{"id":3716,"date":"2015-04-21T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/21\/marks-of-leadership\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:29:29","slug":"marks-of-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/marks-of-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks of leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17679 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town-3.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>Elizabeth Davis has been cracking gender ceilings for a long time, so recognition as Furman\u2019s first female president doesn\u2019t really resonate with her. \u201cI understand the significance, but I don\u2019t think in terms of \u2018first female,\u2019\u201d she says about becoming the university\u2019s 12th president on July 1, 2014. \u201cI never have felt gender related barriers to the various stages of my life. I do recognize, however, there are a lot of women who have.\u201d Since joining Furman as president,\u00a0Davis\u2019 biggest \u201cbut most rewarding\u201d challenge has been to find as many forums as possible in which to listen to gain an understanding of the university\u00a0\u201cwhile not standing still.\u201dPresident Davis spoke at length during an interview with <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/baptistnews.com\/ministry\/organizations\/item\/30008-marks-of-leadership\">Baptist News Global<\/a><\/em><\/strong> reporter Norman Jameson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Davis has been cracking gender ceilings for a long time, so recognition as Furman\u2019s first female president doesn\u2019t really resonate with her. \u201cI understand the significance, but I don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","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\/3716","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=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}