Clemson Corporate Connections
The Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) group within the Office of Development at Clemson University is dedicated to building and maintaining long-term relationships that benefit your company as well as the University and its students. The Corporate Connections newsletter is a quick update on some of these partnerships.
PARTNERSHIPS
In October 2011, the Verizon Foundation partnered with Clemson’s Reading Recovery® and Call Me MISTER® programs to strengthen literacy and education within the state of South Carolina. Verizon Foundation’s generous grant will allow expansion of the Reading Recovery program to teachers across the state using virtual and Web-based training in addition to current programs operated through Clemson’s Eugene T. Moore School of Education. It will also provide support to Project Middle Passage, a Call Me MISTER initiative that mentors middle school African-American males and increases awareness of future academic and career opportunities.
By partnering with Clemson University, Verizon Foundation is working toward its goal “to improve literacy and strengthen educational achievement for children and adults by preparing them for success in the 21st Century.”
PEOPLE
Anand Gramopadhye, director of the newly created Center for Workforce Development and chairman of Clemson’s industrial engineering department has also been named associate vice president for workforce development. John Kelly, vice president for economic development, said Gramopadhye will develop initiatives and spearhead funding opportunities designed to bolster workforce training across the state as Clemson builds on new programs for key manufacturing sectors to meet the needs of South Carolina for an innovative workforce.
“The University has a central role to play in developing the workforce of the future,” Gramopadhye said. “If we fail to act, South Carolina will not only lose valuable jobs, it also will see a wealth of young talent leave to seek employment in competing states after graduating from our colleges and universities.”
EVENTS
The Clemson University Electrical Power Research Association (CUEPRA) will hold its annual Power Systems Conference March 13-16, 2012. This year’s theme will be “Advanced metering, protection, control, communication and distributed resources.”
Attendees will include academic professionals, utility engineers and managers, facility managers and engineers, vendors and other personnel responsible for ensuring power system performance, control protection and economics related to distribute resources, distribution, transmission, communication, advanced metering and smart grid.
The conference consists of high-quality technical paper presentations, panel discussions and tutorial sessions.