{"id":3891,"date":"2015-07-20T21:33:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/20\/becoming-informed-and-engaged-citizens\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:28:02","slug":"becoming-informed-and-engaged-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/becoming-informed-and-engaged-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming informed and engaged citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18461 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town-4.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>Across a variety of disciplines, Furman\u2019s faculty and staff ask the students to consider the fundamental question, \u201cHow Shall I Live?,\u201d both in the classroom and throughout their extracurricular and service experiences. It is also a question we ask ourselves as members of a democracy, which thrives only with an informed and engaged citizenry. In an op-ed for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2015\/07\/17\/elizabeth-davis-become-engaged-informed-citizenry\/30302803\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong>, Furman President Elizabeth Davis writes about an upcoming four-week series at Furman, \u201cCrime and Punishment: Thinking Outside the Cell,\u201d that gives all of us an opportunity to examine questions about our system of justice and deepen our understanding of its complexities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across a variety of disciplines, Furman\u2019s faculty and staff ask the students to consider the fundamental question, \u201cHow Shall I Live?,\u201d both in the classroom and throughout their extracurricular and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}