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Welcome to the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program website. The HESA Program at the University of South Carolina is part of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies in the College of Education. The program offers two degree programs, a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs and a doctorate in Educational Administration with an Emphasis in Higher Education. Our programs are designed to prepare leaders to serve colleges and universities at various levels. Through our service, the HESA Program assists individuals as well as public and private agencies and institutions in improving professional practice and performance within higher education. Through our scholarship, the HESA faculty extend the limits of knowledge in the field of Higher Education and Student Affairs and refine existing theory, practice, and policy.
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For those of you who may not know, there is a tradition in the HESA Master's program - students do not touch The Torch Bearer (the horse statue in front of Wardlaw) until after they take Comps. They say that if you touch the horse before Comps, you won't pass.
Today the MEd students started a new tradition! Our thesis writers went outside and purposely touched the horse, committing themselves to writing their thesis. Thesis writers also hold their own weeekly group library writing sessions to keep momentum going. Write On, Thesis Writers!!!
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Dr. Katherine Chaddock & Dr. Kent Cubbage
December Graduation 2009
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Congratulations to the 2009 Graduates of the USC Technical College Leadership Program! (Shown here with Drs. Frock, Welsh, Hudgins and Chaddock)
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The HESA Student Personnel Association (SPA) held its annual End of the Year Banquet on Friday, May 1, 2009 at Seawell's Restaurant in Columbia. The organization presented the following awards:
Outstanding Faculty Member: Barbara Tobolowsky
Outstanding Staff Member: Jimmie Gahagan
Outstanding Second-Year Student: Lauren Sanchez
Outstanding First-Year Student: Kathleen Hart
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Dr. Katherine Chaddock recently received the prestigious University of South Carolina 2009 Mungo Graduate Faculty Teaching Award. The award is presented by the University President to only one Columbia Campus faculty member who teaches graduate courses. The award is highly competitive and highly coveted across academic units. Congratulations, Dr. Chaddock!
Graduation 2009
Drs. Maher, Foote, and Chaddock
Drs. Foote & Chaddock
Drs. Battle-Bryant & Chaddock
Drs. Keeling, Battle-Bryant, Maher, & Gallman-Derienzo
Drs. Chaddock & McGreevey
Dr. Jimmie Gahagan, wife & two children
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Boot Camp June 2009 - Charleston, SC
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Dr. Chaddock and former Interim Dean Fred Medway don their Stetsons to give Dr. Tobolowsky an appropriate send-off to her new faculty appointment at University of Texas, Arlington
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Dr. Chaddock and doctoral students Matteel King, Willette Burnham, and Nancy Weber share quality scholarly time at the May 2009 Write On! held at Matteel’s
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Seventh Cohort of the South Carolina Technical College System
Higher Education Administration graduate students at a policy seminar in Washington, DC, October 2008
Jill Burya giving her talk on Taiwan as part of the "HESA Student Speaker Series on International Experiences in Higher Education" on September 23, 2008