By Barry Walkman Because education is the key to success in the information age, universal access to it is critical. The good news is that the search for education isn’t much of a search: it is literally everywhere.  Much of it is also free. Search online and you will find free courses in almost anything…

By Barry Waldman In the early 2000s, in response to industry needs across the Lowcountry, the College of Charleston established a School of Professional Studies, focused on courses lacking in the Lowcountry but critical to businesses across the state. That degree has been absorbed into the business school as the need for a new kind of…

by Barry Waldman Nearly one in five of us, or 66 million people, has a mental health condition, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. That number grows every year, yet the number of mental health providers, already low, has hardly increased over the last two decades. Indeed, more than half the counties…