Monday, March 30, 2020

SC State Campus Quiet as School Shuts Down

You can almost here a pin drop at SC State these days as the school along with much of the nation shuts down amid the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.

As of March 30, only essential personnel can be on campus. Faculty and staff were told Sunday was the last day they could get things from their offices. The dorms have been emptied except for some international students unable to leave.

Students have not had classes on campus since midterm exams in early March. Spring Break followed for a week, was extended, then soon followed by school President James Clark’s announcement that classes would be taught remotely through the end of the semester.

May commencement has been canceled. It may be held in a June or July.

I took these photographs Sunday. No telling when the school will reopen. The rest of the spring semester will be taught via distant learning, as previously stated. Advising and registration for Fall 2020 is underway (see previous post).

Hopefully we will all be back on campus by late August when classes are scheduled to begin. Stay safe Bulldog Nation! 

Fall 2020 Advising Underway

Communications Program Director Dr. Joshua Mims has this creative "heads up" that Fall 2020 advising is getting underway.  Students- your advisors will soon be contacting you about this. 

Take it away Dr. Mims! 


Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Harold W. Crawford: The Dapper Dean of Industrial Education

Photo from a late 1960s yearbook
For decades Harold Wakeling Crawford (1903-1980) walked the halls of what today is still commonly called the "Old Crawford Engineering Building" on SC State's campus.

Just who was Harold Crawford for whom the old building is named? Keep reading and you will know!

This report is the result of weeks of research conducted as part of two of my journalism courses and valuable information provided by a guest speaker who knew the man himself.

From receiving a B.S. degree in mechanic arts in 1927 to retiring as industrial education dean in 1969, Crawford was a strong, distinguished presence at SC State.  And he was a heck of a football player too for the Bulldogs!

Today's Crawford "Engineering" Building