Editing Fritz Hollings (section)

==Post Senatorial life and death==

[[File:Hollings Judicial Center in Charleston, SC IMG 4576.JPG|200px|right|thumb|The [[J. Waties Waring]] Judicial Center at 83 Meeting Street in Downtown [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] was formerly named the Hollings Judicial Center for the former governor and senator.<ref>{{cite web |title=Main content Courthouse Renamed for Civil Rights Hero |url=https://www.uscourts.gov/news/2015/10/14/courthouse-renamed-civil-rights-hero |access-date=January 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201153427/http://www.uscourts.gov/news/2015/10/14/courthouse-renamed-civil-rights-hero |archive-date=December 1, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>]]

In retirement, Hollings wrote opinion editorials for newspapers in South Carolina and was a regular contributor to the ''[[HuffPost]]''. His opinion editorials were also published every week in EconomyInCrisis.org, an independent protectionist news blog. In 2008, the [[University of South Carolina Press]] published ''Making Government Work'', a book authored by Hollings with Washington, D.C., journalist Kirk Victor, imparting Hollings's view on the changes needed in Washington. Among other things, the book recommended a dramatic decrease in the amount of campaign spending. It also attacked [[free trade]] policies as inherently destructive, suggesting that certain protectionist measures built the United States and that only a few parties actually benefited from free trade, such as large manufacturing corporations.<ref>{{cite book|title= Making Government Work|url= https://archive.org/details/makinggovernment00holl|url-access= registration|year= 2008|publisher= University of South Carolina Press|location= Columbia, S.C. |author= Hollings, Ernest with Kirk Victor|isbn= 9781570037603}}</ref>

The Hollings Cancer Center at the [[Medical University of South Carolina]], in Charleston, was established in 1993.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hollingscancercenter.org/leadership/index.html |title=Leadership &#124; Hollings Cancer Center &#124; MUSC &#124; Charleston SC |access-date=June 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607185404/https://www.hollingscancercenter.org/leadership/index.html |archive-date=June 7, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Hollings started the Hollings Scholarship in 2005. It gave more than a hundred undergraduates from around the country a ten-week internship with the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] and a monetary scholarship for the school year.

Hollings helped to establish the [[Hollings Center]] for International Dialogue, an organization that promotes dialogue between the United States and [[Turkey]], the nations of the Middle East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia, and other countries with predominantly Muslim populations in order to open channels of communication, deepen cross-cultural understanding, expand people-to-people contacts, and generate new thinking on important international issues.

Hollings was also on the board of advisors as a distinguished visiting professor of Law with the [[Charleston School of Law]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.charlestonlaw.edu/v.php?pg=20 |title=Board of Advisors webpage |publisher=Charleston School of Law. Retrieved September 1, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406031933/http://www.charlestonlaw.edu/v.php?pg=20 |archive-date=April 6, 2012 }}</ref> He delivered the commencement address to the first graduating class there on May 19, 2007.<ref name="FirstCommencement">{{cite news|url=http://www.charlestonlaw.edu/General-Info/News/Archived-News/2007/3-20-Hollings-to-give-school-s-first-commencement.aspx|title=Hollings to give school's first commencement address|access-date=February 9, 2017|work=Charleston School of Law|date=March 20, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211075309/http://www.charlestonlaw.edu/General-Info/News/Archived-News/2007/3-20-Hollings-to-give-school-s-first-commencement.aspx|archive-date=February 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://photo05.citadel.edu/pao/newsclips/archive20062007/21072.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824102009/http://photo05.citadel.edu/pao/newsclips/archive20062007/21072.pdf |archive-date=2011-08-24 |url-status=live |title=Hollings to Address First Graduation Class |publisher=Reprint from The Citadel of an article from [[The State (newspaper)]] online |date=March 25, 2007 }}</ref>

In 2008, the [[University of South Carolina]] announced their new library would be named The Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Armstrong |first=Dave |date=2008-11-18 |title=University of South Carolina names new library for U.S. Sen. Ernest F. 'Fritz' Hollings |url=https://whosonthemove.com/university-of-south-carolina-names-new-library-for-u-s-sen-ernest-f-%E2%80%98fritz%E2%80%99-hollings-194797/ |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=Who's On The Move |language=en-US}}</ref> The $18-million library was built behind the [[University of South Carolina Libraries|Thomas Cooper Library]] and is home to The Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, South Carolina Political Collections, and Digital Collections.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hollings Library - University Libraries {{!}} University of South Carolina |url=https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/about/locations/hollings/ |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=sc.edu}}</ref> It is also home to the Dorothy B. Smith Reading Room.

On April 6, 2019, Hollings died at the age of 97 at his home in [[Isle of Palms, South Carolina]], following a period of declining health. Future President [[Joe Biden]] delivered the eulogy at his funeral.<ref name="NYTimes obituary" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/ernest-f-fritz-hollings/article_b8041de2-f44b-11e8-b33f-536d8d509c2c.html|title=Former SC Governor, U.S. Senator Ernest F. 'Fritz' Hollings dies at 97|work=[[The Post and Courier]]|first1=Brian|last1=Hicks|first2=Schuyler|last2=Kropf|date=April 6, 2019|access-date=April 6, 2019}}</ref>