South Carolina H 5351: South Carolina Higher Education Day

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2025-2026 Bill 5351 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 11, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5351

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A concurrent RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE APRIL 16, 2026, AS "SOUTH CAROLINA 
HIGHER EDUCATION DAY."

Whereas, the South Carolina 
Commission on Higher Education has provided strategic and collaborative 
leadership to public colleges and universities for fifty-nine years; and

Whereas, South Carolina 
Independent Colleges and Universities has represented independent, private 
institutions of higher education for seventy-three years; and

Whereas, the South Carolina 
Technical College System has overseen public technical institutions of higher 
education for sixty-five years; and

Whereas, seventy-four 
institutions of higher learning across South Carolina serve more than two 
hundred and fifty-two thousand students, of whom seventy-four percent are South 
Carolina residents; and

Whereas, an accessible and 
affordable higher education for every South Carolinian is essential to ensuring 
that our State has the trained and skilled workforce to compete for jobs and 
investments in the future; and

Whereas, higher levels of 
education provide many benefits not only to students, but their families, and 
the communities in which they live and work; and

Whereas, public and independent 
colleges and universities in the Palmetto State share a common commitment to 
promoting critical thinking and creativity by preparing their students to be 
engaged citizens; and

Whereas, graduates of 
colleges and universities serve in positions of leadership throughout South 
Carolina, helping to secure the brightest future for our State. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the 
South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, recognize April 16, 2026, 
as "South Carolina Higher Education Day."

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