{"id":9726,"date":"2022-01-31T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/31\/education-as-a-bridge-to-the-future\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:45:52","slug":"education-as-a-bridge-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/education-as-a-bridge-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Education as a bridge to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a piece she contributed to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirabelsmagazinecentral.com\/DigitalEdition\/index.html?id=be1c9493-f89d-49b9-b7b7-59a12b65fc92\">Greenville Business Magazine<\/a><\/strong>, Elizabeth Davis, president of Furman University, lays out what it takes to ensure the Upstate region &#8220;continues to grow and progress in ways that are robust and economically, socially and civically vibrant.&#8221; She says high levels of engagement from three integral sectors must be in place: civic leadership, corporate investment and higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Davis highlights the four institutes at Furman &#8211; The Riley Institute, Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Institute for the Advancement of Community Health, and Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities &#8211; and how they contribute to the overall well-being and vibrancy of the community. See pages 33-34 of the magazine for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a piece she contributed to Greenville Business Magazine, Elizabeth Davis, president of Furman University, lays out what it takes to ensure the Upstate region &#8220;continues to grow and progress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17,6,81,65,72,35,90,29,18,61],"tags":[1302,1303,183,1304],"class_list":["post-9726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","category-institute-for-the-advancement-of-community-health","category-medical-legal-partnership","category-parent-news","category-president","category-riley-institute","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities","category-the-furman-advantage","tag-civic-leadership","tag-corporate-investment","tag-higher-education","tag-vibrant-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726","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=9726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}