{"id":3138,"date":"2014-09-23T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/23\/an-interview-with-the-riley-institutes-don-gordon\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:45:39","slug":"an-interview-with-the-riley-institutes-don-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/an-interview-with-the-riley-institutes-don-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Riley Institute&#8217;s Don Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14334\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/dick-riley-with-students.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14334 lazyload\" alt=\"Dick Riley, a 1954 Furman graduate, has served as Governor of South Carolina and as U.S. Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/dick-riley-with-students.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"177\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 260px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 260\/177;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick Riley, a 1954 Furman graduate, has served as Governor of South Carolina and as U.S. Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since its founding in 1999, The Riley Institute at Furman has worked to get young people engaged in politics, public policy and leadership. The non-partisan institute\u2014named for the former governor of South Carolina and U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, a 1954 Furman graduate\u2014has South Carolina\u2019s social and economic future at its heart. In January 2014, The Duke Endowment awarded Furman a $1 million grant to help the Institute establish a permanent endowment. Don Gordon, executive director of the Riley Institute, talked about the Institute\u2019s mission in an interview published in <b><a href=\"http:\/\/dukeendowment.org\/story\/driving-social-and-economic-progress\">The Duke Endowment Newsletter<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its founding in 1999, The Riley Institute at Furman has worked to get young people engaged in politics, public policy and leadership. The non-partisan institute\u2014named for the former governor of South Carolina and U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, a 1954 Furman graduate\u2014has South Carolina\u2019s social and economic future at its heart. In January 2014, The Duke Endowment awarded Furman a $1 million grant to help the Institute establish a permanent endowment. Don Gordon, executive director of the Riley Institute, talked about the Institute\u2019s mission in an interview published in <b><a href=\"http:\/\/dukeendowment.org\/story\/driving-social-and-economic-progress\">The Duke Endowment Newsletter<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","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=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}