{"id":3966,"date":"2015-08-25T20:24:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/leading-the-way\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:46:33","slug":"leading-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/leading-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18754\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18754\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18754 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town-5.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Elizabeth Davis\" width=\"225\" height=\"257\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/257;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Elizabeth Davis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A framed picture of an iconic campus scene has pride of place in the president\u2019s hallway at Furman. On the white mat that surrounds the painting are hundreds of student signatures captured in the days before Elizabeth Davis\u2019 inauguration. Dr. Davis sees this gift every time she arrives at her office door. \u201cAs I said in my inaugural address, students are a true source of joy for me,\u201d she says. \u201cAfter they gave this to me, we hung it in a prominent place to make it clear that I\u2019m here for them and they are always welcome visitors in my office.\u201d President Davis talked about her first year as Furman\u2019s president in an interview for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dukeendowment.org\/story\/leading-the-way?utm_source=The+Duke+Endowment+List+%28New%29&amp;utm_campaign=d34bedb7cf-Legacy_at_Work_Spring_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6ee8749594-d34bedb7cf-255791466\">The Duke Endowment E-Newsletter<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A framed picture of an iconic campus scene has pride of place in the president\u2019s hallway at Furman. On the white mat that surrounds the painting are hundreds of student signatures captured in the days before Elizabeth Davis\u2019 inauguration. \u201cAs I said in my inaugural address, students are a true source of joy for me,\u201d she says. President Davis talked about her first year as Furman\u2019s president in an interview for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dukeendowment.org\/story\/leading-the-way?utm_source=The+Duke+Endowment+List+%28New%29&amp;utm_campaign=d34bedb7cf-Legacy_at_Work_Spring_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6ee8749594-d34bedb7cf-255791466\">The Duke Endowment E-Newsletter<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","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=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}