{"id":30478,"date":"2024-03-01T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30478"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:10:23","slug":"op-ed-about-statement-on-freedom-of-inquiry-and-expression-runs-in-post-and-courier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/op-ed-about-statement-on-freedom-of-inquiry-and-expression-runs-in-post-and-courier\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed about Statement on Freedom of Inquiry and Expression runs in Post and Courier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post and Courier newspaper ran an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/free-speech-uncomfortable-conversations-respect\/article_f3696bd0-d686-11ee-ba76-479013a67b54.html\">op-ed by Furman University President Elizabeth Davis<\/a>. In the piece, Davis explains the importance of hearing from diverse perspectives. She discussed how the recently passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/about\/mission-vision-values#statementoffreedom\">Statement on Freedom of Inquiry and Expression<\/a> articulates the university&#8217;s priorities and responsibilities around free speech, and how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/about\/president\/ondiscourse\/\">On Discourse<\/a> teaches students to engage in difficult conversations, and how to have constructive, respectful conversations with people of different views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post and Courier ran an op-ed by President Elizabeth Davis on Furman&#8217;s recent steps toward ensuring freedom of inquiry and expression. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":20218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[2603,320,2602],"class_list":["post-30478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-post-and-courier","tag-on-discourse","tag-president-davis","tag-statement-on-freedom-of-inquiry-and-expression"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}