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USC Salkehatchie outlines student supports, STEM bus grant and nursing partnerships for Colleton County

2497195 · March 5, 2025
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USC Salkehatchie campus dean Dr. April Cohen presented enrollment and scholarship figures, a nearly $1.9 million Department of Energy grant for a STEM outreach bus focused on clean energy education, and ongoing nursing partnerships that serve Colleton County students.

Dr. April Cohen, campus dean at USC Salkehatchie, told the Colleton County Council that the regional campus is expanding local education and outreach efforts, including a recently awarded grant to fund a mobile STEM unit.

"We were established in 1965," Dr. Cohen said, describing the small-campus environment and the university's student-faculty ratio of about 14 to 1. She said USC Salkehatchie served more than 5,000 students in the last decade and enrolled 281 Colleton County students in 2024-25; the campus has awarded nearly $2.27…

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