{"id":32865,"date":"2024-07-01T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=32865"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:10:31","slug":"furman-president-davis-profiled-in-baylor-alumni-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-president-davis-profiled-in-baylor-alumni-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman President Davis profiled in Baylor alumni magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.web.baylor.edu\/news\/story\/2024\/lessons-leadership?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1RTO0L-BpZa9nd7esUfd3qwENFtwKh-3m6OdHmqxtunWEy9WNHIOiYVWM_aem_iRwZ9cAdSP8slIW5JSSz1Q\">Baylor Magazine<\/a> story about leadership, Furman University President Elizabeth Davis is one of four executives profiled. Davis, Furman&#8217;s 12th president and a 1984 Baylor alumna, spoke about coalescing a leadership team when she arrived at Furman in 2014. She also commented on the importance of mentorship and respecting students&#8217; spiritual journeys. Prior to her installation as Furman&#8217;s first woman president, she served as executive vice president and provost at her alma mater, the first woman at Baylor to hold the title. Davis received a Ph.D. in accounting from Duke University in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Davis goes on record about establishing a leadership team when she arrived at Furman in 2014. She also comments on the importance of mentorship and respecting students&#8217; spiritual journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":32870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2878,35,90,27],"tags":[2879,490,814,1313,1898],"class_list":["post-32865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baylor-magazine","category-parent-news","category-president","category-student-life","tag-balyor-university","tag-leadership","tag-mentorship","tag-spiritual-life","tag-women-in-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32865","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=32865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32871,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32865\/revisions\/32871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}