{"id":3049,"date":"2014-08-28T21:08:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T01:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/08\/28\/the-wisdom-of-students\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:28:31","slug":"the-wisdom-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-wisdom-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"The wisdom of students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/computer-systems.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13806 lazyload\" alt=\"computer-systems\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/computer-systems.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"197\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/197;\" \/><\/a>When 2014 graduate Zach Hall was a student at Furman, he developed a course-selection website that helped his fellow students sign up for and keep track of available classes. As a result, Hall\u2019s contributions to Furman\u2019s website development were mentioned in a <i>New York Times<\/i> article about how some college students are \u201cproducing faster, easier-to-navigate, more informative and generally just better versions of the information systems at the heart of undergraduate life.\u201d Hall graduated from Furman this past spring with a degree in computer science.\u00a0 <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/28\/nyregion\/students-inventing-programs-to-streamline-their-colleges-data.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=0\">Read the article<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When 2014 graduate Zach Hall was a student at Furman, he developed a course-selection website that helped his fellow students sign up for and keep track of available classes. As a result, Hall\u2019s contributions to Furman\u2019s website development were mentioned in a <i>New York Times<\/i> article about how some college students are \u201cproducing faster, easier-to-navigate, more informative and generally just better versions of the information systems at the heart of undergraduate life.\u201d Hall graduated from Furman this past spring with a degree in computer science.\u00a0 <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/28\/nyregion\/students-inventing-programs-to-streamline-their-colleges-data.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=0\">Read the article<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,34,33,6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-admission","category-computer-science","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","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=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}