{"id":25579,"date":"2023-05-11T15:45:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T19:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=25579"},"modified":"2023-05-15T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T18:23:12","slug":"university-of-saint-francis-taps-furman-alumnus-to-serve-as-interim-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/university-of-saint-francis-taps-furman-alumnus-to-serve-as-interim-president\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Saint Francis taps Furman alumnus to serve as interim president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Richey, a 1988 Furman University alumnus, will serve as interim president for the University of Saint Francis (Fort Wayne, Indiana). Richey has run the day-to-day operations of the university since the previous president announced his decision to step down, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/todayscatholic.org\/university-of-saint-francis-names-dr-lance-richey-as-interim-president\/\">Today&#8217;s Catholic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Richey holds doctorates in philosophy and religious studies from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has published widely in both disciplines. He also holds a certificate of pre-theological studies from Conception Seminary College in Conception, Missouri, and a bachelor&#8217;s in history from Furman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Richey &#8217;88 has managed the day-to-day operations of the university since the previous president announced a decision to step down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":25582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6,2080],"tags":[2081],"class_list":["post-25579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-todays-catholic","tag-university-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}