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The president of South Carolina’s military college says he’ll retire next summer. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. John Rosa said Wednesday that he wants to stay on as president through the next academic year at The Citadel so he can help the school celebrate its 175th anniversary.

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After 12 years in charge of South Carolina’s military college, Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa will step down next summer as president of The Citadel next summer.Rosa, a 1973 Citadel graduate, came to the Charleston school in 2006 after a stint as superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy. “It has been my honor to serve my alma mater and a privilege for Donna and me to see our young men and women go forth putting service above self in the military, private enterprise, public institutions and in the pursuit of advanced degrees,” Rosa said, announcing his retirement.

Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa piloted The Citadel through more than a decade of change and controversy, but the public military college's 19th president is ready to move on. Rosa announced Wednesday that he will retire from his post at the end of next June after 12 years at the helm. “The Citadel will be celebrating its rich heritage and 175th anniversary in the 2017-18 academic year and will continue to produce principled leaders far into the future,” Rosa said in a statement.

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The president of The Citadel, Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa, USAF (Ret.), who led the college to unprecedented levels of achievement in academic distinction, civic engagement, fundraising and diversity, announced today that he will retire at the end of the next academic year. Rosa informed the campus community that he will retire as the 19th president of The Citadel on June 30, 2018.

Charleston real estate agents Phil Sykes and Jay Unger have joined The Cassina Group. Both will be based in the company’s downtown Charleston office at 132 East Bay St...Sykes has been selling real estate in Charleston for close to 20 years. He was born and raised in Charleston and graduated from the College of Charleston with a degree in business administration. He also graduated with a master’s degree in business administration from The Citadel.

Have you ever thought of what careers are available in the area of tourism related to agriculture, foods, marketing, and business? Many of our students dream of traveling and living in beautiful and exciting cities much different than life in the rural areas of Newton Grove and Sampson County. What more perfect setting than the city of Charleston with its rich historical and cultural diversity. A city tour guide stepped onto the bus the second day to share the downtown sights as the bus traveled through the campuses of the Citadel, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the College of Charleston. The beautiful architecture of the homes was highlighted as we traveled from the Battery to Rainbow Row to all areas of downtown Charleston. We saw quaint old homes with piazzas to eight million dollar homes! Students and faculty stepped of the bus to tour the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, walk on the campus of the Citadel, and walk along the riverfront at White Point Park.

He was the quarterback on John McKissick's first state championship team at Summerville High School, led The Citadel to its only bowl-game victory, and mentored generations of quarterbacks in South Carolina. Jerry Nettles, who died last weekend at the age of 78, should be remembered for this and much more, say those who knew him.

1996: The Citadel votes to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school. The decision came following a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a similar policy at Virginia Military Institute. The Citadel had originally fought a three-year battle started by Shannon Faulkner, who was admitted in 1995 under a judge's order but quit in less than a week. The school would graduate its first female cadet, Nancy Ruth Mace, in May 1999.

Mike grew up in Savannah, Georgia. He became a Christian while a cadet at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston. He received training from the Navigators and as a new Christian quickly came to have concern for the souls of men and a zeal that God is.

Just six months ago, former Mayor Clayton Stout cast his final ballot as a member of the City Commission and bid farewell to his colleagues following an unsuccessful run at a second term in the 2016 election...It won’t be Stout’s first time living in Charleston. He attended college at The Citadel, where he earned a degree in business administration.

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has named retired U.S. Army Brigadier General Chris Tucker Vice President and Managing Director of the company’s Middle East Operations, based in Abu Dhabi...General Tucker holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from The Citadel Military College and master’s degrees in Military Operational Art and Science from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the School of Advanced Military Studies.

After helping guide the Piedmont College men's basketball team as an assistant coach for the past two seasons, Dan McNeely has been formally announced as the new Head Men's Basketball coach for Marine Martime Academy, a NCAA Division III member located in Castine, Maine...In June 2012. McNeely completed his Master of Science in Health, Exercise, and Sport Science with a concentration in Sport Management at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

Forty-six years after graduating from Marcellus Senior High School, Joe Goss stood at the podium in the high school’s auditorium as the key note speaker for the 124th Commencement...He then presented five graduates who are moving on to serve in the military — Noah Carbone in the United States Army, Cory Garvey in the United States Army, Sean Kearney attending The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and class president Andrew Marsh and Kiernan Reagan, both attending the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Gethsemane Apostles & Prophets Church of the Lord of Jesus Christ recently honored six graduates with a Future Blessings Scholarship and gift bags containing a Bible. The scholarships were sponsored by Pastor Willie T. Lowery and Mrs. Brenda Lowery. The $1,000 scholarships were awarded to: Nathan Michael Garcia, son of Valerie Lowery. He graduated from Clover High School. He will attend The Citadel Military College of South Carolina where he will study history/law.

Summerville alum and former QB and safety at The Citadel Jerry Nettles passed away over the weekend at the age of 78.

Tyler Renew says he's yet to experience his "Welcome to the NFL" moment, that big hit that tells an athlete he's now in a different league. "That will probably happen in training camp," said Renew, a Citadel All-American signed as an undrafted free agent by the Atlanta Falcons. But for Renew, who just completed his first rookie mini-camp, organized team activities and mandatory mini-camp with the Falcons, almost every moment of the last month has said "Welcome to the NFL."

Five Falcon lacrosse players, Cameron Carter, Nick Hruby, Sheamus Larkin, Joe Matarazzo and Andrew Tien have been named to the Spring 2017 Academic All-Southern Conference Team. Four hundred and five student-athletes accounted for 480 spots on the, the league office announced Monday. The Spring 2017 All-Conference selection marks the second selection in as many years in the conference for Larkin, Matarazzo and Tien...Sixteen student-athletes combined for 19 of the perfect 4.0 cumulative GPAs, including The Citadel’s Charles Braddock (men’s outdoor track and field).

A big-picture, general comment on the Hurricanes: It’s hardly a stretch to say they could very good in 2018...Richt on transfer cornerback Dee Delaney: “He’s on campus and he’s working. You talk to your strength coach and your veteran players, how the guy’s doing. He’s just what you would expect, a guy coming from The Citadel, military school. Very disciplined, very sharp, very no-nonsense attitude when he goes to work. A guy who knows that he has one year to prove at this level of ball that he can compete at a very high level.

Instead of starting their summer vacation sleeping in, 16 AFJROTC cadets from Mainland High School attended a seven-day Cadet Leadership Course (CLC) at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. This annual challenge was attended by more than 360 cadets from 22 AFJROTC schools from four states, and is the largest AFJROTC summer CLC in the United States. This is the 12th year that Mainland has attended. Mainland’s cadets trained extensively for three months leading up to their challenging trip.

