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Transfer Scholars to Meet During Student Activity Period on Tuesday, Jan 31st, at 10:45-11:45 in Palmer Room 108

by Nova Edwards

Former member Donald Heyward
making a donation to 180-Place on
behalf of the TTC Transfer Scholars

The TTC Transfer Scholars is a student organization that provides service to the college and to the community. The members strive to improve student success by helping to deliver opportunities which meet their own education goals. The club is designed to enhance individual leadership skills, and members have the potential to become models to other college students as well as to gain some real world experience to add to their resumes. 

Past members have visited four-year colleges/universities and have actively participated in our annual college transfer fair. The members have helped themselves and others to realize their transfer goals through both receiving and providing mentoring and tutoring. They have also attended workshops and participated in symposiums. In addition, previous members have completed many community service projects, ranging from toiletry drives to feeding the hungry.

Student Activities for Spring 2017

Spring 2017: Student Activities and Campus Events:

• Welcome Students: January 25 at 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Main Lobby
• “Tell the Tea” Tuesday: January 31 at 10 a.m.-11 a.m., Main Lobby
• Student Activity Periods:
• January 31 at 10:45 -11:45
• Workshop: "Surviving College: What You Need to Know" at 10:45 am and 5:15 pm, Rm. 228.
• TTC Transfer Scholars, Rm 108
• March 28 at 10:45-11:45
• HIV Testing (National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day): Feb 7. Time: TBD by Sponsor, Classroom
• Black History Month Spotlight: Philip Simmons - The Next Generation Continuing His Legacy, February 15, 11:30-12:30, Palmer Auditorium
• Tax Clinics/Workshops: TBA
• Donut Stress Exams: February 22 at 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Main Lobby
• Women's History Month: TBA
• Dress for Success: March 23 at 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Spring Fling: April 10 at 10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Advanced Creative Writing Course Offered Spring 1

Do you have a novel, chapbook, memoir, or screenplay you want to finish? Palmer Campus will be offering Advanced Creative Writing (ENG 242) in the classroom during Spring 1 so you can do just that. This course differs from Intro to Creative Writing (ENG 238), which focuses on experimenting in four different genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and screen/scriptwriting. In Advanced Creative Writing, you will work on one of these genres: 

• You get to pick one project to work on for the entire class. 
• You can work on your novel, memoir, chapbook, or screenplay. 
• You set your goals. What do you want to achieve in this semester? 

The class will help you meet those goals through:

• Warm-up exercises
• Structured writing time
• Practice with literary elements in your work
• Revision suggestions, guided readings, support from other writers
• Instructor feedback

You will also learn about how to market your work as a professional writer through creating a platform, finding an agent, working with editors, and submitting your work for publication. We will also discuss self-publication options. You will learn about the writing profession.

The prerequisite for the course is ENG 101. The course meets Tues/Thurs 11:30-12:55 and also has an online workshop for further feedback from other students.  This course is part of the Certificate in Professional Writing.

Sign a holiday card for our local service members today!

Free Application Day: Get Help, Get Going!

Fall Graduation Fair on Nov 14th

The Fall Graduation Fair at Main Campus will take place on Monday, November 14 from 11:00am until 2pm in the Student Center, Bldg. 410, Rooms 212-214.

·         We emailed Fall Fair details to all students who have submitted a graduation application for Fall 2016, Spring 2017 or Summer 2017.

       A portal announcement appears on the student portal homepage regarding the Fall Fair on November 14 and additional details are available in the portal.

·         Additional graduation fairs will occur at each campus during the month of February 2017.

           

·         

Eastside Produce Stand Open on Saturdays in Hamstead Square

You can now buy fresh produce from local farmers on Hampstead Square on Saturdays from 3:00 until dark. The Post and Courier reported that the city of Charleston opened "Eastside Produce @ Hampstead Square" on Saturdays so that many downtown residents can again have easy access to groceries within walking distance. Many in the peninsular neighborhood were left without a grocery store after Bi-Lo's sudden closure earlier this month." You can read more at the Post and Courier article, "City of Charleston Launching Produce Stand to Fill Bi-Lo's Void"

Palmer Campus to Hold Veterans Day Drop-In on Nov 11th in Room 105-A

Free Application Day: Get Help, Get Going!

Travel Abroad During Maymester 2017

East Side History Series: Bischoff’s Square

by Susan Millar Williams, Ph. D.

