Busy October at the Emeritus College

This October has proven to be very eventful at the Emeritus College!! We started the month with our Fall Picnic and Annual Business meeting. A great time was had by the nearly 200 emeritus faculty and guests at Palmetto’s Event Center in Pendleton. The event not only offered great food and fellowship but also recognized Dr. John Morse, Professor Emeritus of Entomology, as the recipient of the Emeritus Award for Research and Scholarship. This award was established by the Emeritus College Advisory Board to recognize emeritus faculty members who continue to produce extraordinary research and scholarship, either in their discipline or in a new field. The award is presented in even-numbered years. Click HERE to read more about Dr. Morse and his immense contributions since his retirement.

The Emeritus College would like to thank our friends at the Joseph F. Sullivan Center for coming the Emeritus Office suite to provide flu shots to Emeritus Faculty as well as to other Clemson employees.

Several emeritus faculty attended the Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education’s (AROHE) conference at Emory University on October 7-9. It was a big conference for the Clemson University Emeritus College with excellent presentations given by Dr. Hoke Hill, Professor Emeritus of Applied Statistics and Dr. M. Elaine Richardson, Professor Emerita of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and past Director of Academic Success Center, as well as the CU EC Language Skills Programs (CESP and CIS). These programs received the AROHE Innovation Award! One of three programs chosen nationwide! There were 28 institutions represented at the conference from the United States and Canada! 

Finally to wrap up this month, the Emeritus College will be hosting an AROHE Award Celebration on October 31, 2018 – 3:30pm – 5:00pm with the award presentation to Provost Bob Jones at 4:00pm – Click HERE to view invitation – Two Clemson Emeritus College language programs for international students have been selected for a national award! They are the Clemson English-Speaking Proficiency (CESP) test and its follow up, the Conversations with International Students (CIS) program. Working together, those programs significantly enhance participating students’ English language skills and cultural awareness. The pair of programs received accolades from the Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE) for benefitting students, improving instruction, and enhancing campus diversity. Now, it’s time to celebrate the achievement and to thank all the folks who make these programs work. It’s truly a campus-wide initiative involving emeriti CESP interviewers, emeriti CIS mentors, student participants, graduate coordinators, student-service coordinators, active faculty, department chairs, college and university administrators. Also contributing are faculty and staff from the Pearce Center, Graduate School, Office of Global Engagement. If would like to attend the award celebration, please RSVP to 656-3990 or reply to this email. Light refreshments will be served. The event will be held at the Emeritus College/511 Westinghouse Road/Pendleton