Archive | July, 2011

History Professor, Bernard Powers, of the College of Charleston, on the Denmark Vesey Slave Rebellion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok4_Wdqym24

The College of Charleston continues to be on the leading edge of language instruction as the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs expands its non-western language offerings for the fall 2011 semester. The school has added two new faculty, will offer Vietnamese language study, and has increased the number of credit hours offered for […]

“What we want to do is enrich the educational experiences of students,” said Frank Morris, a retired member of the college’s Department of Classics who organized the camp. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jul/26/kids-enjoy-a-classical-summer/  

The Spaulding-Paolozzi Foundation has given the College of Charleston Foundation a $1 million grant to support a pair of field research stations at Dixie Plantation. “We are grateful for the support of the Spaulding-Paolozzi Foundation,” said College of Charleston President P. George Benson. “This grant will help further efforts by the college to protect and […]

Jennifer Hein, a candidate in the Master of Science in environmental studies program at the College of Charleston, has been awarded a 2011 Coastal Research Fellowship by the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium. The two South Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserves, North Inlet-Winyah Bay and ACE Basin, and the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium established this new […]

“There’s really very little positive spin you can put on this,” said Frank Hefner, an economist at the College of Charleston. “Just because there are a lot of other people having a more difficult time doesn’t really make our situation any better.” http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/07/22/business-financials-us-unemployment-sc_8579632.html  

College of Charleston students returned to shore on Friday from a mission to the ocean floor. Earlier this week, College of Charleston Geology Professor Leslie Sautter took eleven students out to sea aboard the NOAA ship, Nancy Foster, as part of an expedition to map part of the ocean floor. http://www.abcnews4.com/story/15133560/college-of-charleston-students-return-from-mapping-ocean-floor  

Allan Nadler has been named the Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston for this fall’s semester. Nadler, an ordained Orthodox rabbi, is professor and director of Jewish Studies at Drew University in Madison, N.J. At the College of Charleston, Nadler will teach a course on […]

“Actually making it is secondary,” said Kent Gourdin, chairman of the management and marketing department at the College of Charleston. “The publicity is kind of already achieved. It’s mainly visibility. That’s really what it’s for.” http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/07/24/2293323/promoters-organizers-go.html#ixzz1T7los7Cb  

College of Charleston faculty and students have been using the rustic Dixie Plantation for outdoor learning and research for more than a decade. But the 881-acre property in Meggett, with its striking views of the Stono River, has no facilities to sort or work with data and no wireless Internet access to transmit it, said […]