South Carolina could close historically black tech college
One S.C. technical college’s 70-year history could come to an end if a recommendation by a state board is approved.
Faced with declining enrollment and concerns about the school’s finances, the president of the state technical college system is recommending Denmark Tech close its doors – at least as an independently run college.
Local leaders are worried about the effect of losing the small-town institution in an economically challenged rural area, 50 miles south of Columbia.
S.C. technical school system president Tim Hardee recommended to legislative leaders that Denmark Tech’s service area – Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell counties – be merged into a neighboring tech college.
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