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The World Needs Visionaries
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Claflin Awarded $50K Grant in the Home Depot Retool Your School Competition
Claflin University has been awarded a $50,000 grant in the 2020 Home Depot Retool Your School Competition. We could not have done this without your help!
Want to show your Claflin pride - and celebrate our win? Click
here to download and share our special celebration message on social media and use the hashtag @HomeDepotRetool.
Stay tuned to hear about the campus project!
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Claflin University Selected as a
Continuous Quality Improvement Exemplar
Claflin University was selected as the Continuous Quality Improvement Exemplar for the HBCU cohort at the annual Frontier Set convening out of 29 institutions and two state systems. Only six exemplars were selected. The Frontier Set is a select group of high-performing, high-potential colleges and universities, state systems, and supporting organizations that are committed to dramatically increasing student success and erasing attainment gaps by transforming how they operate.
Claflin Team: Ms.
Iris Purvis, assessment and testing coordinator; Dr. Twaina Harris, director of academic advising; Dr. Denver Malcom Key, site lead/director of Academic Success Center; Dr.
Bridget Dewees, assistant vice president for institutional effectiveness; and Mr. Muhammad Hossain, instructional technology coordinator.
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Lance Reese, a sophomore mass communications major from Columbia, S.C., was selected from more than 100 applicants for inclusion in the MediaWise Voter Project. Reese, and 10 students from other diverse colleges and universities across America, will work to train their peers how to tell fact from fiction online in advance of the 2020 election.
The project, a nonprofit and nonpartisan program of The Poynter Institute, aims to teach digital literacy skills to first-time voters in the 2020 election. In a time when the spread of misinformation online is rampant, MediaWise and its partners aim to teach young people how to debunk misinformation online.
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 Congratulations to Dr. Scott Ryan, assistant professor of religion and biblical studies, for publishing his book titled "Divine Conflict and the Divine Warrior: Listening to Romans and Other Jewish Voices." In the publication, Dr. Ryan situates Paul's letter to the Romans as one voice among a number of Jewish voices that frame God as a divine warrior. You can purchase the book by clicking here.
 Dr. Kathryn Silva, chair of the Department of Humanities and assistant professor, served as a keynote speaker during the 2020 South Carolina Nonprofit Summit on March 5. Dr. Silva's session, The SC Story, helped to tell the state's long history on race relations. This year's summit, themed Facing Race Together, offered "an immersive learning experience to aid attendees and their organizations in better understanding and tackling issues of race, equity and inclusion (REI)," according to its website.
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 Dr. DaNine J. Fleming, '96, with support from the Lambda Nu Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., dropped by the University on Good Friday to deliver care packages to students who were unable to return home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pictured are her children, Donte' and Sydnei (current freshman) and Dillon Beckford, executive director of housing and residential life. We thank you for your continued support, Dr. Fleming!
 Terrance Orr, '12
, was featured in HBCUvc's 31 Under 31. HBCUvc hosts conversations on technology and entrepreneurship. Orr is a portfolio associate at Techstars Chicago, where he is responsible for helping to build and grow the next amazing batch of startups from early-stage to venture-backed companies. Additionally, he's a Venture Capital Fellow at GlobalX Ventures, an emerging early-stage fund focusing on influencer marketing, eSports, and distributed ledger technology. Prior to supporting and investing in entrepreneurs, Orr spent nearly seven years working at Dell Technologies in Product Management, Business Development, and Strategic Consulting. He is currently in graduate school at Northwestern University.
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Claflin University Athletics Recognizes 117 Student-Athletes During National Student-Athlete Day
The Athletics Department virtually honored 117 student-athletes during National Student-Athlete Day on Monday, April 6. S
tudent-athletes with a 3.0 grade point average or better were honored.
National Student-Athlete Day is a NCAA Initiative that recognizes the accomplishments of student-athletes nationwide who excel in the classroom, on the playing field and in their communities. National Student-Athlete Day was created by the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) and the Northeastern University Center for the Study of Sport in Society, with partnership from the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations. NCAA involvement began in 1994.
"It is important to recognize the academic achievement as well as the athletic achievements," said Athletics Director Dr. Jerome Fitch.
"To have 72 percent (117 of 162 student-athletes) of the total number of student-athletes honored during this day was really a great achievement."
Click
here to see the roster of athletes that were recognized.
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Calendar of Events
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The Panther Pride calendar provides dates of academic and cultural events during the 2019-2020 school year. Click here
to view the calendar.
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@Claflin is published by the Office of Communications & Marketing
President: Dr. Dwaun J. Warmack
Vice President for Institutional Advancement: Rev. Dr. Whittaker V. Middleton, '73
Assistant Vice President for Communications & Marketing: George Johnson Jr.
Public Relations Director: J. Craig Cotton
Public Relations/Social Media Coordinator: Charnita Mack
Web Communications Manager: Colin Myers, '07
Sports Information Director: Romanda Noble-Watson
Photographers: Cecil Williams, '60, Geoff Henderson and Colin Myers, '07
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