{"id":3950,"date":"2015-08-14T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/its-almost-time-for-the-new-school-year\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:47:27","slug":"its-almost-time-for-the-new-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/its-almost-time-for-the-new-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s almost time for the new school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18688\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/students-convocation-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18688\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18688 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/students-convocation-1.jpg\" alt=\"Furman begins classes on Aug. 25, and fall convocation will take place Sept. 3.\" width=\"340\" height=\"315\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 340px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 340\/315;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Furman begins classes on Aug. 25, and fall convocation will take place Sept. 3.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University\u2019s 2015-16 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 25 when students attend their first day of classes.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 710 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 21, while the rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Sunday, Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Furman will hold its opening convocation Thursday, Sept. 3 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s freshman class represents 39 states and 19 countries.\u00a0 With an average GPA of 4.4, a third of the group were National Honors Society members and over a quarter were two-sport varsity athletes. Thirty of the freshmen were student body presidents at their high schools.<\/p>\n<p>The fall term ends Dec. 8, while spring term begins Jan. 11 and ends Apr. 26.\u00a0 Commencement will be held Saturday, May 7.\u00a0 The May Experience term will run May 11-June 1.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman&#8217;s Office of News and Media Relations at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman\u2019s 2015-16 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 25 when students attend their first day of classes.\u00a0Approximately 710 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 21, while the rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Sunday, Aug. 23.\u00a0Furman will hold its opening convocation Thursday, Sept. 3 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","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=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}