{"id":4473,"date":"2016-04-28T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T01:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/02\/24087\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:52:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:52:16","slug":"24087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/24087\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Chancellor of ECU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil Staton has a career about as varied as any university leader\u2014a religion scholar, faculty member, administrator, entrepreneur and state senator in Georgia. On April 27, the 1980 Furman graduate was elected as East Carolina University\u2019s next chancellor by the UNC Board of Governors. Staton, who is interim president of Valdosta State University in Georgia and vice chancellor for extended education for the University System of Georgia, starts the ECU job on July 1.\u00a0 Read more in the Raleigh, N.C., <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article74243557.html\">News &amp; Observer<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil Staton has a career about as varied as any university leader\u2014a religion scholar, faculty member, administrator, entrepreneur and state senator in Georgia. On April 27, the 1980 Furman graduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","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=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}