{"id":9702,"date":"2022-01-19T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/alumnus-former-furman-professor-ruminates-about-video-game\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:45:32","slug":"alumnus-former-furman-professor-ruminates-about-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/alumnus-former-furman-professor-ruminates-about-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus, former Furman professor ruminates about video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle of Higher Education&#8217;s &#8220;Daily Briefing&#8221; polled readers about their favorite video games during college. Furman alumnus Zach Kelehear, professor and vice provost at Augusta University, in Georgia, chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I was traveling across the campus from the dining hall at Furman University, when walking through the student center, I was pulled to the dark side of my being, as Pong called my name. This game gathered momentum until my predictable, and usually early, demise. I am regularly thankful to have escaped my Latin and history undergraduate studies at this small liberal-arts university before the arrival of today\u2019s video games. Had I met them earlier in my academic career, I fear I would never have found out how Caesar\u2019s &#8216;Gallic Wars&#8217; turned out,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kelehear received his Furman bachelor&#8217;s in history and Latin and literature in 1981, and a master&#8217;s in education in 1982. He holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from North Carolina State University (1993). As a professor at Furman in the 90s, he was the recipient of several teaching awards. His research interests lie in arts-based leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle of Higher Education&#8217;s &#8220;Daily Briefing&#8221; polled readers about their favorite video games during college. Furman alumnus Zach Kelehear, professor and vice provost at Augusta University, in Georgia, chimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,3,42,6,16,27],"tags":[1266,1267],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-student-life","tag-pong","tag-vintage-video-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","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=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}