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Bits and bytes missing from USC Upstate

Computer thefts now number 58 since August

FEBRUARY 14, 2010 12:28 p.m. Comments (1)

University of South Carolina Upstate has two or three “persons of interest” in a string of classroom computer thefts that began in August.

USC Upstate Police Chief Klay Peterson said while authorities have identified the persons of interest, he’s not ready to name them suspects or to say arrests in the case are imminent. Continue reading...

Brick and mortarboards

MAY 21, 2010 12:35 p.m. Comments (0)

The best minds in business don’t need to be hidden in an ivory tower miles from Spartanburg’s commercial district, University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides said.

They need to be brought to Main Street – or at least in this case, St. John Street. Continue reading...

Warhol is here

Exhibitions boost city's cultural possibilities

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 1:53 p.m. Comments (3)

For more information, go to www.uscupstate.edu/warhol.

Jane Nodine almost threw away the University of South Carolina Upstate’s chance at owning a collection of photographs by famous pop artist Andy Warhol.

Back in 2007, Nodine was cleaning papers off her desk when a letter with the Andy Warhol Foundation’s return address caught her attention. Continue reading...

He's taking it all in stride

For Gilbert Kemboi, it's an education

NOVEMBER 2, 2010 8:46 a.m. Comments (0)

Gilbert Kemboi grew up in the Rift Valley of Kenya racing the sunset home from elementary school.

It was a long way from his school to the safety of home and he’s a long way from there today.

He grew up outside of Eldoret, Kenya. His small community was a place of subsistence farms and large families; of few paved roads and many footpaths. Continue reading...

The George

It's already paying off

NOVEMBER 19, 2010 12:45 p.m. Comments (0)

George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and Economics at USC Upstate is winding up its first fall semester and the impact of the school on the City of Spartanburg is already evident.

“I can’t provide numbers this early on,” says Patty Bock, the economic development director of the City of Spartanburg, “but the USC Upstate Business School has definitely made a positive economic impact on the city, and it goes beyond our downtown.”

She says between faculty, staff and students, the school known as “The George” brings in nearly 1,000 people into downtown every day. Continue reading...

BMW pro-am enlists help from local college students

BMW tournament organizers hope to broaden event's appeal with a little help from college students here

OCTOBER 7, 2011 10:35 a.m. Comments (0)

When Tom Holgate attended the BMW Charity Pro-Am last year he saw a flourishing tournament, but also realized how much more of an impact the event could have on Spartanburg.

“This needs to become a more prominent event for everybody,” said Holgate, president of American Credit Acceptance, who organized a program to bring the heft of four Spartanburg colleges to increase interest in the Pro-Am in Spartanburg, which tournament organizers said has remained stagnant.

The tournament is held at Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg, Thornblade Club in Greenville and this year, the Greenville Country Club’s Chanticleer Course has been added. Continue reading...

USC Upstate makes another try for a Greenville campus

School learned lessons from protests, questions that doomed 2005 attempt

MARCH 29, 2012 11:27 a.m. Comments (1)

A firestorm of political protest erupted in 2005 when the University of South Carolina Upstate proposed building a campus in Greenville adjacent to Greenville Tech.

Then-Chancellor John Stockwell’s plan was dropped just a few months later after lawmakers expressed concern over what would happen to the University Center – a consortium of colleges that offer classes in part of the old McAlister Square on Pleasantburg Drive – without the school that offered the lion’s share of undergraduate classes at the facility and how the school proposed to pay for it.

Now, six years later, there’s once again talk of USC Upstate about building a campus in Greenville. Continue reading...