{"id":4249,"date":"2016-01-08T03:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T03:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/22\/riley-institutes-riley-and-gordon-earn-high-marks\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:50:06","slug":"riley-institutes-riley-and-gordon-earn-high-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institutes-riley-and-gordon-earn-high-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute\u2019s Riley and Gordon earn high marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20380\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/don-gordon-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20380 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/don-gordon-1.jpg\" alt=\"Don Gordon\" width=\"200\" height=\"269\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/269;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Gordon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dick Riley and Don Gordon of the Riley Institute have been named among the Top Ten SC Leaders in 2015 by Alan Cooper, Publisher of <em>MidlandsBiz<\/em>. The two achieved the distinction for the Riley Institute\u2019s commitment to fostering civic and political leadership, and for the Diversity Leaders Initiative, a program which imparts skills to effectively manage and lead an increasingly diverse workplace. Says Cooper, \u201cIt has been an eventful, challenging year in South Carolina. But in times of tragedy, we often see leaders come to the forefront and mobilize others to achieve extraordinary results\u2026\u201d <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/midlandsbiz.whosonthemove.com\/top-ten-sc-leaders-in-2015\/\">Read on<\/a> <\/strong>to learn about all the honorees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Riley and Don Gordon of the Riley Institute at Furman have been named among the Top Ten SC Leaders in 2015 by Alan Cooper, Publisher of <em>MidlandsBiz<\/em>. The two achieved the distinction for the Institute\u2019s commitment to fostering civic and political leadership, and for the Diversity Leaders Initiative, a program which imparts skills to effectively manage and lead an increasingly diverse workplace. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/midlandsbiz.whosonthemove.com\/top-ten-sc-leaders-in-2015\/\">Read on<\/a><\/strong> to learn about all the honorees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","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=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}