{"id":116,"date":"2011-10-20T19:33:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/20\/former-president-shi-gives-talk-at-winter-park-institute\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:38:55","slug":"former-president-shi-gives-talk-at-winter-park-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/former-president-shi-gives-talk-at-winter-park-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Former president Shi gives talk at Winter Park Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/shi-winterpark.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-597 lazyload\" title=\"shi-winterpark\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/shi-winterpark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"295\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 274px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 274\/295;\" \/><\/a>Former Furman president David Shi kicked off his six-month fellowship at Rollins College\u2019s Winter Park Institute earlier this week with a lecture about the supposed revival of thrift and simplicity in contemporary American society.<\/p>\n<p>As a Presidential Fellow, Shi will give public lectures, organize a symposium on the surging popularity of sustainability in higher education, speak to classes, and continue work on two book projects.<\/p>\n<p>Other Fellows joining the Institute this fall include writer and feminist activist Gloria Steinem, former Democratic Rep. Patricia Schroeder, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollins.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/wpi-presidential-fellow-david-shi-offers-thoughts-on-great-recession-.html\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Furman president David Shi kicked off his six-month fellowship at Rollins College\u2019s Winter Park Institute earlier this week with a lecture about the supposed revival of thrift and simplicity in contemporary American society.  As a Presidential Fellow, Shi will give public lectures, organize a symposium on the surging popularity of sustainability in higher education, speak to classes, and continue work on two book projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}