University of South Carolina professors fill the theater of Russell House on the Columbia campus Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, to hear from Board Chairman Thad Westbrook on the college’s involvement in a new accrediting agency. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
COLUMBIA — Hundreds of University of South Carolina professors packed a campus theater to hear from college leadership — many for the first time — on the involvement of the state’s largest university system in a new college accrediting commission under development in Florida.
It was standing room only in the 300-seat Russell House theater Wednesday during an event to introduce new faculty members — a meeting that in the past has been sparsely attended by the school’s nearly 1,800 teaching faculty…