{"id":9789,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/02\/engaged-learning-powers-recent-grads-next-steps\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:46:39","slug":"engaged-learning-powers-recent-grads-next-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/engaged-learning-powers-recent-grads-next-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaged learning powers recent grads&#8217; next steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We checked back in with recent graduates to see how their engaged learning experiences (which we featured in recent years in the lead-up to Furman Engaged) led them to their current paths:<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Harris \u201920 (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2020\/04\/22\/for-jordan-harris-20-an-up-close-look-at-the-power-of-community\/\">who presented<\/a> on his internship with United Ministries in 2020) is as an associate planner with the planning &amp; zoning division at the city of Greenville. \u201cI am continuing to learn about the profession and land-use planning specifically,\u201d he said. \u201cI&#8217;ve learned that land-use planning can be the string that ties sustainable growth together community preservation, if done with the appropriate intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maddie De Pree \u201919 (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2019\/03\/19\/maddie-de-pree-20-will-talk-about-her-summer-in-england-at-furman-engaged\/\">who presented<\/a> on her summer study in England in 2019) is waiting to hear back from several competitive MFA programs for fiction writing but has learned a lot about the workforce since graduation after working as a line cook, receptionist and editorial assistant since. \u201cBeing humble and being willing to \u2018mop the floors\u2019 as they say, whether figuratively or literally, has been a huge part of my learning and growth following the time I spent at Furman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Perkins \u201921 (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2021\/03\/24\/sisters-to-share-catalog-level-syllabus-for-pre-med-study-abroad\/\">who presented<\/a> on her creation of a 200-level syllabus, \u201cMay Experience: Health and Medicine in the Global Context.\u201d) is completing the first semester of a global health master\u2019s program at Georgetown University in addition working as a graduate research assistant at the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science &amp; Security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We checked back in with recent graduates to see how their engaged learning experiences (which we featured in recent years in the lead-up to Furman Engaged) led them to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789","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=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}