{"id":1508,"date":"2016-02-22T16:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/furman-gears-up-for-new-school-year\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:25:09","slug":"furman-gears-up-for-new-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-gears-up-for-new-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman gears up for new school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7828\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/students-on-campus1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7828\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7828 lazyload\" title=\"students-on-campus\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/students-on-campus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 324px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 324\/216;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Classes at Furman begin Tuesday, Aug. 27<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University\u2019s 2013-14 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 27 when students attend their first day of classes.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 800 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 23 and take part in four days of orientation activities.\u00a0 The rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Sunday, Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Furman will hold its opening convocation Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The fall term ends Dec. 10, while spring term begins Jan. 13 and ends Apr. 29.\u00a0 Commencement will be held Saturday, May 10.\u00a0 The May Experience term will run May 14-June 4.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman&#8217;s Office of News and Media Relations at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman\u2019s 2013-14 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 27 when students attend their first day of classes. Approximately 800 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 23 and take part in four days of orientation activities. The rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Sunday, Aug. 25. Furman will hold its opening convocation Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","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=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}