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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 …
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Clemson University a grant to support a new model for effective engagement in the cyberinfrastructure ecosystem through collaboration with historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). The project, titled “CC* Cyber Team: Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment for Diverse Research, Scholarship, and Workforce Development (CI Empower),” plans a regional, long term empowerment …
TIGERVILLE, SC (courtesy of ngu.edu) — The Board of Trustees of North Greenville University has elected Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr., to serve as its next president. “The Presidential Search Committee undertook a nationwide search with the assistance of the team of Price Harding, III, a partner and founder of CarterBaldwin Executive Search of Atlanta, …
ORANGEBURG, SC (courtesy of claflin.edu) — Claflin University has been selected to participate in Project Pipeline Repair: Restoring Minority Male Participation and Persistence in Educator Preparation Programs, an initiative of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). The project is made possible by a generous three-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to engage …
COLUMBIA, SC (courtesy ciu.edu)– An experienced and respected Christian higher education administrator has been named the seventh president of Columbia International University. The announcement was made following a vote by the CIU Board of Trustees on February 2 to confirm Dr. Mark A. Smith as president beginning July 1, 2017. Dr. Smith comes to CIU …
“I believe that if The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, were here today, he’d be very disappointed in the lack of real change in America as it relates to racial and economic justice,” said Claflin President Henry Tisdale in his keynote message Monday (Jan. 16) at the city of Columbia’s 2017 Martin Luther King Day …
DUE WEST, SC (courtesy news.erskine.edu) — Dr. Robert E. Gustafson, Jr. began his service as interim president of Erskine College and Theological Seminary Oct. 31, 2016. He lives in Greenville with his wife Marjorie Graham Gustafson and is the father of two adult children. He and his wife attend Greenville ARP Church. Educated at the …
ANDERSON, SC — A recent visit from a delegation of The University of Wurzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany, including the president and chancellor Dr. Robert Grebner, resulted in the signing of a partnership between that university and Anderson University. AU has agreements with universities around the world, but this is the first from Germany. The delegation from …
