STAFF SPOTLIGHT: 

Bobby Gist

Mr. Gist is responsible for planning, developing, administering and evaluating the University's equal opportunity/affirmative action policies and practices to ensure compliance with both federal and state statutes relating to non-discrimination in employment and education at USC. Mr. Gist has more than twenty (20) years of executive service with the S. C. Human Affairs Commission, a deferral agency of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Mr. Gist served as the Deputy Commissioner at the S.C. Human Affairs Commission for all compliance and enforcement as it relates to equal employment opportunity. During his tenure with the Commission, he was personally involved in the review and successful closure of more than 10,000 formal complaints of employment discrimination which were filed against public and private sector employers in the state of South Carolina. Additionally, he has done extensive training in both the public and private sector. He received his undergraduate degree from Benedict College, his masters degree from the University of South Carolina and he is a graduate of the South Carolina Executive Institute.