Trident Tech Transfer Scholars Gearing up for Summer 4-Year-College Tours

Do you wonder how to transfer to a four-year school? Do you have questions about where to transfer? Do you want to know what transfer courses you should take?  You can get these questions and more answered through Trident Tech Transfer Scholars, a student club devoted to helping transfer students reach their goals.  What should you do to get involved?

Join our Facebook Page

We have or will send you an invitation to join our Trident Tech Transfer Scholars Facebook group. We will be using this page to share information about transferring, scholarships, and our upcoming events.  Join the group, and you’ll always know what is going on.

Come on Tours of Four-Year Colleges with Us

One of the main ways we serve our members is to help them learn about the colleges they are considering for transfer. The best way to learn about a college is to visit, so, we do that. We either meet at a local college or take a van to colleges that are further away. Our summer schedule looks like this: 

• College of Charleston: June 5, at 2:30 am. (meet at Visitors Center at 2:00)
• USC-Columbia: June 23, at 12:00. (van leaving at 9:00 am from Downtown Palmer Campus)
• Coastal Carolina, July 14^th, at 11:00 (van leaving at 8:00 am from Downtown Palmer Campus)

To sign up, contact Demetria Wright at 843.722.5532 or demetria.wright@tridenttech.edu 

Clemente Graduation on April 27!

If you need a little dose of hope here at the end of the semester, you will surely find it at the Clemente graduation Thursday April 27th at 6 pm in the Palmer Amphitheater.

The guest speaker will be TTC's very own Cathy Almquist. Captivating music will be provided by Richard Blakeney and Matthew Parker. The occasion is guaranteed to leave you feeling better than when you came.

Catch the hope with Clemente!

Stressed about finals? Come get free exam donuts!

Stressed about finals? Come see Tiffany and get some free exam donuts in front of the Dean's Office. Sugar can help!

Flex Your Schedule! Downtown Palmer Campus Offers a Variety of Schedules to Meet Your Needs

Come flex your schedule at the Trident Tech Downtown Palmer Campus. We offer a variety of schedules so you can plan your classes around your work, family, and summer fun. We offer:

• Maymester with 3-Week Classes (May 8-26): Short but sweet. Take a class, get ahead, and still have the rest of your summer!  
• Summer Full with 10-Week Classes (May 30-Aug 7): The advantages of this option include having more time to work on difficult courses like Biology and Math, as well as not having to devote large blocks of time in one day to individual classes. Spread it out. Slow it down.
• Summer 1 with 5-week Classes (May 30-June 28). The advantages of this schedule include getting done with your classes more quickly. And if you want some summer fun time, you can take have the other 5 weeks off for vacation or work. Or you can add in the Summer 2 session to get a complete summer load. 
• Summer 2 with 5-week Classes (July 10-Aug 8). Didn't meet the earlier deadlines for classes?  No problem. Start in July! The advantages of this schedule include getting done with your classes more quickly, and teamed up with a Summer 1 schedule, completing a full load of classes in this summer, while still having a nice 4th of July week off in the middle. 

We are registering students now. Send your adviser an email to set up an appointment, but if you need someone right away, or you have trouble contacting your adviser, come see Dr. Hudock, Assistant Dean, in room 123 (Dean's and Admissions Offices).  

East Side History Series: Faber-Ward House 631 East Bay

This photograph was taken on May 17, 1958 as part of the Historic 

American Buildings Survey. The building then was in a sad state of disrepair.

by Susan Millar Williams, Ph D. 

Built in the 1830s by rice planter Henry Faber, this grand house was—like its neighbor across the street, Presqu'ile—built on a spit of high land along the river. Its uses since that time reflect Charleston’s turbulent history. Faber died at age 57 and was buried in St. Philip’s churchyard. His brother Joseph completed the house. Then he sold it to Joshua John Ward, sometimes called “the king of the rice planters.” Born at Brookgreen Plantation near Georgetown in 1800, Ward was the largest slaveholder in America during his lifetime. He was considered the greatest and most innovative of the antebellum rice planters, developing a long grain version of the famous Carolina Gold variety which, during its brief heyday, commanded the highest price of any type of rice on the world market. He also served as Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1850 to 1852.  Ward also (briefly) owned Presqu’ile, which is also known as the Christopher Belser house.

Joshua John Ward

During and after the Civil War, while Union troops occupied Charleston, the Faber-Ward house, as it came to be called, was converted into a hotel for emancipated slaves. During the Jim Crow era, when white” hotels were not open to African-Americans, it again served as a hotel for black guests. The name of the hotel at this time, according to local lore, was The Hamitic, an obsolete ethnic designation, akin to the current term Semitic, that refers to African origins.  According to Alphonso Brown, in A Gullah Guide to History, the building a “house of ill-repute” in the 1940s and 50s, catering to seamen and others who worked along the nearby waterfront. If only we knew more about what happened in this house during all these seasons of its life! I wish someone would undertake to dig out more of its post-war history.

The house as it looks today.

The Historic Charleston Foundation bought the house in 1964. In 1969 it was set on fire by vandals, but the building survived. Today the main structure and its outbuildings are used as office space.

Want to take a quick look inside and see the spiral staircase that soars up to the cupola? Click on this YouTube video or watch at the top of the article. 

Get Ready for National Library Week Next Week!

Coming up next week! National Library Week (April 9 - 15, 2017) is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and library workers and to promote library use and support. From free access to books and online resources for families to library business centers that help support entrepreneurship and retraining, libraries offer opportunity to all. The theme for 2017 National Library Week is "Libraries Transform." Olympic soccer gold medalist and World Cup champion Julie Foudy will serve as this year's National Library Week Honorary Chair.

First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate every year in National Library Week. Come see how our TTC downtown library celebateson Tuesday, April 11, from 10:00-1:00!