South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (courtesy Claflin Twitter feed, claflin.edu, and tandd.com) — After an extended hiatus related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Claflin University Concert Choir returned to the City of Orangeburg’s Stevenson Auditorium on Nov. 28 with a community performance of Handel’s Messiah. The annual holiday Messiah choral performance began in 1997 but was interrupted three …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (courtesy benedict.edu) — Benedict College is pleased to announce the receipt of a $400,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation for supporting research and increasing innovation capacity. The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced the first-ever Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) investment of $19.6 million to nearly 50 teams at …
GREENVILLE, S.C. (courtesy bjubruins.com) — It was a memorable night as the Bruins women’s soccer team capped off a successful season by defeating #3 Southwestern Adventist University 2-0 in double overtime in the NCCAA DII National Championship match to capture their sixth national title. The Nov. 18 win marked the 150th Bruins win for Coach …
CHARLESTON, S.C. (courtesy charlestonsouthern.edu) — The CSU family has packed the most Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes of any college or university in the nation for the fifth year in a row, with a total of 13,601 boxes in 2023. “Every area of campus participated in packing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child,” said Jody Jennings, vice …
HARTSVILLE, S.C. (courtesy coker.edu) — Coker University is proud to announce that Isabel Elson-Enriquez joined the university’s board of trustees in November 2023. Elson-Enriquez is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has been an instructor of Art History at various colleges throughout …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (courtesy ciu.edu) — CIU student writer Brandon Lee took a little shopping trip and found budding entrepreneurs among the student body. He reports on his experience: Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, Columbia International University’s Fellowship of Christian Professionals (FCP) hosted a “mini-market,” where I met student entrepreneurs displaying their creative …
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (courtesy converse.edu) — Lifelong supporter of higher education and former Converse first lady Ernestine Melvin Morris Carmichael Raclin (1927-2023) further cemented her legacy at Converse with a generous estate gift of $10.3 million. This planned gift is the largest legacy gift and the second-largest single gift in Converse’s history. A 1947 graduate of …
DUE WEST, S.C. (courtesy erskine.edu) — Erskine College senior Sharon George, a Presidential Scholar pursuing a triple major in history, psychology, and Bible and religion, was awarded a research grant for her project “Holy Textiles: The Relationship between the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS) and Upstate South Carolina Textile Mills.” Opportunity beckons Sharon applied for …
GREENVILLE, S.C. (courtesy furman.edu) — Long before dinosaurs, people and even microbes, Earth was hot with an atmosphere of trillions of gaseous molecules swirling around. Some of those molecules were water, while others were the building blocks of proteins, known as amino acids, which arrived on the planet from space. It’s still an open question, …