Clemson University and Bob Jones University were ranked as the two best four-year colleges in South Carolina in a new survey that emphasizes affordability, graduation rates, number of degree programs and availability of online courses.The universities grabbed the two top spots out of 34 South Carolina colleges considered by schools.com, a resource for prospective students. The Top 10 four-year colleges in the schools.com Best Schools 2017 survey are: 4. The Citadel.

 S.C. students should brace themselves to pay roughly $400 more in tuition to attend the University of South Carolina this coming school year, according to two sources close to the school.USC’s trustees are expected to consider a tuition hike Friday in the neighborhood of 3.4 percent, the sources said. If approved, the tuition hike would cost in-state students about $400 more and out-of-state students about $1,000 more, starting this fall...The state’s flagship university has increased its prices every year since 1987. Already this summer, The Citadel, Coastal Carolina, the College of Charleston and S.C. State University have approved tuition hikes – most in the range of 3 percent to 3.25 percent. Tuition hikes that other S.C. four-year public colleges have announced for the fall:The CitadelIn state: +3.25 percent.

The Citadel will host a global business pitch competition on Friday. The Network Globally Act Locally competition allows students to come up with business ideas and aims to help fine-tune their business pitches. The competition is the culmination of a three-week business development program. The students traveled to Estonia for the first phase of the program; they have been preparing at the College of Charleston since Monday.

For more than two hundred years, practically all of even the most free market advocates have assumed that money and banking were different from other types of goods and markets. From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, the presumption has been competitive markets and free consumer choice are far better than government control and planning – except in the realm of money and financial intermediation.

Those who speak about being on the “right side of history” have, knowingly or not, adopted a central element in Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism: the idea that the capitalist system follows a particular course of historical development that is open to scientific explanation and prediction, and which presumes to be placing humanity on a road that leads to a higher and better form of society – socialism.

Perley named commissioned U.S. Navy officer at The Citadel - The Citadel commissions more officers in the armed services than almost any other college in the country. The Class of 2017 includes more than 100 cadets who are now America’s newest military officers serving in every branch of service. Family, friends and loved ones helped pin the new officers during commissioning ceremonies for each branch on May 5 held in Summerall Chapel.Conner Perley of Morris is among 10 men and women who are now America’s newest military officers serving in the U.S. Navy.

Three graduate from The Citadel- Three Colleton County students received degrees from The Citadel in Charleston on May 6. They are: Steven Murdaugh of Walterboro, bachelor’s degree in criminal justice; Jackson Riley of Walterboro, bachelor’s degree in criminal justice; Joshua Hamilton of Cottageville, bachelor’s degree in exercise science.

Going to college is nothing extraordinary for graduates of The Villages High School. Jason Carr’s college experience, however, was anything but typical. A member of the charter school’s class of 2013, Carr recently wrapped up his studies at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. Founded in 1842, the college is a landmark of the Charleston area, with more than 2,000 students who make up the South Carolina Corps of Cadets and an additional 1,000 in the graduate program, according to the institution.

On June 19, the Fulton County Traffic Safety Board and STOP DWI held its annual awards dinner at the Holiday Inn in Johnstown. Approximately 40 people were able to attend this year’s awards dinner, at which the following awards were given...The Ron Hill Scholarship Award, sponsored by Elaine and Jim Hill, was given this year to Gloversville High School senior Samuel Poulin. Poulin will be going to the Citadel, a military academy, in South Carolina, where he intends to major in physics and become a U.S. Naval officer.

Sykes, born and raised in Charleston, has been selling real estate locally for close to 20 years, Cassina Group says. He graduated from the College of Charleston with a bachelor's degree in business administration and from The Citadel with a master’s degree in business administration.

A big-name real estate company in the Charleston area will add three sales centers in more rural locales to expand its coverage.Carolina One Real Estate intends to open the new offices as a response to the growing real estate market, according to company president Michael Scarafile. The moves this year, next year and in 2019 will expand the company's sales footprint from 12 to 15 locations. The new offices will be on Maybank Highway on Johns Island, along U.S. Highway 176 south of Moncks Corner and at St. Thomas Island Drive on Daniel Island...Charleston native and The Citadel graduate Rusty Hughes will manage the center.

Citadel football coach Brent Thompson has hired a new assistant coach on offense and reshuffled his defensive staff after the departure of defensive line coach Roy Tesh to James Madison. The Citadel has named Charles Hopkins as offensive tackles coach, Thompson announced Thursday.

Kickoff times for Samford football's six home games on the 2017 schedule were released by the athletics department Thursday afternoon. Kickoff times are Central and subject to change...The Citadel game on Sept. 30 will serve as Samford's family weekend game. The 2017 homecoming contest will be against ETSU on Nov. 11.

When Brandon Wu begins his college tennis career, he won't just be serving up aces.He'll also be serving his country.This upcoming Fall, the Memorial graduate will start his freshman year at The Citadel, where he'll get to play NCAA Division I tennis and work towards a career in the military.

Why five candidates for the South Carolina baseball job would be a good fit in Columbia, and why they might not be a good fit for the Gamecocks...Chris LemonisIndiana head coachWhy a good fit: He played at The Citadel, spent time as an assistant at The Citadel and has led Indiana to the NCAA tournament in two of his three seasons with the Hoosiers.

A handful of Lowcountry volunteers were recognized this month for contributing their time and talent over the last year to helping build up their community in the areas of health, education and financial stability.Trident United Way hosted its annual awards banquet, dubbed “An Evening of Lowcountry Stars,” at Trident Technical College on June 16, honoring two Dorchester County residents as the organization’s top individual volunteers this year...Along with Campeau, Garcia, The Citadel’s vice president of finance and business, was recognized for his campaign work the last year. Known by those around him as a “quiet leader,” the Dorchester County resident was named recipient of the “Ben Stage Above and Beyond Award.”

South Carolina ranks 14th across the country for revenue from college athletics, according to data obtained from the U.S. Department of Education.According to data gathered by the Higher Education Tribune on revenue generated from college athletics from both public and private schools at all levels, with 32 schools, South Carolina sees approximately $443.1 million in revenue. The University of South Carolina brings in the most revenue in the state, with $122.3 million. If broken down per capita, South Carolina sees $92 per person in revenue...Total Revenue by School in South Carolina-Citadel Military College of South Carolina $16,969,839

The Citadel’s Board of Visitors approved tuition and fees for the 2017-18 academic year. The Citadel’s fee structure is different from most colleges and universities because the costs of room and board, as well as multiple sets of military uniforms, are built into one, overall rate. This is because members of the South Carolina Corps of Cadets─ the undergraduate population─ are required to live in the barracks all four years, to take all meals in the mess hall, and to wear uniforms at all times while on campus.

