{"id":35571,"date":"2024-12-11T15:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35571"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:30:24","slug":"dick-riley-featured-in-columbia-metropolitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dick-riley-featured-in-columbia-metropolitan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Riley featured in Columbia Metropolitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumnus, two-term South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/richard-w-riley\/\">Richard W. Riley &#8217;54<\/a> was featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiametro.com\/article\/the-education-governor\/\">Columbia Metropolitan<\/a>. In &#8220;The Education Governor: Dick Riley\u2019s lasting legacy,&#8221; Reba Hull Campbell describes Riley&#8217;s more than 60 years&#8217; success in public service and his &#8220;positive approach, his innate ability to cultivate strong personal relationships, and his willingness to meet people where they are.&#8221; Hear from Sec. Riley\u2019s inner circle of political advisors and friends and how Riley rallied support for what he calls his greatest achievement in public service &#8211; the Education Improvement Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime friends and political advisors describe the legacy of Dick Riley &#8217;54, Furman trustee emeritus, two-term governor of South Carolina and U.S. Secretary of Education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":28100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2944,3181,6,32,29],"tags":[3182,1769],"class_list":["post-35571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-board-of-trustees","category-columbia-metropolitan","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute","tag-education-policy","tag-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35571","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=35571"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35576,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35571\/revisions\/35576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}