Verizon
gift creates online career resource for women
Harold
Barron (center), director of Public Affairs South
Carolina for Verizon, presents a check to Jennifer
Shinaberger (right) of Coastal's Division of Continuing
Studies and Mollie Bethea-Floyd of the Office
of Career Services. |
A
$5,000 grant from Verizon is being used to develop a
new series of online courses designed specifically to
help women make use of the vast resources of the Internet
to advance their careers. The purpose of the program
is to assist adult learners who work full time and have
family obligations by helping them avail themselves
of alternative educational resources, career assessment
tools and Internet job search skills.
The pilot course, held in October 2002, was offered
to state employees from the five-county area surrounding
Coastal. Combining several resources into one cost-effective
course, the program can easily be replicated to reach
out to other groups and individuals interested in advancing
their careers. Members of the Horry County Association
of Office Educational Professionals completed the course
in early 2003.
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Sandy
Miles Golf Tournament supports Coastal Carolina University
programs
A silent auction and dinner held in conjunction with
the Sandy Miles Endowment Fund Golf Tournament in Myrtle
Beach added more than $30,000 to the Sandy Miles Endowment
Fund.
Proceeds
from the event, hosted by the Myrtle Beach Golf Course
Owners Association (MBAGCOA), brought donations within
the fund to the $100,000 level. The funds will benefit
Coastal's men's and women's varsity golf programs and
help establish the first fully-funded scholarship for
the university's Professional Golf Management (PGM)
program.
Miles
was a founder of the MBAGCOA and a visionary in marketing
the Myrtle Beach area as one of the leading golf destinations
in the world.
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Grant
funds equipment for Sandy Island study
An anonymous grant is enabling Coastal to conduct geological
and archeological research on Sandy Island in Georgetown
County. Funds from the donation were used to help meet
the costs of conducting ground-penetrating radar surveys
at various sites on the island. The research, led by
Coastal marine science professors Scott Harris and Eric
Wright, is aimed at identifying the natural history
of the island with respect to archaeological site formation
and modification as well as identifying other possible
archaeological sites throughout the island.
Sandy
Island's unique history, topography and geographical
remoteness make it an extremely valuable research site
for scholars, according to Harris and Wright. The site
of several pre-Civil War rice plantations, the island
is accessible only by boat. "The farmland on the island
has not been cultivated with modern equipment and has
the potential to possess one of the longest intact archeological
records on the East coast," said Harris.
The
Nature Conservancy and the South Carolina Institute
of Archeology and Anthropology are also involved in
the project.
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Nicholson
named vice president of advancement
Danny
Nicholson |
William
Daniel Nicholson II has been named Coastal Carolina
University's vice president for advancement and executive
director of the Coastal Educational Foundation. The
vice president for advancement is responsible for identifying,
cultivating, soliciting and stewarding major donors
for the university including corporate prospects and
foundations. He will also provide leadership for the
management of the Coastal Educational Foundation, the
eleemosynary corporation that raises private funds for
the support and development of the university.
Nicholson
has 18 years of experience in South Carolina higher
education in the areas of corporate and foundation relations,
development, admissions, alumni affairs and athletics
fund-raising. He has held positions at the Medical University
of South Carolina, Charleston Southern University and
Coker College.
Nicholson
earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Charleston
Southern University and a master's degree in education
with an emphasis in higher education administration
from the University of South Carolina. He is pursuing
a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the
University of South Carolina.
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