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A Voice for Independent Higher Education in South Carolina
Quentin Seegars, a senior business major at Claflin University, was announced as the 2021 McLean-Smith SCICU Student of the Year at SCICU’s board meeting on Sept. 28. Honoring the combined legacies of leadership at SCICU and the S.C. Tuition Grants Commission, the award recognizes academic achievement and campus/community involvement made by S.C. Tuition Grants recipients. …
You may have seen a movie in which two of the characters play a game of “chicken” with their cars: in this test of nerves, they drive straight at each other; the first to swerve out of the way is the chicken and loses. I’ve also heard the way to win at “chicken” is, once …
Message from SCICU President and CEO Jeff Perez – The “free” community, or two-year, college initiative has gotten a lot of attention since it was included in the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act. But are “free” tuition and fees at two-year colleges really free for South Carolinians? It’s certainly not free for the American …
SCICU and its 21 member colleges and universities are participating in a national #DoublePell campaign on Twitter. The major emphasis of the campaign is the NAICU-produced #DoublePell 30-second video and Pell Grant student recipient stories and posts from SCICU’s 21 member campuses. Please click here or click the photo to view the #DoublePell video. Follow …
This is a brief update, as we await the return of the General Assembly to the State House. While the Senate has announced no plans, the media is reporting House Judiciary Chairman Chris Murphy (R-Dorchester) expects the House will return to address redistricting by the first week of December. That’s not soon enough for the …
Message from SCICU President and CEO Jeff Perez – Many of you know I hail from New York, where the state motto is “Excelsior,” and translates from Latin to “Ever Upward.” Here, in my adopted state of South Carolina, the state motto is “Dum Spiro Spero,” or “While I Breathe I Hope.” Together, I think …
Reconciliation budget bill / Double Pell We received some bad news from the House Education and Labor Committee, which proposed in its part of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill a $500 increase in the Pell Grants Program, but funded free two-year college. Typically, a $500 increase would be good news, but with so much money …
When will the General Assembly return to Columbia? We know the Senate’s schedule and are waiting to hear from the House. The Senate has announced its special fall session will begin on October 12, during which they intend to address re-districting and how to spend about $2.6 billion in funds from the federal American Rescue …
