Clemson Board of Trustees, Main Board Meeting, Spring 2024, Thursday

Went to set the stage for the next couple of days, [ Inaudible- background noise ] it’s always good to be together, I’m excited to be here. On campus. There’s nothing better than Clemson in the stirring spring . There

Was a lot of fun, we felt like we were in the tropics. We had drums going, it was just a beautiful day. I know I’m not telling you anything that you don’t already know. But,

Clemson is special. We are very, very fortunate to be able to serve together on this board. We are going to be talking about some really, really important topics. Seeing that the team left our cheat

Sheets on the table, we can all use them as we go through the presentations. We can understand how everything [ Inaudible ] this meeting will focus on [ Inaudible ] , you

Will hear a lot about that a bit more in the coming few days. >> Madam chair, I’m excited to be with you this morning, I know we have a lot to cover, so I will jump right in. Perhaps, today’s presentations, we will

Hear how we are focusing on ways to elevate building the number one student experience of the company . We will hear wide range of topics ranging from degree programs that will expand our ability to possibly impact the student experience.

We will hear from [ Inaudible ], and hear from student supported and how we engage our students [ Inaudible- background noise ] based on their academic advising. Elizabeth Caldwell, one of our own students will present her

Own student experience with a particular focus on her research and how that has elevated her experience. We have experience success in elevating our students experience even further. One third user scholarships, one

For student support, and the other for elevating projects and facilities. Our overall health and well-being of our tigers. You will hear from athletics, and the amazing work that Graham is doing with

The student athletes, and the jacketing ceremony. You will hear from student vice presidents, and a presentation for our board meeting. Tomorrow, we will bring in [ Inaudible ], surrounding [ Inaudible ]. As we jump into

The presentation today, basking my team to speak out on how we came to elevate our student experience to give our very best and be the best in the country. When someone has an interaction with us, and others

With a lesser score guide, housing, and sports, whatever that interaction is. One moment of truth to remind you all of the greatness of Clemson. I challenge you all. As we work towards delivering the best student experience in

The country, [ Inaudible ] creating incredible, positive moments of education. >> Very get . Thank you again. Madam chair. Good morning, everybody, we will call this meeting of the education policy committee to order. We will do

A roll call, but we have quorum. >> [ Inaudible ] >> We have quorum. Please introduce any members of the media that we have with us today. >> [ Inaudible – muffled ]

>> The minutes from the February 4th education policy committee or in your materials, do I have a motion to approve the minute ? Motion, second, discussion? Although signify by saying aye. Next we will

Move to the action items, and I will turn it over to Provost Jones to prevent the new programs and modifications. >> Thank you. Could you put the slides up ? >> Very good. We are going to go through action items for

Approvals, and that will be followed by faculty reports and report on economic advising is it relates to Clemson and an update on the vision statement. >> Starting off with the action items, we have three new

Programs to consider, and for program modifications. I will remind everybody that prior to this meeting, details of all of these proposals were provided to the board members in advance of this meeting. And I will show a brief overview

As we go through each . >> We will start off with the first one, which is request from the College of behavioral health sciences for a new program in health psychology. We have the Dean here.

>> She is has another exciting announcement. This will provide a nonclinical pathway for professionals in psychology to further mental health, diction, and research. We have Artie started in [ Inaudible- background noise ]

Emma we did that thing that there is a big marketplace for this, and it carries all the way to the PhD come as well. This is going to be driven by our graduate research assistant, driven by funding,

And research grants, to grow the enterprise and the psychology department. >> The way in which we conduct this will be through graduate students, PhD students, that is. >> We have a new way of shoring

Up budgets for our proposals. Thinking of the RBB, resource process, in which colleges and parks have to consider the cost of all of their ventures, their net, and obstacles come and that is in terms of funding for all of those programs.

>> So we are showing, instead of zero, the actual cost for the program, and all PhD programs ask a little bit. This is largely offset by research trends. There is an

Offset for this program. This is going to have really strong in that it honors and is very closely related to our strategic plan, and building opportunity. So there is a

New marketplace for a lot of growth in this discipline. The primary connection to Clemson in this research, to be a AP you profile faculty, we actually need all of our tenure-track faculty, in

Strong research, and strong creative act to the tooth, because AAU won’t consider an institution until they see that the per capita protective beauty of your faculty is involved in research programs. All of our faculty need to be

Aspiring to grow . If we don’t aspire, all this faculty [ Inaudible – muffled ] . We have a very vibrant department, the research enterprise is growing now. So this is a great fit for that to have for PhD students. Another important part of this

Program is that we have superstars in this department. And they need access to PhD students, or [ Inaudible – muffled ] for retention issues, as well. So for these reasons, Mr. Chairman, the

Staff recommends a new PhD in health psychology. >> You’ve heard the recommendation, do I have a motion to approve? >> Motion, second, discussion? In a discussion? All those in favor, say aye,

Opposed none. The aye’s habit , past. >> There is a proposal to create a education specialist is there . This is really important because as people build their credentials beyond

The master’s degree, it’s a tough challenge for them as they reached the intermediary point of getting 30 extra credit hours, and then, the teachers in South Carolina to receive higher salaries receive more training, become

More impactful my have more retention, so it is rewarding for going down that path. It is very hard to get all the way to the PhD, because these are people who work. They work

Full-time jobs. So, we need a stop out opportunities so they can get to the intermediate level of achievement, and they can get that recognition . That is what this is all about. Our institutions, by us not having

a disadvantage for recruiting students, we don’t have the resources to do this, because we teach all the doctoral program courses, it would take them off their path for PhD. >> Obviously we have some big challenges in our stated

Teaching workforce at Clemson, and we have some the best graduates and impactful teachers, and we really have to step up and do everything we can to get our graduates out to be successful, and the primary and secondary education, so for

These reasons, Mr. Chairman, the staff recommends that we approve the education specialist and teaching degree. >> Thank you. You’ve heard the recommendation, you have a motion to approve. >> Motion? Second? Any discussion?

>> [ Inaudible – muffled ] >> Presently, we have actually have more than six PhD students in this particular program. Some folks, with working full-time are looking for a pathway to have a less

Rigorous graduate experience between EDS, and the PhD. So we think some of those students will take advantage of this program, but also anticipating [ Inaudible ] students who otherwise wouldn’t be studying with us. So these would be

Teachers with master’s degrees, looking to advance the career significance and impact and strength of their learning. [ Inaudible – muffled ] >> There are thousands and thousands of jobs in this

Particular field that are outside of education, so ink about this in the training departments, and the administration where you all serve, [ Inaudible – muffled ] >> We were protecting a

Slot for 80 students in the fall, and some students will see this as a career of [ Inaudible- background noise ] >> Bless you. >> I have a question? >> The degree required for the specialist can it be used later

Is this person has decided to go forward with a master’s degree. >> They already come in with a master’s degree. >> And this is one of the things we are hoping, that — You have students that are

Already holding a master, and want to pursue this ad specialist, they can get to the end of the program and not — [ Inaudible – overlapping Speakers ] >> +30. Any other discussion? >> All in favor signify by

Saying aye . Opposed common know. >> Aye’s habit. >> This is a new doctorate of veterinary medicine degree. We have Dr. Stephen Morris here, from the college of veterinary medicine to join us today.

Obviously we’ve connected to a new veterinary college, so we must follow through and approve a new curriculum for DVM. Last year, we had members of the full curriculum, and I’m sure, you read and saw the very, very rigorous and difficult

Challenge in program. That’s away veterinary degrees are. >> A big shout out to the staff, and many faculty at Clemson University worked extremely hard and focused on building that gigantic job. We are on a timeline. And people

Of work their fingers to the bone to make sure this was done in time for you to contemplate approval. As a reminder to everyone who’s watching, there’s a really strong justification for this collagen degree. There’s a

Shortage of veterinary positions open wide. There opening. And we have the first class of 80 students to start in the 2026 timeline. We want to get this launched as quickly as we can. This adds a lot of

Benefits to our students. Our students, of course, many other students on campus would like to engage in the veterinary college in many ways. And we have a big push in our state to support animal health, and the animal industry is huge,

And agriculture in South Carolina. And we have a shortage of veterinarians. So this is very closely tied to our strategic plan. So because of these reasons, the staff recommends approval of the new Dr. of veterinary medicine.

>> [ Inaudible – muffled ] it’s a four-year program, and it is for very challenging full years. Including toward the end, the summers are included. >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] I noticed is not an actual review

On this program. >> We crafted the original college structure and budget based on tuition that is not yet been approved by the board. But with that tuition and the needs of our state and

In-state state allocations we requested should they come through for recurring funds that we would be at that breaking point. >> President Clements. >> I want to think this team for meeting this with a sense

Of urgency. >> Trustee Lee ? >> The diagnostic imaging that is now first, part of hiring models, so you don’t have to purchase any machinery? >> We will have some limited

for teaching — [ Inaudible – muffled ] higher-level practices, in South Carolina, they would have — They would be used in a clinical setting in a hospital. >> The neighboring state already has that school, how

Are we handling those? Some of that is done. We are under contract with the University of — Programs. [ Inaudible – muffled ] any other questions or discussions? You have heard the recommendation, do I have a motion?

>> We have a motion. We have a second? >> Motion and second, is there any further discussion? >> All those in favor, you for all you have done, and what you continue to do. In a relatively brief time. Looking

Back when we first started discussing this, what and where we are today. When we look back, we will realize this is a historic day for the University. >> Provost Jones? >> Now we’re moving on to our modifications, this is a

Request for the college of architecture and construction, to modify construction management by adding [ Inaudible ] we have the interim Dean of the college Dr. George Peterson to hear today, thank you for coming.

>> The importance here, that are genuine cedars hollow students, they have to do 18 hours of construction internships. Unfortunately right now, the courses they are taking don’t have an online option. They have to be in

Person. So that limits the area in which they can try to find their experiences to where they can still communicate in classes. We are living off a really important opportunity and Atlanta, Charlotte, Charleston, where there’s a

Lot of construction going on, and a lot of different kind Panisse of companies, so we need to adjust so they can step into construction trailer, and do their online class for an hour, and get

Right back into their experience and expand the discussion , where they can dramatically increase the quality of the program is also going to help students stay on track to graduate on time, and those who have financial need

To qualify and provide a path to get out in four years. This is really important to that experience in particular. The quality aspect and having them finish and be successful in a timely fashion. For these

Reasons, the staff recommends approval of the higher modality for this program. >> Thank you. Any questions or discussions? Dr. Lynn? >> How does this compare to North Carolina? >> We have one of the stronger

Degrees in the country . We are highly competitive. There are only a few others, we look , Auburn is one, we are charging tuition for, and I have a lot of confidence that we are on trajectory to be one of the

Very, very best in the country . >> Any other questions? >> You for the recommendation, do I have a motion? >> I have a motion and a second, is there any further discussion? Hearing on, all those in favor signify by

Saying aye , opposed, no. Aye’s habit. Motion carries. >> Next is a request from the college of engineering and applied science, applying bachelor science and computer science by adding a second online modalities.

>> We have Dr. [ Inaudible ], who is director, coming forward. >> Currently, we offer this program in person, and with synchronous online, which means that you can zoom into the class as it is being taught.

What we are doing here, is adding a second asynchronous online web in partnership with course Sara which is going to reach a new audience of midcareer cup professionals who are filed away full time

That can take the course synchronously while they were working. This is part of the strategy that the board and administration have been working on for some time now to build new online options sustaining Clemson’s high

Quality , but reaching more audiences to generate more revenues and have a greater impact . We are very, very excited about this, because we’ve gotten to the point where we are offering our

First cohort. It’s good to start in the fall of 22 24, and added all the way up to 10 courses to complete a degree in computer science ready to roll over this next year. This is going to be very important

For us, for that student experience, because it’s reaching more people and allowing them to experience Clint some and engage with us, and in that way, broadening our alumni Oma and also people who don’t have options to

Get the degree, we are giving them an option for very high quality degree, and if our projections are correct and looking at the way course Sara works at other universities, we are optimistic about this, and

It will be significant revenue generation which is one of the reasons we are approaching things in this way for this Masters degree. Because of all of these, we recommend that the staff recommends that we approve the

Second online modality option for the Masters of science in computer science. >> Just one comment. >> Thanks to our faculty, this is a lot of work. Faculty are teaching over the teaching online, they teach in base

Mode, all of this, they step up in this. >> Trustee Lynn. >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] these individuals would not have Clemson dirt on their boots. This is a Masters degree program. >> Trustee ?

>> What number people do you expect to be enrolled? If we had 1000 students, yes, it would count — Yes, it would, but it goes along the philosophy of growth without effort .

>> What would be they had taught you about headcount? Any other comments or questions? Hearing none, do we have a motion to approve? Motion ? Second? Any further discussion? Hearing none come all those in favor, signified

By saying aye. Opposed, no. Aye’s habit. Provost Jones. >> The next is a proposal from the College of architecture , art, and construction requesting a root report will modify . The first is to

Change the name. Taking planning out, and making the PhD of design . It’s a pivot to more of the design technical parts of this with scientific elements behind all of this. We are adding two new concentrations to organize the

Curriculum. Versus what we traditionally do, some come in with a Masters degree, and they do a PhD. But, the second track is a way for people to go directly from an undergraduate degree into the PhD. This is a very common thing in higher

Education these days, and engineering, sciences, social sciences, and so forth, when you do that, you have to provide that bridge, because people need additional training, so we have to be intentional in developing a curriculum and students will

Take a longer time to get the PhD, but that will have the sufficient training to earn that degree. This is always to have a higher modality to expand our scope and possibility bring more people

Into the program. We want to change the classification of the instruction code to deemphasize design, and emphasize more the science and technology aspects of this program. And, this is brought about by certain underlying

Factors and changes that are going on in the college. Brand-new for your support in closing down the master science and architecture degree. But, you see there is still a need for graduate education, were trying to find

The appropriate ones where there are a lot of marketplaces and interests work in support research, and this is our proposed solution today. We don’t need any new resources, we only need to organize into this, because we

Already teach all these courses. Importantly, this is going to improve workforce and help for better planning in the state. But, it does, like we talked about before, — Psychology, it helps our faculty and their scholarship,

Research, and funding, so it’s important for our research builders in our seizure program. For these reasons, Mr. Chatman, the staff recommend that we make these altar — Alterations in these program designs.

>> Any discussion? We have a motion to approve the recommendation? Chairman Woodson? >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] >> [ Laughter ] >> So noted. >> For the recommendation, do

I have a motion? Can we approve the recommendation? Do I have a second? I have a second, is there any further discussion? Hearing none come all those in favor, signified by saying I. Opposed, no? The

Eyes have it, motion carries . >> Okay, now we have another program in the college of behavior and health sciences, to approve our bachelor of science, nursing. We talked about this at last board

Meeting, there is some strong support for this. So we brought it back. More in detail, with a budget, and to make sure something we can do. The plan is to take about 170 or so freshmen that are coming in

Each year and ultimately add 96, so we are going to add something like over 270 nurses coming in each year, so that we graduate 777, — 270 some odd every year. We had to do

That over a number of years, 24 students each year for four years in a row, so and increment, and we need to do that, because we have to work hard with the hospital systems and find all of the clinical

Placement , and this takes effort and time to build that up. We will need new faculty and staff to teach a greater number of students, but unlike PhD programs, the resources and tuition for graduate

Students to cover the costs. We think this is very, very doable. It is very, very important because we have a nursing shortage, and we have to do our best to help South Carolina and our nation .

>> For these reasons, the staff strongly recommends that we increase the number of students pursuing the bachelor science in nursing program. >> Provost Jones? >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] >> What we do a prism now, I

Think is the best in the country. We need the students. >> I believe there’s opportunity , as well. >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] >> I love to brag about the fact that the majors in nursing

Graduating have a job. Any other questions? >> As nursing programs are ranked, where are we ranked? >> Our reputation is very strong. They are looking more at all-around research, so hours are based on repetition.

>> Any other questions or comments? >> I just applied this. I wish we could double and triple it . It is so needed. My concern in the hospitals and the political sites, and I

Believe we have to push that just as much, but they have to give the access for us to be able to do that. But I am thrilled to see this. Trustee Lee? >> Are we limited to

Associating with in-state hospital? >> [ Inaudible – overlapping Speakers ] [ Inaudible – muffled ] I think neighboring Georgia, North Carolina, we can move in that direction. We can check into that to make sure, I believe so.

