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Recruiting Tech Talent to the Charleston Area
November 12, 2019Did 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.
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USC Social Work Grad School Trains Students on Domestic Violence
November 2, 2019Today, 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…
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For Manufacturers: Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt at the LGC
October 15, 2019It’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.
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The Initiative to Reboot the Commute in the Charleston Area
September 10, 2019In 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.
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Recruiting Tech Talent to the Charleston Area
November 12, 2019Did 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.
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USC Social Work Grad School Trains Students on Domestic Violence
November 2, 2019Today, 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…
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For Manufacturers: Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt at the LGC
October 15, 2019It’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.
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How To: Prepare for a Hurricane While in College or Grad School
October 2, 2019We 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.
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We Now Have Adults Who Don’t Understand September 11
September 11, 2019If 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.
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Agenda – September 18, 2019 Supervisory Council Meeting
September 10, 2019Supervisory Council Meeting agenda for September 18th, 2019 taken place at the LGC.
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The Initiative to Reboot the Commute in the Charleston Area
September 10, 2019In 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.
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Saving Money on Textbooks
August 14, 2019In 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.
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The Tech Boom in Charleston Requires Educational Response
July 30, 2019At 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.
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LGC is Site of New Lowcountry Cohort for Educational Specialist Degree Through The Citadel
July 18, 2019In 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.
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The Rise of Community Baby Showers
July 17, 2019The 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…
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Citadel Hosts Principal Service Program at Lowcountry Graduate Center
July 10, 2019Being 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.
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LGC Library Streamlines Student Research Efforts
June 27, 2019Have 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…
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How LGC’s Fulltime IT Expert Makes Learning Better
June 19, 2019Generally 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…
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How to Prepare for a New Semester
May 22, 2019For 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…
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Is Your Data Safe? A Cybersecurity Expert’s Perspective
May 22, 2019For 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…
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The Joys and Woes of Summer School
May 9, 2019Many 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.
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Credit Counseling for Student Loan Debt
March 28, 2019A 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…
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The News About Cell Phones is Worse Than You Thought
March 19, 2019As 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.
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Teaching Foreign Students English in Charleston
March 14, 2019Whether 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.
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New Executive MPA Program Comes to LGC in Fall of ‘19
February 25, 2019A new program is coming to the Lowcountry Graduate Center in the fall and it would be fair to say it has never been needed more.
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Global Fluency Initiative
February 12, 2019Volvo, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Bosch, Showa Denko, IHG, Gildan and many more – the number of foreign-owned businesses in the Charleston region is growing, bringing professionals from abroad to enrich our community and increase its cultural diversity. Is this famously insular area prepared to take its place as a participant in the global community? Many Charleston…
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The Altered State of Graduate Education
January 28, 2019In the fluid learning economy in which we operate today, more people than ever are seeking to update, or acquire new skills. The last 20 years have completely disrupted the fields of journalism, marketing, music, publishing, travel, retail and many others. The shift from a knowledge economy to a learning economy – i.e. one where…
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The Value of an MBA
January 15, 2019A Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) is the single most common graduate degree in America. If so many people have earned this degree, how much value can it have? And is it worth the cost of going to graduate school? Fortunately, the MBA may be the most studied degree in America too, and it…
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Uncle Sam Wants You – and He’s Willing to Pay
January 10, 2019Are you visiting the Lowcountry Graduate Center to finish that master’s degree in engineering, because you know it will open career opportunities for you? Here is one opportunity you might not have considered: the U.S. Air Force or U.S. Air Force Reserve. Like many businesses in the private sector, the Air Force is recruiting heavily in a…
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10 Realistic Tips to Planning for a Successful Semester
