{"id":9425,"date":"2021-06-17T20:18:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/an-educator-champions-the-link\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:19:57","slug":"an-educator-champions-the-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/an-educator-champions-the-link\/","title":{"rendered":"An educator champions &#8216;the link&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Seawell Metz \u201958 has served as a professor, president and trustee at colleges from one coast to another, affording her an appreciation of university life that few enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most critical operations, she says, is faculty development. Metz has committed\u00a0$1 million to\u00a0endow the director position of Furman\u2019s Faculty Development Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always thought that being outstanding in the classroom was at the heart of the university,\u201d she says, \u201cand that developing an excellent teaching faculty is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarexchange.furman.edu\/furman-magazine\/vol64\/iss1\/15\/\"><strong>spring 2021 issue of Furman magazine.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Seawell Metz \u201958 has served as a professor, president and trustee at colleges from one coast to another, affording her an appreciation of university life that few enjoy. Among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":9426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1922,57,95,96,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-clearly-furman","category-donor-stories","category-faculty-development-center","category-furman-magazine-feature","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","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=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33443,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions\/33443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}