During 2013-14, the Graduate School of the College of Charleston launched several new concentrations, enrolled its first Division I varsity athletes and saw a record number of MBA candidates.

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Graduate Education Week alumni panel

Graduate Education Week alumni panel

Two programs recorded substantial growth in 2013-14 – M.A. in History and M.Ed. in Middle Grades Education. The first ever Graduate Education Week was also held (despite unusual wintery weather), giving students opportunities for Q&A sessions, tours and more.

Several concentrations were also added to existing programs. The Master of Arts in Teaching, Learning and Advocacy program added three new concentrations for the 2013-14 year – diverse learners, new literacies or science and mathematics. The Master of Arts in Teaching Performing Arts introduced a new theatre concentration this year, enabling students who received their undergraduate degrees in theatre to earn teaching licensure in S.C. public schools.

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What are they doing now?

Students in the Graduate School’s Class of 2014 now have jobs or are enrolled in Ph.D. programs across the U.S.

Graduates with an M.A. in History are now working at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center and Belk Lucy, among others.

2014 MBA graduates are working at Gildan, Marriott International (Nashville, Tenn.), and for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (Boston, Mass.).

Nicole Collars, M.S. in Marine Biology, and Jane O’Boyle, M.A. in Communication, will begin doctoral programs in the fall.

Communication students are interning at Nike, The Harbor Entrepreneur Center, the Medical University of South Carolina and The Modern Connection.

Show me the money!

Graduate School Poster Session

Graduate School Poster Session

Nearly all graduate students at the College of Charleston receive some type of financial aid.

In the 2013-14 academic year, 150 students had graduate assistantships, 44 students were teaching assistants, 36 students had research assistant positions and 72 received some other type of scholarship or grant.

3 history graduate assistants worked with the Lowcountry Digital Library to launch the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) in March.

11 students received travel grants to take classes like In Search of King Arthur and the Holy Grail and European Origins of Modern Accountancy.

22 students earned grants from the Graduate School of the College of Charleston to attend conferences and participate in research. MES/MPA students attended the American Planning Association National Conference, MES students participated in a GIS study and presented at the National Conference and Global Forum on Science, Policy and the Environment, and history students attended the American Historical Association Annual meeting, among others.

Awards

For the third year in a row, a marine biology graduate student at the College of Charleston has received a Knauss fellowship. Courtney Gerstenmaier will leave in 2015 for a one-year paid fellowship with the executive branch of government on national policy decisions related to ocean, coasta and Great Lakes resources.

Graduate School program director Christine Finnan will spend next year on a Fulbright scholarship conducting research at the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), a residential school that serves 20,000 indigenous children in Odisha, India.

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Margaret Edling, a history graduate student, was chosen as a fellow in the College of Charleston and the Universite of Versailles exchange program. While at Versailles, Margaret will work as an instructor for one year at the Université de Versailles – Saint Quentin teaching conversational English.