{"id":7507,"date":"2018-05-31T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/31\/upstate-diversity-leaders-recognized\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:02:37","slug":"upstate-diversity-leaders-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/upstate-diversity-leaders-recognized\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstate diversity leaders recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity leaders were recognized at the 14th Annual Upstate Diversity Leadership Awards Dinner held at the TD Convention Center on May 24. The event was presented by the Greenville Chamber and the Riley Institute at Furman University with partner Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36359\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36359\" class=\"wp-image-36359 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Upstate-DLI-Juan-Johnson-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"298\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 425px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 425\/298;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Johnson,\u00a0president of Diversity Leadership in Action, presented the keynote address at the 14th Annual Upstate Diversity Leadership Awards Dinner.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As reported by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/upstatebusinessjournal.com\/upstate-diversity-leaders-recognized-at-award-dinner\/\">Upstate Business Journal<\/a><\/strong>, the special honors included:\u00a0\u00a0Calder D. Ehrmann Outstanding Individual Award;\u00a0Outstanding College Student Award;\u00a0Outstanding High School Student Award;\u00a0Outstanding Contribution to International Diversity Award;\u00a0Outstanding Business Award;\u00a0William \u201cBill\u201d T. Wylie Valued Lives Award for School Excellence in Diversity;\u00a0 and Outstanding Nonprofit Organization Award. The keynote presentation was delivered by\u00a0Juan Johnson, president of Diversity Leadership in Action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity leaders were recognized at the 14th Annual Upstate Diversity Leadership Awards Dinner held at the TD Convention Center on May 24. The event was presented by the Greenville Chamber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":18083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}