{"id":6563,"date":"2017-03-29T14:19:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/20\/addressing-the-empathy-gap\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:38:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:38:36","slug":"addressing-the-empathy-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/addressing-the-empathy-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the empathy gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rancorous 2016 election and this year\u2019s transition to a new presidential administration makes one thing clear: We are suffering from a national shortage of empathy.\u00a0 In an op-ed published in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.questia.com\/magazine\/1G1-488688002\/reversing-the-empathy-deficit-higher-ed-must-teach\">University Business<\/a><\/em><\/strong> magazine, Furman President Elizabeth Davis argues that \u201chigher education\u2014and especially those institutions focused on the liberal arts and sciences\u2014has a significant responsibility to address this empathy gap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rancorous 2016 election and this year\u2019s transition to a new presidential administration makes one thing clear: We are suffering from a national shortage of empathy.\u00a0 In an op-ed published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563","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=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}