Approximately 48 U.S. military personnel working in cyber defense representing units from the 335th Signal Command (Theater), the Defense Information Systems Agency, Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, Pennsylvania National Guard, and Pennsylvania Air National Guard, began this year's advanced challenge for the Cyber X-Games, June 15 at Carnegie Mellon University...The exercise is conducted at an advanced level, said Michel, who is also a student in the computer science program at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina." Coming to the Cyber X-games has allowed me to collaborate with people both military and civilian, experienced in different backgrounds of cyber security," said Michel.

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For colleges and universities grants funding research in STEM-related fields are essential to continuing programs that can result in change-making discoveries. Grants are often awarded to professors and graduate level students, but undergraduate student research opportunities are also highly valued.

Libraries — whether public, school or personal — played a major role in the life of late South Carolina author Pat Conroy, and the same goes for the characters in his books...The Citadel library also played a significant role in both Conroy’s life and in his novel The Lords of Discipline. In a famous scene, one cadet passes information to another by securely hiding it in the one library book no one ever checks out: Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West. Haupt said he discovered on a recent tour of The Citadel library that the ancient Spengler is still in the stacks, and hasn’t been checked out in years. There was also a note hidden between pages 308 and 309, just as there was in Conroy’s novel.

NIU Director of Percussion Studies Dr. Gregory Beyer and Projecto Arcomusical (made up of NIU percussion alumni and graduate students) participated and were recognized at the SAVVY Arts Venture Challenge and Chamber Music Competition held at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, on June 3-5.The SAVVY Arts Venture Challenge is the world’s leading experiential entrepreneurship workshop designed to help musicians, performing artists and educators increase their income and impact...Taylor’s project gained tremendous momentum. “Girls’ March” has received inquiries of interest for start-up funding and will kick-off its activities in the summer of 2018 at The Citadel in South Carolina.

Coaching Citadel baseball is a job for which Tony Skole will be well paid. The new Bulldogs' coach will get a five-year contract and a starting salary of $125,000 per year. But for Skole — one of a handful of Bulldogs to play for both of The Citadel's coaching legends, Chal Port and Fred Jordan — the position is more of a family trust than it is a job."The responsibility that this position encompasses is so important to me," Skole said Tuesday as he was introduced as just the Bulldogs' third coach since 1965. "I don't want to let Coach Port down, or Coach Jordan, but especially I don't want to let down the former players."

The Citadel officially introduced Bulldogs alum and current East Tennessee State head coach Tony Skole as the school's new head baseball coach on Tuesday.

From being a former baseball and football star to being in the school’s hall of fame, there wasn’t much Tony Skole hadn’t done in his athletic career at The Citadel. That’s until he was named head baseball coach two weeks ago, replacing Freddie Jordan. Skole finally arrived on campus Tuesday, and got back the No. 7 jersey he famously wore for the Bulldogs when he led them to Omaha as a player.

The Zucker Family School of Education at The Citadel continues to be a driving force behind the development of the Lowcountry’s educational workforce, steadily producing principled leaders for K-12 classrooms. Among the educators preparing for the August return of students are recent graduates from the school’s master’s degree programs, who were already working in the Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester County school districts or who will be.

Charleston's first startup bank in a decade is seeking to raise $22 million to $34 million from investors to launch its operations. Organizers of the proposed Beacon Community Bank disclosed the figure in a filing with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. obtained by The Post and Courier. According to the application, between 2.2 million to 3.4 million shares of stock are expected to fetch $10 each in a private placement. Beacon also said its offices will be at 578 East Bay St. in downtown Charleston. A group led by automobile dealer Tommy Baker, who was on the board of Mount Pleasant-based Southcoast Community Bank before it was sold last year, is launching the new lender. Beacon's parent company has 14 other organizers. They include state Sen. Paul Campbell, restaurateur Bill Hall and Lt. General John Rosa, president of The Citadel, where the new business school is being named for Baker and his wife.

Bill Howard experienced a thrilling day in the nation's capital last month that was filled with honor and emotion. It was even more memorable for him because he was accompanied by his son Michael...Bill, age 87, grew up near Mooresville and his wife Ann is from Rutherford County. After they married, they lived most of the time in Columbia, S.C., where he worked for a pharmaceutical company. Michael went to college at The Citadel in Charleston, where he played football his first year. It was there when he seriously considered the U.S. Navy. After enlisted for two years, he decided to make a career out of military service. He retired as a Navy SEAL after 28 years.

Derrick Henry recently graduated from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. In doing so, he joined a small group of individuals who hail from Newton County and who graduated from The Citadel.

Whatever economic freedom we enjoy in the world today is due, to a great extent, to the ideas and efforts of the classical liberals and economists of the first half of the nineteenth century. Inspired by the eighteenth-century writings of the French Physiocrats and Scottish Moral Philosophers (for example, David Hume and Adam Smith), they forcefully and insightfully demonstrated the errors and inefficiencies in Mercantilism (the eighteenth-century system of government planning and regulation).

Approximately 48 U.S. military personnel working in cyber defense representing units from the 335th Signal Command (Theater), the Defense Information Systems Agency, Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, Pennsylvania National Guard, and Pennsylvania Air National Guard, began this year's advanced challenge for the Cyber X-Games, June 15 at Carnegie Mellon University...The exercise is conducted at an advanced level, said Michel, who is also a student in the computer science program at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.'Coming to the Cyber X-games has allowed me to collaborate with people both military and civilian, experienced in different backgrounds of cyber security,' said Michel.

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The beginning of the college football season is quickly closing in, with the ACC Football Kickoff less than a month away. So, with that in mind, it is time to look at each of the opponents, ranked from easiest to most difficult, who will hope to throw a wrench into the Clemson Tigers’ hopes of repeating as national champions.12: The Citadel: The Bulldogs made it to the playoffs of the Football Championship Subdivision last season, and many will remember them defeating the Tigers’ in-state rival South Carolina a couple of years ago. But even with the Bulldogs’ tricky triple-option, the Tigers should have little problem dismantling the visitors from Charleston.

