{"id":3619,"date":"2015-03-23T20:08:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T00:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/23\/building-on-a-legacy-of-courage-and-compassion\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:30:22","slug":"building-on-a-legacy-of-courage-and-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/building-on-a-legacy-of-courage-and-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Building on a legacy of courage and compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17115 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town2.jpg\" alt=\"elizabeth-davis-town\" width=\"225\" height=\"257\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/257;\" \/><\/a>What is next for Furman? For almost 190 years, through good times and bad, the university has routinely asked itself that question. As Furman\u2019s newest president, Dr. Elizabeth Davis realizes that question hasn\u2019t lost its power. In an op-ed for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2015\/03\/21\/furman-builds-legacy-courage-compassion\/25098989\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, President Davis looks forward, wanting to make sure Furman can remain relevant in an era when education\u2014and liberal arts education in particular\u2014is under increasing and intense scrutiny for its value and its utility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is next for Furman? For almost 190 years, through good times and bad, the university has routinely asked itself that question. As Furman\u2019s newest president, Dr. Elizabeth Davis realizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","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=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}