Academic Quality and Innovation
Call Me MISTER 10 year anniversary
Clemson’s Call Me MISTER program celebrated its ten-year anniversary, and was recognized before national education leaders and lawmakers as a program that effectively addresses one of America’s daunting challenges: the educational crisis facing young men of color.
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CBBS launches Tiger Ties Mentorship Program
The College of Business & Behavioral Science established Tiger Ties. The program pairs aspiring students with successful alumni to strengthen the student and alumni experience. One of the first of its kind in the nation, the program encourages mentors and mentees to form mutually beneficial bonds that will last a lifetime.
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Deep Orange Project
As part of the graduate automotive engineering program, students are required to create and manufacture a new vehicle prototype, giving the students experience in vehicle design, development, prototyping and production planning. The inaugural "Deep Orange" car — the first concept car created by graduate students at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research — was unveiled at "Motorsports on Main" — a kick-off event for the Petit Le Mans race week at Road Atlanta.
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- Deep Orange Unveiling photo album
- Deep Orange initiative offers radical approach to automotive engineering education
- CU-ICAR Deep Orange Hybrid Car Dell Streak Demo by Jose Sanchez at SEMA 2010
- Deep Orange Hybrid Car & Dell Streak Infotainment: Dr. Paul Venhovens at SEMA 2010
Immersion semester
Instead of traditional class activities, parks, recreation and tourism management (PRTM) students were exposed to the core of what PRTM involves in a wide variety of formats including field trips to PRTM-related facilities in the Southeast.
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- New Immersion Semester big-time experience for parks, recreation and tourism management sophomores
- Fran McGuire: Changing the way we teach at Clemson University, keynote speech at the Victor Hurst Convocation Aug. 17, 2010
Rankings
U.S.News & World Report placed Clemson as number 23 among the country’s 164 public research universities and number 12 among all universities – public and private – for our commitment to undergraduate education.
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STEM Education Initiative
We continue to strengthen our focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Teaching and Learning (STEM) education. NASA space shuttle astronaut Col. Patrick Forrester (ret.) came to the Upstate to talk about STEM.
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Study Abroad
We gained recognition for our innovative program, Cultural Literacies Across Media, which teaches students how to understand their international experience and present it to the world using multimedia.
