COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The new chairman of the board overseeing the University of South Carolina's takes over with enrollment and tuition at record highs and more than $500 million in debt from a building boom.
The State of Columbia reports that Pee Dee attorney Gene Warr was elected University of South Carolina's trustees chairman on Friday.
The 52-year-old says he worries about how to keep college affordable. Warr said more than 80 percent of USC's funding came from state government when he attended the university for a business degree in 1977. State taxpayers now provide less than 10 percent of the funding.
Barnwell attorney Miles Loadholt ended his four-year limit term as trustee chairman citing USC's building explosion and recent athletics success among the top accomplishments during his term.
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