Clemson University Famous Alumni • Rudolph Anderson, Jr. - Only casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 spy plane was shot down • David Beasley - South Carolina Governor (1995-99) • Lee Brice - Country music singer • Robert H. Brooks - Founder of Naturally Fresh Foods and president of Hooters of America • James F. Byrnes - U.S. Secretary of State (1945-47) • Jimmie Dyess - U.S. Marine Corps soldier and Medal of Honor recipient after being killed in World War II • Harvey Gantt - Charlotte (NC) mayor (1983-87) and first African-American graduate of Clemson University • Nikki Haley - South Carolina Governor • Mark Hammond - South Carolina Secretary of State • Fiona Hutchinson - “One Life to Live” actress • Kristie Kenney - U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines • Nancy O’Dell - Miss South Carolina (1987) and host of “Access Hollywood” • Gary Parsons - President and CEO of XM Satellite Radio • Bob Peeler - South Carolina lieutenant Governor (1995-03) • Jane Robelot - Former CBS News anchor • George H. Ross - Executive vice president of Trump Organiza‑ tion and an advisor on “The Apprentice” • Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator (1954-03) • Shawn Weatherly - Miss Universe (1980) • David Wilkins - U.S. Ambassador to Canada (2005-09) and Speaker of the South Carolina State House for 11 years
intramural program and for student enjoyment. There are indoor and lighted outdoor tennis courts across the street at Hoke Sloan Tennis Center. • Rated #1 in the nation among “Jock” schools, based on the popularity of intercollegiate and intramural sports according to The Princeton Review in 2011.
The Clemson Facilities • The Hendrix Student Center is a 108,000 square-foot facility in the heart of Clemson’s campus that contains a convenience store, food court, movie theater, and book‑ store. The center has 15,000 square feet of meeting rooms and a 2,600-square-foot student lounge. It is also the home of the Michelin Career Center, student media, and Campus Life offices, which provide venue management and event planning for the Hendrix Student Center, Edgar Brown Union, Littlejohn Coliseum, Tillman Auditorium, and a variety of outdoor venues. • The main university library, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library, is situated in the center of campus. The library has become one of the national leaders in automated information retrieval. Its bibliographic records are ac‑ cessible from anywhere in the world, easing the task of finding information in its collections, which total more than 1.7 million items. Numerous periodical indexes are housed online and available for automated searching. The collections are particularly strong in agriculture, natural
and physical sciences, economics, and technology. Of special interest are the James F. Byrnes and Edgar A. Brown Rooms, which have the collections of papers of these statesmen. • The Michelin Career Center can help with planning and finding summer and full-time employment. The office assists in career counseling and planning, searching for a job, preparing resumés, and developing job interview strategies. Resources include staff expertise, books, vid‑ eotapes, and literature provided by companies and agen‑ cies. Clemson has developed one of the best automated placement systems in the country, allowing students to research employers and sign up for interviews from any mainframe computer terminal on campus.
The Clemson Faculty • Clemson’s student-to-faculty ratio of 16-to-1 gives the faculty the opportunity to interact with many of the stu‑ dents on a one-on-one basis. Critical thinking, problem solving, creative learning, and self-development are just a few of the characteristics emphasized in the classroom. • The Clemson faculty includes 33 Fulbright Scholars along with 59 endowed chairs, named professorships, and alumni professorships. • Over 500 institutions of higher learning that promote excellence in teaching, research, and scholarship are represented among Clemson’s faculty.
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• Over 85 percent of the faculty hold doctorates, the highest degree in their field, and many have achieved special academic recognition. Many have been honored by colleagues and students as master teachers for their excellence in the classroom and by Outstanding Educators of America.
The Clemson Student • Time Magazine ranked Clemson its “Public College-ofthe-Year” in 2000. • The Princeton Review ranked Clemson students the nation’s #1 “Happiest Student Body” in 2008. • Clemson’s total enrollment of 19,453 represents 50 states and 89 foreign countries. • Clemson features a competitive student body, and thus a degree that has meaning. The 2010-11 entering freshman class achieved an average SAT score of 1,231. It is one of the highest scores ever attained by Clemson’s entering students and again leads the state’s public colleges and universities. • Since 1993, honors students have accounted for more than 10 percent of the freshman class, and 51 percent of 2010-11 incoming freshmen graduated in the top-10 percent of their high school class. • Clemson has a mentoring program to help students prepare and compete for Rhodes, Truman, Marshall, and Fulbright Scholarships.
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