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ELGIN, SC (WACH) — Graduates of Benedict College’s newly accredited Environmental Engineering Program walked away last weekend with much more than just a degree, they were taken out of the classroom and gained hands-on training to prepare them for the future. It was a collaboration between South Carolina Water Utilities (SCWU) and Benedict where students were […]

Featured photo (above): Kylah Montgomery (standing behind podium) shared with Gov. McMaster (left), members of the General Assembly, fellow S.C. higher education students (in audience), and the media the importance of the Tuition Grants program to her education at Benedict College. APRIL 25, 2023 BY SC INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES COLUMBIA, S.C. -– Kylah Montgomery, a Benedict College

COLUMBIA, SC (WACH) — “No more guns, we want peace.” It’s the chant coming from dozens of community members and law enforcement officials on Thursday as they march the Annual Anti-Gun Violence Walk at Benedict College. The purpose? To fight for an end to gun violence… and advocate for safer action in the city of Columbia

Benedict College Career Development Services hosted our partner UCOR on February 22 and 23, 2023. UCOR conducts federal supersite cleanup activities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at the Y-12 National Security Complex and East Tennessee Technology Park. It acts as the Department of Energy’s prime contractor for environmental cleanup. UCOR has hired two Benedict

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Vice President Kamala Harris promoted the Biden administration’s achievements on broadband internet access during a visit to South Carolina, recently minted as the site of Democrats’ first presidential votes of the 2024 campaign. In Monday’s trip, her fourth to the early-voting state since becoming vice president, Harris lauded more than $175 million being spent to help

NORFOLK, Va. – Nine jazz ensembles from Historically Black Colleges and Universities competed in Norfolk, Saturday, for the chance to open for jazz great Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The competition inside Chrysler Hall was judged by Marsalis and other musicians from his group, including trombonist Vincent Gardner, a native of Hampton.

“Devoted to the Goal” by Sarah Windmueller As a college athlete, standout student, and one of the first Army ROTC Cadets from Benedict College to branch aviation in over 30 years, Corey Witter knows he wouldn’t be where he is today without family. After losing his mother to breast cancer at the age of 14,