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Reducing Racial Disparities in Maternal Health South Carolina has the eighth highest maternal mortality rate in the nation, fueled by the death rate among African-American women. In South Carolina, black women with Ph.D.s have worse health outcomes in pregnancy than white high school dropouts. Overall, black women are three times as likely to die in…

If there’s one thing we’ve learned during this extraordinary and unprecedented time of virus-hiding it is that children don’t learn as well electronically, or for as long, as they do at school.

Like all regional economies around the nation, the Charleston metro’s robust economy has skidded nearly to a halt. As one example, pending home sales dropped 11% in April, and listings fell 26% compared to the year before, following a torrid start to the year.

$500 AAUW Scholarships Available for K-8 STEAM Teachers Attention K-8 STEAM teachers: what would you do with $500? Would you pay for supplies, take a course, purchase a piece of equipment for the classroom or treat your class to a pizza party? The American Association for University Women (AAUW) is offering a pair of grants…

And so, we are cooped up in our homes, many of us with young children who must be kept engaged in activities lest their brains shrivel and our nerves fray. The good news is, we have never been better positioned to conduct our lives from our living rooms. We are connected to the entire world via electronic devices, and that world is intent on providing us with all the information and entertainment we could possibly want.

There’s never been a better time to become a teacher. If you have a bachelor’s degree, even in some subjects unrelated to pedagogy, you can create a career for yourself in education faster and easier than ever before.

Funding for everything that flows from the federal government down to states and local communities is based on census numbers. If the federal government only counts half of all South Carolinians, it will apportion funding based on half our actual population.

What do you do when competitors break into your space and deliver even better service to your most valuable customers? If your company wants to survive, you improve the service to customers and make it available on every platform on which they might consume it. You track your results and double down on those strategies…

Domestic violence and child abuse are expected to spike during the COVID-19 crisis as families are confined together under the stress of diminished income and complex new routines. Adding to the problem is the difficulty facing women and children who want to escape the abuse but are sequestered in their homes. Research has demonstrated a…

Like almost everything else in the Charleston area, the physical offices of the Lowcountry Graduate Center are closed through May 15 to protect students, faculty, staff, and guests from Covid-19.

The University of South Carolina College of Social Work is organizing the Lowcountry Social Work Connections Spring Conference, which is “to provide networking opportunities, offer an affordable way to earn high-quality social work CEUs, and spotlight alumni of the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina,”…

We hear all the time about the need for tech talent all over the country and here in Charleston as the local tech sector blossoms. Right now, website developers with coding skills and no experience can walk into $60,000 entry-level positions with dozens of area tech companies.

The technology industry in the Lowcountry has created a resource in Charleston Open Source to attract skilled workers in the field.

Job interviewing is not always fun and can be nerve-racking for many. The feeling of whether you are good enough for the position you applied for, the coldness of just a simple conversation, or the fear of saying something completely wrong. We have all been there, but there are ways to combat those nerves and actually master the art of job interviewing.

Are you considering the career boost that an MBA can provide? Thursday, February 20, Lowcountry residents will have the opportunity to learn about an acclaimed evening MBA program that allows students to continue working while attending class online or through teleconference at the conveniently situated Lowcountry Graduate Center.

Research has found that 60% of university students have math anxiety, even accounting for the math and physics departments. But math is practical to daily life and fun to think and talk about. You just have to know how to pose the question.

When the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce considered whom to bestow its Pillar Award upon in 2019, it was seeking a local company with 20+ years of dedicated community service with a commitment to philanthropy.

The BUILD grant (Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development) from the U.S. Department of Transportation will cover most of the estimated $22 million costs of the span, which will run parallel to the Route 17 bridges and connect with the West Ashley Greenway.

New Year’s is a time when we resolve to do things put off. Is this the time to get that advanced degree you’ve been thinking about?

There are more stressors during the holidays, both familial and financial. Being thrown together with noisome family members at holiday gatherings and struggling with gift-buying obligations can exacerbate ambient sadness and depression, particularly in the cold and dark of winter.

