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9 04, 2012

Famed Angel Oak threatened, judge told – The State

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An expert witness Armstrong called to court said the development could alter the groundwater flow and hurt the Angel Oak. The project also could hurt the Angel Oak because the tree’s root system is interrelated with that of a nearby forest that will be cleared for the project, said College of Charleston biology professor Jean

9 04, 2012

Princeton Review recognizes S.C. professors – Charleston Business Journal

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The Princeton Review honored several South Carolina professors, including two from the College of Charleston, in its list of the 300 best professors. The Princeton Review partnered with RateMyProfessors.com and identified more than 42,000 professors who had been rated by students on the website. The publication combined that data with its own surveys to create

9 04, 2012

Don’t blame the faculty (op/ed)- Charleston Post and Courier

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In an opinion essay published recently in The Washington Post , former university chancellor David C. Levy placed much of the blame for rising college costs on college faculty and, in particular, on the professors who teach at public universities like the College of Charleston. According to Levy, those professors need to work harder to

9 04, 2012

C of C committee approves diversity plan – Charleston Post and Courier

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 College of Charleston sophomore Denzell Moton is comfortable being one of a small number of black students at the downtown school. He grew up in a racially mixed environment, and attended a predominantly white high school in Aiken. But he knows that for some other black students, fitting in and feeling at home is a

26 03, 2012

Extended jobless benefits to be slashed in SC – The State

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In the state’s urban areas, the loss of an unemployment check – never meant to be a permanent safety net – likely will push more people back into the labor force, College of Charleston economist Frank Hefner said. http://www.thestate.com/2012/03/16/2194171/extended-jobless-benefits-to-be.html#storylink=cpy

26 03, 2012

CofC green teaching lab to open next month – WCIV

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Students at the College of Charleston's Grice Marine Lab want it to rain. Not to help the drought problem, but to see their new rain garden put to good use. "Rain gardens are a wonderful way to help protect water here in the Lowcountry," Clemson Cooperative Extension Agent Kim Counts said. The Green Teaching Garden

26 03, 2012

Students help make 3-D images of the Grillage – Charleston Post and Courier

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 The lab that produced the imaging is a workshop of College of Charleston students, on their spring break earlier this month. The dozen-or-so students are the third group in the United States to be introduced to new coastal visualization and mapping software developed by QPS. The software combines data such as multi-beam imaging, sound velocity,