It was a quiet Wednesday night in downtown Charleston's entertainment district. Charleston police officer Odie Delaney and his partner stopped by Five Guys on King Street for some burgers and fries, then parked their squad car near Marion Square. Delaney, an All-American wrestler at The Citadel who had grown up in Alaska, fired up some moose-hunting videos on YouTube as he sat in the car. "There were some bars having dollar-drink nights," he said. "It was that kind of night." Then the radio in the squad car crackled to life. "We've got an active shooter at Mother Emanuel Church," a voice on the radio said. "Active shooter, possibly still there." Delaney, in his second year on the force, felt the hair stand up on his arms. He and his partner hit the blue lights and sirens, racing down Meeting Street to Calhoun, then pulling up in front of Emanuel AME. They were among the first police officers on the scene on June 17, 2015 — a night that would change Charleston forever, and Odie Delaney, too.

For colleges and universities grants funding research in STEM-related fields are essential to continuing programs that can result in change-making discoveries. Grants are often awarded to professors and graduate level students, but undergraduate student research opportunities are also highly valued. This week the South Carolina chapter of The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and Institutional Development Awards, announced the recipients of its 2017 REU grants...Among the projects funded are two awarded to Prof. Shankar Banik, Ph.D., the program director for the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense at The Citadel.

Approximately 48 U.S. military personnel working in cyber defense representing units from the 335th Signal Command (Theater), the Defense Information Systems Agency, Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, Pennsylvania National Guard, and Pennsylvania Air National Guard, began this year’s advanced challenge for the Cyber X-Games, June 15 at Carnegie Mellon University...U.S. Army ROTC Cadet Brendan Michel, currently assigned to the 1182nd Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, is taking the Cyber X-Game challenge with his Father, Capt. John Michel, assigned to the National Capital Region Cyber Protection Center (NCRCPC), a unit under the ARCOG command.The exercise is conducted at an advanced level, said Michel, who is also a student in the computer science program at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.

The Citadel's Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business will host the third annual Network Globally, Act Locally pitch competition in June. The event is sponsored by the Harry and Reba Huge Foundation in partnership with the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology located in Estonia, as well as Nebraska Wesleyan University and the College of Charleston.

A South Forsyth High School graduate has been selected as a member for a prestigious silent drill team at The Citadel. James Howlin, a rising senior at The Citadel and a 2014 graduate of South, was recently chosen to be one of 61 members of the Summerall Guards, a silent drill team named for Gen. Charles P. Summerall, former Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army and president of the school from 1931-1953.

Waunakee man named Naval officerBenjamin Young of Waunakee was named a newly commissioned U.S. Navy officer at The Citadel.The class of 2017 includes more than 100 cadets who are now America’s newest military officers serving in every branch of service. Commissioning ceremonies for each branch were on May 5 in Summerall Chapel.

Joseph L. Garcia, vice president for finance and business and chief financial officer at the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, to executive vice president for administration at Empire State College, part of the State University of New York.

Random Lake High School -Rathke, William: $182,000 Military College of South Carolina Citadel; $14,000 Army ROTC; $500 Jerilyn Boehlke Memorial; $250 RL Student Senate

The college football season is exciting for a number of reasons. One of those is the impact of transfers and here are the 10 best...Cornerback Dee Delaney moves from the FCS level to the FBS level, joining the Miami Hurricanes. Delaney joins a Hurricane secondary after being a two-time FCS All-American with the Citadel Bulldogs. Delaney accumulated 13 interceptions, second in Citadel school history.

Position players-Tyler Corbitt, Airport – Hit .402 with three homers and 15 RBI, All-State selection. Committed to the The Citadel.

Ranking the non-conference schedules of the 64 teams in college football's Power-5 Conferences, based on toughness: 14. Clemson: Kent State, Auburn, The Citadel, at South Carolina. Excellent schedule that gets even better if South Carolina rebounds under Will Muschamp.

1992 – WCW Clash of the Champions XIX is held at the McAlister Field House, on the campus of The Citadel, in Charleston, SC. There were 4,600 fans in attendance, and the event drew a 2.8 TV rating on TBS. This event featured the first round of the NWA World Tag Team Title Tournament, which would be completed at The Great American Bash.

The Citadel's Board of Visitors has approved a 3.25 percent increase in tuition and fees for the 2017-2018 school year. The cost to attend the military college as a member of the S.C. Corps of Cadets will rise to $28,743 for in-state freshmen, and $23,673 for in-state upperclassmen. Out-of-state freshmen and upperclassmen will pay $50,506 and $45,436, respectively.

The Citadel’s Board of Visitors approved tuition and fees for the 2017-18 academic year. The Citadel’s fee structure is different from most colleges and universities because the costs of room and board, as well as multiple sets of military uniforms, are built into one, overall rate. This is because members of the South Carolina Corps of Cadets─ the undergraduate population─ are required to live in the barracks all four years, to take all meals in the mess hall, and to wear uniforms at all times while on campus.

"Service to others is what makes this country great," said U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing public affairs superintendent. His 31 years of service is a testament to his commitment to serve his country... "I knew that I wanted to be a pilot and my father encouraged me to join the National Guard. They helped me pay for some of my college at The Citadel and led me to become a pilot," said Michael.

Three local students earn Citadel degrees- Three Lancaster County students received their undergraduate degrees May 6 from The Citadel in McAlister Field House in Charleston. Kenneth Martin received a degree in criminal justice, Joshua Peed received a degree in political science and Tony Ellis received a degree in psychology.

Donald Duffy of Bloomingdale was recognized for outstanding academic achievement and earned Dean's List recognition for the fall semester at Citadel South Carolina Corps of Cadets, Charleston.

I get together with a group of friends occasionally and have “book night.” We discuss a certain piece, share favorite poetry or read some of our own writings. We also seem to have a fondness for knowing how our favorite writers wrote. One writer who has had a great impact on others with his style and story writing abilities is Pat Conroy. Crawfordsville District Public Library has recently purchased “A Low Country Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life,” by Pat Conroy...He tells of his Citadel basketball buddies, beautiful wives of close friends and recounts how various authors, name after name, have influenced his writing. He never says anything bad about anyone; in fact, he will elaborate on all their good points.

The Citadel's JP Sears led the nation in strikeouts this season and was named the Southern Conference pitcher of the year. The next challenge for the Bulldogs' pitcher: Make it to Major League Baseball. Sears, a junior left-hander from Sumter, will get that chance after being picked by the Seattle Mariners in the 11th round of the MLB Draft on Wednesday. He was the 18th pick in the 11th round and the No. 333 pick overall, leading state players on the third day of the draft.

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The ACC traditionally schedules well. Five guaranteed games a year against Notre Dame helps. So does a variety of traditional showdowns against in-state SEC foes. And a general willingness to schedule well...4. Clemson: Kent State, Auburn, The Citadel, at South Carolina. Excellent schedule that gets even better if South Carolina rebounds under Will Muschamp.

