The College of South Carolina Board of Trustees met Tuesday (Dec. 16) and superior
three main tasks on the USC Columbia campus together with many tutorial applications
and initiatives.
Services, USC Subsequent approvals
The board issued Part II approvals for renovations to Thomas Cooper Library, the
McKissick Constructing and Barnwell Faculty. The board additionally authorized venture bond resolutions
for the McKissick and Barnwell Faculty renovations.
The tasks are a part of the USC Subsequent grasp plan. USC Subsequent is anchored to 4 overarching
targets: reinvigorating the historic campus core; enhancing the scholar life expertise;
reimagining the engineering/analysis district; and realizing a brand new well being sciences
campus.
The board additionally gave Part I approvals to 2 tasks: the development of USC Upstate’s
observe and subject facility plus land acquisition at Blossom and Williams streets close to
Founders Park.
Different venture approvals embrace:
- Three at USC Aiken: auxiliary storage constructing building, changing the roof at
the science constructing, chiller substitute on the convocation heart. - A price range improve for USC Beaufort’s sandstone constructing renovation.
- Hearth alarm system substitute at USC Upstate’s Palmetto Home.
Approval of educational initiatives
USC’s board superior personnel approvals throughout Tuesday’s assembly with regard to each
tenure and promotion and honorary tutorial titles.
In complete, there have been 35 professors who had been promoted to the rank of professor:
- 9 from the McCausland Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
- Eight from the Faculty of Training.
- Six from the Arnold Faculty of Public Well being.
- 5 from the Darla Moore Faculty of Enterprise.
- Three from the Molinaroli Faculty of Engineering and Computing.
- Two from the Faculty of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Administration.
- One apiece from the Faculty of Drugs Columbia and Faculty of Music.
The board additionally authorized tenure and promotion to affiliate professor for 4 college
members — two from the McCausland Faculty of Arts and Sciences and one apiece from
the Faculty of Pharmacy and Arnold Faculty of Public Well being — together with one new rent
with tenure.
Seven honorary tutorial titles had been additionally authorized in the course of the assembly.
The board authorized one new program at USC Columbia, a grasp’s diploma in environmental
legislation and sustainability, and terminated a pair of applications: a Grasp of Arts in Economics
and a postbaccalaureate certificates in instructing English to audio system of different languages.
The board authorized transferring the grasp’s diploma in expertise innovation and entrepreneurial
engineering from the Molinaroli Faculty of Engineering and Computing to the Darla
Moore Faculty of Enterprise.
Two new facilities had been authorized in Tuesday’s assembly: the Bullying and Prevention Middle
and the Institute of Geopolitics, Innovation and International Competitors.
The board additionally authorized to vary the identify of the Collaborative for Well being Fairness
Analysis to the Middle for Collaborative Well being, Engagement and Analysis.
Three new applications at USC Upstate had been authorized in the course of the assembly: a bachelor’s diploma
in hospitality and tourism administration, a bachelor’s diploma in utilized language and
world research and a grasp’s diploma in organizational management.
The board authorized a twin enrollment web site with USC Union at Lake Wylie Excessive Faculty
for its affiliate’s diploma on the whole liberal arts and sciences.
The board authorized curriculum or focus modifications for eight applications:
- Bachelor’s program in languages, literatures and cultures.
- Bachelor’s program for world research.
- Bachelor’s program for broadcast journalism.
- Grasp’s program for anthropology.
- Grasp’s and doctoral program in sociology.
- Grasp’s program for training administration.
- Scientific doctoral program for bodily remedy.
The board authorized added concentrations for bachelor’s applications in interdisciplinary
research, cardiovascular expertise, hospitality administration and in sport and leisure
administration.
There have been additionally approvals for an added focus to the grasp’s diploma in anthropology
and an added web site in Washington D.C. for the grasp’s program for public security govt
management.
Contracts and different approvals
Together with the approvals of a present naming alternative and confidential candidates
for honorary levels, the board authorized 10 contracts throughout Tuesday’s assembly:
- A lease between USC services with Gadsden and Inexperienced.
- A Human Sources election of firefighter protection below PEBA’s law enforcement officials retirement
system. - A convention lodge settlement between the Division of Pupil Affairs and Loews Arlington
Lodge and Conference Middle. - An settlement between USC’s Enterprise Affairs and Barnes and Noble Faculty Booksellers.
- A companies settlement between the Faculty of Public Well being and the Division of Well being
and Human Providers. - A college settlement between the Faculty of Pharmacy and Prisma Well being.
- A memorandum of understanding between USC Sumter and the South Carolina Academic
Tv Fee.
The board additionally authorized three agreements between USC’s Mind Well being Middle and Prisma
Well being: a medical co-management settlement, a medical area lease settlement and an
gear lease settlement.
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