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The annual fundraising event will take place for 24 hours on March 20, the 176th anniversary of the first cadets reporting to the college.

Some of the big events happening in and around The Citadel’s campus in April, including the joint ROTC Awards, Baker Business Bowl and Bulldog Challenge

Two of the United States’ most influential leaders, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Franklin McKenzie, Jr., and the Honorable Robert Wilkie, will give the addresses at The Citadel’s two commencement ceremonies May 4. 

The Citadel and Fulbright Canada agreed to establish a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences starting in the fall of 2020.

Retired Gen. Glenn Walters, USMC, will be inaugurated as the 20th president of The Citadel on Friday, April 5, 2019. The installation ceremony begins at 2 p.m. in McAlister Field House. The ceremony is open to the public and will also be live streamed via The Citadel Facebook page.

The Citadel is one of 13 stops for Scott LoBaido, an artist traveling along the coast to honor veterans who put their lives on the line for our country.

Vice News came to the 2018 Intelligence and Cybersecurity Conference at The Citadel to cover a guest of Dr. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim. Rahim is a Citadel Department of Intelligence and Security studies professor, who is also the Executive Director, North America, for Quilliam International. Quilliam International is the world’s oldest counter-extremist organization with headquarters in the United Kingdom and Washington, D.C. Fraser-Rahim works to help de-radicalize former terrorists, which is how he came to know Mohammad Khalid, the subject of this story.

The Tommy & Victoria Baker School of Business at The Citadel holds its Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Thursday, April 4. Honorees include Niall Gannon, Citadel alumnus and lead member of the Gannon Group at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management; Bill and Rachael Best, founders of Thermal Engineering Corporation; Nick Gavalas, Class of 1972 and co-founder of the Gavalas Kolanko Foundation; and Mark Bebensee, Ph.D., interim provost at The Citadel.

Citadel College Democrats spent first year helping the community and campus, including participating in a tri-partisan debate with other cadets.

In honor of Women’s History Month, Chaplain Joe Molina pays homage to those special women in our lives that played or are playing an extraordinary role