Several student athletes from Chattahoochee High School have committed to play sports at the college level...Ethan Phillips committed to wrestle at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina in Charleston. Phillips has won the Cougar Award, Captains Award, Most Improved 2014-15 and Rookie of the Year 2013-14.

It’s not just a source of debate about education here in Arkansas but about American education in general. For a simple national test indicates that, at a couple of hundred colleges across the country, at least a third of the senior class couldn’t make a coherent argument for or against a thesis or evaluate the quality of the evidence behind it. Or understand the meaning of information presented in a graph or table...But the best known schools aren’t necessarily the best. The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., says its mission is to assure that its graduates “are capable of both critical and creative thinking … and possess the methodological skills needed to gather and analyze information.” Which is a tall order indeed.

Q: A group of 10 adults taking a class at Citadel would like suggestions for food and drinks near campus. Usually go to Taco Boy: Easy parking, affordable, accommodates large groups. Tried Tattooed Moose: Too much of bar scene. Tried Edmund’s Oast: Pricy. Harold’s Cabin: No parking. Need suggestions! Thanks!..A: I suppose it would be too convenient if your class let out during happy hour. Still, I think there are a number of nearby venues that could work.

Pitch- The Citadel's Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business will host the third annual Network Globally, Act Locally pitch competition in June. The event is sponsored by the Harry and Reba Huge Foundation in partnership with the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology located in Estonia, as well as Nebraska Wesleyan University and the College of Charleston.

New Carolina One Office Coming to St. Thomas Island Drive -Carolina One Real Estate is expanding its presence in the Lowcountry with the addition of three new locations - one on Johns Island, one in Moncks Corner, and another near Daniel Island across from Blackbaud...The St. Thomas Island drive location will be positioned to serve Daniel Island and the booming Clements Ferry Corridor, according to a press release. The new facility is scheduled to open in early 2019. The office will be managed by Charleston native and Citadel graduate Rusty Hughes.

Holy Trinity Diocesan High School celebrated its commencement at Hofstra University on Saturday, June 3rd...2017 graduates of Holy Trinity Diocesan High School have been accepted at the following schools: The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina

Yes, it’s still June, and we’re a couple of months away from the start of the 2017 football season. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get ready for the upcoming season. To do that, we’ll have a series throughout the summer counting down to the season...Clemson- Nov. 18, The Citadel.

Western Carolina senior left-handed pitcher Bryan Sammons was drafted Tuesday afternoon on the second day of the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The senior LHP was selected by the Minnesota Twins with the 226th overall pick in the eighth round...His 108 seasonal K's ranked tied for third in the league, fanning a career-high 14 in a home victory over The Citadel in late March.

Those who speak about being on the “right side of history” have, knowingly or not, adopted a central element in Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism and the idea that the capitalist system follows a particular course of historical development that is open to scientific explanation and prediction, and which presumes to be placing humanity on a road that leads to a higher and better form of society – socialism.

It's not just a source of debate about education here in Arkansas but about American education in general. For a simple national test indicates that, at a couple of hundred colleges across the country, at least a third of the senior class couldn't make a coherent argument for or against a thesis or evaluate the quality of the evidence behind it. Or understand the meaning of information presented in a graph or table... But the best known schools aren't necessarily the best. The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., says its mission is to assure that its graduates "are capable of both critical and creative thinking ... and possess the methodological skills needed to gather and analyze information." Which is a tall order indeed.

This summer The Citadel Athletic Department is highlighting a number of our coaches in a series titled Coach's Corner. The videos will post each Wednesday morning throughout the summer and are intended to help Bulldog fans and supporters get to know our coaches away from competition. Each Coach's Corner episode features the coach reflecting on his or her background, goals and experiences, in addition to their attraction to The Citadel and coaching our cadet-athletes. Links to previous Coach's Corner posts can be found at the bottom of this article. This week we feature Sandra Worman.

Citadel basketball player Ezekiel Balogun, who helped fuel the Bulldogs' late-season run in 2016-17, will transfer to a junior college. Eastern Florida State College, a junior college in Brevard County, announced over the weekend that Balogun, a 6-6, 235-pound forward from Nigeria, would transfer from The Citadel.

Each Monday leading up to the 2017 Alabama football season we will focus on a Tide opponent. The series will progress from the projected worst team to the best...While the games are not usually competitive, there are exceptions. The most notable exception was the Appalachian State upset of Michigan in 2007. In 2013 Georgia Southern beat Florida. In 2015 The Citadel beat South Carolina.

After three successful years at Freedom in cross country and track, Amber Opp transferred to Draughn for her senior year...Opp will continue running at The Citadel on the cross country team, majoring in Sports Management and Administration. Opp also plans to join the Air Force after graduating from The Citadel.

1990 – NWA Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush held at the McAllister Field House, on the campus of The Citadel, in Charleston, SC. There were 4,100 fans in attendance. The event drew a 4.1 TV rating on TBS.

Tony Skole, a Citadel Athletics Hall of Famer who played for both Chal Port and Fred Jordan, will step into their cleats as just the third Bulldogs baseball coach since 1965, the school announced Thursday.

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It's not just a source of debate about education here in Arkansas but about American education in general. For a simple national test indicates that, at a couple of hundred colleges across the country, at least a third of the senior class couldn't make a coherent argument for or against a thesis or evaluate the quality of the evidence behind it. Or understand the meaning of information presented in a graph or table...The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., says its mission is to assure that its graduates "are capable of both critical and creative thinking ... and possess the methodological skills needed to gather and analyze information." Which is a tall order indeed.

Award-winning author and Citadel history professor David Preston, Ph.D., recently released his latest work, “Theaters of the American Revolution,” a collaborative collection of essays written by a team of distinguished historians of the Revolutionary War.

The Wade Hampton High School Class of 2017 attended their Baccalaureate on Sunday, May 28. The event, held in the school’s gymnasium, featured a speaker with school ties and a tremendous amount of dedication to his nation...Colorado Army National Guard Captain Robert Killian, a former North District Middle School and Wade Hampton High School student and Citadel graduate, spoke to the group of soon to be graduates during the annual event.

CresCom Bank, the community-banking leader within the Carolinas, welcomes new team members throughout its North Carolina and South Carolina branches.New team members include: Alex Wetherell has joined the bank as a credit analysis analyst and bank officer...Wetherell graduated from Coastal Carolina University with a bachelor of science in economics and the Citadel Graduate College with an MBA in banking.

