Faculty Talents Extend Beyond the Classroom
Whether dogsledding in the Arctic or jamming with their musical instruments on stage, the College's professors have a range of surprising talents.
Whether dogsledding in the Arctic or jamming with their musical instruments on stage, the College's professors have a range of surprising talents.
K4Kids, a non-profit founded by CofC junior Kathryn Templeton, has donated more than 125,000 school supplies over the past five years.
The Afterschool and Summer Learning Resource Center will be operated by the College's School of Education, Health and Human Performance.
CofC professors Quinn Burke and Jim Bowring have been awarded a federal grant to study coding bootcamps and their impact on the tech sector.
The College-sponsored summer camp gets elementary school kids excited about engineering and science through hands-on activities.
Honors College alums Sara DeWolf โ02 and Nicholas Boatwright โ11 have worked in the classroom and behind the scenes in education. Both are headed to Harvard to earn master's degrees.
Teacher education professor Jon Hale's new book, "Freedom Schools," focuses on the creation of 41 schools for black students during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964.
Beth Sundstrom and Andrea DeMaria, co-directors of the Women's Health Research Team, are featured in a Science for the People podcast and as Charlie Magazine's 50 Most Progressive for 2016.
Led by the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance, the campaign is raising money to support scholarships for future teachers.
The endowed scholarship will be awarded annually to a minority male student in the College's teacher education program. The scholarship's namesake administers the College's Call Me MISTER Program, which seeks to increase the number of African American teachers in South Carolina schools.