The row of four more-or-less identical houses that line Columbus Street across from the Cigar Factory were built in the 1880s as part of Bischoff’s Square, a subdivision created and financed by Jennie Bischoff. There are also at least four of these houses still standing along Drake Street, and two on East Bay. Mrs. Bischoff, the widow of Henry Bischoff, lived in an older, grander home which was located on the same block as the Josiah Tennent House. (That structure, called the Tucker House, is long gone.)

Mr. and Mrs. Bischoff were both born in Hanover, Germany, before the Civil War. Like many of his fellow German immigrants, Henry sold groceries and liquor, but he also developed a profitable sideline concocting patent medicines. In addition to the South American herb for which it was named, Carolina Tolu Tonic contained lots of sugar and whiskey, which no doubt made it pleasant to drink, if not particularly healthful. Bischoff took advantage of the relatively new art of chromolithography, invented in Germany, to promote his products. The blog Bottles Booze and Back Stories, includes wonderful images of Bischoff’s whimsical trade cards, which were often collected in scrapbooks by children and ladies.

In 1874, during Reconstruction, Henry bought three rice plantations along the Edisto River near Jacksonboro, South Carolina and renamed them collectively as Rice Hope. He died four years later, in 1878, leaving Jennie to manage his fortune. She invested some of it in these modest but attractive frame single

houses, each of which includes six rooms and an upper and lower piazza. The ones on Columbus feature a bay window, but as far as I can tell, the others do not.

Want to Study Abroad? Now is the time for plan for Spring 2017.

Clemente Coalition wins Eastside Day Philip Simmons Display Contest

The Clemente Coalition won the Eastside Day Philip Simmons display contest, and you can see some of their project here. They visit Philip Simmons sites - and bring you on the journey.

Clemente Coalition Seeking TTC Veterans

IF YOU ARE A VETERAN 

AND A STUDENT AT TRIDENT TECH, 

THE CLEMENTE COALITION 

IS PUTTING TOGETHER A DISPLAY TO RECOGNIZE YOUR SERVICE.

SEE VICTOR IN RM. 146 

TO HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN 

BETWEEN 5 AND 7 P.M. 

TODAY,

 NOV.1,

OR BY

  NOV. 3

TO BE INCLUDED IN THE DISPLAY.

Stop & Serve Holiday Greeting Cards on Nov 21st

Safety Awareness Day is today!

Today is the last day of Spirit Week at the Palmer Campus, and it focuses on safety. You will find people here to talk to you about safety, including People Against Rape, who are here to educate about consent and support people whose consent has been violated. You will also find our Counseling folks out in force to encourage safe drinking and discourage drunk driving. They will be serving you tasty mocktails to show how fun being the designated driver can be. You will also be able to see a display of a one of our Public Safety Smart-Cars, which our officers use to help keep you safe. Be safe out there!  

Schedule for Eastside Day: Celebrating Philip Simmons

Park Celebration (10:00-1:00)

10:00:  Park Celebration begins. You can come by to meet with venders, learn about Phillip Simmons, and Eastside History. You can view a contest between tables created by student clubs that celebrate the life and work of Philip Simmons. You can also meet with representatives from the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture and the Lowcountry Digital

History Initiative. The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston collects, preserves, and promotes the unique history and culture

of the African diaspora, with emphasis on Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative hosted by the College of Charleston Libraries publishes digital public history projects that highlight underrepresented race, class, gender, and labor histories within the Lowcountry region and historically interconnected Atlantic World.

11:30: Food arrives. The Culinary Institute of Charleston, in conjunction with Palmer student clubs, are providing hot dogs, apples, bananas, and bottled water, so come by the tent under the flag pole and pick some up!

11:30:  Philip Simmons Tours Begin. Philip Simmons’ house, located in walking distance from Palmer Campus at 30 ½ Blake Street, is now the Philip Simmons Museum House with a gift shop and operating workshop, where the art of his craft is being continued by his nephew Carlton Simmons and cousin Joseph Pringle. Following a celebration in the park, interested participants will have the opportunity to tour the Museum House. The tours will leave from campus at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. 

