{"id":15631,"date":"2016-09-01T20:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=15631"},"modified":"2016-09-01T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:30:30","slug":"developing-leaders-by-nurturing-intellect-courage-and-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/developing-leaders-by-nurturing-intellect-courage-and-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing leaders by nurturing intellect, courage and service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten exceptional students walked across the stage at Commencement this year, sporting medallions hanging on orange ribbons identifying them as Chapman Scholars. They were selected as freshmen for their leadership potential and offered the opportunity to be a part of the Thomas F. Chapman Leadership Scholars Program, designed to enrich their academic preparation beyond the classroom and curriculum. The three-year program also supports the college\u2019s mission to develop leadership abilities in its students.<br \/>\nThe program is based, in part, on a leadership theme developed by former Equifax CEO and board chair Thomas F. Chapman \u201965 that uses the analogy of <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em> characters \u2014 the scarecrow, lion and tin man \u2014 to communicate the traits of leadership. Chapman characterized<br \/>\nthe 10 graduating scholars as \u201cvery, very special. This is a culmination of three years of getting to know these young people, watching them grow, develop, learn and hopefully position themselves down the road to make the world a better place.\u201d<br \/>\nA reception was held prior to graduation honoring the Chapman Scholars and recognizing Thomas Chapman\u2019s generosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten exceptional students walked across the stage at Commencement this year, sporting medallions hanging on orange ribbons identifying them as Chapman Scholars. They were selected as freshmen for their leadership potential and offered the opportunity to be a part of the Thomas F. Chapman Leadership Scholars Program, designed to enrich their academic preparation beyond the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[1783,2241,2534,2851,2854,2990],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clemson-forever","tag-leadership","tag-philanthropy","tag-scholarships","tag-summer-fall-2016","tag-summer-fall-2016-forever","tag-thomas-f-chapman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/10999-chapman-300x300.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15631"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}