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Five new members of CSU Board of Trustees announced
The Charleston Southern University Board of Trustees welcomed five new members and approved the 2025 officers at the January board meeting. Dean Murphy will serve as chair of the board for the second year. Jerry Williams will serve as vice chair and Bill Carpenter as secretary for the second year. The five board members include […]
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Congratulations to the 1,112 undergraduates named to the Dean’s List for fall 2024. To qualify for the Dean’s List, undergraduates must earn a 3.5 GPA or better and earn 12 or more credit hours for the semester. Access the full list here!
| READ MORE: Dean’s List Fall 2024First Personal Financial Management graduate earns CFP® Certification
Jadyn Watson, a May 2024 summa cum laude Nielsen College of Business graduate, recently became the first Personal Financial Management degree program graduate to pass the Certified Financial Planner, CFP®, exam. Watson and her class were the first to graduate from Charleston Southern University as personal financial majors. The CFP® exam is a rigorous test with an […]
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Classes will resume in person at Charleston Southern University on Monday, January 27 at 8 a.m. All offices will return to their normal operating schedule, with employees reporting back to campus on Monday morning. The CSU Emergency Management Team strongly advises our campus community to walk and drive with extreme caution as ice still remains on sidewalks and […]
| READ MORE: Winter Weather UpdatesDr. Chelsea Rogers receives MLK Jr. Humanitarian Award
This year’s recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian award is Dr. Chelsea Rogers. “It’s such an honor not only to serve as a professor of English at Charleston Southern but also to receive an award in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr., someone who fought for the idea of peace and unity and […]
| READ MORE: Dr. Chelsea Rogers receives MLK Jr. Humanitarian AwardMonty Self named new Director of Dewey Center for Chaplaincy
Charleston Southern University has named Chaplain Monty Self the new director of the Dewey Center for Chaplaincy. Prior to CSU, Self served at Baptist Health, a 12-hospital system in Arkansas, where he was a senior staff chaplain and a board-certified healthcare ethics consultant. With over 33 years of ministerial experience, Self has also contributed to […]
| READ MORE: Monty Self named new Director of Dewey Center for ChaplaincyCSU mourns Shirley Whitfield, longtime supporter
Charleston Southern University is deeply saddened by the death of Shirley Davis Whitfield on December 24, 2024, in Charleston. She was 94 years old when she made her journey to Heaven to meet our Savior. She is survived by her two sons, Bill (Marcy) and Tim (Alina), as well as four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. […]
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More than 370 doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees were conferred during Charleston Southern University’s fall commencement Dec. 19 and 20. Elizabeth England, president of the Student Government Association, addressed the undergraduates. She said, “Each person sitting here came to Charleston Southern as a version of themselves that is different from the one in front of […]
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Prospective students now have an opportunity to receive $1,500 after touring Charleston Southern University, the Lowcountry’s only Christian higher education institution. The $1,500 Tour Treasure Grant is provided to a student if they attend an official visit such as a personal tour, A Day in the Life, or First Look event with the Office of […]
| READ MORE: Students eligible for $1500 after a CSU campus visitInaugural DPT graduates chart the course at CSU
Charleston Southern University graduated its inaugural Doctor of Physical Therapy class on Saturday, December 14, 2024. Forty-five students were commissioned after successfully completing the 2.5-year intensive medical program at CSU. This is the second doctoral program at Charleston Southern, the fourth DPT program in South Carolina, and the only university in the state to offer […]
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