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February 9, 2007 3:00 p.m.
February 13, 2007
February 13, 2007 7:00 p.m.
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February 20, 2007 7:00 p.m.
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USC Sumter Gallery Information
January 8 - March 1, 2007
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USC Sumter Retiree Tom Prewitt shared his ofrenda for all to enjoy.
The OSP Turkey Fry was a gaggle of fun!
The Floyd family graciously hosted the first gathering of the Dean's Circle in December.
USC Provost Mark Becker met with USC Sumter faculty.
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The 13th Annual Big Wednesday Classic was another huge success this year. The community overwhelmingly showed their support for both USC and Clemson at the annual golf tournament and tailgate party. In the end, more than $6,000 was raised for student scholarships. Thanks to all who participated and volunteered! Dean Wraps Up Visits to Area High Schools
Both Dean Carpenter and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Lynwood Watts made it a point to visit every high school in the five county service area during the Fall semester. The purpose of the visits were to meet with area high school principals and guidance counselors to explain the USC Sumter Scholars program. High school seniors who are in the top 15 percent of their class are automatically designated a USC Sumter Scholar, which qualifies them for a tuition-paid scholarship. According to Watts, the program was well-received by area administrators at the 21 different schools. Kunka's book Published
University of South Carolina Sumter Assistant Professor of English Andrew J. Kunka recently published a book entitled May Sinclair: Moving Towards the Modern, which he co-edited with Michele Troy of Hillyer College at the University of Hartford. The book is published by Ashgate Press. Kunka also contributed an essay entitled "'He Isn't Quite an Ordinary Coward': Gender, Cowardice, and Shell Shock in The Romantic and Anne Severn and the Fieldings" to the volume. May Sinclair was a central figure in the modernist movement, whose contribution has long been under-acknowledged. A woman of both modern and Victorian impulses, a popular novelist who also embraced modernist narrative techniques, Sinclair embodied the contradictions of her era. Kunka and Troy examine these contradictions, tracing their evolution over the span of Sinclair’s professional life as they provide insights into Sinclair’s complex and enigmatic texts. Sinclair not only had her finger on the pulse of the intellectual and social challenges of her time, but she was also connected through her writing with authors located in diverse regions of literary modernism’s social web, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, Charlotte Mew and Dorothy Richardson. The volume is a crucial contribution to the understanding of the political, social, and literary currents of the modernist period. To view sample pages or to order the book, visit www.ashgate.com. Mewborn Heads to Australia
Shannon Mewborn, director of Student Life at the University of South Carolina Sumter, will travel halfway across the world next month to participate in the Rotary International Group Study Exchange (GSE) program. The GSE is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for young business and professional men and women between the ages of 25 and 40 and in the early years of their professional lives. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits between paired areas in different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's institutions and ways of life, observe their own vocations as practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships and exchange ideas. Mewborn’s team will be traveling to Western Australia, more specifically, to Perth, Applecross, Kojonup, Albany, Margaret River, Mandurah and Rockingham. The group will leave February 8 and return on March 19. There are six members on the team, one team leader and five team members. The team leader is a Rotarian while everyone else on the team must not be in Rotary. Mewborn’s trip is co-sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sumter Sunrise and the Sumter Rotary Club and her teammates include professionals from across the state. “I have wanted to visit Australia for about 20 years now,” Mewborn said. “I am so appreciative of Rotary District 7770 and this opportunity they are providing me.” Mewborn expects the trip to be an eye-opening experience and hopes to learn as much as possible. “I want to take advantage of every opportunity that is presented to me while I am there,” she added. Continuing Education Kicks off New CoursesUnder the leadership of new director Susan Brabham, the USC Sumter Continuing Education Division will rejuvenate itself this spring. With courses ranging from Stock Market 101 to Buying and Selling on Ebay, participants will have a wide variety of offerings to spark their interest. Course categories include family and fun, health and medicine, leadership, management, career and computer courses as well as a monthly lunch series for professionals. Brabham earned her bachelor's degree in administrative management from Clemson University and her master's degree in community and occupational education from USC Columbia. She has completed additional graduate course work in human resource management and counseling, organizational behavior and marketing. Prior to this appointment, Brabham served as program manager for continuing education and human resource training at Central Carolina Technical College and as a marketing representative for the Colgate-Palmolive company. She actively volunteers her time with a range of community organizations, including the YMCA board, the Habitat for Humanity board and advising her church's youth groups. Brabham and her husband John have two sons. Brabham’s goals for the Continuing Education Department include forming partnership programs with local schools, developing personal enrichment courses, creating a management mentor program as well as serving the distance education needs of the community. For more information on classes, call Susan Brabham or Fran Castleberry at 938-3843.
Macias Named to National CommitteeUSC Sumter Psychology Professor Sal Macias was recently named to the nationwide American Psychological Association Committee of Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges (PT@CC). This will be a three-year term beginning in January 2007. The mission of the Committee is to: promote, within the two-year college community, the highest professional standards for teaching of psychology as a scientific discipline with applications to a wide range of human concerns; cultivate a professional identity with the discipline of psychology among psychology teachers at community colleges; develop leadership qualities among psychology teachers at community colleges and increase their participation and representation in professional psychology activities and organizations; establish and maintain communication with all groups involved in the teaching of psychology and with the greater psychological community; and encourage psychological research on teaching and learning at community colleges for the purpose of giving students the best possible educational opportunities. Macias’ teaching interests focus primarily on Introductory Psychology, for which he has written a Study Guide to accompany the general textbook, and also in Developmental Psychology, Learning and Memory and Research Methods. Recently Macias sponsored numerous student research projects that generated professional papers for presentation.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dream Walk A Success
The 7th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dream Walk was another huge success and a joyous way to celebrate the holiday. Local students and residents met at USC Sumter Monday, January 15, 2007 for the 3.5 mile walk. Sponsors for the event included USC Sumter, Central Carolina Technical College, Morris College and the Sumter Chamber of Commerce. Chuck-E-Cheese also provided each participant under the age of 18 with 10 free game tokens. Following the walk, participants were treated to refreshments and a program of celebration featuring Grand Marshall Goliath Brunson and the Morris College choir. Gaulke Named Staff Member of the QuarterMatt Gaulke, media resources specialist in the Office of Distance Education, was selected as the USC Sumter Outstanding Staff Member of the Quarter for the period September through November 2006. As this quarter's honoree, Matt will receive an engraved plaque, a cash award intended to cover the cost of dinner for two, his name on the wall plaque prominently displayed in the first floor lobby of the Administration Building, an automatic nomination for consideration for the annual H.D. Barnett, Sr., Outstanding Staff Award, and his own reserved parking place on the Sumter campus until the next honoree is announced. The Outstanding Staff Member of the Quarter award is supported by funds provided by the Sumter Partnership of the USC Educational Foundation.
Employee NewsAppointments Farewells Changes within USC Sumter Associate Professor of English Dr. Hayes Hampton, by vote of his colleagues in the Division of Arts and Letters, was recommended for appointment as Chair of that division for a two-year term (the balance of an unexpired four-year term) beginning July 1, 2007. Congratulations!
Drs. Rebecca Hillman and Charlie Cook were recognized for their joint solution of Problem 818, "A Fibonacci-like Sequence" in The College Mathematics Journal, Vol 38, No. 1, January 2007.
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