{"id":1925,"date":"2014-01-23T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/u-s-news-lauds-furman-for-strong-undergraduate-teaching\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:05:04","slug":"u-s-news-lauds-furman-for-strong-undergraduate-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/u-s-news-lauds-furman-for-strong-undergraduate-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. News lauds Furman for strong undergraduate teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9746\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/onarae-rice-classroom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9746\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9746 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/onarae-rice-classroom.jpg\" alt=\"Furman psychology professor Dr. Onarae Rice in the classroom.\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/263;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Furman psychology professor Dr. Onarae Rice in the classroom.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University has been recognized by <i>U.S. News and World Report<\/i> for its commitment to strong undergraduate teaching.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent <i>U.S. News<\/i> rankings, Furman was listed No. 11 among the nation\u2019s liberal arts colleges that are \u201ccommitted to teaching undergraduate students in a high-quality manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on a survey conducted in spring 2013 by Ipsos Public Affairs, the schools on the list received the most votes from top college administrators who were asked to nominate up to 10 schools in their ranking category that were dedicated to strong undergraduate teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Others listed among the top 22 schools in the category were Davidson, Swarthmore, Williams, Reed and Oberlin colleges.<\/p>\n<p>According to <i>U.S. News<\/i>, the Best Undergraduate Teaching rankings \u201cfocus attention on one very important part of the undergraduate academic experience that is not always directly measured in a college&#8217;s regular peer assessment survey results and in its overall rank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <i>U.S. News<\/i> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/national-liberal-arts-colleges\/undergraduate-teaching\">website<\/a><\/b> or contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman has been recognized by\u00a0<i>U.S. News and World Report<\/i>\u00a0for its commitment to strong undergraduate teaching.\u00a0In the most recent\u00a0<i>U.S. News<\/i>\u00a0rankings, Furman was listed No. 11 among the nation\u2019s liberal arts colleges that are \u201ccommitted to teaching undergraduate students in a high-quality manner.\u201d The schools on the list received the most votes from top college administrators who were asked to nominate up to 10 schools in their ranking category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","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=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}