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Keep Your Toddlers Engaged While Quarantined
May 5, 2020And 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.
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Get Teacher Certified Quickly! There’s A Shortage to Fill!!!
April 27, 2020There’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.
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Census 2020: Billions of Dollars At-Risk for Lowcountry
April 17, 2020Funding 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.
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The Challenges Facing HBCUs
April 15, 2020What 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…
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COVID-19 May Spark Uptick in Child Abuse
April 3, 2020Domestic 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…
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LGC Services Remain in Full Gear Despite Closure
March 26, 2020Like 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.
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Lowcountry Social Work Connections Spring Conference
March 25, 2020The 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,”…
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Jobs Await New Coding Course Grads
March 18, 2020We 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.
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SCTechEd
March 9, 2020The technology industry in the Lowcountry has created a resource in Charleston Open Source to attract skilled workers in the field.
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Top 10 Steps to Mastering the Job Interview
February 26, 2020Job 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.
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Healthcare Management MBA
February 19, 2020Are 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.
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Math Talks
January 29, 2020Research 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.
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Ingevity Earns Chamber Pillar Award for 20 Years of Extraordinary Community Service
January 13, 2020When 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.
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Dedicated Bike-Ped Bridge Across Ashley Is an Economic Development Boon
January 2, 2020The 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.
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Is Grad School Your New Year’s Resolution?
December 19, 2019New 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?
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Social Workers Are Helping Those with Holiday Depression
December 16, 2019There 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.
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Survey Says… Lowcountry Employers Need the Right Skills
December 9, 2019While 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.
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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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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.
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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…