South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities
A Voice for Independent Higher Education in South Carolina
COLUMBIA, SC– On March 28, the Senate Finance Committee recommended increased funding for several critical programs that impact students attending independent colleges and universities. First and foremost, the budget panel recommended that both the need-based Tuition Grants program and the CHE need-based grants program receive an additional $1.3 million each. Depending on the number of …
CHARLESTON, SC (courtesy csuniv.edu) — The Board of Trustees announced today (March 23, 2017) that Dr. Jairy C. Hunter, Jr. will transition from the President of Charleston Southern University to President Emeritus on May 31, 2018 after 34 years of service. Over the past two years, the Board of Trustees and President Hunter have collaborated …
SUMTER, SC (courtesy The Sumter Item) — Morris College Board of Trustees has named Leroy Staggers, academic dean at the college, as interim president, effective July 1, as president Luns C. Richardson intends to retire on June 30. Richardson, South Carolina’s longest sitting college president and United Negro College Fund’s longest member president, informed the …
ISLE OF PALMS, SC — College presidents and at-large trustees discussed trends and issues facing higher education at the 2017 Biennial Board of Trustees Retreat held at Wild Dunes Plantation March 2-3, 2017. Dr. David Warren, President of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and SC Rep. Chandra Dillard (District 23, Greenville County) …
WASHINGTON, DC — Allen University Interim President Dr. Ernest McNealey, Wofford College President Dr. Nayef Samhat, and SCICU President Mike LeFever joined dozens of other independent college and university presidents in a day of advocacy on Washington’s Capitol Hill. Armed with information and briefing materials prepared by the staff of the National Association of Independent …
SPARTANBURG, SC – Forty-one undergraduate students representing twelve SCICU colleges and universities presented findings and results from their 2016 research projects at the 2017 SCICU Research Symposium held at Milliken & Company in Spartanburg on February 23, 2017. Supported by generous sponsors and donors, SCICU awarded $90,000 in research grants to undergraduate student research projects …
COLUMBIA, SC — Fundraising by non-profits across the country has become more challenging than ever before; however, this was not the case for SCICU in 2016 as the association accomplished a record-setting year exceeding its fundraising goal by over $60,000. For the 2015-16 fiscal year, SCICU distributed over $649,000 to its 20 member colleges through …
COLUMBIA, SC — The House Ways and Means Committee did not include an increase for Tuition Grants in the first draft of the state’s roughly $8 billion general fund budget. With $522 million in added money this year, the budget committee funded other statewide needs such as $100 million for the schools in the I-95 …
CENTRAL, SC — (courtesy swu.edu) Officials from Pickens County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs and Anderson County Disabilities and Special Needs Board, Southern Wesleyan University and the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs joined together with elected and appointed officials Feb. 27 to break ground on the first phase of a housing …
