By Jessica Holdman | Reporter
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A South Carolina State University student walks outside the school's new engineering building Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. The board voted Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, to eliminate nine degree programs from its catalog. Across public universities statewide, nearly 200 programs have little-to-no participation. (File photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
By Jessica Holdman
Just over a third of South Carolina State University’s degree programs meet state policies for enrollment and graduation — the lowest rate of compliance among the Palmetto State’s public, four-year schools. Leaders of the historically Black college are taking steps to change that.
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The Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus, founded in 2011, consists of more than 35 tenors and basses “dedicated to artistic excellence, meaningful collaboration, and the power of choral music to build community and connection,” according to the group’s website. (Photo courtesy of Nakeshia Shannon)
By Jessica Holdman
The governing board of the South Carolina Arts Commission denied grants to a pair of LGBTQ+ arts groups in the Upstate without giving a reason. The board voted 5-3 Thursday to reject giving $13,000 to the Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus and almost $4,000 to Spartanburg’s Proud Mary Theatre Company.
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Processed lumber is stacked at Forest Products Timber West Mill in Rapid City, South Dakota, on March 18, 2026. Adeptus USA, a company that makes pine construction products, is moving into an abandoned textile plant in Honea Path, South Carolina. (Photo by Preston Keres/U.S. Forest Service)
By Jessica Holdman
A company that makes wood paneling, crown molding, shiplap and other pine construction products plans to invest $216 million in a manufacturing plant in Anderson County. Adeptus USA’s pledged investment is expected to bring 217 new jobs to the small town of Honea Path, 25 miles south of Greenville.
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When it comes to ostomy care, the lowest bid shouldn’t decide what a patient gets | Theresa Johnson, chief operating officer of Stomagienics Inc., an ostomy medical device company in Greenville
Remember the ‘us’ in the prayer to ‘give us this day our daily bread’ | Jessica Kaneft, director of the Sumter Nonprofit Network
SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story | Howard Franklin, founder and CEO of Ohio River South
Accountability strengthens public school choice in South Carolina | Steven Adamson, the 18th president of Erskine College
More than driver’s licenses: the lifesaving impact of your local DMV | Kevin Shwedo, executive director of the SC Department of Motor Vehicles
10 years after Townville, what did South Carolina learn? | columnist Paul Hyde
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