{"id":700,"date":"2016-02-17T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/its-almost-time-for-another-school-year-to-begin-freshmen-report-to-campus-aug-16\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:00:55","slug":"its-almost-time-for-another-school-year-to-begin-freshmen-report-to-campus-aug-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/its-almost-time-for-another-school-year-to-begin-freshmen-report-to-campus-aug-16\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s nearly time for another school year to begin; freshmen report to campus Aug. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUGUST 10, 2012<br \/>\nby Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/students-footballgame.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3749 lazyload\" title=\"students-footballgame\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/students-footballgame.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"252\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 313px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 313\/252;\" \/><\/a>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University\u2019s 2012-13 academic year will officially get underway Monday, Aug. 20 when students attend their first day of classes.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 740 freshmen will report to campus Thursday, Aug. 16 and take part in four days of orientation activities.\u00a0 The rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Saturday, Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Furman will hold its opening convocation Thursday, Aug. 30 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The fall term ends Dec. 4, while spring term begins Jan. 7 and ends April 23.\u00a0 Commencement will be held Saturday, May 4.\u00a0 The May Experience term will run May 8-29.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman&#8217;s Office of News and Media Relations at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUGUST 10, 2012<br \/>\nby Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations<\/p>\n<p>Furman\u2019s 2012-13 academic year will officially get underway Monday, Aug. 20 when students attend their first day of classes.\u00a0Approximately 740 freshmen will report to campus Thursday, Aug. 16 and take part in four days of orientation activities.\u00a0 The rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Saturday, Aug. 18. Opening convocation will take place Thursday, Aug. 30 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}