{"id":3027,"date":"2014-08-19T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T22:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/its-just-about-that-time-of-year\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:55:24","slug":"its-just-about-that-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/its-just-about-that-time-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The new school year is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13678\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/students-orientation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13678\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13678 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/students-orientation.jpg\" alt=\"This year's freshman class enjoyed some orientation activities earlier in the summer.\" width=\"280\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 280\/225;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year&#8217;s freshman class enjoyed some orientation activities earlier in the summer.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University\u2019s 2014-15 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 26 when students attend their first day of classes.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 750 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 22 and take part in four days of orientation activities.\u00a0 The rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Sunday, Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Furman will hold its opening convocation Thursday, Sept. 4 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The fall term ends Dec. 9, while spring term begins Jan. 12 and ends Apr. 28.\u00a0 Commencement will be held Saturday, May 9.\u00a0 The May Experience term will run May 13-June 3.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman&#8217;s Office of News and Media Relations at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman\u2019s 2014-15 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 26 when students attend their first day of classes.\u00a0Approximately 750 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 22 and take part in four days of orientation activities.\u00a0 The rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Sunday, Aug. 24. Opening convocation will take place Thursday, Sept. 4 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","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=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}