SMC Under President Dr. Charles Teague

Dr. Charles P. Teague President of SMC

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• The College’s endowment has grown to $17.3 million
• The number of faculty has grown from 22 full-time to 27 full-time (as defined by IPEDS)
• Enrollment has grown from 502 in 1999 to 797 in 2007
• More than $9 million in new facilities have been constructed
  • Two new residence halls, Sparrow Residence Hall ($4.8 million) and Bridges ($3.4 million) Residence Hall have increased on-campus housing capacity by 210 rooms
  • The Phyllis Buchheit Board Room and Vassey Information Technology Center, a $1.1 million, 4,000-square foot facility was opened in spring 2007
• The SMC athletic department has added wrestling, men’s tennis, and women’s golf
• Numerous information technology expansions and improvements have been put in place at SMC, including smart classrooms, networking enhancements, and wireless Internet access across campus
• The SMC Office of Campus Safety became a fully-certified law enforcement office in August 2004, which now has four full-time officers.
• In 2000, SMC held its first Freshmen Day of Service - an event in which Freshmen participate their first weekend at SMC, which allows them the opportunity to give back to the community. In the eight years it has been held, SMC Freshmen have put in more than 8,000 hours of service in the Spartanburg community during this event. The event caught on at SMC and has grown to include service projects to area schools by athletes on the College's intercollegiate athletic teams, the Chaplain’s ministry, the Kappa Sigma Alpha service fraternity at SMC.
•  SMC joined in with the five other Spartanburg County colleges to form the CollegeTown program – which provides those college students opportunities to interact together at social gatherings and participates in community service projects during the annual CollegeTown Service Initiative (CSI) each winter