{"id":29908,"date":"2024-01-29T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29908"},"modified":"2024-01-29T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:14:26","slug":"local-tv-stations-cover-joseph-vaughn-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-tv-stations-cover-joseph-vaughn-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Local TV stations cover Joseph Vaughn Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several news outlets covered Furman University&#8217;s celebration of Joseph Vaughn Day, which was observed Friday, Jan. 26. Vaughn &#8217;68 was the first African American to enroll at the university. Furman also presented the inaugural Idella Goodson Glenn Outstanding Black Alumni Award named for the 1984 alumna and former Furman assistant vice president for student development, assistant dean for diversity and inclusion and director of multicultural affairs. Erica Johnson &#8217;07, first president of the Black Alumni Council, was the recipient of the award. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2024\/01\/27\/furman-university-celebrates-joseph-vaughn-day\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=1%2F26%2F2024+6%3A10%3A48+PM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WYFF News 4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2720&amp;DateTime=1%2F26%2F2024+4%3A31%3A52+PM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WSPA 7News<\/a> covered the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local news sources brought crews to Furman&#8217;s annual celebration of Joseph Vaughn Day. Vaughn &#8217;68 was the first African American to enroll at Furman. Idella Glenn &#8217;84 presented the Idella Goodson Glenn Outstanding Black Alumni Award to Erica Johnson &#8217;07.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":29913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,70,1569,6,35,1578,120],"tags":[347,2517,2516,229],"class_list":["post-29908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-wspa-7-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-diversity-and-inclusion","tag-erica-johnson","tag-idella-glenn","tag-joseph-vaughn-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29908","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=29908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}