{"id":42415,"date":"2026-05-18T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42415"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:57:18","slug":"news-sources-cover-elizabeth-davis-plans-to-conclude-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/news-sources-cover-elizabeth-davis-plans-to-conclude-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"News sources cover Elizabeth Davis&#8217; plans to conclude presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s announcement that Furman University President Elizabeth Davis will conclude her presidency after the 2026-27 academic year spurred a flurry of activity in local and statewide news outlets. Davis, Furman&#8217;s 12th president who is departing the year after the university celebrates its 200th anniversary, took on the leadership role in 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/education-lab\/furman-president-steps-down-greenville-sc\/article_ce9d6320-72fa-4529-a6c3-aee9a9d88f73.html#tncms-source=latest_posts\">The Post and Courier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2026\/05\/18\/furman-president-elizabeth-davis-step-down\/90143781007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z11xx44p001950c001950e003700v11xx44d--xx--b--xx--&amp;gca-ft=188&amp;gca-ds=sophi\">The Greenville News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/education\/furman-president-stepping-down-at-end-of-2026-27-academic-year\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/myrtlebeachsc.com\/furman-university-president-elizabeth-davis\/\">MyrtleBeachSC News<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvillebusinessmag.com\/stories\/furman-university-president-elizabeth-davis-announces-plans-to-step-down-after-2026-27-academic,41112?\">Greenville Business Magazine<\/a> carried the story as did local TV stations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/general\/furman-university-president-elizabeth-davis-to-step-down-after-2026-27-year\/ar-AA23tPIM\">WYFF News 4<\/a> (via MSN) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/local-news\/furman-university-president-to-step-down\/\">WSPA 7 News<\/a>. Read the Furman News story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-university-president-elizabeth-davis-announces-plans-to-conclude-presidency-at-end-of-2026-27-academic-year\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several news outlets run the story about President Davis&#8217; plans to step down. Furman&#8217;s 12th president will finish her leadership role after the 2026-27 academic year. Davis&#8217; announcement coincides with the university&#8217;s 200th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1581,119,118,6,3537,90,116,1578,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-greenville-business-magazine","category-greenville-journal","category-greenville-news","category-in-the-news","category-myrtlebeachsc-news","category-president","category-the-post-and-courier","category-wspa-7-news","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42415","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=42415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42422,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42415\/revisions\/42422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}