>> [ Inaudible – muffled ] >> Sorry? >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] trusty swan? >> We are proud of our bridge program. That is treating students equally well, but I

Don’t think they still can major in nursing through a bridge program. >> Have you done anything, have you given any thought ? >> I’ll look into that. We are such a unique program, we

Have so many applicants that have taken — But, I’ll look into it. We have seen such a turnaround. >> Sometimes, students have a couple bad high school years, and they get dinged — >> That’s all right.

>> I’m not looking at anyone. [ Laughter ] >> Those are Auburn colors. [ Laughter ] >> But, I’ve had several students asked me — And there’s no answer on that. >> No, there’s a transfer

Option later. So they could go into a program, they want to secure it from another program. Yes. At the end. I love people who graduated for example, in USC, I think the

Short answer for us, and the answer to that question right now is — [ Inaudible – muffled ] any other questions or discussion? You’ve heard the recommendation, we have a motion to approve the recommendation?

>> Motion. Second. Is there anything further to discuss? Hearing none, all those in favor, signified by saying aye. Opposed none. The aye’s have it. Opposed, none. Recommendation is approved. >> I believe we are now up for

Our faculty reports. >> Thank you. >> Trustee Lynn. >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] many of these action items are CAG approvals, also. Some of these the exact notification, or in some rare cases come

Approvals. So, we — This is complicated network of what needs to be approved, and what kinds of things need to be approved, and we do a very good job tracking all of that. Sometimes we run — So we

Don’t spent three years trying to line up all of the approvals to get something done. >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] we give you the timeline, when the degrees are going to start, and the materials and we calculate that based on all the things

We need to do to start a program with the approvals and so forth, in some cases, we can start and asked for approval later, too. We will now move to the faculty Senate president report. Lauren

Duffy, President-elect, to provide the faculty Senate president report. >> Thank you. And thank you trustees for reading my final report. It has been a pleasure and honor to serve as faculty Senate president indoors with

You in the leadership team in the faculty to realize the ideals of faculty governance. This year has been one momentous change in the faculty Senate. And after we ratify the changes to the senates Constitution, in

October, we worked hard to bring our governing document back up to date. Now that those with a lecture rang, can vote on faculty governance issues come away expanded the size of the Senate to the from

35 — To 94. Now faculty can serve and vote, we continue to strengthen to make faculty even greater. We believe with you that service builds community. They worked hard to identify challenges, and

Solutions on everything from absence policies, to the allocation of space, from the perennial challenges of salad he — Salary parity. It’s not always glamorous work, but, it’s important, and impactful. Along the way,

Fantastic leadership team supports us at every turn. Including President Clemens, Provost Jones, and senior associate Provost Brown. And many others who generously give their time and energy toward our shared goals, and it’s my

Pleasure today to introduce Dr. Lauren Duffy, the incoming president of the faculty Senate. Clemson will be well served and inspired by her leadership , go Lauren, and go Tigers!. [ Applause ] >> I appreciate the

Opportunity to greet you all today. I’m going to keep my remarks pretty short, first, a statement will continue to work in the constitutional alignment, that is even as we put some thing into our bylaws as we continue governance

Across the University. As a part of that change we have 94 members new to us in the Senate. We will be working through discussions and effectiveness in operations, communications, making sure

How we are incorporating faculty voice and that process on a monthly basis. We look forward to building the faculty Senate capacity for understanding of reservoirs of shared governance. I look forward to working with all of

You. [ Applause ] >> Thank you . Do you both. Dr. Black, we appreciate what you have done, and continue to do , and we look forward to working with you. And I turn it over to Dr. Brian Powell.

>> This is my last address to you, representing the faculty and student board of governance. A very, very fun three years. I can say Dave has done a great job leading to the changes of the

Constitution, you have no better Senate president to lead through this. So, welcome, you’re going to do a great job. >> So, this will be my last address. I’d like to start by thanking President Clemens, and

the B OT . >> When I started, we were going through COVID-19. There were so many emails and questions for faculty asking about what’s going on, and the number of hours I spent in conversations with President

Clemens, and Provost Jones. I can’t tell you how much I’m grateful for your open communication. Most of the reports I sent you over the past three years have dealt with portraying the faculty experience. That’s my job as

Defined by the faculty manual. Many have been focused on the faculty who are here right now, so I kind of pivoted a little bit in the last when it talked about how we recruit and hire new faculty. The peer review

Process. Faculty, hiring, re-a few Marie appointment, and tenure is inherent in our faculty manual. And that starts with the hiring process. It actually starts even before we start a position, because the faculty in each department are

Working with their department chairs are school directors to define where they want the department to go. We are hiring new faculty as strategic growth in this work to maintain that we have the faculty meeting members when

We did a search review for environmental engineering, who’s going to study how to extract energy out of the subsurface, we spent 12 hours on zoom reviews going through many of the candidates.

There’s a need for these faculty members, so combined, we are spending numerous hours doing these searches to ensure we are getting the top faculty at each campus. The applicants are going through and asked denser process. I list a number

Of things they have to apply just to vie for the job, so everybody is a obtaining a very, very high level of quality. The first thing is to make a recommendation to the school director, who makes the

The recommendation up to the Dean. In all these cases we are searching for the best person to achieve their individual success and maintain growth of the strategic departments that we have, and then collective with all the

Departments to continue to move forward as we have in this. >> Currently they are searching for 59 tenure track, and 24 lecture track faculty. So, I cannot tell you how fun that 12 hours of zoom meetings was to

Hear him I’m not being sarcastic. To hear the differing ideas that these faculty had, in terms of what it they wanted to come, we are hiring some of the best there is in the country, and we are

Very, strong path for growth through those hires. Thank the University for supporting all of these, it is very very strategic at this point . I’ve got three more months, so if any of you still want to come

To campus I can fit it in, you got my cell phone number, give me a call, we will get it done. >> [ Applause ] >> Thank you Mr. Chairman, I just want to thank Dr. [

Inaudible – muffled ] they go above and beyond. They serve this institution and we thank you for your leadership. Dr. Duffy. I will look forward to working with you. >> Again, thanks. Trustee Lynn.

>> How many off-site faculty? How do you embrace and engage folks in other places? — I understand. >> So, I’ve got a couple of things that I’ve tried. Now, I rarely send an email out the

Ghost to all of the faculty. The majority either come through this and it, or their individual faculty member. I set up a separate email address for the faculty representative back all can

Use to get contact. I go sit on the patio of the solar restaurant here once a month as open faculty hours, and I open a lawn chair while I’m sitting there, so we’ve got

Ways for faculty to engage if they have questions. And they want to direct something to me that doesn’t directly go to the faculty Senate. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you for what you do, and continue to do, and to one

Of the few people that can make a zoom meeting exciting. [ Applause ] [ Laughter ] >> Next order of business is a report on the advising experience. Dr. Britton? >> Hank you, so much, it’s a

Real treat to be here and have an opportunity to talk about what a my favorite topics Echlin sins, and that is advising. Our students need to build numerous meaningful relationship with faculty, with staff, with their peers, with

Outside stakeholders to get the most out of their time here. In fact the relationships they build is a big part of what makes Clemson Clemson. I want to talk about how to facilitate that, and the role that advising has in making that

Happen. We have numerous programs that help students thrive while they are here. The important one, are accessibility services. >> We are committed to providing full access to all Clemson has offered to all of our students, whether it’s a

Veteran with TBI, or someone that is hearing-impaired, we want to make sure they have the resources they need. One exciting program, is a spectrum program. Students that are on the autism spectrum, and this started with four students

About five years ago, and it now has 40 students at all. Our first new student graduated last May, we have four scheduled to walk dismay. It’s an incredible support that we have available to those students now. But like most of

Higher Ed, we face challenges. Particularly since COVID-19, the number and complexity of those cases has continued to rise sharply. That puts strains on our system, so we have done things to help improve the efficiency of this office. When

I came into this program last fall, met with the director and charged her to work with Lisa Knox is team to put in place other ways we can increase our efficiencies and add staff and better serve our

Students, another program we have is the academic success Center. Opportunity is not equal. They arrived with many experiences may find that things that work in high school don’t necessarily work in college, we have a

Incredible array of support programs for those students. Tutoring, academic coaching, peer system, learning, and you can see the results of these programs, they work. These are to the shining results that we have an in order to help them

thrive. How do we help the students build the self-efficacy. These are two of the many things, the linchpin that ties all of this together is are accurate and make it rising. Our academic advisors of the ones are really

Crucial. They meet with their students every semester, and guide them through their curriculum, make them aware of the opportunities available to them, the curricular and extracurricular opportunities. How does advising work at Clemson? I want to address some

Of that today, what it looks like within the broader scope of what we are doing, and efforts that are underway to improve, continually improve what we are doing. How does advising work? Short answer is, it depends. Our students come

In with the wider array of ambitions interest, and our stakeholders tell us about many different things they need from our start holders from the arts, to business, they need each of those programs to be distinct. Advising, the way

That advising works reflects that. I want to highlight three examples from three different disciplines that reflect that spectrum of how advising works. I selected physics . A lot of students do a lot of different things with their

Degree. In this department, the model that uses a cohort model. As a faculty advisor, students assigned to that advisor, stay with them until they graduate. They have the one person against another students and works with them to design the

Curriculum in such a way that it helps them achieve their goals. >> Marketing in the College of business is a little bit different. They have a general business program, and all business students start their career there. They have a staff

Advisor that starts in the general program, and once they meet the requirements of that they are eligible to move into their specific majors, and in this case marketing, they do assign a disciplinary advisor in that department. Another

Example might be in education, where in the first two years they are primarily working on their general education and foundations course, and as they moved to the program in the last two years, becomes much more regimented. It’s focused on student teaching and getting

Contact hours and so forth. The model is a little bit different than some of the others. But all three of these approaches to advising have in common, is they don’t operate in silos, our students need extends beyond just what

Happens there. I went to look at a few of those again, to highlight how we collaborate and supply that experience for students. One important example is our student athletes. We have 600 across 21 sports. They face particular challenges because of the intense practice

Schedules, competition schedules, travel that they have to do, and they have NCAA requirements in addition to our requirements. Athletic advisors do an incredible job. The success rate among student athletes is top five. We are

Number one in public power five schools. We are tied with Stanford and Vanderbilt. They do an amazing job. The goal here is not just to provide top facilities so they can compete on the field and when

Championships there, make their four-year decision the right one. But also the forty-year decision, to be prepared with what comes next and they do an incredible job of making it happen. Another student, with our honor students. We don’t

Tend to think of them facing challenges, but they are incredibly ambitious. It’s not enough for some of them to double major. You talk to some of them, you hear that they are triple majoring. That creates all kinds of challenges to

Navigate. We heard from Dr. Winslow previously about the amazing thing are on the students do. In order to meet the onerous requirements and graduation requirements and graduate Ontrack, our honor advisors guide them regardless of what their specific major is

Cooperating with that Apple to make — [ Inaudible – overlapping Speakers ] >> I do know we had 846. 1846 students across all four years. Right. >> Some of the — Some of the needs are student population

Have is not tied to the population there tied up, but there students, prelaw students, students from all kinds of different majors, and are law students do a lot of different things. One of our

Students just went on to our justice Roberts. >> >> On average how many graduates go to Clemson law school? >> I don’t know that number exactly.

>> Yeah, I can look that up and get back. >> Yeah. >> They do go to amazing places. >> The success rate for the students is really strong. >> Health professions advising, a lot of our students are

Looking when they finish at Clemson to move into help, there is help professions. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and so on. Again, they come from a lot of different majors and have a lot of different needs in order to be prepared

For their careers. Making sure they understand what are they getting into, what does that look like? For premed students, Tiger on-call is in its ninth year. We have practicing physicians who volunteer their time to meet with the student

To provide insight into what does it take to get into medical school, to thrive in medical school, and be successful beyond that. It is the interactions and relationships that are sold

Successful. And it is the health accessible advisors that are cooperating to make sure they are meeting the requirements of the degree program and the requirements they need to go on to the next stage in their career. Some of

Our students get to Clemson, and they are not sure what they want to do. They don’t have a declared major. They are trying to decide. This raises a different set of challenges him in 2013, we set up advising in the academic

Success Center, we moved it into undergraduate studies. What these advisors do is a little bit different. It’s not just about helping the students picked the right classes so they can stay eligible. It’s also career exploration. What are their interests and

Passions, and what are their options, and what does it mean in terms of job opportunities, salaries and these kinds of things. How can they thrive. They do an amazing job, and the six year graduation rate is

84%. In 2017, that number was 94% for these students. These advisors do an incredible job, they work with the students to prepare them to move into a major within the department so they can thrive. These are just

A few of the different kinds of advising or academic advisors that tie all that together. As I was putting this together, sort of reflecting — Quick question. >> When we look at this and

One of the things I’ve heard from some parents, they have a major change in teacher. So going back to your slide before, where you get a new dedicated marketing person, are we agile that when

Somebody decides they want to switch, or do you have somebody that is sitting in a physics world now, where we want to be agile, — And then to are we using this for some of the students, I think some

The students, and if we are having so much success there, are we taking some of that model what you good at, what you want to do to some of those other cohorts? >> That’s an excellent

Question. In our current state, the undeclared advising is capped at — — They may Artie have 45 credit hours. We are working on exactly that looking at expanding the number of credit hours we can offer.

But where he comes a particular issue is where students that are on federal-aid because of the new regulations, we have to be making progress toward your stated degree. So, if you’re majors undeclared, you could make progress in undeclared,

Everything is fine. But once you get beyond 45 hours, if you don’t quite have the GPA to move into business, you’re taking business classes to get to that point, you are not making progress toward engineering anymore. We are

Working on something that has become very evident in this last year that we are addressing by expansion. >> Many thing we do with undeclared students, they are available, are career center does an amazing job at meeting

Students that can do the skill assessments, and research into different occupations, so our goal — One of our goals with elevating experiential learning is to get more students involved, and get them involved earlier. And oh God that’s

Jobs. I don’t need to worry about that into my senior year, we are pushing to get students to take advantage of that as soon as they start. They may not do it incompletion until their senior year, but getting them to start.

>> [ Inaudible – muffled ] are we trying to get active students into that as well? Yes, for example, we run a mid-term campaign which I will get to in just a moment. We run a midterm campaign where was

In communication to citizens, these are opportunities available to you. With peer system learning, would partner with the faculty, and encourage the faculty to do things like offer extra credit if they attend a more advertise it and

Talk it up in class to get students interested. For the most part services are for the first and second your courses. Most of the time, there’s much less need for that. A big part of what we’re doing is trying to build self-efficacy for the

Students of theirs much more support their first year as they moved toward their senior year, becomes less and less needful. It’s available for anyone, but those numbers are to increase that , where we find a lot of students take

Advantage of peer -assisted learning. What we really wanted the students with the D that could be getting the C or B being successful, and part of that is students that just don’t feel comfortable , maybe their first gin students, and

They are still trying to find their way in, so we are doing pro-Iraq of outreach to get students to take advantage of those supports. >> Thanks. >> Reflecting all of this and tying it back to our Clemson

Values, there are two of our values that really sort of bubble up that I think of when I think about advising. Those two — I’m going to get this right. >> There we go. Those two

Values are excellence and self-reliance. I said many times that our goal with advising is to build a self-efficacy of our students. We want them to learn to be self-reliant. The quality advising isn’t caudal lifting

— It’s not doing the work for the student ‘s, it’s teaching the students how to do that for themselves. As they progress through their degree program, that’s intentional. The support changes. The kind of mentorship they receive

Changes. To senior where where how do I position myself to get into graduate school or professional school, so we want to build that self efficacy, the second is excellence. We do a pretty good job with

Advising. We would have a six-year graduation rate if we weren’t doing a pretty good job. A pretty good job is not good enough. R-value is excellence and the number one student experience. So we want to continuously improve.

We just completed a review of our advising system and looking at ways to push forward that continual prompt and advising. Some of the things we do continually right now, the national survey for student engagement is happening. We

Should have those results this summer from that survey. A piece of that is asking students about their advising experience. We have previous years data so we can see how we were doing, compared to how we are doing. But it’s a

National benchmark survey. We can say where are we strong and where do we have room to improve. This is very important for how we had fall our advising program. The second is introduction of

Technology. We are not trying to replace our advisors or remove personal interaction, what we want to do is get rid of the low-impact high transaction with more high-impact meetings to help those meetings. Our advisors

Are the linchpin that help tie-in. >> Occasionally problems arise and mistakes happen. When they do, we address those promptly and in the best interest of our student, but we are student centered looking to do that.

