{"id":8279,"date":"2019-06-24T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/30\/greenvilles-signature-university\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:35:30","slug":"greenvilles-signature-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/greenvilles-signature-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville\u2019s &#8216;signature university&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement was made recently in a Greenville News story about how the city needs to \u201cattract a signature institution, such as a university, downtown to anchor the district and create a collaborative hub of ideas and business activity.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/06\/23\/opinion-why-furman-greenvilles-signature-universtiy\/1499382001\/\">In an op-ed for the newspaper<\/a><\/strong>, Anthony Herrera, executive director of Furman\u2019s Office for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, writes that Greenville doesn\u2019t need to seek a signature university. It already has one in Furman University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2019\/06\/20\/new-study-shows-furmans-economic-impact-on-upstate-more-than-297-million\/\">Read story about new study showing Furman\u2019s economic contribution to Upstate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement was made recently in a Greenville News story about how the city needs to \u201cattract a signature institution, such as a university, downtown to anchor the district and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":8280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,6,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-innovation-and-entrepreneurship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279","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=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}