College Announces Jubilee Project 2013
Jubilee Project celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and other key events.
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Beyond true grits – Washington Post
In 1986, Taylor opened the store, Hoppin’ John’s, its name a nod to the moniker the budding bookseller had adopted a year earlier when he brought the traditional good-luck dish of rice and beans to a New Year’s Day party. Historian and author Dale Rosengarten, curator at the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston,
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Black Power and its impact topic of Avery Center conference – Charleston Post and Courier
The goal is to re-frame black power and demonstrate its sweeping reach, according to Robert Chase, public historian at the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture and conference co-organizer. For a direct line can be draw between Booker T. Washington, who advocated self-sufficiency, and President Barack Obama, who personifies the
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Historians, activists ponder role of black power in the past and today at SC conference – AP
In the city where the first shots were fired in a bloody civil war that freed millions of slaves, historians, activists and ordinary folks will discuss the legacy of black power and what it means today. The three-day conference opening Thursday at the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American studies includes appearances
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Political reform topic of C of C business school talk – Charleston Post and Courier
The College of Charleston School of Business’ Initiative for Public Choice and Market Process holds a talk this week on political reform, The presentation by Wayne Leighton, professor of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala and executive director of The Antigua Forum, is part of the “BB&T Free Market Process” speakers series. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120917/PC05/120919301/1011/political-reform-topic-of-c-of-c-business-school-talk
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Past Forward: Why Students Still Want to Get Into ‘Hot’ Colleges- New York Times
Harvey Mudd. The University of Richmond. The College of Charleston. Elon. They may be unfamiliar names to many, but according to Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz, a college admissions counselor and the author of “Admission Possible: The Dare to Be Yourself Guide for Getting Into the Best Colleges,” they are all examples of schools that “have suddenly come
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Biography to be Published on Former College President Ted Stern
Spend an evening with Stern and his biographer on September 24.
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Observatory Open to the Public on Friday
Stargazers will be able to see both Mars and the Moon.
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BOT Athletics Committee Workshop
Workshop is September 21 in Randolph Hall Boardroom.
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Gas Leak Update (4:45 p.m.)
Gas leak at the corner of St. Philip and Warren Streets has been fixed.