Coach Bobby Cremins Announces His Retirement
A national search will be conducted to find a successor.
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College Researchers Recognized for Ground-Breaking Work
Their research shows a trend in college-age students exaggerating symptoms to receive an ADHD/LD diagnosis.
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More than 60 Alumni, Students Serve in AmeriCorps
National AmeriCorps Week is March 10-18.
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Alumni-Founded Company Hires Fellow Alumni
About half of the employees at BiblioLabs are College of Charleston alumni.
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A different pen and ink – The Post and Courier
If you have ambitions to be a serious writer, the staff at Crazyhorse magazine, a national literary journal published at the College of Charleston, is hosting the Crazyhorse Writers Conference on March 15-18. It will bring together a group of varied literary artists for a full weekend of lectures and the opportunity to socialize with
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CofC students get deep into study of harbor – WCIV
Have you ever wondered what the seafloor of the Charleston Harbor is like? Some students at the College of Charleston have spent their spring break figuring that out. "We have a very extensive seamap program where we train students how to go collect data, how to process data, analyze it and actually put out data
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Casino capitalism: As gambling spreads, metaphor becomes reality – Salon Magazine
Indeed, the literature is conflicted. Some academics, like Harvard Medical School’s Howard Schaffer, say that the number of gambling addicts has not increased alongside casino expansion. Douglas Walker, a professor of economics at the College of Charleston, has criticized Grinol’s methodology in studying casino-related crime. http://www.salon.com/2012/03/09/casino_capitalism_as_gambling_spreads_metaphor_becomes_reality/singleton/
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A little research can help you make a ‘smart’ phone choice – Greenville News
Dr. Doug Ferguson, professor of communication at College of Charleston, is one of those people. Even though he estimates that 90 percent of his students and two-thirds of his university colleagues own them, Ferguson has chosen to keep his basic cellphone. “There’s a peer pressure,” Ferguson said. “There’s a pressure to be like everybody else.”
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Are today’s children growing up too fast?- Charleston Post and Courier
Von Bakanic, a sociology professor at the College of Charleston, said the correlation between television (and, by extension, other visual media) and violence has long been observed by researchers. A Canadian study in the 1970s compared children raised in a small town without television with those with regular exposure to television and found substantial differences,
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Mayors spent the most per vote – The Post and Courier
The financial advantage of Riley and Summey does not surprise College of Charleston political science professor Andy Felts. "It's very typical for the incumbent to be able to raise substantially more money than somebody who is working to get name recognition," he said. "It's a predictable thing for money to flow to ones that they