>> One the things we found X come out of our reviews we need to do a better job with our training of our advising community to empower them to fully utilize the technology we have. >> Academic policies change

With federal state laws and that needs to be communicated to the advisors in a way that is clear, and disseminated, to make sure that is happening in ongoing training. We are in the process now searching for a

Director of academic advising coordination. This person will be charged with doing that manual review , making sure our advisors are up to date and using that technology is a very important piece of delivering a important student asked variance.

>> Thank you v■ery much. >> Trusty swab. >> I’m sorry, trustee Lynn. >> [ Laughter ] >> Trustee Lynn’s first question of the day, so I missed that. >> We talk about advising,

You’re talking about six-year graduation rate. I’m having trouble harmonizing that six-year student count . It depends. In the physics department for example, when your assigned advisor when you ride, when you are transfer student or a transfer student.

You have a advisor. Other programs, is structured in different ways. There may be staff advisors, but students continue to receive advising. They meet with the advisor once a semester until they graduate. That happens all the

Way. Exactly how the program structure is moving from a first-year common experience to discipline-based experience, varies based on the needs of that program. — Just to confirm, every freshen needs an advisor every year.

>> Exactly. Yeah, in order to get the registration pin number to sign up for classes they have to speak with an advisor first. >> There were cases in COVID-19 where there were illnesses, some of those

Meetings have to happen in email, but we really want these face-to-face interactions. >> Thank you for this by the way, it’s been powerful. [ Inaudible – muffled ] I would encourage you to receive the

Outreach, and the faculty from those, and we know we often hear students having difficulty navigating, and they don’t know who to go to for help. Those kinds of things. Sometimes it’s that fear factor. And they just need

Someone that has a relationship with them. Maybe that’s the advisor, maybe that’s a stack of or faculty. Generally they get to the place where — Getting better at it, because of vomit D student, I don’t

Want my parents to know. I’m trying to help myself, sometimes there problems with the results, so thank you for your hard work. Matt comment. I really want to speak in favor of this. And I want to

Draw your attention to put an advising model in place. >> [ Inaudible – muffled ] we were actually recognized by the American Association of College faculty for this model. As we elevate data, you will

See the fair, positive impact of the advising model. 100% of our students in six years, are being hired. We truly clearly [ Inaudible – muffled ] and I also wanted to gently correct what I heard. We have

Professional advise of our students all four years. We talk about having a staff advisor, professional advisor said thank you for highlighting her program and allowing me to correct the record. This makes us all better. So thank

You. Thank you for the great work you’re oing. Also want to point out that Sean chairs are computer science department. I want to thank all of you for stepping up. Now, correctly call on the trustee

Spot. To try to get in jobs are getting jobs, and once that really do not require their concern, do you have a way for them to come back that’s an interesting

Question, so I know that our career center does work with alumni, it does provide advice. We do find a few students where they get their diploma and they shall with the career center, and they say

What do I do with it? That sort of thing happens. That exists. I don’t know how extensive that is are common that is, but that is a challenge. They have their degree, now they say, what do I do with this. We

Want to make sure that they have the resources to translate that into a job. Any other questions or comments. >> Thank you. Thank you for all the work you do. >> Next order of business is an update on graduate admissions,

>> That’s an interesting way to say it, that is exactly right. I get lots of people that say, while. That work must be really hard. My response is always the same. Sure there hard parts, everybody has a

Hard job, but we get the benefit of being able to say lots of yeses, as well. Thank you very much. Talk about some interesting times. It is an interesting time to have an enrollment of eight. Because

This is a picture that is very much still in the process of being painted. We will talk about where we are right now. Total applicant pool right now, 60,617. The final first-year applicant count last year was 60,195. We are tracking at 2.1%

I had. That won’t quite get us to 62,000, but we are going to get really close to that. The Provost use the word [ Inaudible ] today, that is, you have been paying attention

that is a large application growth over the last year in particular. What’s really nice to see is the total growth in the applicant pool is 2.1%. But the growth in South Carolina’s two 3.17. Seeing more growth in state is a very positive

News for us. [ Inaudible – overlapping Speakers ] [ Inaudible – muffled ] every one of those. >> Yes. They all pay $70 application fee. Students who have financial need, can

Request and receive an application fee waiver if they are eligible, basically, or on free and reduced lunch in their high school. So there is a small portion of the applicant pool that doesn’t pay that fee. Admit his

Numbers, you can see their 23,300 to students who have been knitted already. That number included 13,000 1822 who were admitted early action. That means they were admitted for Follis number before the December holiday

Break. That same number Lasher was 10,500. So we made three thousand additional yes offers to Clemson before the December break. Lasher was the first year for early action, making those additional 3000 offers was because we whirl

Little more conservative in the first year, held back to wait until we saw more of the pool, and we were more aggressive this year to make those early offers. There are another 9480 students who were admitted during regular decision. That

9480 her students admitted to Clemson for summer. We also made bridge offers during that regular decision date. That was March 1st. We were able to back that up to February 15th. So early action yeses, went up

By 3000. Because we were able to do that, we were able to back up the regular decision date two weeks to February 15th. Those are strategically important efforts. Yet more decisions, positive, in an effective way knowing what the

Pool is earlier. Deposits. This is the third gate. He gotta get up in the pool, you gotta be able to admit them, and then they have to be able to enroll. 32 83 is the number

Of students who so far, have paid the deposit saying I’m going to enroll in Clemson. The target for this year is 4000. Lasher’s target was 4500. That 275 additional deposit of first-year additional

Students is based on the model of graduation rates tracking 2% growth. If we had 2%, we have 4047 extra students we are aiming for. 700 75 are year-to-date comparisons based on how many more

Comparisons we have this time last year. You’ve done the math in your head just now based on what I said. We want to enter 75 more. Right now we have 775. >> That’s a really positive

Sign. It’s also most likely attributed to timing. We made 3000 additional offers during the early action. We made regular decision offers February 15 instead of March. Deposits are coming in every day. Yesterday they were 49

Deposit. Last year the same date, there were 70, the day before that would there were 56, last year on that date there were 76. Two days ago, there were 55. In the previous year was 45. So you can see,

There are lots of deposits coming in every day, and they are starting to slow down a little. >> It’s not time to panic that we are to be too big, but it’s very positive sign that deposits are coming in strong.

May 1st, this last item, May 1st is the date that we have used , and most into solutions around the country use is the date new students are apt to accept the deposit. I can

Imagine anyone in this room that is not saying the information about the FAFSA, that is a positive thing. Read doing it had not been overhauled or changed in 40 years. Redoing it simplifies it significantly. There have been

Lots of hiccups in the rollout of that new FAFSA . This is not a Clemson problem. It’s a national problem impacting all colleges and universities. We would typically already have all of the student — Students who have completed the FAFSA

And we would’ve been packaging for the last five or six weeks. We still only have probably half of the students who have submitted it . We only have half of them as of right now. >> Our best estimate right

Now, is that we will be able to make financial award packet decisions in a complete fashion April the 22nd. That is a really significant challenge for students with financial need, because they do

Not yet know what their paid packages. What we do with respect to releasing its scholarship and aid packages, we try it in a bundl. Typically, March, we would rule the whole aid package out.

It would include merit based scholarships and awards as well as need based grants from the federal state government institution, because we don’t have the data, we still don’t have a packages out. They are not likely to be out until the

Fourth week of April. That may first date is an open question. We may still need to extend that deadline. We have to balance that with the incoming class, and what the numbers are . We are balancing that

Decision now. We don’t want to shift the date twice. >> You said it’s a national problem, is that how everybody is doing it? >> 30% of the colleges and universities look like at us. Large public universities and

Land grants have shifted it to June 1st. Some shifted it to May 15th. The number of schools that shifted it to May 15th, is a little higher than those that shifted for June 1. >> But all are waiting?

>> Nobody is going out saying, this is what is to look like? Schools like us or not putting aid packages out. There are some schools and I lakes that have enough money to give students whatever

Money they want regardless of where it’s coming from. They can make those aggressive choices. There are some really hungry institutions that are discounting tuition just to fill their seats. They can also be super aggressive and

Put a number out there. Most schools that look like us are doing this. >> Can I take you back to early action for just a moment? >> Yes, please. >> How are they signed and accepted into early action? I

Am surprised to understand whether or not they got the information to accept early action. We accepted more than a regular decision, so those numbers surprised me. I’d like to understand a little bit more about how that’s decided,

and I don’t know if others were surprised by the numbers as I was. >> It’s an important question, we are moving through changes. As a process, as we make a change, we learn, we continue to shift. Early action, means

That a student, when they applied, that application becomes available first of August. They answer a question, I want to be considered early action, or regular decision. So the student decides whether we

Make a decision early action. >> They don’t all select early action. Two thirds of them do. >> Why would you not? >> So, students — It’s perception. Students sometimes believe early action really

Come. Most universities do something that is early accident, or early decision. Much more typical than not. Not every school handles it is exactly the same as every other school. Our goal is to make the best decision possible at the

Pool. This could such a question. How are we able to bring more in early action that and not regular decision? With one year’s practice, with a pool as large as 60,000 applicants, and a retention and graduation rate as high as ours

Are, we have a lot of data from students. We know what the pool look like. By the time the early action group is in, we’ve got 35 or 40,000 of the applicant pool of the 60. We have our models that let us

Know pretty well where we are going to end up. That lets us be more aggressive to make more yes decisions early. >> The change where we make those early decisions, the other thing we have going for

Us, as we significantly value South Carolina. So most of that 3000 student gain was students in South Carolina, that we knew we were going to get the yes, anyways. We went ahead and made the disorderly decision. >> They said this is for

School, if they get approved, that’s automatic? >> Early decision means , I applied to a school command we do not do early decision. Early decision means a violated the school, and that school says yes for me, I commit

Immediately and withdrawal from all the other schools I am considering. >> We do not do early decision. Any other questions? Tracy Smith? >> If you’re denied early action, rejected, we don’t penalize [ Inaudible – muffled

] >> Let me clarify the words. Very few students get that died at early action. There are group of students at the bottom of the pool to get early action. If they don’t get he

Is, negative for. That moves them forward to the regular decision pulling it negatively impacts them and zero way. We remember what it’s like to be 17 and 18 it’s hard to hear yes, is anything other than no.

All I language in the letters is, you’re going to get full consideration. Were not saying no, we’ve still got you. Even the little patients. We will not use the word to Farrell in the letter anymore. [ Laughter ]

>> [ >> [ Inaudible ] >> The applicant pool, we held steady. We all know that over the summer, the Supreme Court decision regarding the use of race in admission has had a

National — it has but a national question on what is going to happen, especially at highly selective institutions. There was a immediate concern that it would dampen the applicant pool. We saw strength in the applicant pool. We saw

Very little change. A 1 to 2% decline in the number of students in the applicant pool from underrepresented students. >> [ Inaudible ] >> Trustee . >> I have a question. >> Go ahead.

>> Is there any coordination between acceptance and the honors college? >> Is there any coordination between acceptance and the honors college? Yes. They fill out the same navigation through the process.

Technically the, the same application. Their shared back and forth with honors. They admit to the University comes first and then, they admit to the honors college comes second. And we are not checking in with them and

Whether and to say yes , they make their decision with the honors college independent of our decision and ours is not impact admission to the University, but from a student experience, they do it in the same playground.

>> Trustee Lynn, you finish your question? >> [ Inaudible ] >> So, the applicant pool stayed pretty stable. The commit pool right now, and it is early, it seems like there

Is maybe a 3 to 4% decline in students from underrepresented populations. >> [ Inaudible ] >> I don’t have that in front of me right now. But I can get that back to you. >> Trustee Swann.

>> What are we doing this? >> We are test optional. We let a student tell us on their application whether or not they want us to use a test score and then continues to be about half of our applicant

Pool continues to say, I want to use test scores. We are monitoring very closely retention and graduation rates and we have not seen a negative impact or decline — especially in first-year retention rates. We haven’t

Had it long enough to have a six-year graduation rate but we are not seeing a decline there. In NCAA for instance. These are one of those things where being in the pool matters. Swimming in with other folks

Doing what you’re doing it’s kind of important when the NCAA eliminated, for instance, the requirement for student athletes to take a test. Going back to requiring a test, that is where an example where it could create certain tension

In certain respects. >> [ Inaudible ] >> I think we are trying to get students from schools in the lower part of the state and what have you where the

Students are doing well on getting in, but they might have trouble passing to get in the class. How we doing that and how is that working? Is it working positively? >> I would argue that the data

Shows us that there are students across the board that sometimes, just are not great testtakers. I do think that there is a legitimate question nationwide about how students and families are able to prepare for tests and test

Preparation can matter a lot. The evidence shows us that stu don’t test well are isolated to that region. I do think that students from families and communities that don’t have the resources to be able

To do all of the test prep, I do think they could be much more negatively impacted. >> Trsutee Wilkerson. >> Can you explain to me why we have a dual application process for the honors

College? I find a lot of confusion around that. So, a student might apply with both of those applications and then get accepted to honors but then they will fill out the honors application and be

Considered and it has to be filled in and the appropriate time. Why do we do it that way? >> Why do we do it that way? There are different selection criteria and so, what the

Honors college is is considering for an applicant is not something that is necessary for every student. So, it is very difficult to not have additional questions. It is a very typical experience. That is the answer to the second

Part of the question. The answer to the first part of the question is that is been one of the things that we have worked on significantly over the last couple of years. To bring them closer together. Four years ago and prior, you filled out your

Opposition to Clemson, you had an entirely separate process an entirely separate place where you sent test scores again internships again and you sent it all separately. We have pulled that together and the communication strategies between undergraduate

Admissions and the honors colleges are significantly more interwoven than they used to be. There is always room for improvement. >> Any other Russian? >> Trustee Phyfer-Kubu. >> Thank you. With a

Commitment, is it you running some models are telling you the type of students that will getting in with that early action are getting the higher students? >> We are. The quality of the pool, the quality of the

Students committee is as high as it has been. >> Any other questions? Thank you, David. >> Thank you. >> [ Applause ] >> Do we have any new business to come before the committee? Provost Jones mentioned at the

First of the meeting that we have this background information to study and review and I would like to reiterate that I know it seems like we go through this fairly quickly , but it is important information and we have had

The chance to review it and I appreciate what all of you continue to do and come at this time, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. >> May ask one question? >> Sure. >> We are very proud of the

Path and, Brian, I know you and the trustee have been trying to raise money for it. If we set our goals high enough on that, can we think through how to get an opportunity for

All of us students to have at least one or two corpses courses in capitalism and democracy and the Constitution? And secondly, can we consider maybe making — doing something look at other

Schools and have a course on capitalism ? >> [ Inaudible ] >> Present Clemens. >> I appreciate your question. >> [ Inaudible ] >> I know some part we are

Trying to raise money for. When I ask you about this, you set your goals too low. That is what I expected. We had that discussion. >> [ Inaudible ] >> Thanks for pushing.

>> Any other questions? I will entertain a motion to adjourn. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, say aye . With that, we will adjourn. >> We start student affairs at 1015.