12:00:  Open Mic Begins. Dr. Hudock’s Creative Writing class will be leading an open mic in which they will share works they have written that were inspired by Philip Simmons. They visited Philip Simmons sites, watched a documentary, and learned about him to see how an artist makes their own path as inspirations for their own. Now they have something to say. Come listen or bring your own work or songs to share. We will also have karaoke! Also, we will be announcing the winners of the table contest during the open mic. $1000 for the best club presentation!

Reception (5:30-6:30)

Students and members of the community are also invited to visit the Library Commons Gallery for a reception on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. to showcase the new exhibit, “A Legacy Forged: The Works of Philip Simmons,” by Trident Tech graduate Jeffery Bowens.

Jeffrey Bowens is a local Charlestonian. After graduating from Baptist High School, in Hollywood SC, he entered the United States Airforce and served his country honorably with 21. Upon his retirement, he made a decision in 2012 to go back to school and pursue his passion for photography. He enrolled in School at Trident Technical College where he earned his Certificate in photography. In 2015, he officially launched his photography business, Jeffrey Bowens Photography, Facebook, Instagram, or cellphone 843 637-0324. As a Charleston native, he says that: “It was my privilege and honor to be chosen to photograph the historical Iron work of the late Mr. Philip Simmons.  He was/is a Charleston icon and his work lives on and will continue to be adored and treasured by many to come.”  

Online Celebration

Dr. Susan Millar Williams has been getting ready to celebrate Eastside Day by publishing a series of blog posts about Eastside history. Dr. Williams is the author of a biography of Julia Peterkin titled A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin and the history of the great Charleston earthquake Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow. She has taught English, particularly creative writing, at the TTC Palmer Campus for 20 years, and she helped found and develop Eastside Day as a signature Palmer event. She leads walking tours around the Eastside for visitors, and does multiple presentations each year on Eastside history. When she walks around the neighborhood, she takes pictures and asks questions. Her blog posts are a result of her discoveries throughout the Eastside neighborhood. You can find her posts at:

• East Side History Series: Made Ground
• Rope Walk: North Side of Line Street from Meeting to Aiken
• The East Side (Hampstead) in 1872
• 729 East Bay Street
• 1 Cooper Street
• Celebrating our East Side Community: 44 America Street
• Celebrating Our East Side Community: 66 Hanover Street
• Lowcounty Digital Initiative Features Online Exhibit on The Cotton Factory (before it was the Cigar Factory)
• East Side History Series: Vardell's Creek 
• East Side History Series: Hamstead

Submit to the Future Alumni Essay Contest for $1000 winner or $500 runner up prizes

The TTC Foundation is encouraging students to share their stories by entering an essay contest that offers cash prize awards. The first-place winner of the Future Alumni Essay Contest will get a $1,000 cash prize and four runners-up will each receive $500.The deadline is Monday, Nov. 7 at midnight!

More information is available at: http://www.tridenttech.edu/foundation/helping/Essay.htm

Health Care Expo Today!

Spring Week continues today with our Health Expo, where you can come learn about health care fields, health care programs we offer, and meet local health care providers. Come on by!

East Side History Series: Vardrell’s Creek

By Susan Millar Williams, Ph.D. 

You know that spot on East Bay Street just north of the Palmer Campus where it always floods when we have an especially high tide? There is a reason for that phenomenon: you’re seeing the ghost of Vardrell’s Creek, which was filled in and paved over in the twentieth century. When Henry Laurens first started advertising lots in Hampstead Village, in the late eighteenth century, he claimed that ships with a ten-foot draft could navigate it at high tide.

The creek ran through a swath of marshland that bordered the northern edge of the higher ground known as Hampstead Hill, flowing into Town Creek and the Cooper River. It was a favorite swimming hole for boys and men, who sometimes shocked ladies on passing trains by romping naked in its waters. Vardrell’s Creek was also, perhaps inevitably, the site of an alarming number of drowning deaths when inexperienced swimmers grew careless and underestimated the power of the tides.

This 1885 map shows Vardrell’s Creek cutting through the neighborhood. It’s on the lower right side, just above the label for Town Creek. You can also see where the railroad tracks ran across it, giving passengers an occasional titillating glimpse of unclothed flesh.

I used to get impatient and upset when the water rose and slowed my commute. Now I just shrug and say to myself, “Oh, well, Vardrell’s Creek is up.”

