Jamie Williams named director of Clemson University’s National Scholars Program
Published: July 28, 2011
CLEMSON — Jamie Williams has been promoted to director of the National Scholars Program and associate director of the Calhoun Honors College at Clemson University.
Williams came to Clemson as assistant director of the National Scholars Program in 2002 after working at Emory University and Georgia State University and was promoted to associate director of the program in 2003.
Williams and William Lasser, now director of the Calhoun Honors College, collaborated with administrators and faculty across campus to shape the National Scholars Program experience into more than a full scholarship program for top students. Clemson’s National Scholars participate in a wide-ranging educational enrichment program, including a diverse selection of study-abroad opportunities as well as campus-based intellectual enrichment activities.
The program recruits top applicants and selects National Scholars in a competitive annual process. Williams said those selected often decline comparable scholarships at top-20 public and private universities to enroll at Clemson as National Scholars.
“It's vital that we ensure this ever-more-impressive pool of students will find the intellectual and entrepreneurial challenges they crave,” Williams said. “These are highly motivated students who are engaged in the classroom, involved across campus and leaders in both.”
In 2007, Williams helped lead a national effort to create the Undergraduate Scholars Program Administrators Association, a professional association of college administrators responsible for scholars and scholarship programs, and just completed a two-year term as the association's first president.
As associate director of the Calhoun Honors College, Williams focuses on enhancing the Honors community through the Holmes Hall living-learning community and collegewide programming.
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