{"id":4055,"date":"2015-09-24T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/09\/24\/five-furman-grads-enlist-with-teach-for-america\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:49:10","slug":"five-furman-grads-enlist-with-teach-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/five-furman-grads-enlist-with-teach-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Furman grads enlist with Teach For America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19194\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/teach-for-america-provided-by-TFA-sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19194\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19194 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/teach-for-america-provided-by-TFA-sized-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Teach For America\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/199;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Teach For America<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Five Furman University graduates have begun teaching with Teach for America (TFA), a selective national nonprofit organization that places college students and recent graduates in high-need classrooms across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The alumni are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heather Ayer<\/strong> of Frankfort, Ky.<br \/>\nAyer is a political science and French major who graduated with the Class of 2015. She is teaching in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kristin Fennegan<\/strong> of Harlingen, Texas<br \/>\nGraduating in May 2015 as a political science and communications studies major, Fennegan is teaching in the Rio Grande Valley (Welasco, Texas).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Killian <\/strong>of Oakmont, Pa.<br \/>\nKillian is a 2013 chemistry graduate who is teaching in Roxbury, Mass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Lilly <\/strong>of Elon, N.C.<br \/>\nA 2015 sociology graduate, Lilly is teaching in Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shelby Price<\/strong> of Bradenton, Fla.<br \/>\nPrice is a 2015 sociology graduate who is teaching in Lake City, S.C.<\/p>\n<p>In the classroom, teachers work in partnership with communities to expand educational opportunity for children facing the challenges of poverty. During the two-year commitment with Teach for America, these teachers or \u201ccorps members\u201d are part of TFA\u2019s mission to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence.\u00a0More about TFA may be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachforamerica.org\/\">https:\/\/www.teachforamerica.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at (864) 294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Furman University graduates have begun teaching with Teach for America (TFA), a selective national nonprofit organization that places college students and recent graduates in high-need classrooms across the country. The alumni are: Heather Ayer (Frankfort, Ky.),\u00a0Kristin Fennegan (Harlingen, Texas),\u00a0Joseph Killian (Oakmont, Pa.),\u00a0Adam Lilly (Elon, N.C.), and Shelby Price (Bradenton, Fla.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-profiles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}