Eastside Day Coming up Oct 27th

Trident Technical College’s Palmer Campus will celebrate the life and the legacy of master blacksmith Philip Simmons for Eastside Day 2016 to be held Thursday, Oct. 27. Eastside Day is a part of the Palmer Campus’s Spirit Week held annually to celebrate the students of TTC and the heritage of the Eastside Community, where the college’s downtown Charleston campus is located. Spirit Week 2016 is slated for Oct. 24-28.

In collaboration with the Philip Simmons Foundation, the Eastside Neighborhood Association, TTC’s Visual Arts departments, as well as the Culinary Institute of Charleston, the Palmer Campus has planned a week of student-driven activities that the community and TTC students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. All events are free.

Kicking off the week will be a student welcome on Monday, Oct. 24, at the campus courtyard and park. Spirit Week will continue with a College Transfer Fair and Health Expo for TTC students Oct. 25-26.

Thursday’s Eastside Day activities are open to the public and dedicated to celebrating Simmons, who lived in the Eastside Community from 1919 until he passed in 2009. His house, located in walking distance from Palmer Campus at 30 ½ Blake Street, is now the Philip Simmons Museum House with a gift shop and operating workshop, where the art of his craft is being continued by his nephew Carlton Simmons and cousin Joseph Pringle. Following a celebration in the park, interested participants will have the opportunity to tour the Museum House. The tours will leave from campus at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.

You can also meet with representatives from the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture and the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative. The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston collects, preserves, and promotes the unique history and culture of the African diaspora, with emphasis on Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative hosted by the College of Charleston Libraries publishes digital public history projects that highlight underrepresented race, class, gender, and labor histories within the Lowcountry region and historically interconnected Atlantic World.

Students and members of the community are also invited to visit the Library Commons Gallery for a reception on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. to view artwork by TTC Visual Arts students.

Dr. Susan Millar Williams has been getting ready to celebrate Eastside Day by publishing a series of blog posts about Eastside history. Dr. Williams is the author of a biography of Julia Peterkin titled A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin and the history of the great Charleston earthquake Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow. She has taught English, particularly creative writing, at the TTC Palmer Campus for 20 years, and she helped found and develop Eastside Day as a signature Palmer event. She leads walking tours around the Eastside for visitors, and does multiple presentations each year on Eastside history. When she walks around the neighborhood, she takes pictures and asks questions. Her blog posts are a result of her discoveries throughout the Eastside neighborhood. You can find her posts at:

• East Side History Series: Made Ground
• Rope Walk: North Side of Line Street from Meeting to Aiken
• The East Side (Hampstead) in 1872
• 729 East Bay Street
• 1 Cooper Street
• Celebrating our East Side Community: 44 America Street
•  Celebrating Our East Side Community: 66 Hanover Street
•  Lowcounty Digital Initiative Features Online Exhibit on The Cotton Factory (before it was the Cigar Factory)

The week will conclude with a Safety Awareness Fair on Friday, Oct. 28.

For more information, contact Regina Smart at regina.smart@tridenttech.edu or 843.722.5562.

Fall 2 Classes Start Thursday, Oct 20th

Fall 1 is now over. You have Tuesday and Wednesday off. And then Fall 2 starts on Thursday. Remember, the Fall 2 term start date has been postponed from Tues., Oct. 18, to Thurs., Oct. 20.

East Side History Series: Made Ground

The Dump, Charleston City Yearbook, 1936.

by Susan Millar Williams

As many avid bottle hunters know, the present-day East Side neighborhood rests on the trash of yesteryear. During the early 1880s, the streets that surround our campus—America, Drake, Blake, and Nassau—were being used as a landfill for the city, with garbage carts arriving daily to dump their contents in the roadways. In 1880, both America and Nassau Streets were extended 300 feet north of Cooper Street, creating new sections of the neighborhood.  Bay Street (now East Bay) was extended northward, “which, according to the News and Courier, brought the neighborhood “about thirty minutes nearer the business portion of the city.”

TTC Four-Year College Transfer Fair on Oct 25th

Want to attend a four-year college? Recruiting officers from 23 four-year colleges and universities will be waiting to meet prospective students at Trident Technical College - Palmer Campus. Come meet people from four-year colleges who can help you reach your dreams. Talk to TTC representatives about making it more affordable through our transfer programs. 

Contact Nova Edwards at (843) 722-5532 or nova.edwards@tridenttech.edu for more information. 

