GED Classes Starting Soon!

TTC Transfer Scholars has Two Events this Week

Event: TTC Transfer Scholars Bake Sale
Time: Thursday, June 22nd from 10 a.m. - 12 noon
Location: Outside of Admissions (Room #121)
Why: Come help us raise money for tours of four-year colleges!

Event: USC Campus Tour

Time:  9:00-4:00

Location: Meet at Admissions Office at 9 am to get on college van

Why: To learn about USC!

Who: Any student, family of students, or staff/faculty members

Contact Demetria Wright at Demetria.wright@tridenttech.edu  for more information

Time to Register for Fall Courses!

Now is the time to register for Fall Courses!  To find out what courses we are offering here at the downtown Palmer Campus, you can go do Course Search on our webpage. This is the most up-to-date listing. We offer Full-Term Fall classes (14 weeks), Fall 1 compressed courses (7 weeks), and Fall 2 compressed courses (7 weeks) as well as evening and online options. Whatever your scheduling needs, we have options for you!

If you are planning to transfer to a four-year-college, ore getting your general education classes out of the way for another of our programs, here are your classroom course options at the downtown campus:

Student Advice: How to Prepare for an Academic Advising Appointment with a AA or AS Transfer Advisor at the Palmer Campus

Do you want to earn a Bachelors of Arts or Bachelors of Science at a four-year college or university? Trident Technical College provides clear pathways to transfer to a four-year school and achieve your goals. To help you, we provide transfer advisers to work with you throughout the process. You were assigned an adviser when you came through orientation.

To get the most out of your advising appointments, you should work through the following steps before you arrive. If you have problems with any of the steps, come into the Transfer Information Resource Center in Palmer 102 for assistance. Demetria Wright can answer questions and help you move through the steps of pre-advising. Some questions might need to wait for your adviser, but having a list of those questions will help you get the most information from your adviser. 

Step 1: Make an appointment with your adviser.

You were assigned an adviser when you came through orientation. If you don't remember who that is, or you have changed your goals, you can go back to the Orientation Center in room 226J, and Ms. Jamella Jaglal can help. 

The best way to reach your adviser is to send an email. Click on your advisor's name below to send them an email to request an appointment. If you don't get a response within a few days, then you can contact Demetria Wright (Palmer 102) or Dr. Amy Hudock (Palmer 123) so they can arrange an appointment for you with another adviser until your adviser is available. We can also provide pre-advising in the Transfer Information Resource Center in Palmer 102. In the meantime, follow the steps in this pre-advising guide, so you will be ready.

• Associate in Arts
• Dr. Amy Hudock at amy.hudock@tridenttech.edu
• Dr. Susan Williams at susan.williams@tridenttech.edu 
• Dr. Kevin Wolfe at kevin.wolfe@tridenttech.edu 
• Dr. Lee Baginski at lee.baginksi@tridenttech.edu 
• Dr. Mary Ann Kohli at maryann.kohli@tridenttech.edu
• Dr. Wendy Barry at wendy.barry@tridenttech.edu 
• Associate in Science
• Ms. Michelle Lee at michelle.lee@tridenttech.edu 
• Dr. Maureen Whitehurst at maureen.whitehurst@tridenttech.edu 
• Ms. Jane Simkovich at jane.simkovich@tridenttech.edu 
• Dr. Jane West at jane.west@tridenttech.edu 

Step 2: Make sure you have your student ID number. If you know your ID number, skip this step:

• Log into the TTC Student Portal. Aren't sure how to do that? For help with the portal, go here.
• Click on Degree Seeking Student
• Click on My Profile
• Write down your student ID number, or put it in your phone, if you don’t already have it available 

Step 3: Set your transfer goals. If you already know where you will transfer, skip this step:

• Decide on your probable area of study.
• If unsure, go with “General Education.”
• Decide on your target four-year college
• Go to search what schools have the program you want to pursue.
• Go to the South Carolina Transfer and Articulation Center to further explore where credits transfer. 
• Go to the Transfer Information Resource Center in room 102 where resources can help you with this decision.
• Decide how long you want to be with us
• Target transfer colleges usually want the equivalent of an academic year behind you as a minimum
• Two years with us to allow you complete all your general education requirements is the most cost effective. And allows you to be credentialed.
• Target transfer colleges often will not accept more than 60 hours of credit from another institution, so after two years of full-time courses, it's usually time to leave TTC. 
• Go to the website of your target college to view the transfer requirements through Where Credits Transfer.

