{"id":1055,"date":"2022-04-05T13:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?post_type=furman-update&#038;p=1055"},"modified":"2022-04-05T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:48:52","slug":"riley-fellows-in-the-news-april-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/news\/riley-fellows-in-the-news-april-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Fellows in the News: April 1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Galen DeHay<\/strong> <em>(Statewide, Fall 2020)<\/em>, CEO of Tri-County Technical College, won the South Carolina Association of Technical College Commissioners&#8217; award recognizing the 2021 chief executive officer. <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a64ad6281fb45b24b5fd7ccf2&amp;id=95daf5dce9&amp;e=f77ded4131\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elliott Epps<\/strong> <em>(Midlands, Fall 2007)<\/em> is now director of leadership and capacity building for the United Way of the Midlands&#8217; community impact team. <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a64ad6281fb45b24b5fd7ccf2&amp;id=b9329ce704&amp;e=f77ded4131\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leighton Lord <\/strong><em>(Midlands, Spring 2009)<\/em> was reelected to a new three-year term as board chair of Nexsen Pruet, a role he has held for nearly 11 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a64ad6281fb45b24b5fd7ccf2&amp;id=200321c11c&amp;e=f77ded4131\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick Michaels <\/strong><em>(Upstate, Spring 2010)<\/em>, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Upstate\/Midlands South Carolina, is the 2022 recipient of Goodwill Industries International&#8217;s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Award. <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a64ad6281fb45b24b5fd7ccf2&amp;id=cee9603805&amp;e=f77ded4131\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennie Stephens <\/strong><em>(Lowcountry, Fall 2008)<\/em>, CEO of the Center for Heirs&#8217; Property Preservation, now serves on the U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s newly established equity commission&#8217;s agriculture subcommittee. <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a64ad6281fb45b24b5fd7ccf2&amp;id=446a4266d6&amp;e=f77ded4131\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melvin Williams <\/strong><em>(Lowcountry, Fall 2019)<\/em>, vice president with Terracon, was elected as senior vice chair of the American Council of Engineering Companies board of directors. <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=a64ad6281fb45b24b5fd7ccf2&amp;id=81432a36fd&amp;e=f77ded4131\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig Witherspoon <\/strong><em>(Midlands, Spring 2017)<\/em>, Richland One superintendent, was named Superintendent of the Year by the South Carolina Athletic Administrators Association. Read more<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the latest updates about Riley Fellows career changes, board and commission appointments, professional honors, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1059,"template":"","update-categories":[11,10],"class_list":["post-1055","furman-update","type-furman-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","furman-update-category-diversity-strategies","furman-update-category-riley-fellows-bulletin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-update"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}