Get Ready for Spirit Week 2016

Help a TTC International Student from Haiti Get Home to Help Her Family

By Nadine Alexandre

Hurricane Matthew hit my home country of Haiti last week. My name is Nadine Alexandre, and I am a Haitian international student based in Charleston, SC, and attending Trident Technical College with the goal of becoming a nurse. My immediate family was deeply affected by the Hurricane. I lost many of my family members, such as my aunt, uncle, and cousins. My grandparents’ house was completely destroyed. My grandfather was trapped under house debris for 3 days. He has since been found, but he is currently in critical condition. I am very concerned and worried about my family and their well-being.  I wish to travel home to give my assistance to them. Please find it in your heart to donate anything that you can to help me get home quickly as possible. I would love to be in travel by  this Saturday, Oct. 15. You can donate at my GoFundMe page or you can see me in the afternoons at the Academic Hub (Palmer 102) where I am a work-study. Thank you for your help!

 

Veterans Day Celebration on Nov 11th

In honor of contributions made by U.S. military personnel and veterans, TTC is holding a Veterans Day celebration program on Friday, Nov. 11, at 10:30 a.m., in the College Center on Main Campus. The featured speaker is Scott Poelker, Vice President for Finance and Administration. 

From 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., attendees can attend a Veterans Fair featuring community vendors, TTC departments, and a WWII exhibit provided by the American Military Museum.

The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please call 843.574.6508.

East Side History Series: Hampstead

The Original Plat of Hampstead Village, by Henry Laurens

by Susan Millar Williams

The neighborhood we now know as the East Side was born in 1769 as Hampstead Village, a suburb of Charleston located outside the city lines, which ended at Calhoun Street (then known as Boundary Street). Hampstead was made up of three adjoining parcels purchased by Henry Laurens, a partner in one of the largest slave trading companies in the American colonies.

Like many of today’s residential subdivisions, and like many English villages, Hampstead was designed to include public space in the form of a large square or “mall.” The center of this planned neighborhood was on a slight swell of higher ground then known as Hampstead Hill, close enough to the Cooper River to afford charming water views and refreshing sea breezes. Laurens laid out 140 lots on his 99 acres. He sold only 68 of them in the first two years, 38 of those to his business partner William Bampfield. This peaceful, picturesque planned community might have built up quickly if it hadn’t soon become a war zone. In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, British troops attacked Charleston from the north, and Hampstead became a staging ground for battle.

Staff Member Cyndi Harrelson Re-Elected as NEOCA Executive Board President

Cyndi Harrelson re-elected for another two-year term to serve the National Educational Opportunity Centers Association (NEOCA) as Executive Board President at the recent national conference in San Diego, Calif.

Cyndi has also served on the NEOCA Executive Board as Secretary (2010-2012), Vice President (2012-2014) before being elected President in 2014.

The NEOCA President presides at all meetings of the Association, and makes all appointments to special committees, as well as signs all contracts, agreements and legal documents on behalf of the organization. The President serves as as chair of the Legislative Review and Advocacy committee and acts as liaison with the Council on Opportunity in Education (COE ) and the Department of Education, and works to connect Educational Opportunity Centers around the country to assist and support those programs. The next NEOCA conference will be held Washington, D.C. on September 12, 2017.

What's Up with Digital & Portable Chalk Boards?

By Maureen Whitehurst, Ph. D.

You may have noticed Biological Sciences faculty pulling an unusual-looking suitcase around the halls of Palmer Campus, such as when Maureen Whitehurst brings the iPad Rolling cart to Palmer classroom 108. This rolling cart contains iPads used for Microbiology and Anatomy classes. To allow use of iPads in classrooms, WiFi improvements were required. Dr. Lou worked with TTC IT to improve Wi-Fi in this classroom and also in Palmer lab 160. Now an entire class of about 24 students can access the internet simultaneously using college supplied devices.

Eastside History Series: Rope Walk - North Side of Line Street from Meeting to Aiken

by Susan Millar Williams, Ph. D.  

Charleston has always been a busy port, and in the nineteenth century shipping required rope—lots of rope. During the nineteenth century, the Hampstead neighborhood manufactured rope, probably at first using a low-tech method that required workers to lay out strands of tarred hemp and twist the fibers together while walking through a long covered space and later employing some machinery to speed up and standardize the process.

