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University Of South Carolina-beaufort

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School Notes:

• In 1959 another act of the South Carolina legislature created the Beaufort campus of the University of South Carolina on the original Beaufort College site on the banks of the Beaufort River to offer USC courses. In 1994 International Paper gave eighty acres of land to build an additional full-service campus of USC Beaufort in the region's highest growth area. County government agreed to finance the construction of the campus if the University were designated as a four-year university. Once state approvals for four-year status were completed, construction of the South Campus began.
• In June 2002, USCB was granted four-year status by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, and in 2004 USCB was accredited as a Level II baccalaureate degree granting university. Classes at the South Campus began in August 2004. The state's newest four-year university, USC Beaufort offers baccalaureate degrees, access to USC's Extended Graduate Campus classes and degrees and numerous continuing education programs at its two full-service campuses.
• USCB offers programs in mathematics and the natural sciences, humanities, and professional and social sciences. Its curriculum is designed to promote acquisition of knowledge and, through it, the intellectual dispositions and skills that encourage depth of understanding, tolerance of others and individual accountability. Attracting a racially and culturally diverse student body of varying ages and experiences, the University of South Carolina Beaufort draws its students primarily from the South Carolina Lowcountry, with representation from other parts of the state, other states, and foreign countries. The University encourages students to think analytically and abstractly, to explore options, to see similarities, to be open to differences, to communicate effectively, and to respect each individual.
• In addition to offering bacculaurete degrees, the University of South Carolina Beaufort offers Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees to Military Personnel at the Marine Corps Air Station and Parris Island Recruit Depot. USCB also partners with the Extended Graduate Campus of theUniversity of South Carolina to make graduate education available to citizens of the Lowcountry.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Regional News (Bluffton Today)
  posted on March 13, 2010 at 01:30:49 pm
  The show features music by the Shark Tones and remarks by Chancellor Jane Upshaw, President Harris Pastides, History Professor Emeritus Lawrence Rowland and guest speaker Walter Edgar, who talked about the history of higher education in Beaufort County.
• The state of the arts in Beaufort (Island Packet)
  posted on March 12, 2010 at 09:37:50 pm
  Beaufort Performing Arts is dead. ... Long live Beaufort performing arts?The arts scene in Beaufor
• ‘America’s Best Social Critic’ to speak at USCB (Bluffton Today)
  posted on March 10, 2010 at 01:00:29 pm
  ‘America’s Best Social Critic’ to speak at USCB He was the winner of the 2006 Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates and is the author of “Melville: His World and Work (2005),” which won the Lionel Trilling Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in biography.
• ‘Vagina Monologues’ is hot potato again (Bluffton Today)
  posted on March 7, 2010 at 02:30:29 pm
  In 2004, town of Bluffton officials denied Gail Westerfield and Jillian Walzer’s request for the venue for “The Vagina Monologues.” (They performed at the Hilton Garden Inn near Bluffton, Coligny Theatre on Hilton Head Island and at the Beaufort Performing Arts Center in Beaufort instead.
• USCB celebrates its 50th anniversary with a dose of Lowcountry history (Island Packet)
  posted on March 5, 2010 at 11:32:37 pm
  Supporters of the University of South Carolina Beaufort celebrated the college's first 50 years

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