{"id":27399,"date":"2023-08-29T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=27399"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:40:38","slug":"riley-institutes-dli-welcomes-new-upstate-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institutes-dli-welcomes-new-upstate-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute&#8217;s DLI welcomes new Upstate cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scbiznews.com\/news\/people-in-the-news\/83911\/\">SCBizNews<\/a> covered The Riley Institute&#8217;s Diversity Leaders Initiative in which 35 new Upstate members have been selected to participate. As in previous installments of the program, the roster includes Furman University faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s leaders have both a business imperative and a moral obligation to drive change across our state that impacts all levels of society, improving outcomes for everyone,\u201d Don Gordon, executive director of the Riley Institute, said. \u201cThis class offers participants the tools and experiences to understand the nuanced challenges facing diverse segments of our community and to develop meaningful solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"mediumAdFormat mediumAdFormat--no-border\">\n<div class=\"mediumAd\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-incontent\" data-google-query-id=\"CPC9j8uUgoEDFZX8KAUd7rkG-w\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants of the Diversity Leaders Initiative 34th Upstate class were selected through an application and interview process after being nominated by alumni of the program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":27400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,32,29,1744],"tags":[657,1464],"class_list":["post-27399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute","category-sc-biz-news","tag-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","tag-diversity-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27399","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=27399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}