While many jobs in advanced manufacturing, IT, healthcare and other high-demand positions offer premium pay and benefits, many other jobs in high demand, like construction trades and hospitality, offer low pay.

Did you know that Charleston’s burgeoning tech sector now comprises 600 companies, with jobs paying more than twice the regional average? In a community known for tourism and manufacturing, the area is increasingly becoming a tech hub.

Today, South Carolina is no longer worst in the nation for domestic violence (on last accounting, we’re fifth worst) but it is still a major issue. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence says our state still needs to toughen its laws…

It’s going to be quite a week for the manufacturing sector in South Carolina at the end of October. The SC Manufacturing Conference and Expo comes to the coast for the first time in years, this time at the North Charleston Coliseum.

We can’t prepare for unpredictable events like fires and earthquakes, but we are commonly told every June to get ready for hurricanes…..and to remain prepared until the season ends November 1st.

If you’re between about 30 and 80 years of age, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania are the seminal world history moment in your life.

In the Charleston area, 40% of commuters now spend more than an hour of their day on the roads traveling to and from work. The Reboot the Commute initiative implements strategies that boost alternatives.

In 38 years, textbook prices skyrocketed three times the rate of inflation. For years, students were a captive audience for booksellers. The College Board estimates that the average student will spend more than $1,200 on textbooks this years.

At the turn of the 21st century, 17 tech firms dotted the Charleston business community. Now, there are two tech centers and hundreds of startups within the Charleston Digital Corridor.

In Fall 2019, The Citadel will establish a Tri-County cohort of the Specialist in Educational Leadership program. The course can be completed in two years, and it will be offered the Lowcountry Graduate Center in North Charleston.

The U.S. is the most expensive country in which to deliver and raise a baby. A 2013 study estimated that it cost a minimum of $30,000 to give birth in a hospital and $10,000 for a family with modest means to raise a child in their first year. Moreover, an infant mortality rate in South…

Being a school principal is like being the president of a small nation, except it’s more important because the futures of children are at stake.

Have you ever found yourself falling down a rabbit hole of research, searching in vain for the information you desperately need for a paper or homework assignment? Are your search terms unspooling your efforts, taking you far afield from the information you need? There’s an app for that! Well, not an app, exactly, an actual…

Generally speaking, today’s college classrooms are pretty tricked-out with technology. The days of blackboards and overhead projectors are gone, replaced by “smart” boards and screens, and computers to play videos and surf the Internet. It makes teaching and learning easier, but as with any new technology, if anything goes wrong, it can really hamstring the…

For many, graduate school is an intense experience, very different from their undergraduate years. Whereas college is for many a four-year social experiment punctuated by academics, graduate school tends to focus almost entirely on the work. Add to that the adult commitments many graduate students juggle – work, family and other responsibilities – and graduate…

For decades, security meant locking the doors and windows of your home, maybe turning on an alarm system, keeping your banking information and credit cards away from strangers, and placing your personal papers and passport in a safe. Today, you have hundreds of doors and windows into your life, and your banking, credit card, passport…

Many summer classes are hybrid in-person/online or feature small class sizes. For those taking courses outside their core competencies, that can be extremely helpful. At the Lowcountry Graduate Center, classes generally contain no more than 20 students and many are much smaller.

A panel studying the crisis of student loan debt led by Ivanka Trump announced recently that it would recommend borrowing limits to help prevent students from drowning in debt upon graduation. Student loan debt has tripled since 2003 to about $1.5 trillion nationally. An average college graduate leaves school with $42,000 in debt, with payments…

As of 2015, 91 percent of American adults and 60 percent of teens owned a cell phone. The average person spends two-and-a-half hours a day using their phone and 80% of us check our phones within 15 minutes of waking.

Whether you’re a native speaker of these languages (Spanish, Mandarin, Hebrew and Polish), or any of the 6,904 others believed to be in use around the globe, you’ll need to speak English fluently if you want to attend an American university or just get along in the United States today.