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History of MUSC Alumni Affairs
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has served the citizens of South Carolina since 1824. It has
expanded from a small private college for the training of physicians to the state's only free standing academic
health sciences center with a medical center and six colleges educating a broad range of health professionals,
biomedical scientists and other health related personnel.
Since its creation in 1892, the MUSC Alumni Association has fostered and strengthened life-long relationships
between the University, alumni and friends. The first graduate of MUSC was Dr. Eli Geddings, who completed his
medical training in 1825. Since that time, more than 26,000 women and men have completed the University's
educational and clinical training programs and joined the ranks to become alumni of one of the country's finest
higher education institutions.
In 1969, the institution received university status and its six schools were designated as colleges, each with
its own administration, faculty organization and eventually their own alumni associations.
In order to better meet the need of all MUSC alumni and the six colleges, the MUSC Alumni Association began
restructuring in the early 1980s. This restructuring entailed creating alumni associations for each college
at the University. Since the creation of this multi-college alumni association structure, membership has
grown considerably. MUSC Alumni Association as a whole currently benefits from an active participation rate
of 39%, with individual MUSC alumni groups having active membership at high as 69%.
Programs, activities, dues and benefits are designed specifically for each college by their respective alumni
associations in order to better serve each health discipline and their alumni. Each college alumni association
has its own leadership with officers. Special events, scholarships, awards and other special initiatives are
developed during the course of the year through the oversight of each group's leadership. To learn more about
a specific college's alumni association, click here.
MUSC is extremely proud of its alumni and realizes that the ongoing success of the University is largely
dependent on the success of its alumni. For this reason, the Office of Alumni Affairs serves as a resource
dedicated to providing administrative and leadership support to the alumni of MUSC. MUSC alumni are always
welcome to visit the office, located in the historic
Sebring-Aimar House at 268 Calhoun Street. Our staff is available during normal
business hours and can be reached by calling (843) 792-7979 or toll free at 1-888-202-9306.
Click here to meet the Alumni Affairs team.
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