Architecture-Doug Snyder has been named an associate principal at LS3P Associates Ltd., where he is the firm's chief financial officer. He is a certified public accountant. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from The Citadel...Cost management-Martin Summer has been promoted at SIB Fixed Cost Reduction to validations and reporting team manager. Previously, he was a senior reporting analyst. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from the College of Charleston and a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from The Citadel...Education-Elizabeth Nicodin has been named principal of Oakland Elementary School by the Charleston County School District. She had been interim principal since August, and previously was a lead teacher and assistant principal at Belle Hall Elementary. She has a bachelor's degree in special education from the College of Charleston and a master's degree in educational supervision from The Citadel.

James Madison announced Friday the hiring of Roy Tesh as the football program’s outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator for the 2017 season. Tesh joins the JMU staff after spending the previous three seasons at The Citadel, where second-year Madison coach Mike Houston was the head coach before leading the Dukes to the FCS championship last season.

I was inundated with graduation invitations four years ago, to say the least. I must have received about 12 to 15. Don't get me wrong. These were all young people, family, friends, a neighbor; they were people I cared about and I was pleased that they would remember me in this most special time of their lives. It was expensive to gift them all in a manner I was pleased with, also, but it was worth it every bit.I've kept up with most of them. One just graduated from the Citadel. Another is in the Marines, in Japan, at this very time. Another is in school studying nursing. And so it goes.This year I only received two graduation invitations. One was at the Citadel and without someone to join me, I was unable to attend that important day. At the time of the other graduation I had a prior commitment and couldn't make that one, either.

Hundreds of Woodland High students finished one chapter of their lives, but started another as they exited the campus stadium as graduates...Co-valedictorian Ellie Burgess described her freshman year on campus as a “year full of firsts.” For Burgess, this came in the form of a soccer scholarship to The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. A military school, Burgess emphasized how it would definitely be a change from what she experienced at Woodland High.

After 18 seasons Tony Skole is saying goodbye to the ETSU baseball program and going home.Skole has been hired as the head baseball coach at the citadel, a school where he’s enshrined in the hall of fame after playing both baseball and football. Skole, went 436 and 509 during his time with the blue and gold including 30-29 this past season. He said it was difficult to say goodbye to his team, but the timing was right for a return to Charleston.

The Four Winds Invitational gets underway Friday at Blackthorn Golf Club in South Bend. On Thursday, a few of the golfers played a round with dads and their daughters.The Daddy-Daughter Pro-Am paired each duo with a pro golfer for a nine hole scramble...Nadia Sandler will play golf this fall at The Citadel, so she jumped at the chance to get in a round with a pro.

Chris Swauger was exactly where he wanted to be this weekend as the Peoria Chiefs continued a home stand in Dozer Park. Swauger, who played for The Citadel, was mentioned as a potential candidate for that vacant college head coaching position in recent published reports, when longtime coach Fred Jordan abruptly retired.

Lots of talent arrived on UM’s campus last month, including a quarterback (N’Kosi Perry) that coaches compare to Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward and two high-end speed receivers (Jeff Thomas and Mike Harley)...The 6-2 Delaney, who had 11 interceptions the past two seasons at The Citadel, wasn’t highly rated coming out of high school in South Carolina but thrived after The Citadel switched him from receiver to corner. NFL Draft Scout rates him the 10th best cornerback prospect in the 2018 draft.

The first weeks of June have not only featured several prominent colleges holding football camps but also several schools offering scholarships. There’s also been developments in other sports, including baseball and basketball...Smiths Station senior defensive end Deondrae Williams picked up his fourth offer on June 4, this one from Richmond. Williams, a two-star per Rivals, also has offers from Troy, Navy and The Citadel. Smiths Station defensive lineman Kelcy Allen picked up his third offer on June 5 when Kennesaw State came calling. He also has offers from The Citadel and Jacksonville State.

The 47th Sertoma Football Classic will ignite the next football season in early August. The Classic is set for Aug. 10-11 at The Citadel’s Johnson Hagood Stadium in Charleston.

Robert Lebby Clement Jr., a founding law partner of Young Clement Rivers LLP and former chairman of Charleston County Council, died Friday. He was 88.Clement was born Dec. 14, 1928, in Charleston, the only child of Robert L. Clement and Julia Axson Thayer Clement. He graduated from The Citadel in 1949 and Duke University School of Law in 1951, followed by active-duty service in the Judge Advocate General’s office with the Air Force.

A new local bank is being organized, the first in more than a decade for the Charleston region. A group led by automobile dealer Tommy Baker have formed a company to launch the proposed Beacon Community Bank. Industry veteran Brooks Melton has been named chief executive officer...The bank’s proposed board members include Baker, Hall, Melton. Other directors would be state Sen. Paul Campbell, Luther Cochrane, Nancy Hardwick, Johnny Krell, retired Gen. Jim Livingston, retired developer Pat McKinney, TV producer David "Buddy" Morgan, Citadel president Gen. John Rosa, James P. Smith and Paul Steadman.

The Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business will host the third annual Network Globally, Act Locally (NGAL) pitch competition in June. The event is sponsored by the Harry and Reba Huge Foundation in partnership with the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology located in Estonia, as well as Nebraska Wesleyan University and the College of Charleston.

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Former South Carolina baseball standout Landon Powell has wrapped up his interview for the head-coaching job at The Citadel, according to a source close to the search. Powell, currently the head coach at Division II North Greenville, met with The Citadel's search committee on Wednesday morning.

This summer The Citadel Athletic Department is highlighting a number of our coaches in a series titled Coach's Corner. The videos will post each Wednesday morning throughout the summer and are intended to help Bulldog fans and supporters get to know our coaches away from competition. Each Coach's Corner episode features the coach reflecting on his or her background, goals and experiences, in addition to their attraction to The Citadel and coaching our cadet-athletes. Links to previous Coach's Corner posts can be found at the bottom of this article. This week we feature Jody Huddleston.

Six months or so from now, there will be plenty of chatter about how tough of a schedule each of the contenders for the College Football Playoff have played...Clemson (8 points) — Kent State (0) Auburn (5), The Citadel (0), at South Carolina (3): Kudos for playing Auburn nearly every year it seems. That’s a rivalry that just feels right, and the games have typically been pretty good too.

The Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business will host the third annual Network Globally, Act Locally pitch competition in June. The event is sponsored by the Harry and Reba Huge Foundation in partnership with the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology located in Estonia, as well as Nebraska Wesleyan University and the College of Charleston.

The Citadel Graduate College recognized Aubrie Frye of Gaffney as a graduating member of the Class of 2017. The students were awarded their certificates, evening undergraduate and advanced degrees on May 6, 2017, at McAlister Field House on The Citadel campus in Charleston, South Carolina.

