{"id":28570,"date":"2023-10-25T17:17:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=28570"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:32:59","slug":"furman-earns-props-for-student-success-roi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-earns-props-for-student-success-roi\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman earns props for student success, ROI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/student-success-is-simple-that-doesnt-mean-its-easy?cid=gen_sign_in\">The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> about ensuring student success, Aaron Basko of the University of Lynchburg points to two studies &#8211; one that gauges student success and well-being and another that tracks college return on investment. Furman University gets high marks in both. Basko notes that among Gallup&#8217;s five well-being indices &#8211; purpose, social, financial, community and physical &#8211; Furman graduates outscored the national average by 14 points. In the study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Furman placed in the top 5 percent among colleges for ROI for lower income students. The same study revealed Furman&#8217;s 72 percent graduation rate for low-income first-year students is the highest in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>A free subscription to The Chronicle of Higher Education is required to view the full article. Furman ID holders may access the full content at this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.furman.edu\/databases\/21175395\">https:\/\/libguides.furman.edu\/databases\/21175395<\/a>, then search for &#8220;student success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education cites two studies in which Furman University ranks high in student well-being and return on investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3,1790,6,35,27],"tags":[2350,2348,2349,2347,1482],"class_list":["post-28570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-alumni","category-chronicle-of-higher-education","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-student-life","tag-college-graduation-rates","tag-first-year-students","tag-lower-income-students","tag-roi","tag-student-success"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28570","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=28570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}