{"id":50798,"date":"2019-11-12T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=50798"},"modified":"2019-11-12T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T21:05:23","slug":"entrepreneur-direct-series-to-present-higher-education-innovator-carolina-recchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=50798","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur Direct series to present higher education innovator Carolina Recchi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carolina Recchi, a tech entrepreneur who is co-chief executive officer and co-founder of EdSights, will be the next speaker in the Entrepreneur Direct series from Fort Hays State University\u2019s Center for Entrepreneurship. <br><br> Admission is free to the campus community and the public. She will speak from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, in Eagle Communications Hall in the Robbins Center at Fort Hays State. <br><br> The event includes a reception. <br><br> EdSights uses artificial intelligence to help universities increase graduation rates. The company works with universities all over the nation and recently secured $1 million in funding from Techstars, Rondo Ventures, and the Kauffman Foundation. <br><br> Recchi, 25, with her sister and co-founder Claudia, immigrated to the United States from Italy to attend college. Carolina graduated from Babson College, Wellesley, Mass., with a degree in international business. She is a 2018 Techstars accelerator program graduate. <br><br> To date, her company has saved colleges $1.8 million in tuition revenue. Carolina is 25 years old. <br><br> Entrepreneur Direct is a speaker series presented by the Center for Entrepreneurship, housed in Fort Hays State\u2019s W.R. and Yvonne Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Carolina Recchi, a tech entrepreneur who is co-chief executive officer and co-founder of EdSights, will be the next speaker in the Entrepreneur&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50799,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50798\/revisions\/50799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}