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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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Presbyterian College offering South Carolina’s first undergraduate degree for teaching multilingual students

Presbyterian College’s response to South Carolina’s growing need for instructing students who are not native English speakers is the state’s first undergraduate degree for teaching English to multilingual students. Dr. Patti Jones, chair of PC’s education department, said the S.C. Department of Education has already approved the college’s new multilingual major for students teaching pre-kindergarten

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Presbyterian College Chamber Orchestra to hold fall concert, Nov. 7

The Presbyterian College Chamber Orchestra will hold its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7, in Edmunds Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. Led by PC professor of music Dr. Richard Thomas, the concert will feature adjunct faculty member Ashley Horvat performing Violin Concerto No. 2 by classical music’s first

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PC to honor national First-Gen College Celebration with weeklong slate of events

Presbyterian College is putting out the call to celebrate its community of first-generation college students with a full week of events, workshops, and programs, Nov. 4-11. Nationally, the First-Generation College Celebration is held each Nov. 8 to commemorate the 1965 signing of the Higher Education Act by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The act created federal

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