In 1961 South Carolina was in a crisis. The state’s primary employers were agriculture and textiles and talented young people were opting to leave South Carolina for better opportunities as they didn’t want to work on a farm or in a textile mill. South Carolina soon realized that they needed to diversify and attract new industry. In order to do that they needed to prove that there was a trained and skilled workforce in place for new businesses to be successful. So began the SC Technical College System.
This article was published by OurUpstateSC.info.
