{"id":8437,"date":"2019-10-10T16:44:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/02\/a-message-from-the-president\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:02:52","slug":"a-message-from-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-message-from-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 President\u2019s Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A message from Furman University President Elizabeth Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When we launched The Furman Advantage, we promised to give all of our students an educational experience that would prepare them for meaningful lives and careers.<\/p>\n<p>Working with our colleagues on campus, we put together <a href=\"https:\/\/presidentsreport2019.furman.edu\">this report highlighting our progress<\/a> over the past year. You\u2019ll see that while the results are encouraging, we\u2019re looking for ways to improve as we reflect on our calling to support students along a four-year pathway marked by mentoring, exploration, reflection and career preparation.<\/p>\n<p>From the impact of engaged faculty to a pioneering program focused on student mentoring, from near-limitless engaged-learning opportunities to a growing diversity of students and faculty \u2013 this past year has been one of growth and discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading about our progress and for sharing in our hopes for the future of Furman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message from Furman University President Elizabeth Davis When we launched The Furman Advantage, we promised to give all of our students an educational experience that would prepare them for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":8438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-four-news-4th-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437","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=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33258,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions\/33258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}