{"id":8100,"date":"2019-03-21T18:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T18:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/college-advising-corps\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:20:02","slug":"college-advising-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/college-advising-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Steering students toward success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Furman College Advising Corps (CAC), Furman alumna Katie Foster &#8217;17 works alongside guidance counselors as a full-time college adviser, making sure students at Lewisville High School in South Carolina have what they need to plan for college access and success. All 350 of them. In a story published on the <a href=\"https:\/\/dukeendowment.org\/story\/steering-students-toward-success\"><b>Duke Endowment website<\/b><\/a>, a student describes the impact of CAC, which has a cohort of\u00a0 seven Furman advisers working in schools across Chester and Lancaster counties.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think I could have done this without Ms. Foster,\u201d said the student. \u201cI\u2019m the first person in my family to go to college and I\u2019ve been coming in all the time asking questions. Applying is exciting, but it can be really confusing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Furman became the first South Carolina school to partner with the Corps, receiving anchor funding from the J. Marion Sims Foundation and the Duke Endowment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Furman College Advising Corps (CAC), Furman alumna Katie Foster &#8217;17 works alongside guidance counselors as a full-time college adviser, making sure students at Lewisville High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,34,3,51,42,6,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-admission","category-alumni","category-communication-studies","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-shucker-leadership-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","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=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}