Clemson University - Center for Real Estate Development (CRED)

Director
Dr. Elaine Worzala
	Dr. Worzala is the Director of the Center for Real Estate Development and a Professor of Real Estate in the College of Architecture Arts and Humanities at Clemson University. Before joining Clemson, she was the Professor and the Director of the Accelerated Masters of Science in Real Estate in the Edward St. John Department of Real Estate at the Carey Business School within Johns Hopkins University. She has also served as the MSRE Director and the Research Director at the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego and she began her academic career in the Finance Department at Colorado State University. She has also been a Visiting Professor with the Real Estate Center at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Worzala has taught numerous real estate courses including introductory real estate, real estate valuations, real estate feasibility, real estate finance and investments, and a graduate level real estate investments case course. In addition, she was the interim Assistant Provost for USD in the 2004/05 academic year. Read full Bio > Curriculum Vitae > Recent Work >

Senior Faculty
Dr. Cliff Ellis
	Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; M.P.C.D., University of Colorado at Denver; B.A., Colorado College. Land Use Planning, Growth Management, Transportation Planning, Planning Theory, Urban Design, Metropolitan and Regional Planning, History of Urban Form, History of City Planning, and Community Development. Curriculum Vitae >
Dr. J. Terrence Farris, CRE, AICP
	Associate Professor and MRED Program Director; MUP, Ph.D., urban and regional planning, Michigan State University; B.A., urban geography, St. Louis University. Real estate development process, market analysis, housing and community development, and public-private partnerships. Prior to shifting to academia in 1991, Dr. Farris had a 17-year planning consulting, homebuilding, and administrative career in St. Louis starting at Real Estate Research Corporation and concluding as Director of Development for the St. Louis Community and Economic Development Agencies. He has worked in 40 cities in 10 states on public-private partnerships for $1.5 billion of development. He worked in public-private partnership consulting or administrative assignments with projects by John Q. Hammons, May Department Stores, Simon Company, Holiday Inn, World Color Press, Cummins Engine, Burlington-Northern, Wal Mart, JC Penney, Sears, Kmart, Sam’s, Caterpillar, Bank of Illinois and other commercial/industrial entities including over 1,000 units of residential development. He was appointed by Governor Sanford from 2003 through 2008 as one of the first 5-member SC. Planning Education Advisory Committee for planning and zoning commissioners and staff. He was a Founding member of the Executive Committee and Vice-Chair of the Upstate Region for the SC. District Council of the ULI. Curriculum Vitae >
Professor Robert R. Hewitt, ASLA
	Robert R. Hewitt is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Clemson University. He is currently the lead landscape architecture faculty for Clemson's proposed Center for Health and the Environment. Professor Hewitt has taught urban design, community design, site design, and construction documents for Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University. His research interests include the influence of medicine on environmental design, sustainability, and international education in landscape architecture. Professor Hewitt's professional experience includes work with Peter Walker and Partners in Berkeley on a range of international and national projects. He is a registered landscape architect in California and South Carolina. Professor Hewitt received his MLA and MCP from UC Berkeley, BSLA from UC Davis, Graduate Study of Law from University of the Pacific, and BA in German from UC Davis.Curriculum Vitae >
Dr. Tom Springer
	Dr. Tom Springer is a professor of Finance and Real Estate in the College of Business and Behavioral Science. Dr. Springer received his Ph.D. in Real Estate from the University of Georgia. He first joined the Clemson faculty in 1988, but left in 1992 to pursue his goals at Florida Atlantic University. After spending 12 years on the peninsula, Professor Springer returned to Clemson in 2005. Dr. Springer now serves as the Secretary of the American Real Estate Society, henceforth making Clemson University its home address. The Society publishes five real estate journals: the Journal of Real Estate Research, the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, the Journal of Housing Research, the Journal of Real Estate Literature and the Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education. Professor Springer is currently serving as a co-editor for a special issue of the Journal of Housing Research that focuses on real estate brokerage issues. Dr. Springer is also a real estate consultant-primarily as a real estate economist for the Marcus and Millichap Company. Curriculum Vitae > Recent Work >

Research Associates
Robert Benedict
	Instructor, MRED Program. Doctoral student in Environmental Design and Planning, Clemson University; M.B.A., University of Georgia; M.A.H.P. Goucher College; B.A. University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Real Estate Development Process, Preservation Economic, Commercial Practicum. Prior to academia, 26-year real estate finance and development career in Charlotte, Atlanta, Washington and Greenville including 13 years as vice president and partner with Carolina Holdings. Curriculum Vitae >

Student Research Analysts

Nicole Boyer

Research Assistant, '08, '09. Nicole graduated from Miami University with a BA in Architecture in 2006. She was active in the architecture department as a member of the American Institute of Architecture Students as well as Students for Sustainable Design. She also presented 'The Case for LEED Certification for New School of Business' to the Miami University Board of Trustees, University President, and Operations Management in an effort to promote LEED certified buildings as campus standard. Nicole has worked with Greenberg Farrow Architects in New York City and The Collaborative, Inc. in Toledo, Ohio. She is currently a 2010 candidate in the Masters of Real Estate Development program at Clemson.

Staff

Carolyn Clayton
	Graduate Program Coordinator. Carolyn’s career in higher education has allowed her to explore the admissions recruitment process, the intentional holistic development of student leaders, and the coordination of a comprehensive fundraising program. Carolyn served as a Director of Development for the Division of Student Affairs at Clemson University. She earned her BA in Communication from Messiah College in Grantham, PA and her MA in Higher Education from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA.
John Tyler Leslie
	Tyler Lesley joined the Center for Real Estate Development in August 2008. Tyler graduated from Clemson University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education with an emphasis in History & Geography. He will be developing and maintaining the CRED website and newsletters, along with supporting the faculty and graduate students in the Center. His background in teaching coupled with three years experience working in the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost at Clemson has given him a unique familiarity with higher education.