SC Independent Colleges & Universities

GREENVILLE, S.C. (courtesy furman.edu and greenvillebusinessmag.com) — It was love at first sight. When my family and I visited Greenville, as I prepared to become president of Furman University in 2014, we could sense the energy and vibrancy of the place. There was no doubt that Greenville was exceptional. Its bold vision was there for …

DUE WEST, S.C. (courtesy indexjournal.com) — When the town’s Dollar General ran out of surge protectors, its manager, Andrea Callaway, hustled to another to get more. Within a half-hour, the 17 she had brought back had sold out. It was freshman move-in day at Erskine College. One parent, upset that an item her son needed …

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 …