Choose a Club for Your Student Activity Period on Tues, Jan 31st

We have a student activity period tomorrow, Jan 31 from 10:45-11:45. Instructors will let you out of class to attend a club meeting. Come get in the swing of it!

Video Filmed at Palmer Campus: See Anyone You Know?

Welcome Students Event on Wednesday, Jan 25

Light the Night on Jan 27th

Eastside Small Business Network Event on Feb 6th

Eastside History Series: Denmark Vesey and the African Church

On the corner of Hanover and Reid Streets once stood an institution called the African Church. The building first opened its doors in 1818, after hundreds of black Methodists resigned from existing churches and formed a new congregation in protest over white attempts to control them.  Morris Brown, whose memory lives on in Charleston through the African Methodist Episcopal church that now bears his name, was one of the founders.

In 1822, a number of members of the Hampstead church were arrested for plotting to seize arms and kill slaveholders, including Denmark Vesey, a former slave who had won enough money in a lottery to purchase his freedom. In the trial that followed, the words “he belongs to the African Church” were repeated over and over. Vesey and thirty-four other men were executed and the church was burned to the ground.

Auditions for Smoke on the Mountain

Palmer Campus 2017 Black History Month Spotlight

Blood Drive on Jan 31st

One of Ours by Susan Williams, Ph. D.

Chris Forhan, who once taught creative writing here at Trident Technical College, is now on the faculty at Butler University in Indianapolis. Chris was on the committee that hired me, twenty years ago, and he left the college soon afterward. He went on to work in the non-residential creative writing program at Warren Wilson College, and he was the first person I ever knew who taught writing online. At the time I thought he was crazy to take on that challenge—it seemed like such a labor-intensive and impersonal way to help people learn to write. (Now, I believe that although it certainly is labor-intensive, it’s also the best way to teach creative writing).

Chris went on to earn an MFA, publish three books of poetry (Forgive Us Our Happiness; The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars; and Black Leapt In), and win several major literary awards.  He married the poet Alessandra Lynch, and they have two children.

TTC Awarded Grant to Teach Social/Digital Media

We’ve been awarded $49,873 in grant funding from the Bosch Foundation! This two-year award total will support curriculum development for a new interdisciplinary Social/Digital Media and Big Data certificate program and expose high school students to the field.