>> [ Inaudible – overlapping speakers ] >> [ Inaudible – low volume ] >> All in favor, say aye.. >> Aye >> Any opposed? It is approved. I will now turn this meeting

To vice president of student affairs, Chris Miller, to read his presentation. >> Thank you, vice chair, good morning, everyone. As I start everything, I have the best job on the face of the planet and I would not spend a lot of time

Talking because there are so many other people we have here that we want to talk a little bit more here about the concept of the number one student experience and we will start off with this one slide. This

Slide here, is indicative of our Clemson students. So what is as again? What is it? >> It is from Clemson day at the state house. >> Clemson day at the state house and when you just look at

The pure joy as it relates to our student and student communities , it maps in so many ways and I just love it. I love it. As the couple highlights that you already have in your packets. Clemson

Day at the state house. Yes, we had our first ever store student gift. Something we are continuing to be proud of. So the time and effort and energy the cold and our fellow, I certainly would be remiss if I

Did not talk on my colleagues in advancement who set the stage for us in terms of any of all successes that we had so shut out to Ryan, more specifically carry where worked with over the last a

Years in our work. It just certainly pays off in this way. Leadership week as well. Leadership transition. We have some great new leaders that are coming forward , which you all will have an opportunity to participate with as well. We

Have second annual attorney and sorority, gala that was to be successful as well. We have spring family weekend that is right upon us and of course, as we will shout out to all of those that I’ve been really

Involved in bringing music back to campus. We have admission to be a half a decade ago and here we are so we are really thrilled about that. Thanks a lot. I want to talk to you a

Little bit about this piece and this is something that I’m particularly proud of. The board has given us a road map as it relates to where we are and where we are going . So, we were able to create this info

Graphic and once again, it is not created in a vacuum. I want to shut out to my colleagues and Mark who helped develop and put this piece together as it relates to our values , Clemson values and it is using these

Values in our work and have not just some of them in all of our work. So, you see, this info graphic here, which you will see more and more often tends to kind of solidified what we are doing and when we

Are talking about keeping Clemson Clemson, this is one of those or variables for us in terms of keeping Clemson, Clemson. So, increase awareness as it relates to including values, University values, into everyday life and everyday activities. Creating the value

Of consistency and continuity and recognition of this road map. So, for us, in terms of integrating these values, not only in orientation in the 560 student bus organizations , but is actually our intent to incorporate this and not just

Some things. Yet again, everything. One of my colleagues , I think Sean had mentioned it before, is something that we have been spending a great deal of time on. This one value as it relates to self-reliance. Hard

Work, self-discipline , result oriented , doing the right thing even when it is difficult or unpopular. So, that particular value resonates on so many different levels and when we talk about confusing that in our work, both incorporating , clearly those

Are things that are incredibly impactful not just impactful while we are here, these are lifelong. Each value has its own icon as well and its description. Next slide. This one in particular as well. We

Have been seeing a lot and spending a great deal of time on resources as it relates to patriotism and what it means, right, and how we infuse those things. I often think my own family . My father-in-law who

Was in a great war and my two uncles over in the great war as well. So I think I have some context to relate to what it means. Patriotism and how it is reflected. And once again, how it is reflected in our

Institution . We have a rich, rich history when it comes to that type of work, which is a very nice segue and I’m happy to introduce another one of our colleagues . Emily has been with us — how long have you

Been with us, Emily? >> Two years, sir. >> Two years. 24 months. In the next 24 month period, we have seen a significant paradigm as a release I will work and we are thrilled to

Have you here and I want to give you some updates on some really fantastic news. >> Thank you. Good morning. Thank you so much for your time and the invitation to share and is living with you this morning. Yes, absolutely

Adding on to Dr. Miller’s comments on University values in action, certainly everything I am about to talk about does demonstrate our commitment to patriotism. We received our military friendly designation or 2024 /125 from victory . I

Am beyond thrilled to share — >> I’m sorry to interrupt. Were you when we started? >> Sir, I was on silver award when we started. I am beyond to share that we went from silver award surpassing go to a top

10 designation. >> [ Applause ] >> Thank you. Clemson University is currently ranked number seven military friendly school and number seven military spouse friendly school among tier 1 research institutions, which is an incredible, incredible,

Appeared this is due to a collective effort across our universities. So please accept my gratitude to you all. Certainly, I would be remiss if I didn’t think I think limits, executive leadership team, and the executive board of trustees

And Dr. Poole, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Rafalski for the role in student enrollment was a great enhancement that we are about to talk about. So, across the board, we strengthen the connection and imitation improvements. Both military

Improvement have added full-time staff members that support veterans and military connected students 100% of the time. We also increased our critical space by opening up a second Student Affairs Committee location which is an

Existing to our location. The new space is a partnership office that allows us to host a mental health counselor , upstate warrior solution, a VA social worker and vocational rehabilitation counselors and other campus and community partners within a one stop shop

Model for our students. Another huge important improvement was additional four new questions on both the graduate and undergraduate admissions applications to include the common app. These are asks of all potential students. So we are now asking, are you a

Service number? Are you a veteran? Are you a military spouse? Are you a military child? And we built out the Banner system to house the status of we can seamlessly access it to better serve our

Students. For this year’s military from a survey, both institutional research and undergraduate studies built a specific dashboard to collect information that we needed on our subpopulations. So, along with the career center, who always supports our students

With intentionality, their first destination survey actually — hands-down , no doubt, contributed to our military friendly spouse designation. We were able to incident waivers for all military connected students to bypass enrollment deposits and

Allow our military service members who are first-year students to opt out of living on campus if they so choose. And then, finally, MMVE made improvements on how we serve and communicate with our military spouses and our

Military children, who are typically more traditional college students. We now send tailored communication to those the populations through their that sleep system. Our student veterans Association invites all military family members to participate and we offer

Specific scholarships for military spouses and children. So, that is kind of a really quick recap and thank you very much for your time and attention. If you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them now.

>> Emily, I just want to thank you for your leadership on this because it is important to me and important to this university and I want to quickly with a sense of urgency say that you got it done. So,

Thank you. I would also encourage you to keep pushing. Keep pushing. >> Thank you so much, President Clements. >> Any other questions? >> How was in our demand from the students increase since

Our recognition? >> Great question. I would say the answer is absolutely yes and even more specifically with our new physical space, we are logging more visits than ever in both locations and I think , as admitted students and students who have been accepted

Have been on campus for their tours, they are coming in. They are coming in daily. >> Thank you. >> [ Inaudible ] >> That is a great question and it really relates to our partnership office is now

Embedded in MMVE. Upstate warrior solution has a warrior advocate on-site. He is a six combat were retired Command Sergeant Major and he is sort of that first line of support and resources . And then, from there, whatever students need,

we will make sure they are connected to the appropriate resource. Question. Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much . We’re just glad you’re here and making such a impact to the program is so important to the

Veterans and also our program. >> Think you very much. >> Madam chair, have some context on the subject very quickly. I know it used to go probably to the day the president said to me, Chris,

What we have our veterans in a crackerjack box and was very intentional about where we were and what his expectations were as to where we needed to be so, I am really pleased that we have made some significant gains. Once again, thank you .

>> Thank you. >> [ Inaudible ] >> I’m sorry. >> I am on the committee but first, Emily, thank you and congratulations. Your gret leadership. I think it is an awesome designation. An

Associated question, Mr. President, is there much demand for us having a Navy ROTC at Clemson? I think now we have Air Force ROTC and Army. But having been approached about Navy .

>> We have been approached about Navy and there is an analysis but I have not seen the results on that. >> Used to be a special agreements you can do something here. >> Yes, sir. We had some

Marines come through with partnership. Emily, you know more about this because I know we recognize in our ROTC initiate. >> Absolutely. We do partner with that Charlotte Marine Corps recruiting district so we do have Marine Corps officer

Candidates on tennis campus and the do commission with the two ROTC units. >> With ABA league for ROTC made — >> I think absolutely yes and with Dr. Miller’s’s permission, our area was able

To submit a letter of interest to the secretary of the Navy that Dr. Miller allowed us to have some great input into, so thank you again for that, sir. >> Excellent. I asked if they

Would ask you have Armed Forces a Navy but a personal standpoint, I know there is a graduated folks who joined the Marine Corps. Went through STS, 12 basic, and went to the Marine Corps. It would be

Terrific for those students. >> We would lower due diligence on it. I appreciate you bringing that up. >> Thank you, Mr. President. >> Sure. Yes. It is my great pleasure to introduce to you

Dr. Kim was work with me for the last a years and has probably been the highlight of her entire freshman career. >> [ Laughter ] >> I am supposed to say yes, right?

>> [ Laughter ] >> I have to avoid this because Kimberly really gets it when we talk about our desire for high touch points so, when we say that we are initiated 24/7, she actually lives that

and I am clearly grateful for her hard work and dedication and commitment and she will provide you with just a synopsis of some of the kinds of things that we are doing that we continue to move

Forward with our goal of creating the number one student experience from a well-being perspective. So with that being said, and I think you are a three-time talker, right? >> I am. So, I wanted to say

Thank you want because as a three-time Tiger and nonemployee with many years at the University, I appreciate all of the hard work of the board and it is a privilege to continue to serve and have

Why’all as our leaders and be a part of our supports. So, yes. Three-time Tiger and I am proud of that. So that is all Dr. Miller said. Today, I’m really going to take a little bit of time at a high-level

Talk about the number one student experience, specifically related to well-being and some of the initiatives and services that we do with it division of student affairs to support this because we know, as we strive

For that number one student experience, one of the key option items is to assure well-being and sense of belonging so this gives us a chance talk about things we are doing and what we will continue to grow and thrive ourselves to

Get to that best place. So, when we think about our students, we want to think about them holistically. Not just what they are doing in the classroom and in the lab and who are they holistically?

Mind, body and soul and from there, also capturing and utilizing a dimension of well-being. Why they holistically and how can we speak to those parts because we know each of those pieces work together. If we think about it.

If we don’t feel well physically, if we are emotionally not well, we might not do well in class. Guess what? We may then lose our fellowships so we have financial stressors and all of those things start to impact

Us. And the success we want students to have on campus. So we will highlight some the things we try to do to help students get through those things. You might have heard Dr. Miller and others talk

About, we see student affairs as the opportunity to augment the academic experience. We want to make sure that they have what they need whether it is in the physical spaces but also more and that resources

That are out of that classroom so they can take care of themselves, they can be engaged and want to be here at Clemson Avenue and also continue that academic peace that we know is the enemy of while they are here. And in

Doing this and helping them grow in these ways, there is a lifelong part to this because you are learninghow to take care of yourself. You are learning how to engage her body and yourself to be successful as you go on to your career and

Other parts of your life. So, I will highlight here our office of X advocacy and success. But as one departmental area that we know our students have to have resources. Sometimes, didn’t even know what they need. Somebody may recognize

That they are going through a difficult challenge and they want to make sure they have what they need so, this department is really that chance. It is a conduit for people to get students and get them connected to address any

Things that they may have going on. You can see the Coleman list of referrals. Anything from academic or financial grief issues and mental health as one is one. We see a lot of things surrounding that. But

Our goal is to engage the students, support them, and really help them be successful and build resilience. How to grow beyond. As many of us won’t live a life without a challenge. So how to grow

Beyond that thing that we might be experiencing. When the services that the office of advocacy and success offers is a care network. Hopefully some of you have heard of that. But the care network is that opportunity that if anyone, faculty, staff, student,

Parent, committee member, family member, they are aware that a student might be going to a situation and they need a little extra touch or little extra support. Someone they clean and on to support them,

They can submit that care report and someone is going to reach out to them to engage them. To understand what they are going through and help them to connect to those resources. So it is that entry point for those concerned that might be

Going on and then, from there, hopefully that’s not sorry. From there, hopefully — >> [ Inaudible ] >> Yeah, I am trying to. From there, hopefully, they will be able to be successful. Want to

Talk about that third point creating a culture of care. Clemson knows you are not just here for the outputs of your research. You are not just here because we have 60,000 puzzle applications. You are important

and we want to create a culture that says, I can go somewhere and get the things that I need. There are a few stacks here that you can see . We had during the fiscal year

23, we had over 2100 care cases. Now, one student may have and have more than one case. Some have multiple issues from 112 heard from earlier. So those things are there . Thus far to the end of

February for this fiscal year, we’ve had almost 1400 cases. You see the number here, 142 have been referred to our behavioral intervention team. Speak to the convexity of needs that our students have. Sometimes, there is a situation that is much more significant,

Maybe more concerned regarding how they are doing emotionally and other factors that impact them and so, they are referred to that team meets weekly . One that you might not be aware of and that is a pretty big

Number the on the end, when we talk about touch points, one of the things that I promise I’m not touching anything. One of the things that students are able to do through — that is why you laid it down.

>> [ Laughter ] >> That students are able to do through canvas is submit a notification of absence. That seems pretty benign, right? It might be my class won’t start. I’m going on a class field

Trip. Are all of the reasons why the maybe missing classes however, students are sometimes sharing, I lost a loved one. I’ve got a significant health situation going on. There is something happening in a space that is impacting me and so,

Actually within the office of advocacy and success, we do have a system that we are monitoring all of those most of the 9000 came in and fiscal year 23 notifications of absence to check in. And if someone is sharing something

That is of greater concern, well, they may need more support, we are outreaching to them and engaging them to make sure they have those resources because they are focused on the class like, hey, I am not going to be there, which is

Really good. We want to focus on them and what is important to them and make sure they have what they need to be successful. >> Let me add a little context of that as well. When we talk about 3000 PLA’s or thousands

Of care kind of engagement, clearly that is impactful as it relates to our retention efforts. So as the president talks about, this concept of poly touch point and every single thing that we do

Keeping Clemson Clemson, which means that it doesn’t matter if it is 28,000, it is going to feel like it is 5000. It is absolutely labor-intensive but it is imperative in terms of keeping Clemson, Clemson, and creating a number one student

Experience. And also just rock stars in that. >> Thank you for that. And thank you for sharing that. We want to highlight on another slide we saw that the care number network is a injury for

Services. We are an entry point. People need to know we are here so they can refer students. We do try to engage in outreach and educational opportunities. So those are our community know how to refer

Students to we can intervene as early as possible in a situation, but also making sure that members of our campus community are aware of resources that are available because for faculty number sitting and talking with a

Student, they don’t just have to do the care report and miss that moment, they can say, hey, I know there is a website that has this resource information. Here is where we can go to get that. So how can we support

And help our community support realistically? So we engage in a number of setting to educate and actually that ready set Ror and other times and through newsletters engaging families and others to know about resources and how we can help

And support. And so, you see some of those numbers there and those numbers are specific programs. They don’t to the broader events that we do that we may not sponsor can we do also ensure that our staff that

They are doing this work have the training and ability to support students. And then continuing on. A different type of touch point but definitely you heard from Dr. McCarrick last board meeting. She said a lot about student health

Services. What I want to highlight here is again, this is another layer of would talk about well-being and how are students doing, we know that the medical side and counseling are attempting to tend to the emotional and physical need

That a student may have and canvas is part of a nutritional employment employment . But what is really impressive about this is that they are not just doing the work but they are doing the work well

Because they are assessing every student who goes to an appointment receive a survey that they can get feedback on . And you have the N number there of the number completed the survey, over 91% were satisfied with the services they

Received. And that is okay that that number is not 100% because if we were just doing everything the person walks in the door wants, we may not be doing our job because sometimes you have to give hard news and

Heart answer sometimes so sometimes you have to support. So we really proud of the number. Over 93% felt listened to. Someone carefully consider their concerns and then finally, even though it is an aging building, over 95%

Recognize the cleanliness and the general appearance. So we are trying to create that environment — >> [ Laughter ] >> [ Inaudible ] >> That is fair. Of those who completed the survey, that was

The feedback and so we are grateful that they had that experience. Yes. >> [ Inaudible ] >> Yes. >> Have an answer. Sorry. On this, I noticed that you don’t have the icon for academic

Success, but I kind of disagree with that. I mean, if people are having mental health issues, that is all tied to — you said on the slide before, if you flip back it is there. It just appears here. Have a

Question for that. >> Well — sorry. >> Go ahead. >> I was going to say that feedback is taken and we can make sure to highlight that more but I would say you are exactly right. Everything we do

In student affairs, we don’t see it as different or disconnect from the academic enterprise. >> That is correct. >> What we’re doing is to enhance and support that experience but you are right.

We need to say that more directly. >> It was on the side before, before the next slide. >> Yes. Thank you for that. >> Chair, I think we probably need to be doing that because

It all coalesces around academic enterprise, which is our primary mission and supporting provide support allows that. >>, Talk about mental health talking about ballistics ballistics — indeed. >> Thank you for that feedback.

>> Do you follow trends of who is coming to you with care or the things we can be doing?? We know they’re going to get there . >> Yes, sir, we do. We do

Track one of our top issues that we are seeing in emotional health and well-being . Consistently is a top issue for us. We also see our students with even just the procedural pieces of academics and attendance is a big piece, but

Understanding how to navigate. And so, we don’t do the academic piece but we can get them those resources through their adviser, a departmental chair, or whatever they need. So those are typically our top

Three that are right in their that we are dealing with, but we do have those exact numbers when we are able. We try to note the reason they are coming in for each person when we are interacting with. Thank you.

