","event-categories":[1277],"class_list":["post-1214","furman-event","type-furman-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"predefined_location":"","location_name":"Zoom","location_street_address":"","location_address_locality":"","location_address_region":"","location_postal_code":"","link_text":"","link_css":"","event_start_date":"2020-09-02","event_end_date":"2020-09-02","event_all_day":"","event_start_time":"12:40","event_end_time":"13:25","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}