By Jackie Todd, Office of Media Relations
Creating and developing resources. Enhancing quality of life. Caring for one another. Those are among the goals of the United Way. And clearly, those goals are shared by Clemson’s faculty and staff, who raised $104,252.76 for the university’s 2015 United Way campaign, which ended Dec. 5. The amount raised in this year’s campaign was more than a $2,000 increase from the prior year.
“I continue to be overwhelmed by the generosity of the Clemson family,” said Leon Wiles, the university’s chief diversity officer and United Way campaign chair.
Wiles has served as the United Way campaign chair for the past five years. In that time he’s seen an incremental increase in the United Way campaign support.
“Faculty and staff know that their donations benefit the community in a very positive way,” he said. “As local needs increased, faculty and staff have stepped up to the plate to help. Faculty and staff should all be proud to work and live in a community that reaches out to help others, and I am proud of their contribution to that cause.”
