Greetings fellow Tigers!
Clemson’s baseball team had an exciting run in the ACC Tournament last week. In a hard fought battle, the team narrowly lost to Florida State 5-4, playing with determination and valor through the ninth inning. The Tigers were selected to the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 seed in the Clemson (S.C.) Regional. The Tigers (45-14) face No. 4 seed Morehead State (37-24) in their opening game, while No. 2 seed Vanderbilt (31-25) and No. 3 seed St. John’s (39-15) round out the regional field. Vanderbilt plays St. John’s on Friday at noon, and Clemson enters the double-elimination regional against Morehead State on Friday at 6 p.m. Go Tigers!
Wendy York, associate dean at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, has been named dean of Clemson University’s College of Business. She will begin her new job in mid-July. As the dean of Clemson’s College of Business, York will lead 177 faculty and 49 staff members who serve 3,854 undergraduate business majors and 735 graduate students. York also will join the marketing department as a tenured faculty member. She holds an undergraduate degree in international relations with honors from Stanford University and an MBA with an emphasis on strategy and operations from the Harvard Business School. You can read more about York and her new position at Clemson here.
After a distinguished Clemson career that spans nearly three decades, Executive Vice President for Finance and Operations Brett Dalton is leaving the university and has accepted a similar position at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His last day at Clemson is June 30. Dalton, who was named to his current position in November 2016, started his Clemson career in 1990. A Sunset, South Carolina, native who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Clemson, Dalton serves as the university’s chief financial officer and also heads Clemson’s facilities and capital projects operations. During his time at Clemson, Dalton has been instrumental in Clemson’s ascent to a top-25 public university. The university plans to launch a national search for Dalton’s successor, and President Clements said he will soon name interim leadership for the various teams within Dalton’s organization. You can read more about Brett Dalton, his Clemson career and his future at Baylor here. Thank you, Brett, for your commitment and decades of service to Clemson! We wish you all the best.
B-ready for the future!
As we prepare to say goodbye to longtime friends of Clemson, we also welcome new members to the Clemson family. The people, the buildings and the landscape may be changing around us, but the spirit of the Tiger forever remains strong, determined and loyal.
Change can be difficult, but it is symbolic of the future. Clemson was built with the vision of creating a better future for our students, our state and the world. As we embrace the changes around us, we are reminded of the dream our founders had for a “high seminary of learning.” We can embrace and honor that by moving forward to make Clemson even greater for generations to come.
Go Tigers!
Brian O’Rourke
