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The College of Charleston board of trustees voted unanimously on Wednesday to name Andrew Hsu the 23rd president of the school.
Hsu, currently the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Toledo in Ohio, will be the first person of color to serve as president in the college’s 248-year history.
One of our daughters went to Furman.It was as advertised
The other daughter went to CoC, and her experience exceeded expectations.CoC is a better school than we instaters realize.Folks from out of state have known this fo awhile.
We are very fortunate here in the Lowcountry as most of our colleges are top notch. My ex's son is at the Citadel and the network of alumni there is 2nd to none.
The C of C is, IIRC, one of the oldest public universities in the USA. Great central city location. I stayed at the Francis Marion Hotel a couple of years ago and it's right next to the school.
Well this alumni is quite pleased by his selection. President Hsu has a forward looking perspective needed to propel Cofc’s positive trajectory even higher. Congrats to him!
The unspoken aspect of this selection is that he is the first truly academic selection in a while. All three would have been to some degree.
The previous 4 presidents have been two with more political connections than academic (or even managerial), one whose main selling point was fundraising and one who was focused on taking the college upscale/up market. I think all had good intentions- and successes and failures. But this one appears likely to be a more active President- as opposed to being more of a PR person or fundraiser who defers heavily to the EVP.
He also has an engineering background at a time when the school wants to move more into those fields. The lady from Purdue also received high marks from the people I know who sat in on some of the different faculty and staff sessions. And the one from Kentucky would have been the most direct presidency to presidency hire. I will say all three were qualified and had distinct points of view/strengths. I think the whole process went a long way towards heeling some of the rifts that occurred with McConnell's selection.
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