News & Events

The College of Charleston Class of 2013 will include the first graduates of three programs: both the B.A. and B.S. in public health and the B.S. in exercise science. All three programs have been incredibly popular and have grown more quickly than anticipated. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10-year job projections anticipate a 23.8% growth in health-related job openings. Read More »

Imagine taking your final exam in running attire at 7:30 a.m. — hundreds of miles away from your classroom. This is exactly what 15 College of Charleston students in Professor Mike Flynn’s Sport Physiology and Marathon Training course are going to do when they run in the Derby Festival Marathon on April 27, 2013 in Louisiville, Ky. Read More »

The sixth annual Jeremy’s Gala to benefit aspiring teachers will be held April 18, 2013 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Lighthouse on the Creek located on historic Shem Creek in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. Proceeds benefit the Jeremy Warren Vann Scholarship fund, which awards semester scholarships to teacher education candidates at the College of Charleston during their clinical practice semester as they intern in public school classrooms, experiencing in context what they learned in their education coursework. Read More »

The College of Charleston announces a new undergraduate major in the School of Education, Health and Human Performance and the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs. Beginning in summer 2013, students will be able to earn a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Language Education. Students earning this degree plan to become foreign language teachers in French, German, Latin, or Spanish. In order to become certified to teach, they are required to have coursework in both their language major and education. Read More »

College of Charleston Assistant Professor Brian Lanahan will travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the fall of 2013 to research how an evolving democratic nation trains its teachers. He is one of just 160 scholars awarded a research grant to conduct independent research on national and/or international issues addressing key public policy challenges. The grant is through the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Read More »

Charleston County’s Drayton Hall Elementary is a hotbed of digital learning thanks to College of Charleston graduate Kristi Meeuwse (M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education, ‘93) who was recently recognized as one of Apple’s Distinguished Educators (ADEs) for 2013. Meeuwse is one of just three teachers ever to be chosen from South Carolina. Read More »

The need for equal, quality education for all is the focus of a two-day lecture series at the College of Charleston hosted by the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance. The lectures, on February 20 and 21, 2013, will provide a history of desegregation in Charleston and illustrate the need for continued educational reform in Charleston and across the country. This extended lecture series will also generate an important discussion about how the community can move forward in providing a quality education to all students. The series is free and open to the public. (Complete schedule below.) Read More »

College of Charleston Senior Education Fellow Terry Peterson has been an advocate for struggling students for decades, and on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Peterson will celebrate the release of the new book, Expanding Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of Afterschool & Summer Learning for Student Success. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and will include an author discussion with a number of national education and community leaders, a book signing and live webinar. RSVP or sign up to watch the webcast. Read More »

Studies show American classrooms are lacking valuable STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), and beginning today, the College of Charleston is hosting hundreds of math and science teachers for The Association for Science Teacher Education international conference. Conference events will be held at the Francis Marion Hotel through Saturday, January 12, 2013. Read More »

She’s the mother of twins and was close to delivering her third child when College of Charleston Science and Math For Teachers (SMFT) student Kasandra Passmore wrote a grant that produced $4,000 for a local elementary school. She wrote the grant as part of a final project for Patty O’Donnell’s Educational Research course. Read More »