{"id":8651,"date":"2019-05-22T21:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/furman-board-approves-name-change-statue\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:03","slug":"furman-board-approves-name-change-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-board-approves-name-change-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman board approves name change, statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University Board of Trustees unanimously approved recommendations from the institution\u2019s Special Committee on Slavery and Justice to rename James C. Furman Hall to Furman Hall and to create a statue and day of celebration to honor the first African American student, Joseph Vaughn. <a href=\"https:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/article\/146209\/\">Diverse Issues in Higher Education<\/a> reported on the announcement. The renaming of Furman Hall honors and celebrates all Furman students, faculty, staff and alumni who have contributed to the university\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University Board of Trustees unanimously approved recommendations from the institution\u2019s Special Committee on Slavery and Justice to rename James C. Furman Hall to Furman Hall and to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","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=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}