{"id":3857,"date":"2015-06-30T20:29:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/30\/a-journey-that-includes-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:54:29","slug":"a-journey-that-includes-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-journey-that-includes-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"A journey that includes Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/angela-walker-book-cover1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18333 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/angela-walker-book-cover1.jpg\" alt=\"angela-walker-book-cover\" width=\"180\" height=\"276\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/276;\" \/><\/a>Dr. Angela L. Walker Franklin, a 1981 Furman graduate who serves as president and CEO of Des Moines University, has written a book, <em>An Unconventional Journey&#8230; An Unlikely Choice<\/em>. In the book, Franklin provides leadership lessons and shares her journey on the way to becoming president and CEO of Des Moines, a medical and health sciences university in Iowa. Walker graduated Phi Beta Kappa and <em>magna cum laude<\/em> from Furman with a degree in psychology and went on to receive a doctorate in clinical psychology from Emory University. She has also served multiple terms on the Furman Board of Trustees. A native of McCormick, Davis was featured in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexjournal.com\/lifestyles\/accent\/McCormick-native-and-university-president-writes-inspirational-book\">Greenwood Index-Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Angela L. Walker Franklin, a 1981 Furman graduate who serves as president and CEO of Des Moines University, has written a book, An Unconventional Journey&#8230; An Unlikely Choice. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-psychology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","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=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}