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Incoming Winthrop President Jayne Marie Comstock meets reporters at the end of her visit in February. Her husband Larry Williamson is at right.

Jayne Comstock named Winthrop's next president

By a unanimous vote, Jayne Marie Comstock was named Winthrop University’s 10th president. Comstock, through a Skype internet web camera, accepted the job just moments later.

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EDUCATION

Winthrop trustees may hire DiGiorgio’s successor today

Nearly a year after Winthrop University President Anthony DiGiorgio announced his retirement, the school’s Board of Trustees is set this morning to hire his successor.
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LIVE updates from Winthrop's meeting to hire president

The Winthrop University Board of Trustees named Jayne Comstock as the school's next president. Read more here.
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Winthrop to name next president on Friday

Winthrop's Board of Trustees is expected to vote Friday to determine the university's next president.
LOCAL NEWS

Winthrop board takes no action on presidential search in closed-door meeting

Winthrop University’s Board of Trustees said they took no action Sunday after meeting for nearly three hours to discuss “legal and contractual” matters about the search for a new university president.
EDUCATION

Winthrop board member believes presidential finalist’s link to Butler University libel suit not an issue

A finalist for Winthrop University’s presidential post was the target of an anonymous blogger’s post that led to Butler University filing a libel suit against an anonymous blogger that turned out to be a Butler student.
EDUCATION

Winthrop presidential post would be Hammond’s homecoming

If Winthrop presidential finalist Ulysses Hammond is named the university’s next leader, he said it would be like coming back to his roots. His parents grew up in Lancaster County and his mom earned a teaching certificate from Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill.
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Winthrop president candidate Ulysses Hammond

Winthrop University presidential hopeful Ulysses Hammond discusses his local connections, dedication to diversity, ideas on Winthrop football & love of Western movies.
EDUCATION

Presidential finalist Dale: Winthrop ‘permeated with quality’

Drexel University’s Elizabeth Dale ended her three-day Winthrop visit on Friday. She's one of four finalists in the running for the college's presidential post.
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Winthrop presidential candidate Elizabeth Dale

Elizabeth Dale, from Drexel University, visited Winthrop University as one of four presidential job finalists. She explains her view on accountability-based funding for higher education, the feasibility of bringing football to Winthrop and her hobby of surf coast fishing.
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Winthrop presidential finalist considers himself a liberal arts 'poster child'

Jeff Braden, one of four finalists for the presidential post at Winthrop University, says he has one thing up his sleeve that his competitors don’t: a pink and white scar on his wrist where a chimpanzee bit him in 1977.