{"id":9170,"date":"2021-02-03T19:38:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/03\/dr-george-lipscomb-on-virtual-education-in-the-age-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:38:13","slug":"dr-george-lipscomb-on-virtual-education-in-the-age-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dr-george-lipscomb-on-virtual-education-in-the-age-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. George Lipscomb on virtual education in the age of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/furman-universitys-dr-george-lipscomb-on-virtual-education-in-the-age-of-covid-19\/video_79c04936-c7b2-5305-a313-6597d0137a5b.html?block_id=996030\">FOX Carolina<\/a><\/strong> taps the expertise of Furman University&#8217;s George Lipscomb in its &#8220;The School Station&#8221; segment about how COVID-19 is impacting learning in K-12 education. A professor in the education department at the university, Lipscomb also offers tips for students seeking college admission. Stressing the importance of a well-rounded education for college-bound high school juniors and seniors, Lipscomb explains that Furman, an entrance test-optional institution, has a holistic view of student candidates, who benefit from having excellence in academics, extra-curricular activities and community service opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX Carolina taps the expertise of Furman University&#8217;s George Lipscomb in its &#8220;The School Station&#8221; segment about how COVID-19 is impacting learning in K-12 education. A professor in the education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,34,28,6,35],"tags":[671,255,672,673],"class_list":["post-9170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-admission","category-education","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","tag-college-admission","tag-covid-19","tag-k-12-online-learning","tag-test-optional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","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=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}