January 2, 2019The start of another semester is upon us. If you’ve been struggling with the school (-work) – life balance, perhaps it’s time for a new plan. The key to a new plan is … planning. So get ready to do a little advance legwork to get your semester on the right foot. We asked around…
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The Value of an Advanced Degree in Healthcare
December 17, 2018Although policy makers lament the growing slice of the economic pie being consumed by healthcare, there is one group thrilled about it – people who work in healthcare. More healthcare means more opportunities for jobs, businesses and careers. Dr. Nancy Muller is the Associate Dean of the School of Professional Studies at the College…
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Studying for Finals
December 11, 2018Photo by Angelina Litvin via Unsplash For many courses in graduate school, the final exam determines a substantial part of the overall grade. That means a semester of work can be undone by one bad exam. So what’s the secret to studying for finals? Three veteran exam takers with very different studying styles share this…
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Student Loan Series: Part 3
December 3, 2018Photo by Jon Elswick—AP via TIME Magazine At the rate she is going, Taylor Bauer thought she would literally never pay off her student loans. A former teacher in the Berkeley County School District who is now teaching in Mexico City, Bauer has been making income-based payments for five years. The federal student loan program offers…
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Student Loan Series: Part 2
November 15, 2018Photo by Rawpixel via Unsplash Just as new graduates are beginning to pay back their federal student loans, prospective undergrad and graduate students are eligible to fill out the financial aid paperwork for next academic year. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) may be submitted as early as October 1 for the…
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Student Loans Series: Part 1
November 12, 2018Photo by Steve Buissinne via Pixabay The greatest test of a student’s college career is upon us: it’s time for May 2018 graduates to begin repaying student loans. The average college graduate leaves school owing roughly $42,000, in payments of $350/month for ten years. The problem, say financial aid officers, is that many students are uninformed…
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SC Teacher Prep
November 5, 2018Photo by Feliphe Schiarolli via Unsplash No intelligent discussion about improving college attendance and graduation rates can fail to address the onrushing teacher shortage now reaching critical levels in South Carolina. The past school year opened 550 teachers short. That explains why the state’s Commission on Higher Education (CHE), a statewide funding agency for educational initiatives in state-owned…
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The Changing Healthcare Workplace
October 23, 2018A new day is coming to the already rambling, shambling, expensive, labyrinthine American healthcare system. U.S. healthcare is twice as expensive as the next most expensive system in the world (Germany’s) while delivering worse outcomes than in most industrialized countries. Now, a seed planted by the Affordable Care Act is beginning to germinate into a…
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Free Trade Isn’t Just a Good Idea, It’s Ineviatable
September 29, 2018Image by Kyle Ryan via Unsplash A country can impose any tariff or pass any trade-restricting law it likes, rail all it wants about unfair trade practices, demand a better deal from this trading partner or that one, says Dr. David Jamison, professor of business at South Carolina State University, but they are fighting the…
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An Expert Talk About Principled Leadership
September 20, 2018In the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage, attributed to John F. Kennedy but likely written by his staff, the authors single out Edmund Ross, a Republican Senator from Kansas, for a most unpopular decision. Ross broke with his party and cast the decisive vote against the conviction of President Andrew Johnson, allowing him to…
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Tuition Credits to Ease College Burden
August 22, 2018Image by Caleb Woods via Unsplash Changes in the state’s tax law, under S.C. Tuition Tax Credit that went into effect this year could reduce college tuition bills for many South Carolina families this tax year, irrespective of income or student GPA. The significance of this change lies in the fact that college costs in…
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The Rise of the Unconference for Professional Development
August 16, 2018If you’ve been to a conference, you know the formula: The organizers determine the speakers, presenters, a panel of experts, maybe some breakout sessions that allow participants to chime in periodically. Participants show up, listen to experts and maybe walk away with some CEUs. If the keynote speaker is entertaining, that’s a bonus. Rarely is…
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Serving as a Bridge to Graduate Education in the Lowcountry
August 9, 2018The Lowcountry Graduate Center (LGC) was created to answer the community’s call for graduate education that develops the knowledge-based workforce needed by industries powering Charleston’s economy. LGC fulfills this mission in myriad ways, often by providing local remote access to courses taught elsewhere. Another meaningful way the LGC fills the gaps in graduate education…
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Lowcountry Grad Grads Have Value to Scientific Research Corp.
August 6, 2018For years, particularly since the development of the aeronautics sector in the Lowcountry economy, employers have been agitating for more governmental and academic support for the development of STEM expertise. For the longest time, the Charleston area had no graduate-level programs for engineering, technology or science – other than the life sciences at MUSC. Imagine,…
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A Second Year of Success Thanks To Support from SCMEP
June 28, 2018A unique South Carolina resource, with a little help from an old Pig, has catapulted a local company and begun creating jobs in North Charleston. The South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (SCMEP) is a private, non-profit group that serves as a resource to South Carolina businesses, providing them with a range of helpful strategies…