Archive | October, 2011

“We tend to vote for people we think we can laugh with and not those we laugh at,” says Chris Lamb, a professor of communication at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.   http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/1025/President-Obama-on-The-Tonight-Show-A-good-move    

College of Charleston economist Frank Hefner echoed that analysis via email from Austria, where he was lecturing Friday. “This is good news,” Hefner said. “These are jobs that do not totally depend on some kind of transfer payments. What we hope is that these are self-generating jobs, and they are sustainable.   http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/22/sc-jobless-rate-declines-slightly/  

Hunter Adams, a 19-year-old sophomore at the College of Charleston, who was one of the students listening to Goodall, acknowledged it will be more difficult to get people, especially folks in South Carolina, excited for this election. “I think just with the economy staying stagnant, and with jobs, particularly unemployment still being high, people are […]

You might think this little brainchild is the work of marine professionals looking for a better way. Nope, it’s the graduate thesis of Dylan Murphy, a College of Charleston environmental studies student, who is a Beaufort native and a lifelong water rat. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/24/an-app-to-make-waterways-safer/  

The College of Charleston’s spending records have gone online nearly a year before a state law requires it. All colleges and universities receiving state money must put expenditures online by August 2012. The amounts posted online for the College of Charleston show expenditures of less than $1 and up to $1.8 million, though most are […]

Adults who are considering heading back to the classroom can learn a little more about the process Tuesday. The College of Charleston is hosting an adult student open house from 5 p.m. to 7p.m. at the North Charleston campus on International Boulevard. http://www.abcnews4.com/story/15718405/open-house-set-for-adult-students-at-c-of-c

The College of Charleston is reaching out to adults with an unfinished college degree hanging over their heads. The college is holding an open house tonight for potential adult students at its North Campus, near the Charleston International Airport, said Dorinda Harmon, the college’s director of transfer and adult student admissions.   http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/18/c-of-c-targets-unfinished-degrees/  

When the College of Charleston’s Italian Program launches its 2011 Italian Film Festival, “Cinema Italiano: Southern Perspectives,” on Thursday at the Sottile Theatre, audiences again will experience the themes, styles and approaches that make this nation’s contemporary movies so distinctive. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/17/c-c-launches-italian-film-fest/

Many of these terms were designed to belittle those to whom they referred, said Von Bakanic, a professor of sociology who specializes in racial prejudice at the College of Charleston. W. Scott Poole, a professor of history at the College of Charleston, said vernacular folk culture has long played a role in the naming of […]

The findings “bode well for the future in terms of economic development,” said Jocelyn Evans, associate dean of undergraduate studies for the College of Charleston’s School of Business.   http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/11/charleston-area-leads-the-nation-in-brain-gain/