COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The probationary cloud over South Carolina State University has been lifted, ending worries over the possibility its accreditation could be revoked and force the school to close. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges decided Thursday to fully restore SC State’s membership. The 120-year-old university has been on probation since 2014. Continuing probation…
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina State University is on track to end this budget year with a surplus after years of negative audit reports. Local media outlets report the board of trustees reviewed numbers on Wednesday showing the Orangeburg school is balancing its budget. Finance and Management Controller Teare Brewington says the university will pay all past debts to…
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Financially troubled South Carolina State University is moving forward to find a permanent president for the Orangeburg school. Local media outlets report the board of trustees met for four hours behind closed doors Tuesday to discuss the search. But no action or votes were taken. Trustee Doris Helms heads the presidential search committee and says the…
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WOLO) — Oscar-nominated actress Angela Bassett will be at two HBCUs Tuesday afternoon in an effort to promote voter registration throughout the Palmetto State. Bassett will be at South Carolina State University at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium for the Get Out the Vote (GOTV) rally. Following the event at S.C. State, the What’s Love…
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights activist the Rev. Joseph Darby is the keynote speaker at a South Carolina State University observance of the Orangeburg Massacre. Monday is the anniversary of the 1968 incident in which state troopers opened fire killing three students during a protest of a segregated bowling alley. Voorhees College president Cleveland Sellers and the Orangeburg Chapter…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A state lawmaker says it’s time the South Carolina State University board of trustees find a permanent president to lead the financially troubled Orangeburg school. Media outlets report that Democratic Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter made the suggestion Tuesday during a meeting of a House subcommittee as members of the school’s board of trustees made a $128 million…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina State University Board Chairman Charles Way says the university is making progress in improving its financial situation, but still needs plenty of help. Way told a legislative bond committee Tuesday that the university currently has a balanced budget for “the first time in God knows when.” Way told the committee that the new temporary…
