Student Advice: Using Excel to Make Your Own Schedule for Assignments

TTC student Yuli Colson teaches you how to use Excel to 

make your own schedule for assignments. She says

that you will never miss a deadline again! 

Palmer Faculty Member Featured in Documentary

Our own Dr. Susan Millar Williams was featured in a recent PBS special on Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina. Watch her talk about her biography of Pulitzer Prize winning author Julia Peterkin. Dr. Williams teaches creative writing courses for TTC, and is a faculty member of our Certificate in Professional Writing program.

CofC Changes the Bachelors of Professional Studies Program

Are you an older, working professional? Does the prospect of transferring to a four-year school with hosts of younger adults just out of high school sound depressing to you?  Would you like to go to a four-year program surrounded by people more like you? Then, you should check out the College of Charleston’s Bachelor of Professional Studies program (BPS), a degree-completion program for adults offered at the College of Charleston’s North Charleston campus. You can complete your general education courses with us, then transfer to complete your four-year degree in your major with them.

Shanae' Green is Waiting to Help You Get Started at TTC

Shanae' Green is waiting to help you in our front office. She can help you get enrolled, meet with the financial aid officer, register with an advisor, or find the student services you need. Come see her!

Open Registration Begins for Summer 2016 on May 24

Ready to enroll for summer classes? Advisors are on duty Tuesday, May 24 through Friday, May 27, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, so that you can drop in and get signed up for classes right away. We have courses available here on the Palmer Campus that you can transfer back to your four-year school, or use toward completing your TTC degree program. Come see us and get a head start on your degree program!


Transfer Courses Offered this Summer on Palmer Campus

• Science and Math
• Biology
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Microbiology
• College Algebra
• Probability and Statistics
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• English
• Western Civilization
• American History
• Psychology
• Public Speaking

Courses also offered in the EMT program, the Culinary program, the Nail Technology program, and Esthetics program. See our Course Search feature on our webpage to see all the courses TTC offers this summer. 

A Scholarship for Transfer Students

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship honors excellence by supporting outstanding community college students with financial need to transfer to and complete their bachelor’s degrees at the nation’s top four-year colleges and universities.

This scholarship makes it possible for the nation’s top community college students to complete their bachelor’s degrees by transferring to a selective four-year college or university. The Foundation provides up to $40,000 per year to each of approximately 85 deserving students selected annually, making it the largest private scholarship for two-year and community college transfer students in the country.

Each award is intended to cover a significant share of the student’s educational expenses – including tuition, living expenses, books and required fees – for the final two to three years necessary to achieve a bachelor’s degree. Awards vary by individual, based on the cost of tuition as well as other grants or scholarships he or she may receive.

Culinary Institute of Charleston Featured in Post and Courier Article

From the Post and Courier article

The Culinary Institute of Charleston was featured in a Post and Courier article, "Culinary Field Trip to Farm" about a farm to table field trip. The article quotes our own Michael Carmel, who is the CIC department chair.  The article starts with:

By tradition, one of the many field trips on the syllabus for Culinary Institute of Charleston’s Farm to Plate class begins with a breakfast run to Dodge’s Chicken for smoked sausage biscuits and fried sweet potato pies.

“This has got to be the coolest class I’ve taken in culinary school,” Colleen Toussaint said as students piled out of the Trident Tech van. “I feel like a local now.”

The supremacy of the fried chicken at Dodge’s is indeed a locals’ secret. But it’s not as local as the salt, peaches, greens and cow’s milk that the aspiring chefs explore over the course of the seven-week program, designed to heighten appreciation for ingredients and the people who labor to produce them.  Continue reading at the Post and Courier

Student Advice: How To Use The Emergency Call Towers On Campus

Trident Technical College Graduation 2016 Video Posted

Can you find yourself in this video?

How to Enroll in an ESL Class at the Palmer Campus

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE 

Palmer Campus 

STEPS TO ENROLLING IN ESL COURSES AT TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE

To find out more about these ESL courses, call 843-722-5516 to schedule an ESL orientation.  The ESL orientation usually lasts about 30 minutes.  You must make an appointment as the ESL advisor is not available on a walk-in basis.  You may leave a message on her answering machine.

EMT Pinning Ceremony Honors 25 New Graduates

The Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Program held its 10th annual pinning ceremony on Wednesday, May 4th, at the Palmer Campus. 25 students will be graduating from the program this year, their largest graduating class. And successful, too. All have been placed in jobs for which they trained. Faculty members Edward Lee and Robert Boone were on hand to honor the graduates. 

Along with the families of the students special recognition towards those in attendance.  Dr. Thornley (President), Dr. Robertson (Vice President of Academic Affairs), Dr. Diviney (Dean of Health Science), Dr. Lou Robinson (Dean of Palmer Campus) were in attendance as well as the EMS Directors for Berkeley County, Charleston County, and Dorchester County. 

The Emergency Medical Technology program prepares students to practice in the complex and dynamic profession of the EMT. The curriculum is structured to allow the beginning student to test and practice as a basic or intermediate EMT while continuing in the advanced program. Internship and clinical experiences strengthen learned material and prepare the student for the reality of practice. 

Lowcounty Digital Initiative Features Online Exhibit on The Cotton Factory (before it was the Cigar Factory)

The online exhibition, Charleston's Cotton Factory, 1880-1990, traces the history of the cotton factory in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1880 to 1900, and examines how mill workers—black and white, male and female—struggled for better working conditions in the contentious political, social, and economic contexts of the late nineteenth century. The author of the exhibition is none other than Palmer's own Dr. Susan Millar Williams.

Dr. Williams explains: “This exhibit started as a series of posters Phoebe Williams and I developed for Eastside Day 2013. In researching the early history of the Cigar Factory, I discovered both LDHI’s groundbreaking online exhibit about the famous strike that sparked the birth of “We Shall Overcome” and traces of another, earlier, story about the origins of the building, one that put Charleston at the epicenter of a major controversy over the role of African Americans in the textile industry.  Just as the posters were about to go up, I discovered that Booker T. Washington had visited the factory, and that discovery led me to another year of research. 

By working with the Avery Research Center and the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative, I was able to share this important piece of Eastside history with the world. Now that the factory building has been renovated and reopened, I hope that visitors will want to know more about the people who once worked there.”

“Sounds of the Cigar Factory” Going to Piccolo Spoleto

Photo by Susan Millar Williams

by Susan Millar Williams

“Sounds of the Cigar Factory,” which premiered as part of Eastside Day 2015 at the Palmer Campus and which stars many of our students, faculty, and staff, will be presented as part of Piccolo Spoleto at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 29, at the Footlights Players Theatre, 20 Queen Street. Tickets go on sale Monday, May 2, through the Piccolo Spoleto Website piccolospoleto.com and at the box office.

“Sounds of the Cigar Factory is a staged reading that dramatizes selections from Michele Moore’s recently published novel The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston.  Michele spent countless hours at Palmer last fall casting, rehearsing, and directing the performance, becoming a kind of honorary “Palmeranian” and writer-in-residence. The results are stunning, bringing to life in images, speech, and song the story of black and white factory workers in Charleston who originated the international civil rights anthem of protest and promise, "We Shall Overcome."    

Cast members Ronald Daise and Cecelia Fields performed on Sunday, May1 at Kiawah Island for a standing-room-only Piccolo Preview on Kiawah Island that drew almost 500 people.

Tickets will no doubt sell out quickly, so make sure to order yours early.