George J. Petersen, the Provost Distinguished Professor of Educational Innovation at Clemson University, has been appointed interim dean of the newly formed College of Architecture, Art and Construction (CAAC).
Petersen served as the founding dean of Clemson’s College of Education from 2014 to 2022.
CAAC will be composed of the existing School of Architecture, the Department of Art, and the Nieri Department of Construction, Development and Planning. Its departments currently enroll 858 undergraduate and 274 graduate students across five undergraduate and 11 graduate degree programs. In 2020, Clemson’s M. Arch. program was ranked No. 9 in DesignIntelligence’s rankings of “healthy built environments,” No. 15 in “design theory and practice” and No. 20 in “most admired.” The School of Architecture was also ranked the No. 8 “most hired from” school in its size category.
He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Educational Policy, Organizations, and Leadership Studies as well as a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from University of California, Santa Barbara. He also earned a B.A. in Philosophy (cum laude) from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy.
Read the full Clemson News article published on April 24, 2023.