Areyonna Keels, Coker class of 2015, is the winner of the Coker University Alumni Association’s 2020 Outstanding Young Alumni Award. This prestigious award is given annually by the Alumni Association and presented to a graduate of the past 20 years who has already made significant achievements in his or her chosen profession and who shows exceptional potential for future accomplishments.
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Sep 25, 2020
Carol Turner Atkinson Receives Coker University Alumni Association’s 2020 Outstanding Service Award
Carol Turner Atkinson, Class of 1973, is the winner of Coker University Alumni Association’s 2020 Outstanding Service Award. This prestigious award is given annually by the Alumni Association to a graduate who has highly demonstrated their commitment to Coker’s ideals of character, culture and service.
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Thirty-two Coker University students received $137,000 in scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year from the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, a public charity that provides support for the education of female students in nine Southeastern states.
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Sep 14, 2020
Coker Included in U.S. News & World Report as a Best Regional University (South), Recognized for Social Mobility
Earlier today, U.S. News & World Report released their 2021 Best Colleges rankings, which includes Coker University as one of America’s Best Regional Universities (South). This is the 25th consecutive year Coker has been included in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges rankings.
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Coker University has been included in The Princeton Review’s “2021 Best Colleges: Region by Region” web feature as a “Best Southeastern” school, making this the institution’s 16th consecutive year on the list.
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Aug 28, 2020
New Faculty Members Join Coker University
Dr. Susan Daniels Henderson, Provost and Dean of Faculty of Coker University, recently announced the addition of three new faculty members: Jasmine Baetz, Charlie Domahidi, and Jesse Galas.
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Coker University was recently awarded a 2020 TRIO Student Support Services Program Grant for $261,888 annually for the next five years, which will help the institution provide additional academic and support services to first-generation students, low-income students, and students with disabilities.
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Beginning this summer, with the help of a generous grant from the F. Allen and Louise K. Turner Foundation, Kalmia Gardens of Coker University is launching the Kalmia Club for Kids (KCK), a subscription-based club where local children can access STEAM-based educational projects bi-monthly through an assigned mailbox located outside of Kalmia’s Joslin Education Center.
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Coker University recently awarded full-tuition Excellence in Teaching scholarships to two deserving Teachers of the Year: a M.Ed. in Literacy Studies scholarship was awarded to Sarah Watts-Spivey, an elementary teacher at York Preparatory Academy and York Preparatory’s 2018-2019 Teacher of the Year, and a M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instructional Technology scholarship was awarded to Nichole Scipio, Biology and Project Lead the Way (PLTW) biomedical science teacher at West Florence High School ...
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On behalf of Coker University and its Board of Trustees, Angie Stanland, Chairman of the Board, announced today the election of Dr. Natalie Harder as the institution’s 17th president. Dr. Harder, Chancellor of South Louisiana Community College (SLCC), will begin her term as president of Coker University on June 1.
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