South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (courtesy converse.edu) — Some say teaching is an art. A handful of Converse arts professors say teaching art comes naturally to artists, anyway. So they created—then won— one of Converse’s highly competitive Creativity, Community, and Cultural Enrichment (C3) grants for an outreach program that lets Converse arts students teach underserved elementary schoolchildren. “As …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (courtesy ciu.edu) — On the first day of the 2019-2020 school year, a couple staff members stood in the cavernous entryway to the new William H. Jones Global Business & IT Center directing students trying to find their way to the very first classes being held in the much-anticipated $20 million building. It …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (courtesy Columbia Free Times / postandcourier.com) — There’s something enigmatic about the way mixed-media artist Greyson Smith approaches gardens and flowers. Such objects of natural beauty have long numbered among the oldest, most tried and true subjects for visual artists. And yet, the paintings and drawings in his exhibition Gardens of the Carolinas …
HARTSVILLE, S.C. (courtesy coker.edu) — In an effort to continue meeting the needs of its students and making a quality college education more accessible, Coker University recently welcomed its first cohort of 18 Foster Scholars and its second cohort of 18 STEM Scholars in Biology (SSB). In addition, the university’s library recently launched ‘Stock, Paper, …
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (courtesy thetandd.com) — “It’s an opportunity for us to add to the legacy at Claflin,” said Dr. Shannon Smith, chair of the Claflin University Department of Nursing. “It’s epic,” she said. Smith’s statements came minutes after Claflin University and the South Carolina Technical College System signed a memorandum of understanding linking their nursing …
CHARLESTON, S.C. (courtesy charlestonsouthern.edu) — In mid August eight second-year physician assistant (PA) students and two faculty members from Charleston Southern University, along with four members of nonprofit Sowers of the Kingdom, traveled to the Dominican Republic to provide medical care and food to more than 800 patients. The weeklong medical mission trip was an …
Message from SCICU President and CEO Jeff Perez – I am very proud to report that in my first year as president & CEO of SCICU I have visited the campuses of all 20 SCICU member institutions. I had the opportunity to get a campus tour and sit down with our presidents to hear their …
COLUMBIA, S.C. — SCICU posted another strong year of fundraising in support of independent colleges and universities in S.C. During its fiscal year ending August 31, 2019, SCICU raised nearly $500,000 in support of scholarships, emergency student financial aid, student research, and special functions. Named Scholars Program Prominent among SCICU fundraising is the Named Scholars …
