{"id":6762,"date":"2017-07-19T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/19\/personalized-pathways\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:08:21","slug":"personalized-pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/personalized-pathways\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalized pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed article in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessofficermagazine.org\/features\/personalized-pathways\/\">Business Officer<\/a><\/em><\/strong> focuses on The Furman Advantage, the university\u2019s new strategic plan which is described as \u201can overarching, institution-wide program that focuses on providing a defined, personalized pathway for each student that will lead to demonstrated success.\u201d The article quotes Ken Peterson, Furman\u2019s dean of the faculty, as well as Mary Lou Merkt, the university\u2019s vice president of finance and administration. \u201cWe believe our long history and tradition of excellent academics, experiential learning, and community engagement can be a powerful force,\u201d Merkt says in the article.\u00a0 \u201cThe Furman Advantage brings together these elements in a purposeful, four-year pathway that launches graduates with an exit plan. And we\u2019re promising this opportunity to every student. We believe The Furman Advantage answers the value question and provides distinctiveness in a competitive market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed article in Business Officer focuses on The Furman Advantage, the university\u2019s new strategic plan which is described as \u201can overarching, institution-wide program that focuses on providing a defined, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,65,35,18,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-institute-for-the-advancement-of-community-health","category-parent-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","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=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}