As a dancer, Calvin Biesecker is always thinking one step ahead: planning where he’ll land and how he’ll get there – and how that step will launch him into the next and get him where he wants to go. It’s no surprise, then, that he landed at the College. He knew it was exactly the […]
Ken Adkins and Mary Croghan Ramsay ’42 represent two of the most ambitious and accomplished minds Charleston has ever offered. As a recipient of both the James Kenneth Adkins Jr. Memorial Scholarship and the Mary Croghan Ramsay “Ask Jackie” Scholarship, Honors College communication and psychology double-major Anna Rowe is continuing their legacies. Ken Adkins (1955-1989) […]
Ansley Elkins couldn’t stop smiling. She called her mom. She called her dad. And then she threw on her shoes and ran to campus and told everyone she saw the news: She’d officially been named a Goldwater Scholar. “My face hurt by the end of the day because of how hard I had been smiling,” […]
To celebrate the graduating Honors College Class of 2023, we’ve collected a sampling of stories, headlines, and highlights that help to capture just how impressive this group truly is. Community Contributors and Changemakers Andrea Kimpson, a double-major in economics and international studies, devoted much of her time at CofC to making our community more equitable. […]
The College of Charleston’s 1967 Legacy Program, which supports the academic and professional success of Black students, has awarded the first Septima Clark and Esau and Janie B. Jenkins Local Legends Endowed Scholarship (Clark-Jenkins Scholarship) to freshman Alyssa Craft. The scholarship, endowed by South Carolina activist Linda Ketner, honors three local Charleston heroes of the […]
College of Charleston Honors College sophomore William Helfgott has turned a beehive he won through his 4H program when he was just 8 years old into a thriving business called River Bluff Honey. In the summer of 2017, at the age of 15 , Helfgott set out with a backpack full of honey jars and […]
Meleana Cabales was scrolling through YouTube earlier this year when the song “Madaling Araw” by Francisco Santiago popped up in her recommendations. Curious, she clicked on the link. “I was hooked from the first listen,” she recalls. “It vaguely sounded like something I’d sung before, but it was also familiar for other reasons. The lilt […]
Food has a way of connecting us. It brings us together, builds relationships and teaches us about different cultures and histories. And – although chef James Beard probably wasn’t thinking of land preservation, climate change and agriculture when he said, “Food is our common ground” – it also connects us to the land that feeds […]
Life is made up of many moments and decisions that lead to the next. But how would things have played out if we made a different choice, gone in a different direction, decided to pursue another opportunity in a different city? College of Charleston Opera explores the power choices can have in shaping our lives with the […]
Take artistic creativity, add in computer algorithms and you get the computing in the arts (CITA) major. Jo Jackley, a current College of Charleston Honors College senior and CITA student, has a passion for both artistic expression and computing. She describes computing in the arts as “a computer science degree splashing in some artistic interests […]