>> President Clements >> I just want to thank you for the work that you do. You will be receiving a large portfolio . But also, thank you . I also want to point out that she is a graduate of our

Research Institute . And we can see that in the goals that you have. >> Thank you. I am a cohort of POI. >> Thank you and for everything that you do. >> Thank you.

>> [ Applause ] >> I’d like to introduce to you another one of our superstars who is going to take us through some of the data pieces as it relates to the number one student

Experience and I think there will be some cross references as well to my colleagues in institutional excellence as well but Chris is once again a superstar here on this campus and is primarily responsible

For all of the research and data collection of all of those things that go into the research components and I believe that you have heard me say on numerous occasions that we are, in fact, driven by

Data. The data as far as our decision-making from a qualitative and quantitative effective. It is not the only thing and clearly is not the only factor but it is a factor and when we talk about making

Informed decisions, it also goes hand-in-hand with being good stewards of the resources, right? Being responsive in such a way that if in fact things are not working in a way that they should that we make

The necessary adjustments. We are not afraid of data but we embrace it and Kristin leads us in terms of the revision in this way and she is going to share some of this information with us. And she has a little baby.

>> And sharing is caring. He gave me a cold. >> One >> So, good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for allowing me to spend some time talking with you about data and I think you saw for my previous two

Colleagues, we collect and use a lot of data as Dr. Miller referenced, to inform our work, but if you were to ask our staff when they got to the work at student affairs, it ain’t data. It is because we

Love data students. But you don’t do this work very long without recognizing that you need data to inform your resist allocation to a know if you are in keeping those intended outcomes were seeking to we can support our students.

So I want to highlight some network today and how it is that we do what we do. So, in order for our department to figure out, are we achieving those desired outcomes when it comes to the holistic student

Experience and the impact that we have outside of the classroom, we collect data from a lot of different sources in our department have key metrics. Some are areas where that data was highlighted for you and that is indicative of

The work that was across our division. Some of those data sources include our national and local surveys. It is important to us that our students can share their voices and experience with us. It cannot be our perception of

Their experiences. So we have that as valuable data sources for us. We also use things as card swipes or taps or whoever will wait students are using their Tiger one financials these days. To see what are

They engaging in. We also see what are the spaces there reserving. How about the accretion they are using to support their well-being. Where the conversations that our staff are having with students? Those are all

Different data sources that we can also contextualize with demographic information to again, know who we are serving and maybe we are not coming in touch with as much and how we can rectify that and looked at different tragedies to engage

Them more. So we bring all that information together in order to impact the holistic student experience for everybody at Clemson. So, when we look at some of those data sources, we have a really new and excited exciting data

Source called the power of the Paul or the pop survey. It is a pulse style survey, that the name alludes to do well and it is really different. Let me share how. We have our national surveys, which is excellent.

With a deep dive for us on some different topics. It may be around health, it may be around leadership. They are also lengthy. We got example from our students. We get a report back. It usually takes a

Couple months to get a report back. So that is our national survey bucket that we have years of it has been able to inform our practice. We also have department focused surveys that are very much focused on those programsand services

That we provide. They are very niche. The power of the Paw are very low point for us and they went through all undergraduate and graduate students of the fall of the spring this year. Very short

Questions or less to allow us to look at a high-level, how we are doing with our Clemson elevate metrics. So this fills some data gaps for us and gives us a very, again, high-level, how our students

Doing? How are they feeling? And because this is an internal survey, we can get that data to ELT and staff across our campus much quicker so we can intervene quicker so that we can support and bottom leave a little bit more versus our

National surveys we can benchmark, which is wonderful, but again we have to wait a couple months to get that data. So that is a really new exciting data source for you and institutional excellence is going to be sharing a couple

More get up with you tomorrow but I would like to highlight a couple of them with you today in terms of how that connects to the number one student experience. The top two data points here. These are

Questions are worded from national surveys. So not only can we compare the data to ourselves over time, but we can also benchmark ourselves against other institutions and I can say that our students are in a high level of agreements

With his questions than our peers at aspired institutions, which is wonderful. The bottom two questions, these are internal questions that are only on Paw, that might have something to do with a national survey question, but the language is tailored to Clemson

Elevate and those key actions that are promoted to that Clemson experience. So when we look at the data holistically, we can see three out of four, we are doing great but is important to look a little

Medieval deeper and look at some populations. That is important to us because that informs the programs and services that we provide and how that might need to be a little bit different. Our data point here, you are probably

Seeing it and saying Kristin, I don’t like that one. What is up with that? Again, that went to all undergraduate and graduate students who aren’t five seconds away from graduating so their experiences are very different. So when we disaggregate or bring the data

Down for us so we can see, our students are closer to graduation, that number is much higher so that tells us we are building in our student post the confidence and preparation for entering the workforce or graduate or professional

School, military service, all of the different things our students to post graduation. So, let’s look at the data through the lens of service and what it means to contribute to our well-being, belonging, and thriving. We know from the

Lecture and know from our experience that serving others is absolutely beneficial. It aligns with our University values the also benefits the students doing the survey. So, our staff provides a wide value of service opportunities. They look at the data from our

Two days of service. One in the fall, one in the spring in our students said, we want more. Our center for leadership and engagement also offered a monthly day of service for individual students to get involved and to be able to

Serve and we are seeing positive outcomes from the increased opportunity for our students to serve. But our students also came to our staff and said, we want to serve our fellow students. So we ended up developing a pantry and a

Career closet for students. So, this was students creating things for their fellow students and by the end of this academic year, we are tracking over 2000 visits to those two sudent resources. So again, those are students serving

Students is helping not only their own learning and development and sense of connection to Clemson, but also the well-being of others to Clemson. But it doesn’t end there. Our students are also very involved. So the research

Supports to us of student involvement over 500 clubs and organizations get that sense of community belonging and support their well-being, contribute towards retention and graduation rates, and their learning. So again, over those 500 student organizations, last year, over 15,000 of our unique

Students were at least a member of one student organization. And those orcs provide even more opportunities for our students to serve and raise funds that help fellow Clemson students. If we look at our fraternities and sororities.

They are also doing that and they are also impacting local and national nonprofit organizations through their Ahlers hours of service but also dollars raised. Last month, I had a pleasure of attending phi Sigma Kappa

Polar plunge . It was quite chilly. But that fraternity had been doing the event for a while, but they wanted to make it better. They wanted to have a bigger impact on Special Olympics. So, they worked with

COPD and Clemson fire and EMS in order to amplify the event and it got hosted on campus versus in one of the apartment community’s pool. So that pool water got a lot bigger and a lot chillier impact was much

Better. So that is just one example of how different student organizations are making an impact on the local and national level. If I can conclude with one story. Last week in our division meeting,

Mia came and spoke with us about her number one student experience and she told us and she was not scripted, filled or prepped and for this, it was totally organic, she said it was her involvement in student organization that she is a

Member of a sorority — and she founded a organization here at Clemson that only give us purpose and involvement but accepted here at Clemson. Swimming talk about using our data to set up the environment

For our students to be accessible, remove barriers for their academic success, it is opportunities like that that we have to be able to impact that number one student experience for all of our students. So I would like to be able to obtain

Any questions for you. >> I want to add somebody quickly. >> Yeah. >> My savagely pushing back on the time this meeting is what we have given is more than just a snapshot. It is a commitment

To service and what service looks like and we gave you just a few examples, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of hours so I am really excited when we start talking about the third pillar as it comes by

Way of this institution. My own children will ask me, what was I doing when I was 18, 19, 20, and my response is we’re not going to talk about that — >> [ Laughter ]

>> When you look at the uniqueness of the student community, thinking about themselves outside of themselves, it is unique and it is miraculous. It comes from so many different areas. We are going to talk more about

How we are going to capture that because when I see scholars in everybody, they are engaged in service and we have no idea what the data looks like when we come to you next time, we will be able to

Provide you with more information as we continue to evolve the power of survey in some of these other pieces and creating the number one student experience in service. Just fascinating. >> Sorry. Go ahead. >> I was going to say, thank

You very much for your time and I have attended any questions but I want to keep you on track with time. >> Are there any questions? Not hearing anything so, thank you very much. >> My pleasure.

>> [ Applause ] >> We don’t have any new business to bring before the committee today so, with that, I will ask permission to go into executive session. My notes here. Do we have a

Motion to go into executive session? >> [ Inaudible ] >> All in favor. >> Aye . >> Any opposed? Now, we are in executive session at this time. >> Okay. All right. I don’t

Have any jokes so, when we get started. >> [ Laughter ] >> All right. >> Here. >> Trustee Swann >> Here. >> Okay. Thank you. Max Allen, will you please

Introduce in embers public today. >> All meeting members that are present, welcome and thanks for meeting with us . The minutes from the February 1, 2024 research and economic development committee are in

Your materials. May have a motion to approve the minutes? Second. Any discussion? All and favor , say aye. Aye. The transits have . now, I will turn over to Angie for the report.

>> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to walk through this very briefly. You have the material in your board books that we shared in advance and the proceeding updates as we have made our way through the

Legislative session so we walk through this but feel for free stop me as we go through. All right. We are going to walk through external affairs key planning dates. We are going to give me an update

With regard to state federal relations. They have been good news there. Corporate partners talk a little bit about our specific impact related to the pillar of discussion and then, we are going to talk about overall external affairs

Clemson outdate update. Key planning dates. So you will see here, I think as we have committed to, I have a number of university partners, including Tan Ju and Ryan and others that we are meeting with

to ensure that our corporate partner strategy and overall external research strategy our coordinator. So we had a meeting previously between February and now and early March and we have set up a monthly cadence of meetings of

Our team members, Tan Ju and I , to ensure that coordination. We have the this is Council meeting coming up. Board of advocacy business trip. Board of advocacy visitor coming up in D.C. in June. Our state

Advocacy meeting will come up in August as this general assembly ends. We will have a check in with research in and external affairs in August of 2024. Our federal priorities meeting in October and we will

Do some external affairs to planning meeting between now and the end of the year. To give you a little bit of a statement of update, I can barely read this so I will go from memory but you all have

Seen this so we will know that we have asked — we have historically asked for tuition mitigation funding. The budget has come off the house floor and we will be in the Senate finance beginning next week on

Tuesday and they have anticipated that they will wrap up their work and set up finance by the end of next week but we are making the case for additional dollars related to tuition mitigation. Ask for 21. We came out of the house with a

Little over 10 and then, student experience for learning, we asked for 4.5. We received 3.5, which was the same amount that we received last year and you will see as far as our non-recruiting requests, we have the balance

Of our capital requests related to the vet school, which is $175 million , got a recommendation of 22 million coming from the house. As it relates to PSA, you will see here we have dollars through

Poultry science. Statewide programming. And planned maintenance from a nonrecurring standpoint. Other budget items of interest. There is $50 million in nonrecurring funding on a project that we are working with with the Department of Commerce, USC and

NC State regarding SD nexus. There was $3 million in nonrecurring funding for a systematic review of higher education that came out the governor’s office. $10 million in nonrecurring Valerie dollars to address the

Shortage of nurses in the state which will have an opportunity to take advantage of that is been historic funding over the last two or three years. Base pay increase. So cost-of-living increases were state employees and I

Will point out that the Fox ability flexibility with respect that we have asked for as it relates to nonclassified employees remains in that proviso and then, there is an increase in the cost of health insurance, which you all are

Very familiar with of how that ath works as far as the costs that are passed on to the University as a result of those increases. Legislation of note. I will just hit the highlights. The format which is the free-speech bill is the

Houseful 467. It remains in the house education committee . Name, image and likeness, houseful 4957. We are working with our partners at that University of South Carolina and coastal Carolina University to advocate for some

Changes related to name, image and likeness. That bill has passed out of the house and out of the Senate committees and it is currently pending on the Senate calendar. We are hope that that bill will begin

Moving sometime in the next couple of weeks, likely after Senate finance meets on the budget. The speaker has introduced House Bill 5118, which is the energy security act. We have and specifically, Jim had a conversation with

Speaker Smith with respect to the opportunity Clemson has to participate in that bill and specifically bring some of the resources that we have historically invested in and to start our overall energy research to the two opportunities that are laid out

In that bill to work with private-sector utility partners as well as the general assembly. Efficiency act. This is a permanent piece of legislation that was introduced by Senator Talley that passed out of the Senate

Last year and is currently pending in the house of needs committee that would place in front of the statute an increase in the permanent improvement project threshold from the million dollars to $5 million. We have been operating

Under a temporary adviser for the last several years and we are working to get that into permanent statute and then, Senate Bill 538, which is the tenure bill has passed the Senate and is currently pending in the house and just

A you know what that bill does, it would require post-tenure review of all tenured faculty, I’m sorry. All tenured faculty , which we currently only do as a best practice. Any questions there? Okay. Federal update for FY 24. The

House and the Senate on the federal level have completed their FY 24 budget process late last month. We had seven earmarks totaling $20 million. So, a very successful year on the federal level and you will see next-generation hydrogen

Research, electrical grid integration research, and then, at the Idabel, we have worked with PSA in the college of forestry , which is a review in this room, with respect to the success that we have had in the agriculture bill, and you will

See that sort of second phase of the $6 million which will be a total of $12 million that we have successfully gotten in anticipation of upgrades to our health facility. Congressional ads. You will see that we continue to have tremendous

Success in our strategy of multi-year, multimillion dollar opportunities around research related to Viper, enhanced laser system, and hypersonic’s, so you will see our numbers there and then, we got some report language included

Related to an ad request that we are working on with Paula for a feed the future novation grab were 2024. So, lots of good news and really relevant at time when news coming out of DT. At the nexus update, I

Mentioned that the Department of commerce has requested $50 million and is at least been recommending for funding coming out of the house. It is a consortium as a mentioned already of the South Carolina Department of Commerce that

Will be both state and federal funding opportunities for us to pursue in February 2024. Clemson submitted a $10 million proposal related to the grid emulation as a part of that and we have a virtual site visit upcoming that we hope

Will be — I think it may be scheduled by the department this month. Corporate partnership update. Presidents industry Council meeting was held in March. Several of my team members — >> [ Inaudible ]

>> Yep. Okay. Nope . Go forward. Go forward. Go forward. Okay. Perfect. Several of my teammates participated in this meeting and I will say, it has been incredibly beneficial, Bob ,

For your participation. Jim, I’ll is yours, and yours. I just think that you will see that we have five new members that have joined it and I think you can see that we

Continue to have the level of decision maker around that table that is really helping us put in place some best practices around industry and engagement. There is pictures of us. You will see Bob there speaking. And then, pillar

One. I just wanted to highlight, again, kind of remind you of the strategic engagement portfolio which is the backing document that my team uses with respect to how we map directly about the initiatives that we are working

On in external affairs and specifically corporate partnerships that relate directly back to the pillars of Clemson Elevate. So you will see there, channel of development and engagement and campus community impact and then, again, we’re showing you

How those lineup and specifically with respect to the number one student experience, we just wanted to highlight the true opportunity that we have had in front of us about five years ago branding scholarships. And you will see

We are very, very successful in taking what was a new model being scholars and apply that to a number of our strategic corporate partners. So you will see, we have done that with GE, BMW, mosh, and Boeing.

