COLUMBIA — The University of South Carolina was among 30 universities that the U.S. Department of Defense told to audit partnerships with institutions connected to hostile foreign governments, a university spokesman confirmed.But the program Pentagon officials were concerned about at USC, a joint business degree with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, had been cut months before the government reached out in August.USC independently ended the program in February after a review by its Office of Research Security raised “risk considerations,” spokesperson Jeff Stensland said. Neither he nor a response letter to the DOD from university President Michael Amiridis detailed…