{"id":9252,"date":"2021-03-24T15:38:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/24\/duke-endowments-25m-grant-keeps-furmans-expansive-student-stipend-program-going\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:39:28","slug":"duke-endowments-25m-grant-keeps-furmans-expansive-student-stipend-program-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/duke-endowments-25m-grant-keeps-furmans-expansive-student-stipend-program-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Endowment\u2019s $25M grant keeps Furman\u2019s student stipend program going"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furman University announced that it has received its second $25 million grant from The Duke Endowment to expand and advance The Furman Advantage. Anna B. Mitchell of The Post and Courier<\/a><\/strong> takes a deeper look into the impact of the program. She points to Furman senior Charlie Lott, an economics and sustainability sciences double major, whose living expenses were covered during his unpaid internship with the Institute for Political Ecology in Zagreb, Croatia.<\/p>\n

With the expansion of The Furman Advantage<\/a>, even more students will have such opportunities. Furman President Elizabeth Davis explains how the program is unique. \u201cEvery school is going to have internships and research and leadership,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s not the interesting part of this. It\u2019s the every student piece. It\u2019s the intentionality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Furman University announced that it has received its second $25 million grant from The Duke Endowment to expand and advance The Furman Advantage. Anna B. Mitchell of The Post and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,34,37,46,6,58,35,90,48,47,9,61,55],"tags":[772,773,250,176,208],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-admission","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-economics","category-in-the-news","category-internships","category-parent-news","category-president","category-psychology","category-study-away-and-international-education","category-sustainability","category-the-furman-advantage","category-undergraduate-research","tag-internships","tag-stipends-for-students","tag-study-abroad","tag-study-away","tag-undergraduate-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","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=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}