Education

The South Carolina Christian Action Council is a statewide ecumenical agency embracing many of the state’s major Christian denominations. It…

The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education was created by the General Assembly in 1967. It replaced the Advisory Council…

Located in Columbia, the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH) is a state agency responsible for collecting the…

The South Carolina Department of Education is the administrative arm of the State Board of Education. The department promulgates and…

The South Carolina Educational Television Network (SCETV) is a state agency providing educational, cultural, and historical programming to South Carolinians…

This state institution is charged with the education of students with deafness, blindness, or sensory multidisabilities. It began in 1849…

The South Carolina Society is a social and benevolent organization established in Charleston in 1737. Its membership has included gentlemen…

South Carolina’s multidisciplinary State Museum opened on October 29, 1988, in the renovated Mount Vernon Mill at 301 Gervais Street…

The institution was founded in 1896 in Orangeburg as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina.…

The South Caroliniana Library building was completed in 1840 as the central library building for South Carolina College (later the…

Southern Wesleyan University (SWU) is a private Christian liberal arts institution located in the town of Central in Pickens County.…

Spartanburg Methodist College is a two-year institution related to the United Methodist Church and located on 110 acres in western…

(Lexington County; 2020 pop. 2,732). One of the youngest towns in the Midlands, until World War II this was a…

The St. Andrew’s Society is a social and benevolent organization that was founded in Charleston on November 30, 1729. Its…

Educator, clubwoman. Stackhouse was born at Blenheim in Marlboro County on December 14, 1885, to the Baptist minister Rufus Ford…

In 1873 the South Carolina General Assembly, recognizing a need for trained teachers to educate African American citizens following the…

Novelist. Steadman was born in Statesboro, Georgia, on July 2, 1930, the son of Mark Sidney Steadman, Sr., an engineer…

Writer, educator. Max Steele was born in Greenville on March 30, 1922, the son of John M. Steele and Minnie…

Lieutenant governor, civic leader, author. “Nancy” Stevenson was born on June 8, 1928, in New Rochelle, New York, the daughter…

Educator. Summers was born on January 17, 1844, at Spruce Bank Farm near Woodbury, Connecticut. She was the youngest daughter…