Again, student experience. We are integrating students with everything you do and I know you saw the picture from Chris Miller with the students that came to Clemson day, but anytime we have an opportunity

To include students in a better understanding of what we’re doing both corporate partnership level and from a governmental affairs level we do that. As a matter of fact, Whitney helped us identify a group of students to do a

Student panel, which we try to highlight every industry Council meeting and arguably, Jim can attest to this, it is an incredible opportunity for our students, but probably a probably more incredible opportunity for our strategic

Corporate partners to see. They love it and I think actually a couple of students have got job offers as I walked out of the door after the meeting. >> [ Laughter ] >> But it has been a phenomenal

Experience and I am really hopeful. April and I talked about this really hopeful at the October meeting an opportunity to take what is our partnership with our Arthur X and have an Arthur X representative , ran Mullins

From our sales innovation program and really walk you through what strategic engagement portfolio looks like in person. So what if we try to focus on doing that for the October meeting. External affairs. We will walk through

This very briefly. Again, the kind of accountability that we want to have back to this board with respect to the initiatives. The key actions and the actions completed underway. I won’t spend a lot

Of time here. You will see that we got state funding for experiential learning which we talked about and then, quarterly partnership. Corporate partnership program updates. Here, you can see — these are just for the last

Quarter — so you can see what we are doing on the quarterly basis with respect to each of the initiatives and, again, the KIMA isn’t key actions and metrics. We already talked about the importance of the

Facility as it relates to student well-being and the opportunity to be able to help with the resource and the future programming of that is very important . Name, image, and likeness. As you know, and

Are selling with collegiate athletics is one of our key action items and again, and working with Graham and overall athletics to better understand what we can do really on a state and federal

Level to help with that but specifically name, image, and likeness, which we already talked about. Initiative number one under research is billing in AAU align faculties. So again, we got state funding for stem which I was able to use

And continues to use for recruitment, and then, state funding for human genetics. That was in ask and why it was not recommended out of the house, we are working to see if we can get dollars in the

Senate. But that, we did not get funding for that, it will remain on our priority list and you are all aware the tree McKay work and the fact that she is our national Academy scientist and so we want to

Build and fund her expertise there. Initiative number two. Creating world-class in the structure research structure. Again, we are working in a collaborative with NC State and NC State. Funding opportunity. We have developed a spending plan for the $6 million working

With Tanju. That was approved last year and was just recently approved by the joint by review committee and support for the executive budget office recommendation for under $20 million. It was not recommended for funding out of

The house but we are working on that out of the Senate. Initiative number three, leveraging innovation campuses. Again, you can see how directly the congressionally directed ads that we have been working on

With Viper , advanced leader systems, and hypersonic’s has impacts with respect to our innovations campuses and the opportunity for Nexus funding to help with that as well. And then, initiative number one under our third pillar ,

Enhancing educational and economic opportunities. Again, state funding for tuition mitigation and making it more affordable for our students to come to Clemson. And we recently announced a key initiative with Johnson Controls, with respect to

Establishing the Johnson Controls building analytics for sustainability and health center. They have committed to $1 million in research in a three-year period. We are working on them in a master research agreement and

Negotiation with the help of Tanju’s office and obviously, we are working with them on talent development and campus impact. This was a direct result of an opportunity that we had being in front of the

JCI board that Tanju and Jim are participated in that and this is a direct result. And again, it is a great example of our strategic engagement portfolio and really having the opportunity to partner with

South Carolina companies. So, it relates to initiative number two, improving agricultural natural health and animal health. We will focus a lot on animal health. Again, you’ve already heard about Dr. Martens talk about

Where we are with respect to the vet school and it is just going to be an incredible opportunity and of course you know how transformative that is going to be that is very exciting and in addition to that, our PSA priorities

Related to small research and then state funding for our poultry science research facility will also go directly to support initiative number two and pillar three. And then, initiative number three, integrating health outcomes. Lastly we have been successful

For the last few years with state funding for public health it is and through proviso we will be continuing to support that proviso continuing to our rural health outreach and I’ve already mentioned the state funding and nursing opportunities that we have

Thereto produced by in the $10 million has been suggested by the governor. All right. I am happy to answer any questions. We went through that pretty quickly. >> Any questions, friends? We just want to thank you and your

Entire team for what you all are doing in federal and state level. We are really blessed to have you and we want to thank the General assembly for their generous funding of our initiatives at the University. We cannot do what we do without

Them. So, just a great team effort. We are very grateful and you look at our corporate partnerships and strategic, it is the who who of Americas. An international for that matter. So really want to thank you.

>> Thank you. >> [ Inaudible ] >> Yes, sir. So at this time, I would like to call on Dr. Teran for his research report. >> [ Inaudible ] >> [ Laughter ]

>> Thanks very much. Again, it is a great pleasure to be here this morning. Chris Miller said that he has the best job. I don’t think so. I have the best job at this university because you are going to see

This report that there is tremendous things happening in this university that amazes me every day and I enjoy very much and let’s jump in. First, I will show you some research data as I always do . Last

Time, I told her that we talked to our RMD expert address. Last year, we closed with $287 million reported. Reported in February and so far, no question asked. I think next year we are going to pass to

$300 million mark as university. So this is a tremendous accompaniment. If you look at when we were here, — >> Did is a $40 million? >> [ Laughter ] >> I am trying not to say that

Yet but we are hopefully making good progress. Again, as you said Mr. Chairman, the entire team, President, Provost, Angie, and everybody really working together and of course a we upgrade faculty . Just to show you a little but a

Breakdown of numbers. These are the comparative expenditures. The purple line is the end of the third order. The orange are the previously years compared to last year, we had 60% higher. We had $123 million. If you look at last

Year, we expect another $40-$50 million in the last quarter so I expect that we will close this year at around 172 $280 million comparative expenditures that we are have as we are expanding the money basically. In other tremendous

Use, the nuance. The one that I showed you . These are the new ones that we have received. Again, the purple at the end of the third quarter. We received $200 million year awards this year which is $13

Million higher than last year. If you look at the last map, 115 and 2022, 20 $15,000 and 23 and now, we are almost hitting 200. So we’re almost talking about — that is a significant number and

Especially, you know, this is done by almost the same number of faculty and students because faculty members are not growing. Why? Because all of the examples that Angie gave and other examples. Our faculty are competing for large

Grants and also come across the discipline. So we’re going to hear two of them in fact. We are going to hear an update from $270 million grant and what is happening in those grants. So these are the

Reasons why we have these tremendous productivity. Now, how about new establishments? Okay. We spent and got our new establishments. This year, we are about $577 million. It might look like a 10% decrease, I just did the math. $180

Million for the executive. About $600 came from the last two years. Of course, how about writing another $600 million for proposal that is tremendous work. So, as the president said earlier this morning, there is tremendous

Work happening. Lots of hard work happening at the University by our faculty and students. And again, this is the metrics just to show you the large activities. Larger than $2 million since 2015.

113 rewards that we received totaling almost $700 billion. So this is basically the metrics for you to give you a update. Any questions on this section before I go to the next section? Perfect. Now, since the topic of this board meeting

is student experience, we look at student experience and in fact in my mind, there are two pieces. Strong academics , exciting and strong athletics, and part 14 AU class research. There are 2000 research projects across the

University executive. You think that your kid get classes from a national endemic member. Top-notch faculty. Early career work member. So it appears in my mind they pay all of these three experiences. Then, we have high-quality

Research labs. Those are the places where your student can go and explore. In fact, we’re going to hear from our staff of undergraduate students of how that research makes an impact in the life of our

Student and mold growth, basically. So that forward, this is the overall continuum to me that this is an experienced academic of strong research. Just to give you some samples about how research affecting our students growth

And academic and all them. For example, I pick a different discipline . Landscape architecture student working in the Bahamas on a Masters plan development. A junior biochemistry student testing westward to define viruses in

Marilyn and the project. A senior mechanical engineering student . He is the recipient of our second church hill scholarship. He is going to go to canvas next year and is going to study on superconductors. A pathogen

Student using kudzu’s to extract chemicals to produce biodegradable packaging material . I microbiology student studying deep-sea kernels to understand the effect of climate change.. MBA students you building a new company to develop project

Development and a PhD student studying S.T.E.M. education activities around the country as a part of NSF fellowship. And the last but not least art genetic major junior , who is here today and she is going to

Talk to you, conducting research about genetics and she is a five star and she is a finalist for the procedures scholarship. So these are just a few that I was able to put together for you from different discipline. That is what

Strong research makes student experience so unique in the class right now and our young generation is so ambitious and is challenging us and looking for opportunities across the board for different fields, basically. So, with that, I am

Going to turn over my time to the star of the day , Elizabeth, please come forward. She is from Nashville and she is a junior in genetic majors and also, today, she is going to talk to you about how

Research made a difference for her . >> Thank you so much. As he said, my name is Elizabeth Caldwell. I’m initially from Nashville Tennessee but I’m here studying genetics and MMA third year. I am also a members

Honors college and within that, I am a member of the national scholars program, which I’m very grateful for as well. So when I was deciding what I wanted to go to college, it was honestly pretty big deal for me. In high school at the very

Beginning, I didn’t think I would care what I wanted to go. I would apply to a state school in Tennessee and gone away, but then I ended up being diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that then manifested as a disability and that also is

Very underresearched, which means that there is no cure or treatment, so that was a pretty big deal to me. So I am very much so was interested in genetics and also wanted to go to a university where I can

Conduct research, which is what led me to Clemson specifically. Not only do we have a amazing genetics program wagon specific look into human diseases, but I can also, through the creative inquiry program, and hands-on research really as my freshman year. So

on my right to Clemson, I had the offer to join Dr. Michael C Quinn’s genetic allergy lab. So really it did start as soon as I got here. I said that with Dr. Simon and talked about what my life at Clemson might

Look like. I know I was interested in research because it was very personal to me but I never had the opportunity in high school to conduct research. We did not have the resources. And also my immediate or extended family

Never had experience with research either so I had no where to start. So Dr. Seaborn took me under his wing and let me to start exploring and over the last few years, I’ve been able to get a lot of

Experience. Without even knowing my research interest, he coincidentally gave me a project that investigates two proteins that are involved in a very rare understudied genetic disorder called ICF. Now, this is exactly what I was

Looking for when it came to Clemson trying to do genetics research so I was absolutely thrilled. For the past few years, I’ve been working on building my skills, very tangible skills, better than making me competitive for

Internships. I am also finding a passion and research. I thought this was going to be an extracurricular activity that I was going to put on my resume, I was going to graduate, and four years of research would be done but I wanted to shift a

Little bit and want to incorporate research, specifically rare disease research, it’s my work. So I’ve had a little bit of a career shift from Dr. Seaborn’s lab, I’ve been competitive for internships by

Being an author on three separate posters and receiving two different departmental research grants. So this leads me to the St. Jude pediatric education program which is a reputed program at St. Jude children Hospital. This is

Typically met for upperclassman and when I was getting ready to apply for it, I had pretty low expectations, but I realized I was actually be competitive because I specifically went to Clemson and had the ability to conduct

Research as soon as my freshman year started. So I was applying with those posters with that experience with amazing recordation letters and that is what allowed me to be accepted. While at St. Jude, I was specifically working with in a

Pathology lab where I was able to investigate acute Kenya and pediatric patients once again, my PI did not know anything about my research and checks but he gave me a externally rare genetic disease. So it

Is feeling a little bit like fate at this point. Because it is under research, I was able to read everything the publication of the research name and I was also able to conduct a more clinical study

On the largest cohort of the female patients with that magician. And with that, I was actually able to push my paper so is very exciting that I was able to have that opportunity. I was also able

To settle the operating room and different pediatric cancer clinic is the survivorship and other areas at St. Jude. I came back to Clemson this past fall and I said, well, I know I really, really want to

Include research in my career but helmet going to do this while on the premed track? So I was able to apply for the clinical undergraduate research experience and surgery class and this is a biochemistry encoded courseware am able to

Do two separate things. First of all, I’m able to shadow at the trauma bay and the prisoner moral hospital which has been a really interesting experience which is to say the least have a lot of stories and my favorite part is we are able to

Conduct a research with one of the physicians at the hospital. My current project is looking at cholecystectomy’s what are gallbladder removals and the different outcomes based on surgical approaches. So whether that be home abilities, age ranges, what types of dyes we

Use while investigating the gallbladder . That is what I am looking into. And after going through hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of clinical cases, we are hoping to then follow this into a policy proposal for the local hospital to then

Advocate for a robotic surgery machine. So, this has been a really interesting experience for me but I also know that this experience is not uncommon. A lot of students at Clemson have this very experience, but this isn’t

Necessarily repeated between every university. I have friends who I graduated the same high school with went to top universities but they haven’t been able to get into a lab. Actually haven’t been able to get internships because

They have left that research experience. I know that going to Clemson was a good decision to me because of my future. I didn’t know that it was going to set me on a completely different path to the sass that

I am now very, very grateful for. Everyone says there is a Clemson family and Clemson community and it is very true and I’m very glad that I had this mentorship opportunity as soon as I stepped on campus so

I could figure out who I am and what I want to do. I am very excited to see what it would take me next and I’m very thankful for the research opportunities that I specifically had because it has really transformed who I am

Today. >> [ Applause ] >> President Clements. >> Elizabeth, amazing work that you are doing. What a wonderful presentation. We are really proud of you and the work that you are doing here at Clemson. And I know that you are well on

Your ways — your way to achieving your goal. I know you want to earn an MD and MPH and I know you want to make significant impact in the lives of other people around this country and around the world.

As you heard, Elizabeth is a true Truman finalist. Just all of you know, the Truman is that a mere graduate faucet in the country for students that are pursuing careers in public solvers service and leadership. It is giving given

To students will truly demonstrate outstanding potential. Elizabeth was selected as a finalist because of her advocacy for students with disabilities on our campus , her service to the Clemson free clinic, and her plan of

Career and rare genetics research. So amazing what you are already doing, and helping to shape public policy, I want you all to know that she was one of two finalists from the state of South Carolina and

Elizabeth, I am really proud to announce that at 3:00 a.m. this morning, I received official notice that you are now officially a Truman scholar. >> [ Cheers and applause ]

>> Wow. That was unexpected. >> [ Laughter ] >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Modulations. >> Oh, my gosh. Thank you. >> Really, really proud. >> Oh, wow. Unexpected. >> [ Inaudible ]

>> [ Laughter ] >> [ Inaudible – overlapping speakers ] >> We are very much. Congratulations. I am just overwhelmed by your success. Dr. Lee? >> Yeah. Elizabeth. How

Incredible for you. I want to encourage you not to go to dental school — >> [ Laughter ] >> I also want to point out Mr. Chairman, if I can, Elizabeth, we are so proud of you. I mean,

This is a big deal for me personally for all the people that work with you and for this institution as a whole. Something like this elevates all of us and the way people view us across the country. I

Do want to take a moment to think our Truman scholarship representative, Robin Curtis , who does just a great job. Director of our major fellowships office here at Clemson for all of her hard

Work in this process and also want to thank the faculty and staff who have helped Elizabeth achieve this amazing accompaniment. We have here Dr. Michael C worn Sehorn he is from our Department of chemistry. Dr. Andrew Scott

Will be at we have been Sarah Winslow. Also Sandra Smith from the Clemson free clinic. That is just a few examples of the people who supported Elizabeth during this process and the truth is, hey, look,

In order to accomplish these kind of things, it takes a team effort. You have to have a brilliant, dedicated, hard-working student but it takes a team and the truth is, we have one of the best teams in the country here. Elizabeth

Is our fifth Truman scholar in our history of this university and she is the fourth Truman scholar since 2017 , which is just a truly incredible. This will be published by the Truman foundation on April the 12th.

We all know it and we are live so it is public. >> [ Laughter ] The Truman foundation will put that word out next week. But Elizabeth, again, graduations on this unbelievable, amazing — >> [ Captioners transitioning ]

>> That email, I got it at 3:09 I got it at three: oh 9 AM. The thing to see in the middle of the night. >> This really makes me thankful what this can do in people’s lives. Personally,

This matters a lot to me. I’m so proud of you, so congratulations. The next speaker. We will do two major grant updates. Each of them are a few million-dollar grants. The next speaker is Paul –.