Step 4: If you are planning on also getting an Associate in Arts degree from TTC (you can get both an Associate degree from us and your Bachelor degree from your transfer college). If not, skip this step:

• Log into the TTC Portal. Aren't sure how to do that? For help with the portal, go here.
• Click on "For Credit Students" in the column on the left.
• Click on "Profile."
• Click on “Program Evaluation” – this will show the requirements for your program and what you have taken so far to meet those requirements. It will also who you what courses you still need to take.
• Print and bring with you to your advising appointment. 
• Get all the credentials you can. If you are looking for a job, internship, or scholarship while you are at your four-year college, you having an associate degree looks better on your resume than "some college courses."

Step 5: Locate your target college transfer guide

• Go to Where Credits Transfer to find your transfer guide for your intended major.
• View and print the general education curriculum guide for your field of study.  It will show you the courses your target college would like you to take with us. This guide will be your program of study here at TTC.

Step 6: Make your ideal schedule

• Go to Course Search on the TTC homepage for the most updated schedule. 
• Search to see what courses are available in the term for which you want to enroll.
• Make a list that includes the courses you are interested in taking by term, department, course number, and section number (for example: Summer 2, ENG 101.W02).
• You can check to see if these courses transfer to your target college at the South Carolina Transfer and Articulation Center.

Step 7: Show up with your work to meet with your adviser

Follow these steps, and you’ll be ready! If you have any questions or problems, you can work on this on a computer in the Transfer Information Resource Center where we can answer questions for you. Or your adviser can help you through these steps, too. But the more you have done before you come, the quicker your appointment will go! 

New Member of our Facilities Management Team!

Please join me in welcoming a new member of our Facilities Management team, Mark McConnell. Mark is from Greenville, SC, but has lived in Charleston for over 30 years. He lives with his wife and father-in-law, and he has 4 grown children. He loves to spend time with his one grand and to go fishing. Today is his first day on campus, so if you see him, introduce yourself!  

Eastside History Series: "Don’t Blame the Weather" by Katharine Purcell, Ph.D.

Enough Pie’s Wave of Hope installation
 in front of St. Julian Devine Community Center.

Want to know whether you need to pack the car or the johnboat to travel to campus? American College of the Building Arts professor Christina Butler advises you to take a look at this map and if any of the streets on your route had a former life as a tidal creek, then bring a paddle.

Speaking at Enough Pie’s  "Awakening V: King Tide,"   Butler told an audience at the Cigar Factory on Thursday, May 11, 2017 that Charleston’s flooding woes are due just as much to early colonial building practices as they are to current climate change. And in spite of all of the repairs and new drainage projects, things will only get worse.

The problem? Eighteenth-century settlers found very little desirable real-estate on the peninsula, so they quickly set out to make their own. Anything that could not be repurposed was tossed into creeks and marshland. That meant that streets and building sites were created atop animal carcasses, vegetable material, human and construction waste, and even the corpses of British and Hessian soldiers! All of the land east of East Bay Street and north of Market Street rests on this great garbage dump, including the Hampstead area where Palmer now stands. Needless to say, in those days, ships arriving to the city could smell it before they could see it.

And who was responsible for hauling and spreading the debris? Butler says that enslaved West Africans did much of the work. This onerous task was ongoing, as each tide pulled the fill into the harbor--so much so, that dumping regulations were soon put into place so that shipping lanes would not be blocked.

West African sweat and labor built much of the land in Charleston, and West African ingenuity was used to keep it in place. Early drainage engineering first employed on the peninsula was based on the trunk systems used in rice cultivation, and by the 1850s, brick and mortar versions were buried beneath the city streets. In fact, we are still depending upon those nineteenth-century tunnels to keep our feet dry.

Unfortunately, those tunnels and the more recent pump projects are still resting on an unstable 300-year-old garbage dump. Add to that, the booming construction business on the peninsula and the rising global tides might make us all wish we were sporting gills.

TTC Transfer Scholars Club to Meet Tuesday, June 13th

Student Activity Period on Tuesday, June 13 from 10:00-11:00

What do you do during the Student Activity Period? Your instructors will let you out of class to attend a club meeting of your choice. The Clemente Coalition meets in room 146. The United Students Association meets in room 107. The Veterans Voice in room 105A. And the TTC Transfer Scholars meets in room 108. Often, your instructors will give you extra credit to attend. So, ask! And it always looks good on a resume.

What do these clubs do? The Clemente Coalition supports the Charleston Clemente Course through fundraising events and community service. They also help put together an annual play performance. The United Students Association works to promote diversity and community, and this is the group you will see collecting food, clothes, and other resources for donation. The Veterans Voice provides community for our veteran students. And the TTC Transfer Scholars encourages and informs students who wish to transfer to a four-year college. 

Come find out more about them!  

Free Application Day on Thursday, June 8th. Tell your friends!