{"id":7523,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/1970\/01\/01\/touting-the-value-of-college-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:02:51","slug":"touting-the-value-of-college-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/touting-the-value-of-college-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Touting the value of college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard W. Riley, a 1954 Furman graduate and the former U.S. Secretary of Education under President Clinton, writes an op-ed for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article212655389.html\">The State<\/a><\/em><\/strong> newspaper about the value of college. He writes it\u2019s ironic that \u201cpeople have begun to doubt whether college is worth the investment\u2014at exactly the time a college diploma is more valuable than ever.\u201d Higher education, Riley argues, produces \u201cinformed, engaged and successful citizens whose return on investment is the ability to excel in the face of challenges presented by a diverse and changing world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard W. Riley, a 1954 Furman graduate and the former U.S. Secretary of Education under President Clinton, writes an op-ed for The State newspaper about the value of college. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","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\/7523","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=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}