{"id":3428,"date":"2015-01-14T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/01\/14\/riley-institutes-dli-draws-praise\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:36:07","slug":"riley-institutes-dli-draws-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institutes-dli-draws-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute&#8217;s DLI draws praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16006\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/diversity-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16006\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16006 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/diversity-image.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com\" width=\"230\" height=\"162\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 230px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 230\/162;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dot Scott, president of the Charleston Branch NAACP, wrote an op-ed for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150112\/PC1002\/150119874\/1021\/district-needs-expert-advice-on-diversity\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/em><\/strong> questioning the Charleston County School Board\u2019s decision to not extend an Atlanta firm&#8217;s contract to create a diversity plan for the district. She suggested district officials could benefit from enrolling in the Riley Institute at Furman\u2019s Diversity Leaders Initiative. As a member of the first Lowcountry class, Scott wrote that she \u201cfound the class training to be enormously beneficial and useful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dot Scott, president of the Charleston Branch NAACP, wrote an op-ed for The Post and Courier questioning the Charleston County School Board\u2019s decision to not extend an Atlanta firm&#8217;s contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3428","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\/3428","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=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}