{"id":8440,"date":"2019-10-15T19:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T19:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/17\/your-magazine-survey-answers-will-help-shape-whats-to-come\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:11","slug":"your-magazine-survey-answers-will-help-shape-whats-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/your-magazine-survey-answers-will-help-shape-whats-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Your magazine survey answers will help shape what&#8217;s to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Furman Family,<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, we learned a lot from you and what you want out of your Furman magazine. You&#8217;re curious about what your classmates have been up to since graduation. You love reading about Furman athletics. But you\u2019re also especially interested in Furman\u2019s history and traditions and how the campus is growing.<\/p>\n<p>Those are just a few of the opinions that rose to the top in the magazine readership survey that many of you took in July and August. Now we&#8217;ll get to work incorporating your thoughtful responses into upcoming issues of Furman magazine. In the future, look for a fresh new look to the design, a greater focus on the topics that strengthen your connection to Furman and perhaps even a few surprises. These are a few other findings from the survey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Half of you get \u201call\u201d or \u201cmost\u201d of your information about Furman from the magazine.<\/li>\n<li>86% read \u201cmost\u201d or \u201cevery\u201d issue, while 66% spend at least 30 minutes with an issue.<\/li>\n<li>87% \u201cagree\u201d or \u201cstrongly agree\u201d that the magazine \u201cstrengthens my connection\u201d to Furman.<\/li>\n<li>28% donated money to Furman after reading the magazine, while 34% recommend Furman to a prospective student or family member.<\/li>\n<li>37% are \u201cvery likely\u201d or \u201cmoderately\u201d likely to read additional web content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for sharing your opinions with us, and please drop me a note if you have story ideas, a letter for publication in the magazine or additional thoughts about what you&#8217;d like to see in Furman magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sarita Chourey<br \/>\nEditor, Furman magazine<br \/>\nmagazine@furman.edu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">P.S. One member of our alumni family who took the survey had this to say: \u201cUpon receipt of the magazine, I immediately turn to class notes and obituaries to check my class and those that overlapped with me.\u201d So, don\u2019t forget to keep in touch by submitting your news\u00a0\u2013\u00a0marriages, births and professional or educational updates\u00a0\u2013 for publication in Class Notes. You can do so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/connect\/alumni-association\/class-notes\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Furman Family, Over the summer, we learned a lot from you and what you want out of your Furman magazine. You&#8217;re curious about what your classmates have been up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440","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=8440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}