{"id":20205,"date":"2022-10-28T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=20205"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:31:04","slug":"furman-president-elizabeth-davis-receives-2022-education-transformation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-president-elizabeth-davis-receives-2022-education-transformation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman President Elizabeth Davis receives 2022 Education Transformation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Community Foundation of Greenville has awarded Furman University President Elizabeth Davis the Education Transformation Award in recognition of her deep commitment to improving higher education and student experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cElizabeth is able to actively listen and engage in conversations of how to align Furman with our city,\u201d said Community Foundation President Bob Morris in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/towncarolina.com\/dr.-elizabeth-davis-education-transformation-award-beyond-the-classroom\">TOWN Magazine<\/a>. \u201cShe is able to articulate complex matters in a persuasive way that builds momentum for collective action using evidence-based, best practices. She is clearly an authentic leader, and her ability reflects decades of senior leadership at Furman and Baylor University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After receiving the award, Davis told the magazine: \u201cFrom an educational perspective, this is the most consequential award I\u2019ve ever received. It\u2019s about a life\u2019s work, not about one particular initiative. After 30 years, looking back, I know this path was the right one for me. I\u2019m so glad I took it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After working at a public accounting firm in New Orleans for three years, Davis, a CPA, returned to her alma mater, Baylor University, to teach and eventually serve as executive vice president and provost, before becoming Furman\u2019s first female president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis became\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/about\/president\/inaugural-address\/\">Furman University\u2019s 12th President on July 1, 2014<\/a>. Under her leadership, the university instituted The Furman Advantage, a distinctive vision for higher education that combines learning with immersive experiences outside the classroom, creating a personalized pathway that prepares students for lives of purpose, successful careers and community benefit. The effort, which received more than $52.5 million in support from The Duke Endowment, was launched in October 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, Furman extended its Pathways Program, a mentoring and advising curriculum designed to ease the transition to college and encourage belonging and reflection, to all students for their first two years.<\/p>\n<p>During her tenure, Davis also empowered and supported four university institutes \u2013 The Riley Institute, The Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities, The Institute for the Advancement of Community Health, and The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship \u2013 in addition to leading Greenville County\u2019s REEM (Race Equity and Economic Mobility Commission) Education Task Force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe have extended the boundaries of education beyond the gates, as we like to call it,\u201d she said. \u201cThis couldn\u2019t have happened if we weren\u2019t all pulling in the same direction. That\u2019s the most meaningful piece to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Foundation of Greenville has awarded Furman University President Elizabeth Davis the Education Transformation Award in recognition of her deep commitment to improving higher education and student experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":20210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-president","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205","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=20205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}