>> That is true. >> Paul is doing a great job. She is leading the U.S. Department of energy grant which is called building partnership for partner smart — in South Carolina. It is a

Tremendous job. It is really hard work. Today, she will be talking to you about what is happening in the first year of the grants. >> Thank you. I agree. Every presentation should be by a student. And that compelling

And interesting. I will do my best. And I will fall short of that mark. Appreciate to give a progress report on the first of the grants. It is the first of five years. A little bit about myself. I joined Clemson

In 2004. I work primarily with soil borne pathogens. And currently, I lead three projects. While serving as associate Dean for research and –. When is national needs fellowship project that supports doctoral

Assistantships for underserved students. The second is a specialty research initiative that we are working with North Carolina, Georgia and Florida with — on sweet potato and other vegetables. And she mentioned earlier. A congressional direct spending

To add on to that project. To build a containment facility in research and education sector shall be point for us to continue research. And in the third is the one I’m going to report on today. The

Partnership for climate smart commodities. I don’t know. I’m not really good with this either. We call claimants — in South Carolina. It is of tremendous significance to Clemson University not just because of the amount of the

Award which is a great vote of confidence in our investigators. But it is one of you will single state projects that were funded in this nation. It was a really large competitive call that was on last year. And only one in

California and ours are focused on single state. What it means is we were able to make a very strong case that by choosing representation of agricultural and forestry research throughout the states, could provide research that

Was meaningful and impactful to the southeast and nation. We are focusing along the fines represent specialty crops and leafy greens wishes South Carolina thing. For representation of the crops and peanuts that are important in

The southeast. In animal agriculture. We’re doing this for beef and cattle production. I invite you to consider three things that I think what makes the project noteworthy. All the research conducted in the project is done on working

Farms. It is all working farms. That voluntarily enroll in the project. So, at a time when there are conversations nationwide, but the value of higher education . We have faculty and students doing

Research on farm. On things that matter directly to our people. Is helping to shake the perspective of higher education. The second thing that I think makes the project noteworthy is that, invariably when people talk about climate

Change, they think about agriculture as a contributor to that location. This project is very intense in presenting ways in which agriculture can be part of the solution. In other words, how can I better air, water, and soil through

Better agricultural practices. That in my mind delivering on our presentation and mandate. And the third way in which the project is noteworthy is , the partnership with our sister land-grant in the state. The partner , the strong

Partnership and I would say the first time there is a large research project we will significantly and meaningfully involve South Carolina State University in our efforts. They are intricately a part of how we implementing the grant.

Because of the three reasons, consider the project important for the University. The project is to increase the amount of the acreage of the practices being used in agriculture. It has a lot of research that goes around

Identifying various forms of implementation and ways in which technical expertise can be delivered. But also actually measuring the impacts of the practices. Actually measuring the greenhouse gas benefits as well as measuring all the ancillary environmental

Benefits around it. And without market development, the sustainability of the practices is not guaranteed. The third project, thank you. Third part of the project is a lot of research on market development for those who want

To develop through the climate smart practices as you can imagine, there was tremendous diversity of expertise that comes together to support the project. As you consider the magnitude of the expertise and the involvement of different

People in the project, I invite you to consider that in the context of the recent merger that you just authorized. If you look at the participation of the projects, it has involvement from the five

Academic departments on the main campus. The six research and education centers across the state. And from four of the extension teams. A project like this is only possible when we work together and completely integrated. This is

A really good example of what we can achieve when the integration really works. To deliver to the state. Of course, the research for the integration happened five years ago when you guys authorized

The merger of the associate Dean for research office. With the — office. 2010, when after a national search, I had the pleasure of serving in that capacity for the last five years. The most important

Piece of a number here is of course, the number of participants. The people that enroll voluntarily in the program. We have enrollees in every single kind. I’m presenting here the peanut and leafy greens and the beef

Cattle. We haven’t mapped the pusher yet because they’re still undergoing environment assessments required for everyone early. You can see here the percentages of underserved and immense people who are either female growers , black, Hispanic, veterans or

Anyone beginning farmers. Jim Mattis diversity of growers — a tremendous diversity of growers but a focus on serving underserved growers. The two greens into blues, which don’t show perfectly. But the Clemson and South Carolina

State. The coverage working together. And of course, listed are the specific practices. You asked me to briefly talk about some of the student experiences and projects . Of course, some of the main projects are about measuring greenhouse gas

Benefits and greenhouse gas reduction. We are training students in the latest technology and measuring real-time atmospheric changes. Soil changes. Plan chatrained technology but also models and how we can fill the gap that is between the very nice

Body of knowledge and science. The theory. In the practice. Measuring in farm giving real data to the growers. The second type of project is, around methane. Methane is around , the infamous greenhouse gas. Contrary to

What people believe, the important part is the front end of the cow and not the backend. We have to measure essentially the burps as they ruminate and is the eats. It is used to provide pastors

That are more efficient through the species and rotational grazing and other . You reduce the carbon footprint. We can measure that very carefully. Another set of projects has to do with pollinator diversity and bird

Diversity. A lot of people are concerned with the items and are willing to pay more. Which ties into the market development. Whether it is bird friendly would or pollinator friendly peanuts and so on of the fourth. An

Excellent work going on in this respect. And finally, a lot of projects associated with water quality and water availability. Probably the most important thing with the smart practices deliver. Water. The ability of the soil to retain more water. Either through soil

Structure or through changes in the microbiota of the soil. A lot of our projects are focused on measuring that but also quantifying that in money. So that, those who make decisions based on changing practices and numbers.

So, very clearly. I just chose one of the initiatives that this project touches on. Proclaims an elevator. Obviously, exponential learning through and through. We leverage innovation campuses. There was tremendous amount of partnerships with 27

Different institutions in the state. To deliver the programs. The obvious one is improving the culture and natural resources and animal health. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Yes? >> [ Indiscernible – low volume

] How did they accept what you are doing? >> Climate smart practices are not connected to any particular philosophy of agriculture. We serve organic growers. Conventional growers the same. The principles are applicable throughout. We can meet

People in different places to work with it. >> That kind of business? >> The same way they adapted to climate smart practices because it is a reality. It is a business decision. If you’re going to reduce pesticides and

Fertilizer, increase water holding capacity. They are adjusting. I hope I answered this? >> Any of the questions and comments? >> Thank you for your leadership on –. We know how much time and effort you put

Into it. >> And many other people as well. Thank you, sir. >> We will talk about –. I will give you a brief two minutes. And then we will have a much longer presentation in July.

>> Should not even flip to any of the slides. My name is –. Most of us know each other really well and it is great to be here. And I guess I’ll just have to come back in July. I’m the director of the center

And director of the school and the motive engineering. It is an outstanding story. It is a great time in July as well. It is a great time to give an update. We are in the fifth year off of the 2024 annual

Review. We have –. 10 different departments. Seven from the school of engineering. Some from the physics. So far, $76 million in funding received due to the outstanding streak of successful congressional approvals for annual funding.

And this is a result of the Clemson reputation. The reputation delivering world-class research. As well as a unique alignment between academic side and the sense organization. Studying with the senior vice president, –.

And her team focusing on government affairs. It’ll be pushed against the ceiling for food — ceiling very soon. In addition to all the research work on computational tolls: methodology and processing, we provide exceptional learning and lots.

The world-class facilities and some of it is thanks to funding that came to the contract. This is something that we have to come back for. In July. To see the first project funding by the unique thing. We took

It to the big stage. The consumer electronics show in Las Vegas back in January. Thank you. Rain check, I guess? >> Thank you, very much. >> President? >> I want to thank you for

Your leadership on our largest immigrant in the history of our universe. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> The improvements that you’ve made here, I like it. Thank you for your leadership. Thanks to the entire team,

Specially grant writers and researchers that they are executing at a high level in order for us to meet his numbers. I know you are a leader, but you have a lot of folks underneath you to help

You make it happen. Thanks again to him. Thank you for your comments. And I’m so inspired by your journey, Elizabeth. I look forward to following you and the impact that you will have. It is really outstanding. I chaired

The institution committee a couple of times during my tenure. I said, Neil, this is a feel-good committee. You always come out with great reports and you are raising money and doing this and you feel good. This is a feel-good

Committee, too. Because I’m feeling real good coming out of this committee meeting. Thank you so much for making it happen. Any other business coming forth to this committee? I entertain a motion to adjourn the. >> A second.

>> A second. All in favor, say aye. We are adjourned and I feel really good. >> Can I please ask everybody to please stay for one second? >> Thank you, Mdm. chair. I will lean over and say hello to

This group. And I think this group might want to say hello to him as well. So, will bring in the proud athletic staff. >> [ Applause ] . >> Brad knows us and he is

Accustomed to receiving my text messages. And by the way. But, I was having to text him. And say, Brad? I was a senior at Clemson last time this happened. Now, I’m a little senior to that now. But it is

Incredibly , and incredibly special time. We are proud and we are grateful for how you do it. And how you take care the athletes. Our University. You see a few words. >> Ours is an amazing run.

I’m happy for a lot of people. Especially our players. The amount of time, energy and effort the guys do and the way they do it. It is really proud. The first question in the interview room after we lost.

Tears in the locker room, and the whole 9 yards. The first question is, what utility transfers were thinking about going to Clemson? And he says, Julie. He goes into a three minute spiel we will use in

Recruiting is much as we can. But that is extremely meaningful. The young man who was put in another school, went and who is been with us for four years. You have other outstanding players and other institutions a common in the

Next day to post something on Instagram on his own about how the Clemson experience was different and the place was different. I want to thank you for that because of the leadership you all do. Those

Are the values we have at the University. It is why I’ve been a proud co-chair for 14 years. Until recruiter Philip doing them a favor when I offer you scholarship. I truly mean it because the place is

Special. And with his leadership and what he does for not only our team but all of athletics coming out. In the last second to be there and Ellie with us. In L.A. with us. I got text from several of

You throughout the journey. I do my best to respond because it does mean something. I don’t take it for granted. I love being a coach here. I love our programs and I’m

Happy to be here. I want to make a lot of Clemson people proud. The next steps to take one more step to get to the final four. I thought our team could do it this year, thought

The 2018 team could do it but we did have an injury. I have big dreams for our university in terms of basketball. I tell you, it is really hard now. It is an extremely challenging sport. Because, doesn’t cost

As much is football. Sometimes people forget it. There are a lot of schools try to really be good. But what we have is special. And a lot of it is because of the leadership that we have. You have been

Fantastic over the years. I’m grateful that he and others have stuck with me for a long time. There were times when it was questionable whether I should still be the coach. I understand and this is a

Business. I want you to know I do everything in my power to always represent the university the right way. And produce unwitting team. Thank you so much for allowing me to come over and say this today.

>> [ Applause ] . >> Mr. Chairman. Can I please jump in? >> You are welcome to. >> Mdm. chair? Coach. We are so proud that you are the coach. And I want this whole

Group to know, I went into the locker room after the game. And obviously, it was a tough time. Everybody gave it everything they have. I told the coach his father this when I saw them in the hotel lobby. As university presidents, he said

everything you want your coach to save the players, how much she loved them and how proud he was of them. They played an amazing season together as a team and how much joy they brought everybody. Everything

You said, Brad, was spot on. It was right in the moment. It made me really proud to have him as our basketball coach. So, thank you. Thank you for how you lead the young men. >> We will go on break. I’m

Sure he can have time to speak with both. Elizabeth and Brad as we head out. You want to give us logistics? >> Lunch is ready if you want to go down the building, we will be up front in the next to

The three minutes. >> Okay. >> Where you check in. >> All right, thank you. >> [ The event is on a recess. The session will reconvene soon-. Captioner on standby. ] I would like to call the

Meeting the Clemson University trustees to order. April, can you do a roll call, please? >> [ Roll being called ] . >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you. Can you please introduce the members of the meeting?

>> Thank you to the media members for being here and continued support and governance. The minutes from the February 1, 2024 committee have a motion to approve the minutes? >> Second. >> Do I have a second?

>> Did anybody second? >> Any discussion? Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. >> Aye. >> And a post? The minutes approved. We need to put in executive session relating contractual negotiations with a

Donor wishes to remain anonymous. No votes will be taken and a decision will be made during this executive session. We will reconvene in public session. Do I have a motion to enter the executive section?

>> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? We are now in executive session. Everybody, exit the meeting except trustees emeriti, president president, Brian a work, –. Tracy Arwood, Chris Miller,

Andrew Canfield, Julio Hernandez, Greg arrow, April –, Tony Mathis, Missy Pennell and , Jaclyn Summers and Karen McCauley. I’m not sure who is leaving. I probably should’ve told some to leave. >> [ The event is on a recess.

The session will reconvene soon-. Captioner on standby. ] . We are back at public session and I will turn it back over to Brian. >> I want to present the approval of –. [ Indiscernible – low volume ] .

>> Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the recommendation? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Any opposed? The motion is approved. Thank you, please continue the

Presentation. >> Chesty Smith. I think you recognize the advancement team is thrilled to have this research join us. [ Indiscernible – low volume ] Students hear a story of his experience at Clemson University. Help me introduce

Ben Greene from Memphis Tennessee! >> [ Applause ] . To hello, everyone. Thank you for having me here today and it is an awesome honor to be here. My name is Ben Greene, major in

Finance and minor in Spanish from Memphis, Tennessee. I will share with you three things. Why I came to Clemson, my experience , why I love it and how it came to shape my future. Thompson was never on my radar

Growing up in Memphis. I only knew one person came here and she was a family friend six years older than me. I learned about it through college tours. I toyed Clemson three times myself. Every single time, the tours in Clemson with the best

I’ve been on it. The personality, school spirit, look for the school, et cetera. And resources and opportunities we have here Clemson. Remember. I’m an accounting major which means a methodical about things. Big

Pros and cons list. One thing at Clemson was there were no cons. There was nothing I really did not like. Everybody was a pro for me. There were many things that I really did like. That is something I like

Talking but with tours. I started to realize, there are two main categories that these fit into. The first is balance. At Clemson, there’s a good balance of many different things. The first thing is I

Love the size of the school. We have the perfect amount of undergraduate students. It’s not too big refill underwhelmed by everybody on campus all the time but also not too small where you don’t have resources and you don’t get to meet

Anybody new. It is small enough to where I know every single one of my friends from school. That is fallible to me as somebody who grew up going to a small school and wanted to have that relationship with my

Professors that facilitated relationships with the University. We would all tell you we love how easy it is to walk from place to place. The layout of campus of the target surrounding the library ‘s genius. I love it. The walk

Ability facilitates walk ability at Clemson because he pass somebody you know. I look forward to this every single time I walk the place from place on campus. Another balance is work-life balance. I want to go to a good

Educational institution. When I go to the school, I want people to think, that is a good visitation all — education institution. I want to go to a place where I also have fun. Thankfully, Clemson is about

These things in a big reason why I chose this. I try to go to an event on campus every single week. Football game and Death Valley or anything else. I also love playing in terms sports. I played around a few

Sports. I love going to dinner downtown with friends and really enjoy hanging out on campus and enjoying the greenery outside and enjoying the beauty of our environment around here at Clemson. However, we also know that

While we are here, we are here to have a good time primarily here for school which is the priority is Clemson students and everybody here I know really does care the most about that. We are here to get a job

After college and get a degree and get a good education and that is something that I think is special about Clemson. We have that balance of those two things here. The second category is also the traditions. I love that we

Follow the founding principles. Clemson was built on a principal to give back to others. That’s what makes it so special. Because of the family dedication to the founder and his vision, philanthropy ensures students

Like me have the best experience at Clemson. We stay true to who we are and I believe that is really important in the ever-changing culture. I also love all the traditions we have, gathering the ball for football,

Homecoming week in the welcome back Festival every single school year by the Clemson ring. The only Clemson what we are today. The greatest tradition in my opinion is the Clemson family. It was the deciding factor coming to

Clemson after all my college tours. The spring of my senior year, I was on my third tour of Clemson . She was talking about the Clemson family at her current experience as usual. She talked about her first game and did not have the tailgates

Go to her freshman year she was observing tailgates walking up and down the field. A family that it not know her reached out and asked if she has a tailgates go to and invited her over. I did not hear this on

Any other tour this was something I wanted to be a part of. This was not something I heard at any other place. This rings true for me. It is a true community. We should continue to strive to foster that. As

Students, part of the community is getting involved in organizations. I’m involved in the fraternity, –. A tour guide and president of –. The tour guide for the business school. Through all these things, I’ve been able to make

The Canadian side of Clemson and learn more about what it means to be part of the Clemson family and to be Clemson students. I learned my four years Clemson people are passionate about Clemson and we love supporting our fellow

Tigers. Clemson has prepared me for life after graduation and how to meet new people and also how to conduct myself professionally in the work environment. I’ve been able to use resources University provides to get internships and

Ultimately a full-time job after college. After graduating from undergraduate in May, I’ll be going to — to intern in audit in Charlotte and after that, I’ll go to graduate school in Clemson and also study for the CPA exam. Undergraduates degrees in

Finance accounting of successful programs in helping us support the internships and also getting into graduate school and passing the CPA exam. The exam right is around 80%. Far above the national average and passing rates. I

Want to live in Greenville, Charlotte after college. If you told me that my freshman year, there’s nowhere I’m living anywhere aside from Memphis. I realize I want to be around Clemson people and be close to Clemson to come back

Whenever I wanted to. I really something I enjoy in life. >> [ Applause ] . >> Find somewhere that fits you. Find someone you can say I go to the school and it’s a good educational situation and

I can have fun and also, get a good job after college. Find somewhere you can say, I go to Clemson University and I’m proud to go here because that is what I’m able to do as a student here. I went to

Clemson once I graduated from college. Again, thank you for your time and thank you for all you do to support the University and the philanthropy you provide so students like me can get scholarships to go here. As always, go Tigers!