Most rope walks looked a lot like the covered bridges you see in old prints of the New England countryside, if several were strung together end to end. They were essentially long, skinny sheds that allowed cables to be fabricated in standard lengths without the need for splicing.
  

The Hampstead rope walk ran along the north side of Line Street for two and a half blocks. This map, published in the Charleston News and Courier on September 11, 1884, designates it as the “old” rope walk, so it may have ceased operating by then.

Sadly, there is nothing left of the old Hampstead Rope Walk, but we can imagine what working there might have been like. Nineteenth century rope making was, by all accounts, a hard, dirty business. 

For more information

• This website explains the process of making rope in more detail and describes one of the few existing historic ropewalks, located in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
• This one features historic photographs of the Massachusetts rope walk, which is being redeveloped as apartments, with a small museum.

    

Presentation "The Back of the House: Life Behind the Big House" on Oct 13th

Donald West will present "The Back of the House: Life Behind the big House" on at 12:oo-1:30 pm on October 13, 2016, at 82 Queen St. Donald West is an instructor and coordinator in the Department of History, Humanities and Political Science at Trident Technical College Palmer Campus. He teaches US history, African history and African American history. Mr. West will discuss the life of enslaved African Americans and their role behind the big house. Hosted by the Preservation Society of Charleston. Reservations are required.

Eastside History Series: The East Side (Hampstead) in 1872

Available at the Library of Congress

By Susan Millar Williams

This map, aptly titled A Bird’s Eye View of the City of Charleston, is like having a window on the neighborhood in the 1870s.

Hampstead Mall is at the center, cut into quarters by walkways though not yet by streets. The railroad runs along the Cooper River, just as it does now. Cooper Street marks the northern edge of the city as well as of the neighborhood, which is bordered by fields and marshlands.

Save the Dates for Spirit Week!

Shazam Your Exams on Oct 5th

Enter the Global Awareness Week 2017 Poster Contest

Chinese Identities and Expressive Cultures: Traditions and Transformations on Oct 21

TTC's Annual Community Activities Fair, Wed, Sept 21st on Main Campus

TTC's annual

Community Activities Fair

will be held Wednesday, September 21

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

in the Student Center Lounge of Bldg. 410.

The purpose of the fair is to familiarize TTC students, faculty and staff

with services on campus, volunteer opportunities with community agencies,

and services available in the community.

Listed below are the agencies and organizations registered to attend:

Want to Discuss Philosophy?

If you would enjoy one hour of free philosophical speculation on a topic of the group's choosing, then you will want to come to Socrates Café Sept 12th, at 6 pm in the café area of Earth Fare in South Windermere.

Socrates Café is based on Chris Phillip's book Socrates Café. It has been in operation eleven years now. They meet every 2nd and 4th Monday of each month at 6 pm in Earth Fare.

Bring your own questions.

Have Questions about Transferring to a Four-Year College?

Come to the Transfer 101 session in the Academic Resource Center September 12th at 10:45 (Main Campus, Building 510, Room 137). Transfer 101  is an overview of the steps for building a successful transfer program, including the following:

• Confusing Terms:  2+2, Bridge, Articulation, Degree Completion
• Planning: selecting a TTC major; selecting a four-year college and major; understanding transfer policies
• Decision making:  how long to stay at TTC; selecting courses
• Using the right tools:  SCTrac, TTC website; four-year college guides, policies, and catalogs

For more information, contact Susan Norton at susan.norton@tridenttech.edu.

63 Columbus Street

Photo provided by Susan Millar Williams

by Susan Millar Williams

Since the dawn of the nineteenth century, the southwest corner of Columbus and Drake Streets has seen the rise and fall of many enterprises, including a textile factory, a homeless shelter, a small mill village, and an elementary school.  

A cotton factory was built on the site in 1847, but it failed in less than five years. The city of Charleston bought the building in 1852 to serve as an Almshouse. Denizens of the old Poor House downtown (on the corner of Mazyck and Magazine streets) were transferred to the new Almshouse on February 28, 1856. Many of these so-called “inmates” were elderly or ill, and quite a few seem to have been suffering from addictions. After 1865, a number were Confederate veterans. Charitable institutions observed the color line: the Almshouse served whites only.

Suits for You Clothing Drive Sept 9-23

Free HIV Testing at the Palmer Campus on Sept 14th

Blood Drive at Palmer Campus on Sept 21st