
The new semester begins on January 8!
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The new semester begins on January 8!
The new semester starts on January 8! Many questions will be answered...
What does this sign mean? Your life may depend on it!
As 2024 comes to a close, let's give a tip of the hat to our former English colleague David Shields, who retired this year after 45 years of teaching. David left The Citadel several years ago to become a professor of English and History at the University of South Carolina. Now that he is retired, don't expect any slow down from this prolific and popular scholar! Here is a recent update from the great man himself:
"In the past 12 months I began shooting a TV show for SCETV, The Savers of Flavors, was named with collaborator Giselle Kennedy Lords as finalist for the James Beard book award in culinary history for THE ARK OF TASTE, have finished the manuscript of Taste the State Georgia (co-written with Kevin Mitchell and now in the hands of the press), published 100 brief essays on my Foodlore & More blog site, delivered talks to groups in CT, MI, GA, AR, SC, KY, and MO, and conveyed rare seeds to about 20 people & institutions."
We will all be looking forward to his new insights and discoveries in 2025 and beyond!
Students in our Fine Arts program, including English major Lucy McArthur (third from left), performed with the College of Charleston's orchestra this month. Their performance was very well received at the College, and we hope to make this an enduring tradition for the talented orchestral musicians in the SCCC. Thank you to our department's Tiffany Silverman, Citadel Director of Fine Arts, for making this opportunity possible!
The Citadel's chaplain, LTC Aaron Meadows '05, USAF, teaches in our department's Philosophy minor. His "World Religions" class is the first course at The Citadel to combine students from the SCCC with online students from our new partner college, East African Christian College in Rwanda! Dr. Meadow's class is an experiment, but we hope it can pave the way for further educational contact between The Citadel and students in other countries.
Professor Lauren Rule Maxwell, director of The Citadel's Distinguished Scholars Program, recently hosted an event for D.S.P. students and those seeking admission to the program in the Capers Hall courtyard. She was joined by one of our department's own distinguished alumni, Citadel chief counsel Mark Brandenburg '89!
Dr. Lindsey Spring, Director of The Citadel's Writing Lab and a teaching member of our department, led with Melanie Maddox of the General Education Program a recent workshop for FSWI 101 instructors covering how best to evaluate student essays for general-education assessment. The training was valuable for those of us tasked with generating data that The Citadel can use to track improvement in students' writing from freshman to senior year!
It was great to welcome back to campus English alumna Rachel Rogers (now Rachel Hamrick) '05! After serving as an officer in the Air Force after graduation, Rachel became an attorney in Charlotte, NC, and she has recently agreed to join the advisory board for The Citadel School of Humanities and Social Sciences. We are happy to have her back as part of the SHSS team!
Professors Scott Lucas, Tom Horan, and Glen Wood were happy to welcome back to campus English alumnus R. Gordon Bell '74. Gordon donated to the department copies of his poetry collection _Whispers of Madmen_, co-written with Matt Fontana '77, and a framed copy of one of his longer pieces. Gordon has health issues that limit his mobility, so we greatly appreciated him making the trek to Capers Hall during Homecoming Weekend to see us!
Professors Lauren Rule Maxwell and Lindsey Spring were in the Capers Hall atrium the other day to inform students about post-graduate fellowship opportunities. Prof. Maxwell is the director of The Citadel's Distinguished Scholars Program and Dr. Spring is the director of The Citadel Writing Lab.
Earlier this month, Professor Tiffany Silverman, our Director of Fine Arts, invited the members of the Naval Aviation Alumni Choir to perform in the Capers Hall auditorium. As a special treat, she gave the choir a Fine Arts patch and made them all honorary Citadel Fine Arts minors!
This wouldn't happen if the artist was one of our department's many Fine Arts minors!