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ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. – On Thursday night, 2012 Presbyterian College graduate and 12-year National Football League veteran Justin Bethel made Blue Hose history by becoming the first PC athlete to be inducted into the Big South Conference Hall of Fame. Joining Clayton Almeida and Mark Cooke (Winthrop men’s tennis and softball, respectively) in the

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            Biology professor Dr. Margot Petukh has noticed a trend with biology majors at PC. “Each passing year witnesses a steady increase in the number of students opting to enroll in Master’s and PhD programs,” Petukh said. “This indicates a growing inclination toward research-oriented career paths.” A new partnership between PC

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Dr. Lacy Feigh ’12 remembers the first time she studied abroad. It was a Maymester in China right after her first year at Presbyterian College. “It shook me,” she said. The experience not only shook Feigh but also shaped her in ways that only PC can – from a first-year student taking her first history

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Presbyterian College alumna Angel Cooke ’23, pictured with her students, is Kershaw County’s Outstanding First Year Teacher of the Year. Kaitlyn Thompson ‘20 and Angel Cooke ‘23, now elementary school teachers in Clinton and Camden, respectively, were both named top educators for the 2023-2024 academic year. by Sarah Murphy Two Presbyterian College Department of Education

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Two Presbyterian College alumni will forever share an ironic connection from their alma mater’s 141stCommencement. At age 19, Xiomora Lindsay ‘24 is one of the youngest people to ever graduate from PC. At age 97, Jerry Smith is certainly the oldest to walk across the same iconic stage on the Vance Plaza. A mere 74

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Presbyterian College announced today that Dr. Brandon Vinson will serve as the college’s new vice president of enrollment management. Vinson, who has more than 15 years of experience in higher education, prevailed in a nationwide search assisted by Hyatt-Fennell Executive Search. “Dr. Vinson brings with him broad experience in enrollment management, and I am excited

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The United States Army added eight new officers, including four from Presbyterian College, during the 2025 Army Reserve Officer Training Corps commissioning ceremony on May 10. The eight newly-commissioned second lieutenants represented the Highlander Battalion, which trains cadets from PC, Lander University, and Newberry College. In her welcome, PC president Dr. Anita Gustafson praised the

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Graduating education majors officially became teachers during the Teacher Induction Ceremony on Friday, May 10. The event took place in the Harrington-Peachtree Amphitheatre.  Katie Thompson ’20, Teacher of the Year at Clinton Elementary School, was this year’s guest speaker. She remembered being in the soon-to-be graduates’ shoes.  “This is my fourth year teaching,” she said,

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  At Presbyterian College, no one asks for whom the bagpipes blow each spring. They blow one last time for every graduating Blue Hose Underneath the oaks on the Vance Plaza on May 11, the Class of 2024 was celebrated at the college’s 141stcommencement for the College of Arts and Sciences on May 11 and

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Presbyterian College’s Class of 2024 was encouraged with words from a pop song written before they were born – and uplifted by words that are eternal. In her 2024 Baccalaureate address, the Rev. Rebekah Close LeMon, senior pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, Ga., opened with a few verses from Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 hit

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