The College

The College of Charleston is the oldest college in South Carolina and the oldest municipal college in the country. The founders of the college include three future signers of the Declaration of Independence, and three future signers of the United States Constitution. It is only fitting that an institute of learning founded by such luminaries would continue to strive to meet the demands of growing and flourishing nation.

With the leaps and bounds technology has made in the last century, The School of Sciences and Mathematics has not only kept up with innovation, but pushed what we thought was capable to the bleeding edge of progress. Because of this, it is bittersweet that today I announce that the The School of Sciences and Mathematics will no longer be under the College of Charleston banner, and that the Southeast Commonwealth College of Technology will be added to the family of Charleston institutions of higher learning.

Today is a proud day for all Cougars, let's cheer on our brothers and sisters as they march on into the unknown of tomorrow!

History

The Southeast Commonwealth College of Technology was known in the pre-War era as the top university for aspiring inventors and scientists in the Southeast Commonwealth. The university was staffed with some of the most foreword-thinking minds of the time. While the faculty of SCCT often lived in the shadow of the Commonwealth Institute of Technology, the school did produce the likes of J. W. Stillwater of Super Pack Co., Sherri Lickmann of Lickmann's Sauce Company, and L. Clifford “Cliff” Reeler of Saddle Up Food and Beverage Co..

After the university split off from The College of Charleston, it quickly overtook the former university in both prominence and funding. Soon SCCT was housed in a brand new state-of-the-art campus in downtown and was attracting promising minds from around the world. It wasn't long before SCCT was colloquially known as "The College", as it became the premiere university in the Charleston area.

In the years leading up to the Great War, the brightest graduates from SCCT were recruited into various corporations coming to Charleston to take advantage of federal funding. One would we hard pressed to have found an R&D lab during this era without at least one or two SCCT graduates in the room.

The campus of SCCT still stands in the central area of the Charleston Peninsula, and there have been rumors about people in strange outfits being spotted scavenging through the area. Rumor has it they have even been spotted as far north as the Arcjet Systems Communications Lab.