Working students have more resume credentials than they think
by Reporter • November 6, 2016 • All Stories, Higher Ed • 0 Comments
With the rising importance of internships on a college graduate’s resume, what are working students to do?
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Welcome Table SC addresses attitudes, experiences regarding race
by Reporter • November 5, 2016 • All Stories, Higher Ed, People • 0 Comments
Welcome Table SC employs candid conversations to help students understand how race affects their lives and the lives of those around them.
Read more →Parkour crew finds few obstacles on USC campus
by Reporter • May 12, 2016 • All Stories, Higher Ed, Other Sports, Schools, Sports • 0 Comments
Marquis Johnson runs up to a wall on the USC campus, plants his hands and pushes off into a midair summersault. His teammates spin around lampposts. Other students passing by the Russell House courtyard between classes watch as Team Fuego Amaterasu Crew shows off its parkour skills.
Read more →Professor seeks to build world-class finance program at Moore School
by Reporter • December 9, 2015 • All Stories, Business, Higher Ed • 0 Comments
That famous movie line “greed is good” isn’t too far off the mark for USC professor Colin Jones. He’s trying to build a world-class finance program to go with the Darla Moore Business School’stop-ranked international program. The goal is to make USC students competitive for top-dollar jobs from Wall Street to Main Street.
Read more →USC blues professor teaches students more than just music
by Reporter • December 2, 2015 • All Stories, Higher Ed, Jazz & Blues, People • 0 Comments
Walter Liniger is an unlikely blues professor. He isn’t African-American and he isn’t from the U.S. He’s Swiss, and his passion brought him here to study under blues legends. In his USC classes, you won’t find a textbook or PowerPoint. Instead, students learn about themselves through playing music.
Read more →SC’s naturalist, Rudy Mancke, winding down career, not ending it
by Reporter • May 6, 2014 • All Stories, Higher Ed, People • 4 Comments
Naturalist Rudy Mancke, who taught generations of South Carolinians about nature’s wonders, has “retired.” But don’t tell him his nature walks are over. Mancke reflects on his career and how he plans to continue educating people as long as he can.
Read more →‘Boom Box Guy JJ’ prepares to graduate and retire the persona
by Reporter • April 10, 2014 • All Stories, Higher Ed, People • 3 Comments
A familiar sight – and sound – on USC’s campus could soon fade into history. Jeremiah Shepherd, better known around campus as Boom Box Guy JJ, is about to graduate. He shares his experience of living out his alter ego and hints at what comes next for him and the boom box.
Read more →Town/Gown: Student renters, older residents feel divide in Wales Garden
by Editor • July 22, 2013 • All Stories, Higher Ed, Neighborhoods • 0 Comments
By Isabelle Khurshudyan and Brantley Fortenberry July 22, 2013 Wales Garden Neighborhood Association President Andrew Marion doesn’t mind the USC students who have moved into his cozy Columbia community until the late-night parties when he’s charged with damage control. Then the difficulties that can come from living close to the urban campus of a...
Read more →Town/Gown: Olympia struggles with student influx
by Editor • July 19, 2013 • All Stories, Higher Ed, Neighborhoods • 0 Comments
By Kyle Heck July 19, 2013 Vi Hendley has lived in Olympia for 30 years. She was around when Olympia and Granby mills were up and running, and she was around when they closed in 1996. And she has been around as more college students, most from the nearby University of South Carolina, have...
Read more →For 40 years, USC’s U101 has stressed freshman success
by Editor • July 9, 2013 • All Stories, Higher Ed, Schools • 0 Comments
USC’s U101 program has a track record of success in helping new students. But it’s still just an option, and that means some students remain ambivalent about it. (Above - a page from one of the workbooks to help students organize their time.) By Brantley Fortenberry July 9, 2013 USC freshmen have a decision...
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