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Presbyterian College Hires Matt Smith as New Head Women’s Soccer Coach

Presbyterian College Director of Athletics Dee Nichols has formally introduced the second-ever head coach of the Blue Hose women’s soccer program, announcing the hire of South Carolina native Matt Smith. A former assistant under previous coach Brian Purcell – who retired in October after over three decades as the program’s lone coach – Smith brings

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Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy offering new accelerated online pathway

The Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy is planning to offering a one-of-a-kind online avenue for pharmacy students through its new Accelerated Distance Pathway (ADP). Pending approval by ACPE at its June 2024 meeting, the new pathway will be ready to launch in January 2025. The innovative curriculum will gives students more time – three and

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Daniel Hall to serve as interim vice president for finance and administration

Daniel Hall has been chosen as the interim vice president for finance and administration at Presbyterian College. Following a nationwide search for the college’s next vice president for finance that concluded this year, PC elected to hire an interim to serve through 2025. Hall, who has more than 30 years of executive experience in corporate

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First-year students at PC explore service entrepreneurship

A class for first-year students at Presbyterian College found new ways to combat and even fix social problems in their communities. The class, taught by PC business professor Karen Mattison, allowed students to develop individual business models to solve issues in their hometowns. Designed only for first-year students, the service entrepreneurship class dovetails the college’s

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Presbyterian College Physician Assistant program earns continuing accreditation from ARC-PA

This fall, the Presbyterian College Physician Assistant program reached a significant milestone by earning continuing accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). ARC-PA is the accrediting agency responsible for establishing standards for PA education and evaluates PA education programs to ensure those standards are met. For graduates, coming from

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Former Blue Hose inducted into the S.C. Tennis Hall of Fame

The distinguished contribution of a former Blue Hose was recognized and immortalized this fall. Chuck Waldron ’80 of Clinton was inducted this month into the South Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony held Nov. 18 at the Wild Dunes Resort on the Isle of Palms. Waldron played competitively for Presbyterian College and dedicated

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Dr. Monica Keen named director of Occupational Therapy Doctoral program

Presbyterian College announced today that Dr. Monica (Moni) Keen has been chosen as the new director for the college’s Occupational Therapy Doctoral program. Keen joined the program’s staff in 2021 as an adjunct instructor and is currently an associate professor and the capstone coordinator for the professional doctoral program. She begins her new duties on

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PC professor Dr. Jaclyn Sumner’s first book hits shelves Nov. 14

by Kathryn Dover Presbyterian College history professor Dr. Jaclyn Sumner will have her first book published this month with Stanford University Press. The book, Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico, is a project that she has been working on for more than a decade, starting with her 2014 dissertation at the

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