Green Bay Packers Win; CSU Students Pack in Food
By Kirsten Coleman While the Green Bay Packers triumphed in the 2011 Super Bowl, hundreds of CSU students packed into the CAF for the annual Souper Bowl of Caring. All of the Souper Bowl of Caring food donations will provide emergency food relief for those who need it most in North Charleston. Students donated 238 canned goods for North Charleston’s Celebration Station, a nonprofit faith-based organization whose mission is to provide support for those in need. According to a 2009 USDA report, in South Carolina, 13.1 percent of the population lives with food insecurity.
After-school education program offers leadership positions in area schools
WINGS for kids, an award-winning education program focused on social and emotional learning is hiring new leaders for the 2011-2012 academic year. The organization has launched a new recruitment Website, www.wingsleader.com, and is hiring area university students for its next group of WINGS leaders. WINGS leaders provide daily guidance to 8-12 kids, leading them in activities designed to accomplish weekly objectives. Social and emotional learning objectives are woven into the curriculum to strengthen kids’ connection to school and diminish bad behavior – the two factors that educational research shows determine future success. Leaders work each weekday afternoon during the school year, except elementary school holidays, and earn a competitive...
FTS gets lesson from Lowcountry author
On October 13, 2010, Charleston Southern University’s Future Teachers’ Society was privileged to hear author Nadine Johnson speak. A South Carolina children’s author and graphic designer, Johnson says that her five-year-old son is her inspiration for the books. Johnson noticed a lack of cultural diversity in children’s literature and wanted to create books that reach out in particular to African American children. She created the Last Night I Dreamt series to show children that there is hope and that they need to dream. The primary characters, an African American boy and girl, envision themselves in various professions, each time wearing the appropriate uniforms and performing the appropriate actions. She explained that when children have no dream for...
Fall Career Expo: Transitioning from Student to Professional
Charleston Southern University will host the 2010 Fall Career Expo this Thursday from 1-3 p.m. in the Brewer Center gym. The CSU Career Expo is a critical tool for job search success – whether job-seekers use them to get internships or jobs, or whether job-seekers use them as a networking tool for future employment. At CSU, our Career Expos and Education Fairs are designed to connect you with Charleston Southern University graduates and current students to discuss employment and graduate studies. CSU students must dress professionally and have a resume. For more information, contact The Career Center at 863-8019, or visit the office on the first floor of the Strom Thurmond Center. For more information or to register online, click...
Professor Phillips Published
The Dead Mule, an online poetry journal, features two poems written by Suzan Phillips. Professor Phillips teaches several English classes and is the director of the Bridge Program. She has been writing poetry all of her life and absolutely loves it. Although this isn’t her first time being published, she is still excited to see her work online. For students looking to publish their own works, either now or in the future, Phillips says, “Don’t be pretentious. Be real. Be yourself. Expect rejection.” Check out some online journals, research them, and decide if your poetry or your fiction is a good fit for the scope of the journal before you send in your work. If you’re looking to start small in the publishing world, submit your work to The...
Texting While Driving Simulator: Come Face the Reality
Students will have the opportunity to take a spin in a car turned simulator that will show the effects of texting while driving and driving under the influence. On Wednesday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. around the Reflection Pond, the department of counseling is holding an eye-opening event sure to benefit us all. Want to see what you may look like in 10 years if you keep up that smoking habit? Come and you can find out with the same technology used by the FBI to determine age progression. Above and beyond the simulators brought to us by UNITE, there will be a number of sponsors on hand to inform students and the local community alike about prevention, protection and available wellness programs. Expect to see representatives from Willing Way Hospital with...