{"id":7550,"date":"2018-06-28T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/30\/measuring-the-college-experience\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:40:52","slug":"measuring-the-college-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/measuring-the-college-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the college experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallup.com\/education\/235766\/future-podcast-people-think-colleges-experiences.aspx?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=HigherEd-Podcast_062718&amp;utm_content=Listen-Now_CTA_2\">\u201cFuture U Podcast,\u201d<\/a><\/strong> Brandon Busteed, executive director of Education &amp; Workforce Development at Gallup, discusses what college graduates think about their higher education experiences. As part of his discussion with co-hosts Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn, Busteed talked about the research being conducted at Furman to better understand what makes students successful (beginning at the 8:10 mark). <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2017\/10\/19\/2-5-million-grant-from-duke-endowment-to-fund-furmangallup-study\/\">The university is partnering with Gallup<\/a><\/strong> to study the impact of the university\u2019s undergraduate experience and measure the effectiveness of its signature approach to education, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/furman-advantage\/\"><strong>The Furman Advantage<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a \u201cFuture U Podcast,\u201d Brandon Busteed, executive director of Education &amp; Workforce Development at Gallup, discusses what college graduates think about their higher education experiences. As part of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","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=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}