One of the most common phrases to be heard from those on “the left” is the assertion that someone or some public policy is or is not on “the right side of history.” It has almost become a mantra by those who disagree with, hate or are fearful of ideas and policies proposed by those generally characterized as being politically on “the right.”

Tony Skole already has etched a Hall of Fame career in Citadel athletics, playing for Bulldog baseball's College World Series team in 1990, and for two Citadel football playoff teams. Now, Skole is hoping to become just the third head baseball coach at The Citadel since 1965.

Charleston Southern and The Citadel cracked the top 25 in the Athlon Sports Preseason FCS Top 25 poll, which was released Tuesday.

In what has become an annual tradition, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team is once again listed among the top programs in the nation in the preseason publications...Other league teams in the Lindy's listings are The Citadel at No. 18 and No. 22 Samford.

Franchisee attorney Richard A. Solomon passed away at home on May 19, 2017 from cardiac arrest. Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 14, 1937, Solomon was taken in by a Catholic orphanage and was later adopted by a Jewish family in Charleston, South Carolina...He attended The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, where he earned a bachelor's degree in European languages.

Freshmen and seniors at about 200 colleges across the U.S. take a little-known test every year to measure how much better they get at learning to think. The results are discouraging...At the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., 65% of seniors who took the test in 2016 were rated basic or below. The value added was in the low 2nd percentile among all the schools where students took the exam in 2016.

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Omicron Delta Kappa (ΟΔΚ), the National Leadership Honor Society, is the newest honor society at The Citadel. The inaugural class, consisting of select members of the South Carolina Corps of Cadets, faculty and staff, officially founded The Citadel Circle of ΟΔΚ on May 4, 2017.

Last month, I graduated from The Citadel. Growing up in Columbia, I had always heard about The Citadel, but attending the school wasn’t even on my radar until I worked around Citadel grads and other kids who were planning to attend the school. That happened, and I ended up applying and graduating, as a direct result of 5th Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson’s summer internship program for high school students.

Today Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:CVGI) announced the appointment of Douglas F. Bowen as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Global Construction, Agriculture & Military Markets, effective June 12, 2017. Mr. Bowen comes to CVG most recently from Dayco Products, LLC where he served as President of North America and Australian markets through 2016. Mr. Bowen brings more than 35 years of relevant global OE and Aftermarket experience to this new role...Mr. Bowen is a graduate of the Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina; and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Singapore-based Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd. announced the acquisition of a second portfolio of student housing assets from Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors.Mapletree listed the purchase price for the portfolio at about $1.6 billion...The transaction includes eight student housing assets containing 3,611 beds, including properties located in Fort Collins, CO, near Colorado State University; in Miami near Florida International University; in Minneapolis near the University of Minnesota; in Columbia, MO, near the University of Missouri; in Pittsburgh's medical and university district; and in Charleston, SC, near The Citadel.

Former South Carolina baseball star and current North Greenville coach Landon Powell will interview for the head coaching job at The Citadel, The Post and Courier has learned. A source close to the search said Powell, 35, is set to interview Wednesday. The Citadel announced Monday that its search committee also will interview candidates Tuesday.

The Citadel announced on Monday home-and-home matchups with FCS foes Towson and Elon, games that should serve the Bulldogs well, football coach Brent Thompson said. The Citadel will travel to Towson, in Maryland, for a Sept. 29 game in 2018, with the Tigers coming to Johnson Hagood Stadium for the 2019 season opener. Likewise, the Bulldogs will travel to former Southern Conference foe Elon on Sept. 7, 2019, and then host the Phoenix to open the 2020 season.

Many of the CAA Football and Southern Conference members share a natural footprint to schedule non-conference games against each other. Two-time defending SoCon champ The Citadel has taken advantage of that in announcing Monday a pair of games with CAA members Towson and Elon in upcoming seasons.

The Towson football team will play a home-and-home series with The Citadel in 2018 and 2019, the Tigers announced. The meeting will be the first between the schools. The first game of the series will be played at Johnny Unitas Stadium on Sept. 28, 2018, and the second game will be played at Johnson Hagood Stadium in Charleston, S.C., on Aug. 29 or 31, 2019. The Tigers will open the 2017 season at home on Sept. 2 against Morgan State.

The website Supercompressor recently went to the trouble of ranking the 50 state flags. Guess what? They ranked South Carolina’s as the No. 1 state flag...The Citadel’s ‘Big Red’ and the Civil War Today, flag images either may be sewn or printed. However, early U.S. flags either were sewn or painted, or both.Two sewn Civil War-era South Carolina flags embody the challenges inherent in depicting a palmetto solely with fabric. These are the Citadel’s “Big Red” Flag and the Palmetto Guard flag.

When Glenda Hood was elected mayor of Orlando, she joined the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, an organization spearheaded by Joe Riley, then-mayor of Charleston, South Carolina. In founding the Mayors’ Institute, Riley, the longest-serving U.S. mayor and a ULI visiting fellow, set out to educate influential mayors on the role they can play in their cities’ urban design, with a goal of fostering a unified community...Riley, who currently serves as a professor of American government and public policy at his alma mater, the Citadel, recognizes that the role of mayor is inherently meant to be transformative.

The following student graduated from The Citadel Graduate College on May 6: Miranda Nelson of Mechanicsburg

Cyber Academy of South Carolina, an accredited, full-time online public charter school, serving students in grades K-12, will celebrate the Class of 2017 at a graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 10th...Other members of the graduating class plan to attend colleges and universities including: Alfred University, Florence-Darlington Technical College, Charleston Southern University, Trident Technical College, Greenville Technical College, North Greenville University and The Citadel—The Military College of South Carolina.

SUNY Empire State College - Joseph L. Garcia was named executive vice president for administration, effective in mid-July. Garcia, a retired lieutenant colonel and 28-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, serves as vice president for finance and business, chief financial officer and as a member of the president's cabinet at The Citadel — the Military College of South Carolina, at the rank of colonel.

 ZEV Technologies is excited to announce and welcome Mike Vargo as the new Vice President of Sales for ZEV Technologies...Mike is a graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and a retired Army officer.

On June 4, the oldest church in Daytona Beach will usher in a new chapter, marking a milestone in the church’s history...Murbarger spent most of his life in South Carolina and attended The Citadel where he commissioned in the Air Force as an intelligence officer. While at The Citadel, he met his wife, Sharon, and after college the two moved to several duty stations during his eight years of active duty service.

Colonel Christopher Goodyear, USAF, is currently serving as a United States Special Operations Command liaison to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division. He was commissioned through ROTC at The Citadel in 1995.

