CONOVER GRADUATE
FELLOWSHIP
GRADUATE STUDY
IN
RECREATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The Conover Graduate Fellowship is sponsored by Richard and Sandra Conover (pictured on the left) to further graduate study in Recreation Resource Management at Clemson University. Dr. Conover taught Recreation Resource Management at Clemson from 1974 until his retirement in 1994.
The award consists of a 20 hour a week - 12 months per year graduate assistantship, plus the Fellowship, totaling up to $15,000 per year (including tuition waiver) for Ph.D. students and $9,000 for M.S. (thesis) students. Fellowships are awarded for one year only, however, the same student may receive the Fellowship in succeeding years based on annual recommendations by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management.
Potential applicants are encouraged to apply if they are interested in any one of the social science perspectives: wildland recreation management, landscape aesthetics, outdoor recreation behavior, conflict and crowding, environmental and activity socialization, use of wildlands for solitude, nonformal environmental interpretation / education, visitor segmentation studies, marketing of public lands, tourism and gateway community impacts on public lands, or related resource recreation areas.
Facilities
Students in the resource recreation program have access to the modern, well-equipped laboratories in the Department and the College. These laboratories
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nclude a PC Laboratory equipped with microcomputer hardware and software, several remote computer terminals for communicating with the Clemson University Computer Center and a Geographic Information System (GIS) Laboratory.
Housed within Lehotsky Hall (home of PRTM) are two federal cooperative research units: U.S. Forest Service Cooperative Study Unit and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Study Unit. Adjacent to the campus is the 17,000-acre Clemson Experiemental Forest and approximately 200 acre Outdoor Laboratory.
Programs
The Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management is one of the largest programs of its type in the country, consisting of over 500 undergraduate
and 60 graduate students. In total, the Department has 22 faculty, of which eleven have qualifications for teaching and conducting research in the recreation resource management area. A list of the faculty associated with recreation resource management includes:
Professors |
Associate Professors Robert D. Bixler |
Assistant Professors Elizabeth "Betty" Baldwin Chiok Oh Robert B. Powell |
Additional general information about graduate school and application forms may be obtained at
www.grad.clemson.edu
or contact:
Graduate Coordinator
Department of Parks,
Recreation and Tourism Management
263 Lehotsky Hall,
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0735
Tel. (864) 656-2183
GRDPRTM@clemson.edu
©Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management. Last updated on January 28, 2008