Did not expect to see my Tigers featured when I clicked on the link. Clemson has been exploding over the past 20 years. It’s a special place. The former presid

Did not expect to see my Tigers featured when I clicked on the link. Clemson has been exploding over the past 20 years. It’s a special place. The former president set a goal to become a top 20 public university. At the time, Clemson was around 70. I want to say it took close to 9 years but they finally did it. That mission directed a whole host of changes around the school to improve. Some things were university wide like the "communications across the curriculum" program, that eventually developed into the Pearce Center (http://pearce.caah.clemson.edu/programs/waccac/ http://pearce.caah.clemson.edu/programs/waccac/). That primarily came from businesses telling the school that they were getting graduates who were technically sound but had difficulty working with non-technical people. They embraced the research focus of the university with the Creative Inquiry program (https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/watt/creative-inquiry/ https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/watt/creative-inq...). I can't remember the name of the program, but at one point part of the curriculum was to have cross-major teams assisting with different professor's research projects on campus. You might have an agriculture professor with a team consisting of students from psychology, computer engineering, accounting, architecture, etc. They developed the Clemson ICAR facility (http://cuicar.com/ http://cuicar.com/) in Greenville to capitalize on the automotive presence there along with undergrad to doctoral programs on automotive engineering...where the students actually design and build a car (https://jalopnik.com/this-mini-concept-car-was-developed-by-engineering-stud-1819506872 https://jalopnik.com/this-mini-concept-car-was-developed-by-...). Also moved the entire MBA program to downtown Greenville to be more accessible to people working. Clemson is very rural, so that was a challenge. Exciting times at the school. :-) It even include going as far as an academic review committee for football recruits. It blew up around 2007 when the committee told the coaches they couldn’t recruit a top wide receiver who then turned around and went to UNC...years later we found out why.