{"id":8744,"date":"2020-04-16T21:37:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/17\/virtual-campus-visit\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:51","slug":"virtual-campus-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/virtual-campus-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstate colleges offer virtual tours after coronavirus closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do university enrollment officers attract the college bound to campus when onsite visits are shut down due to COVID-19? Ariel Gilreath of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2020\/04\/15\/colleges-attracting-students-after-coronavirus-closures-virtual-tours-covid-19-enrollment\/2990993001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong> spoke to Brad Pochard, Furman University associate vice president of enrollment. With fall semester on the horizon, the university is preparing for what it may face. &#8220;We are literally talking about this daily,&#8221; he told Gilreath. Until campus visits resume in June, Furman is providing virtual information sessions and meetings for prospective students. Furman has also established a fund for students who are financially affected by COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do university enrollment officers attract the college bound to campus when onsite visits are shut down due to COVID-19? Ariel Gilreath of The Greenville News spoke to Brad Pochard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-admission","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","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=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}