{"id":35698,"date":"2025-01-06T14:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35698"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:22:36","slug":"scad-president-wallace-70-receives-presidential-citizens-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/scad-president-wallace-70-receives-presidential-citizens-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAD President Wallace &#8217;70 receives Presidential Citizens Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paula S. Wallace, a 1970 Furman University education alumna, was one of 20 recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal presented by Joe Biden on Jan. 2. The White House recognition included this commendation: \u201cA lifelong educator and trailblazer of the arts, Paula Wallace dreamt of a school that would transform how we think about professional education. By establishing the esteemed Savannah College of Art and Design and serving as its president, she has guided thousands of students into creative industries.\u201d Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/scad-president-receives-presidential-citizens-medal-white-house-pres-joe-biden\/ZINMSOM4DVDALPJWDIS27U3P6U\/\">WSB-TV 2 (Atlanta)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/scad-president-selected-president-biden-receive-presidential-citizens-medal\">FOX 5 (Atlanta)<\/a>, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/fashion-and-style\/fashion-trends\/icymi-ayo-edibiri-wears-loewe-scad-president-receives-presidential-citizens-medal-and-more\/ar-AA1x3obb?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Essence<\/a> magazine and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/02\/us\/politics\/presidential-citizens-medal-liz-cheney.html?searchResultPosition=1\">The New York Times<\/a>. A subscription may be required to view the Times content. Furman ID holders may access The New York Times article via databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Wallace, Furman alumna, co-founder and president of Savannah College of Art and Design, was one of 20 to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal in a White House ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":35703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,3212,3211,6,52,134,3210],"tags":[3208,3207,3213,3209],"class_list":["post-35698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-education","category-essence","category-fox-5","category-in-the-news","category-library","category-the-new-york-times","category-wsb-tv-2","tag-paula-wallace","tag-presidential-citizens-medal","tag-savannah-college-of-art-and-design","tag-scad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35698","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=35698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35704,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35698\/revisions\/35704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}