The Pioneer Pinnacle
Every year, Spartanburg Methodist College students engage their curiosity in the pursuit of knowledge. Inspired by dedicated professors, students share their original research and demonstrate their intellectual skills in high-quality research papers or projects submitted at the end of a course. The research produced through Spartanburg Methodist College classes is inspiring, and the Pioneer Pinnacle offers us a way to recognize the many facets of academic excellence that characterize the work we do here.
The Pioneer Pinnacle is a brand-new interdisciplinary journal that showcases a select set of high-quality research papers authored by students at Spartanburg Methodist College. We also invite research projects that are not the typical research paper completed for a class.
We are looking for papers from any discipline at Spartanburg Methodist College. This includes Science, Business, Religion, History, Psychology, English, Criminal Justice, or the Fine Arts.
As a student at Spartanburg Methodist College, you are invited to submit your own research paper for possible publication in the Pioneer Pinnacle.
If chosen, you will have your work published in the Pioneer Pinnacle, which is published on the college's website. You will also have the honor of listing a publication on your resume, and you will be recognized at a reception when we launch the journal.
What happens next?
Submissions are collected year-round. Students will be notified by email of the status of their submissions by email. The Pioneer Pinnacle will be published annually, usually in the fall.
Students retain all rights to their own work. All work will be edited by the Pioneer Pinnacle prior to publication.
Contact information
If you have any questions, please reach out!
Kristen Welch, Assistant Professor of English, welchk@smcsc.edu
Maria Kithcart, Assistant Professor of Business, kithcartm@smcsc.edu