Andrew Hugine Jr., PhD
President, South Carolina State University
On May 16, 2003, Dr. Andrew Hugine, Jr. became the ninth President of South Carolina State University. As the university’s ninth president, Dr. Hugine brings to the office thirty-two years of experience in Higher Education, eighteen of them in teaching and fourteen in administration. He embraces a data-driven decision-making model buttressed by a business approach that views the University as a corporation whose product is education and whose customers are its students. President Hugine’s defined vision for the University encompasses “excellence in all university programs and services.”
Described by those who know him as a highly competent and committed professor and leader, Dr. Hugine has been steadfast in his professional growth and development. Notable among his achievements in academics are the selection by his peers as South Carolina State University’s Teacher of the Year, election by his colleagues as President of the Faculty Senate, the publication of five mathematics and pre-calculus collegiate textbooks, numerous papers and presentations at the regional and national meetings of learned societies, research articles concerned with the assessment and evaluation of programs, and the acquisition of several state and federal grants for the institution.
Dr. Hugine has also held numerous administrative posts at South Carolina State University. He served his alma mater as Director of the University Year for Action Program, Assistant Director of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Self- Study, Director of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Self-Study, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Interim Executive Vice President of South Carolina State University. Further, Dr. Hugine served as Institutional Research Analyst and Assistant Professor of Institutional Research and a Teaching Assistant at Michigan State University. His first professional position was a high school teacher of mathematics.
Dr. Hugine holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Higher Education/Institutional Research from Michigan State University, a Master of Education degree and Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from South Carolina State University.
He is active in civic, community, and fraternal activities. He maintains active membership in his home church of Jerusalem A.M.E. and Williams Chapel A.M.E. Church in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Other organizations include Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Edisto Masonic Lodge (PHA), Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce, South Carolina Research Authority, New Carolina, CHEC and former member and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his participation in these activities and organizations.
South Carolina State University’s ninth President, Dr. Andrew Hugine, Jr., is a native of Green Pond, South Carolina, a small rural community in the low country of South Carolina. He is married to the Abbiegail Hamilton Hugine, and they have two adult children; Andrew, III and Akilah.
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