{"id":7817,"date":"2018-11-06T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T02:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/06\/calling-all-innovative-unique-and-up-and-coming-colleges\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:48:20","slug":"calling-all-innovative-unique-and-up-and-coming-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/calling-all-innovative-unique-and-up-and-coming-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all innovative, unique and up-and-coming colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegeconsensus.com\/rankings\/most-innovative-colleges\/\">College Consensus<\/a><\/strong> put together a list of 50 \u201cunderrated\u201d colleges in the U.S. that are doing great things, Furman came in at No. 13. According to the website, these schools are \u201cdoing something unique, something innovative, something meaningful, that deserves to be more widely recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>College Consensus writes that \u201cFurman has exhibited a powerful commitment to helping heal generations of racial and economic discrimination in South Carolina, making inclusion, diversity, and social uplift one of its primary objectives.\u201d The university \u201chas also made major strides with the Furman Advantage, an initiative begun in 2016 to make Furman one of the best colleges for experiential learning, using connections throughout South Carolina to improve students\u2019 hands-on learning college experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When College Consensus put together a list of 50 \u201cunderrated\u201d colleges in the U.S. that are doing great things, Furman came in at No. 13. According to the website, these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35,61,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-the-furman-advantage","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817","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=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}