Southern Conference football will begin introducing instant replay during the 2017 season, the league announced Friday. And The Citadel will be among the first league schools to use instant replay. The nine football-playing league members can opt in for instant replay in 2017, according to the league's announcement. All nine schools must have replay capability by the 2019 season.

News Channel 11 Sports has learned that ETSU head baseball coach Tony Skole could be returning to his alma mater. Charleston tv station WCIV is reporting Skole is in the final three for the head coaching job at the Citadel and interviews begin next week.

While members of the Class of 2017 have finished up their high school careers, college recruiting for the athletes of the Class of 2018 is heating up...Old Dominion, Wofford, Georgia State, Troy, Elon, Eastern Kentucky and The Citadel had previously offered Greenlee.

Chattahoochee High School’s Ethan Phillips has committed to join the wrestling team at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina in Charleston.

Matt Apicella wanted to be a lawyer after college, and after one year of teaching and coaching at Lake City, he continue his studies...Apicella said of Barr after Barr missed the 2016 season because of a football injury (Barr, also the South Team Offensive MVP in the North-South all-star football game, has signed to play football at The Citadel).

After weeks of negotiations, six South Carolina lawmakers finalized a compromise $8 billion budget late Wednesday night that boosts education funding and helps add officers to state prisons but dropped one major Charleston-area tourism project...That means roughly $2.6 million more for the entire University of South Carolina system and around $1.4 million more for Clemson University and $180,000 more for Citadel, the military college in Charleston.

Charleston County School District is proud to welcome the following individuals to their new positions within the District. Six new appointees are Citadel graduates.

We are about two months away from the projected July 28th launch of Expedition 53 which will be commanded by Citadel alumnus, Col. Randy Bresnik. When I went to Houston to observe a portion of his training for the mission, he showed us the two NASA Mission Controls at Johnson Space Center - the old, and the new.

David Preston, Ph.D., an award-winning author and professor of history at The Citadel, can now add a third acclaimed book to his bibliography. Preston recently released his latest work, “Theaters of the American Revolution,” a collaborative collection of essays written by a team of highly distinguished historians of the Revolutionary War.

Ashley Dorsey has been named as the new principal of Laurel Hill Primary School, which serves grades K-2. Dorsey has served as the assistant principal at Stiles Point Elementary on James Island since July 2013...Dorsey holds a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education from Clemson University and a K-12 Academically-Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Certification from the University of Virginia. She also holds a Masters of Education in educational leadership from the The Citadel. Dorsey was recently a participant in Charleston County’s 2014-2015 Principals for Tomorrow Program.

Kim Jackson has been named the principal of Mount Pleasant Academy for the 2017-18 school year. Jackson has worked in the Charleston County School District since 1993 as a teacher, summer enrichment coordinator, instructional coach, personal mastery facilitator, and assistant principal...Jackson earned her Bachelor of Science in early childhood education at South Carolina State University and her master’s degree in elementary administration from The Citadel.

Democrats would have you believe that a backlash to President Donald Trump will inspire high-caliber, first-time candidates to come out of the woodwork and, in part by competing in Republican-leaning districts, help them take back the U.S. House in 2018. Ken Harbaugh, an Ivy League-educated, former U.S. Navy pilot who lives in Avon, will put that theory to the test...He holds a law degree from Yale University, studied at Oxford University while he was an undergraduate at Duke University, and while spending nine years in the U.S. Navy, taught naval history at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, according to his campaign.

Lincoln Memorial University will present the 12th annual Mountain Heritage Literary Festival (MHLF) June 9-11 on its main campus in Harrogate, Tennessee...He holds degrees from Yale Divinity School, the University of South Carolina and the Citadel.

Three baseball players from South Carolina colleges were named Thursday to College Baseball's All-America second-team. One of those players is JP Sears, who has a lot to celebrate this week. A junior pitcher at The Citadel, Sears was named a semifinalist on Wednesday for the Golden Spikes Award.

JP Sears has earned another award on Thursday as he was selected an NCAA Division I Second Team All-American by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.

Ron Welch of The Citadel talks about the different research being conducted by the school to forward progress in the region and the state.

David Preston, Ph.D., an award-winning author and professor of history at The Citadel, can now add a third acclaimed book to his bibliography. Preston recently released his latest preston-book-coverwork, “Theaters of the American Revolution,” a collaborative collection of essays written by a team of highly distinguished historians of the Revolutionary War.

Over 2,500 students from 14 Charleston County School District high schools are set to graduate this week. About 35 percent of the 2017 seniors were African American at the 135-day school year count. Some 75 percent of African American seniors in the class of 2016 graduated. At Charleston Southern University 657 students graduated, 23 percent were African American. And The Citadel Class of 2017 graduated 571 cadets of which 50 are Black.

Textron Inc. (TXT) announced that Deborah Lee James has been elected to the company's Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2017. James recently retired as the 23rd Secretary of the United States Air Force, a position she had held since 2013. Ms. James has 30 years of homeland and national security experience in the federal government and the private sector...She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University, along with honorary doctorates from Duke University, The Citadel and the College of Charleston.

Coming on the heels of its expansion into Columbia and Orangeburg last year, GrandSouth Bank is moving into the Charleston market in 2017. To facilitate this expansion, GrandSouth is adding two team members to the company: Robert (Rob) Phillips, the new Charleston market executive, and Alan Uram, new senior commercial lender and senior vice president...Uram holds a business administration undergraduate degree from the College of Charleston and an MBA from The Citadel. He also has 15 years of banking experience, having worked for Carolina First and NBSC.

Citadel pitcher JP Sears has been named a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award, given to college baseball's top players. Sears is one of 25 semifinalists, and the lone pick from a South Carolina school and from the Southern Conference.

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Just a few days after helping the Fort Hood varsity men’s basketball team claim the second place trophy at the National Military Basketball Tournament in San Antonio, one Fort Hood Soldier will begin terminal leave from the Army and head to South Carolina to start the next chapter of his life...Eventually, that hard work and determination paid off for Bell, who accepted a walk-on spot at The Military College of South Carolina, in Charleston. The Citadel, as the school is commonly known, plays in the NCAA Division I Southern Conference. Bell’s older brother is an assistant coach with the Bulldogs and helped him “get his foot in the door,” he said.

Dennis Paul Bergvall was born March 25, 1955, in Havre, Montana to Richard and Ruth (Frandsen) Bergvall, the oldest of four children. Dennis graduated from Havre High School in 1973 where he excelled as a student leader and debater. He received his bachelor's degree in history from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in 1978, where he was active in the Sigma Chi fraternity.