>> [ Applause ] . >> He may have you been on that. >> Bill, trustee Smith. >> Thank you for that. >> [ Indiscernible – low volume ] >> Thank you for your words.

And I think the reason you came to Clemson’s reason a lot of us can’t Clemson. He said it much more eloquently than I could. I do think there’s a right place for everybody and it was the right place for me

And I think a lot of people echo that. It’s the right place for you. You being here today is a great reminder why we are here. Because you are what we are trying to accomplish. I congratulate you

and I want you to stay engaged in the University. There may be a table for you Wednesday. Keep up the good work and we are really proud of you. >> We will share good news

With you. We like to show our vision and our vision. When you look at the division of advancements, remember, it is about the — Association. You have the development operation marketing and business intelligence. We will get

Better with I.T. intelligence. We have a team put in place. What really drives us –. [ Indiscernible – low volume ] . Okay. We are a team that builds upon Clemson’s reputation. To build relationships and

Philanthropic resources. Clemson. Those of the four Those of the 4R we talk about every time we meet. How are we doing so far with fundraising this year? Some of the KPI. I want to share with you to help

You with fundraising hundred $39 million. Were looking at a successful year. That’s the University as a whole. Any questions? Will we share with you the training fundraising the last three years. The number of donors we have a

Chair. We want to share with you the principal gifts we continue to maintain — over Clemson University. Share statistic with you of how well we do with that. Donor retention is critical to the

Work that we do. The commitment is putting the University with funds each year and commitment to help the endowments . Over the last 10 years. For $63 million , and on the fundraiser so –. Over

The last five years we put the new endowments. We identified $94 million. [ Captioners transitioning ] >> Back to donor retention. We do a lot of programs We have programs like to give day. Mark your calendars. Next week is

Give day and this is very important. It is our ninth year. Our give day is doing people who are focused on not making the gift yet this year. So we have been very successful with that so we are

Enrolling that out. You can hear us talking about our giving society since 1889 . We heard from students within the societies they want to hear more about the impact of the gifts were only part community

So, this past fall, keeping people involved in letting them know how the gifts are adding an impact helps you retain your donors. Then, the work of the alumni Association. The president has been on the

Road a lot lately. They went to Dallas, Houston, and Florida having alumni events. People are getting connected to this university and everything on those messages gets them back. >> [ Inaudible ]

>> Yeah. Correct. After every event, the alumni Association falls back. Here is what you get. Here’s an opportunity to give back to your club’s solace . the program we started three years ago is

Alumni spring break. Not — that is not how it works anymore. Whether it is their fraternities, the land, or athletics program. So, we bring them back for spring break. This year, we had 520

People come back for our spring break. That was a 15% increase van the year before. During the data, we had a big brainstorm and we had 28 tours all across campuses through athletics, we gave the

Cemetery tour. We gave the tour to the powers business college and had a really good understanding of what is happening on campus as well as stories and lessons about how to give back. So we see this program that we have to exceed

. Next, I want to continue to talk about the breaking building that many of us just toured. You to share with you today we raise a $22 million toward this facility so a lot of people are saying, this is

Going to be one of the most impactful buildings on this campus. So we have had some great response with that. And that number does not include support from the Clemson University or the foundation or the Clemson alumni

Association so we have a lot of . Next, the order of the oak. Many of you know this is an ambassador program from the Clemson University foundation. These are individuals what made a commitment to Clemson

$1 million of above the want to be ambassadors and introduce backing age to Clemson University. So, we will be rolling out the first signature event next Thursday and Friday. These individuals

Will come to campus and will travel to the Thursday night reception on Friday, have a truly immersive experience with them. One of them will be the opportunity to see what we do and icon with the research we

Are doing for the military. Those will be here on this campus . I do not know Clemson was doing that. And I am also very excited that we are going to have a podcast with Nathan Kneese talking about the

Importance of IA and this ordinance will participate in this slide broadcast. So again, very excited about having the on the campus. Over 600 people have been invited so, we’re really excited about bringing

This to the next level. And lastly, we are going to be talking about owning the oak . We are regularly bringing new members this year. First, we brought John woken from Greenville retiring in August and we have Ken and Michael

Watt. Ken will be the lead member here. We have Paul Preston Shaw from Greenville. Paul I spent many years on this campus. We have him and Pam has a lot of your career here so we are excited to have

Her engaged. These people are really excited. All of them are really engaged in the campus. So continue to bring people to the oak with excitement. Any questions that I can answer for you

Today? Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. O’Rourke . Now, we will turn over to University board chair Kevin McAuley. The floor is yours. >> Thank you. Thank you. We are so excited to be with you

Today and share about more that we have been doing over the past year. We appreciate the opportunity to present. Always pleased to be in the orbit of Tony Mathis. He always brings the energy up in the

Room . Every discussion I have with you, Tony, every email, every meeting is always to get us better and better and better here. Just to tell you a little bit about his deep love for the institution, not only is he here today as the chair of cuff

But he is also shared his fraternities a 50 year reunion and he was on campus and we pulled him from the golf course so he is here — >> [ Laughter ] >> — We pulled him from his

Reunion activities but that is him and we are always happy to have them here. >> Thank you. First of all, announcement. For President Clements, Monday was the first official day of my retirement — >> [ Laughter ]

>> [ Applause ] >> [ Inaudible ] >> [ Laughter ] >> You are more available. >> [ Laughter ] >> And a lot less pressure. >> So as Karen said, I really

Appreciate the opportunity to speak for the board but we would always like to start with we try to run the foundation with folks and we always start with his target. It is our mission. I will read it to you

But we take it very seriously, the mission , and we are here to support the University and there is nothing more important than what we do. So we always start there. So here is what we are going to talk about. We

Are going to talk about the Constitution of the board and there will be a little bit of bragging and we are so proud of the board. I want to to hear we think that way and then the

Board is about what the board does. So, Karen will then talk about how we are planning to draw our plans I will then finish up talking about how we are engaging the board for empathy and it is not just

About what we do today, it is about looking around the corner. So I will tell you the things that we think we need to be thinking about that just aren’t right there. So, here is the board. I did not the 12

Names but I did bring a cheat sheet. I just wanted to give you three fun facts about this board but we have always had a great pillar. What we have been focused on is continuing to have a great board that we had

But increase diversity in the board in my say diversity, I mean big University. Not just gender and race but diversity in thought, geographical diversity. Let me read off a few fun facts. We had executive leaders from 714 500 companies

On the board. We had 10 presidents or CEOs of businesses of various sizes. Incredible fact. We had two members who have just recently ring the bell in the New York Stock Exchange. Without that

Was a fun fact. We have our first just on the board. We have nine grandparents and to Clemson parents. Thanks for sharing. And so, much richer discussion with the board. There is diversity on the

Board. We have five USA members. We have the president of MT on the board. We have members of numerous other organizations on our board. We are so proud of this board and the one thing Karen reminded

Me of, is the fact that we have three Board of trustee members who are on that board and we go to other governing boards, they can’t believe that he is that we get from this group so, thank you for

That. >> Tony is too humble to say that he really changed the way we do nominations processes about five or six years, he was were focused on that and this is really the fruition of all of those conversations is that

Richness of our board so, I will say it for him. >> [ Laughter ] >> Thanks a lot. >> [ Inaudible ] >> [ Laughter ] >> We have Cheryl Holland come

In. Many of you know Cheryl. Cheryl is phenomenal and an expert. She is a phenomenal leader and a wonderful person. So, she has come in as the chair. Darren Pearson, he is on intake board so he comes in

As a vice chair and then I am going to write off into the sunset and in addition, if you look at the bottom, this is an incoming class of new members. Again, a very diverse group. I want to say thanks for

President Clements for helping us with Kim and she told me that when I talk to her because she brings a incredible perspective . We haven’t really pulled much and then we have Ashley Johnson . So we had entrepreneur and then we have

Tend. Is a seal of a good company. He serves on the board of the Harper company so we get corporate board and the top board. So we are very excited about bringing new members. Now, the points that it is not

About the board. It is about what we do so I will turn it over to Karen to talk about our strategic plan and how we’re going to help support Clemson element. >> So when you are around the brilliance of these types of

Cuff board members, they want to know what is the priorities that you are setting here in this room ? What are the priorities of the institution? So they were so purposeful in the last couple of years of building the financial to plan

Really to scaffold around Clemson Elevate . They talk often about Clemson Elevate with much energy. And so, the board has helped me and our team really focus on where can he plug into Clemson Elevate? Where does it make the most

Sense? So, we purposely scuffle our foundation to the strategic plan to look at while you are thinking about student experience, while you are thinking about doubling research, the impact we are making on the lives and wellness of those in South

Carolina, we are thinking about, what about the donor experience? How can we plug in the giving experience for our donors? How can we amplify the donor impact for those elements of Clemson Elevate ? So we have to focus on the number one

Student experience. Love that. We want it also mirror the number one donor experience. That they are plugging into your strategic priorities. Of course, doubling down. And I’m going to give you a little bit of a deeper dive on that in

A moment but we now, as you were thinking about bringing in those top faculty researchers as you are looking at new opportunities, we understand the power of the dollar and finally, as Tony alluded to, how can we leverage all of this

Experience, all of this perspective on our board to be sure that we are making a difference across the campus? I want to applaud our board. Our board would hundred percent gives every year after year after year, but the even

Elevated it more this year by saying, we want to be what we call a lead donor, which is that we also will think about endowment and we want to use the time on the board to think about our own legacy giving. So

They not only think about the donors, they think about their own giving. So we are moving to the next level of that. To kind of died down a little bit. When we look at donor experience, that number one

Donor experience, we know that when our donors give once, they tend to give over and over again. We maintain about 70% donor retention rate to give you some context. That is the highest in the ACC and the

Highest in the S.E.C. over five years. We know we give them to give, they’re going to continue to give. This tells us that our donors are getting a good experience. They are also highly satisfied with the endowment performance. 95% say

There are of our endowed donors and that they are satisfied. The areas we know we can improve. We touched on a little bit is how can we use technology to give us more insight? The technology really makes us more efficient, but

Also gives us more insight and so, how how our donors directing against the economy and are we building the right strategy and how we communicate with donors? Also, how we put together proposals and of course for us, how we steward

Donors. So it is important with our partners and the alumni Association development that we are all using data insightful. So this is the area that we are making the biggest assessment when we are

Making donor experience and as I shared with you before, we just had our new chief technology officer that will be leading this effort . When you look at how do we strengthen our security strategy, how do

We be sure that we have the room your talent, how do we streamline operations, all of this will help us with that donor experience because the data really lets us know the donors. So this is the area we

Are working on under donor experience. Go back. Doubling the endowment. This is the time a year in February that we get the new Google results . We love our acronyms in higher education. National Association of College Association business officers.

This is the most apprehensive study on endowments that is offered about 700 endowments are stuttered. Again, performed at all institution average 11th year in a row. That is outstanding. It is a long tenure of outperforming.

Three five in tenure. We put continue to be in the top quartile of 700 endowments and if you look at public institutions, we are in the top 20 percent , about 42, but we know we need to do more. We

Are still in the lower tier when we look at kind of the endowment level compared to our peers and so, that is why we are so focused on doubling the endowment there. So I really want to complement the

Performance of our team and of course, our chief officer. Dr. John Alexander. If you look back on 10 years, this gives us — I am getting to this clicker very well. Sorry. If you look over the 10 years, I

Think the big standout here is that during the 10 years, we had 637 new endowments. That is added additions to the new endowments and look how we grill it. 603 so this tells us, and how donors give to

Endowment, we are going to grow it. Also during this time, payout over 10 years, 203 million . This is the direct effort that we are giving back to the institution. This is the payout trend. I can tell

You over the last five years, we have had a 50% growth. I think what is the most important point here is that the last year has been the biggest growth and this is the money of course that we are

Paying out directly to the University for you to accomplish your strategic goals. We are really sharpening the tools here. We are working very closely with the Provost office because we want to be sure, especially for

Our new Dean’s, they have all of the information that they need to appropriately spend it. So we want to make sure we are spending those donor gifts and so we are very much sharpening that and being sure that all of the information is close to our

Business officers and Dean’s so I want to, the Provost office. He has been a great partner in that as well. When he looked aware that payout goes, you can see specifically when you look at times and Elevate, when you look at

Student aid like the student that we heard from today, we look at student aid, how we are directly helping students get to Clemson and to continue faculty support and department and program enhancement, all

About a third. And then in the campaign, we are talking more to our longest, most loyal donors about unrestricted dollars because this gives us the most fracks ability flexibility and tends to be your long-term donors that

Think about that unrestricted dollars as well. Last year, we give about $31 million out in this area. I shared with you early in the year that we passed a 19 year milestone.

It took us 80 years to get a $500 million. A years to get to $1 billion. 2 billion & . I think about this a lot. Where will we be for 2 billion? But when you look back at 90 years,

Of course we are here in the 30s when we established the first scholarship and faculties. Cuff has been with you as you open the imagined center. As you thought about CUI car and developed CUI car

what I learned over 90 years is we really have imprints around the state. We own property abound the beautiful mechanical gardens. I learned a new word. Debit due. We have new property on the debit

Due. We have been with the journey with you for 90 years and we are across the state. Even in the last four years, we continue to invest in CUI car. We have given close to $3 million in additional

Properties there. We also contribute to the new alumni visitor Center, which understood you to get your of today. We are heavily invested in the capital campaign. Cuff has been a part of every campaigns us far and we are

Heavily invested and recently made a commitment on the journey with you to find apartment in home in Charleston for the Clemson design. So I say all that to say the history continues in partnership. >> Great. To finish out the

Last couple of slides. So, relative for engagement and the supportive efficacy year. One of the things that I think a lot of you know is that — >> [ Inaudible – low volume ]

>> We want this to be a learning board so we want to tell our members on everything that they can possibly begin to know about the University, the needs, and how they can then execute legally personal

Leadership should be in terms of the elite donor or doing some of these other things that you can do personally. And so, we are taking this very seriously in terms of our board engagement and we think it is

Going to make a big difference in terms of supporting universities going forward. And then, the last slide, we just thought we would put on the table at a very high level, these are the things we are trying to look around the

Corner on and one is that we always have to be looking at how we do better in supporting future fundraising activities. Obviously, we are not very good at secession funding and it is something that we are

Working to get better at not just section planning for the board but for the staff and leadership team and so we are focused on that. One other things, and I applaud Karen and Regina . You know, it is one

Thing to growthe endowment and have the out the S.T.E.M.. It is another thing to spend the endowment and have the impact of the donor impact and there is a pool of unspent funding that is coming down significantly but something to

Focus on and be purposeful about otherwise you won’t get to donor. And the last thing, I won’t spend a lot of time on it, but I want to spend time on what Brian and Karen said about the new chief. I spent time

With them . Five star. This guy is a rock star. We got them from Paw Grahn. He is going to help us get to the next level. And credible teller. I applaud Karen and her team why have worked with. And last, we’re

Going to finish where we started. You know, we take that responsibility very seriously, so, with that, if you have any questions, I would turn it over to Karen. >> [ Laughter ] >> [ Inaudible ]

>> [ Laughter ] >> I didn’t have a question but a couple comments. Thank you for being a good partner. >> Thank you. >> — To the University. We want the collaboration that we

Have so congratulations. It is my understanding to know that you also have to really good news on campus this morning. >> I did. My son, Thomas, West Point military has loaded on a plane and is coming home from Syria.

>> [ Applause ] >> I will tell you, this campus, the board, resident Clements, I can’t tell you how many times people reached out over the nine months of deployment and said, we are so

Proud of his service. Thank you. We’re with you. So thank you, President, for your support. He loaded on and said we are going to be there Monday to welcome him. >> I just want to support him and say we are very proud.

>> Thank you. Thank you. I’m very proud. There Tony, thank you for your leadership of the chair on the board. It is on a change my life, she love this place. You mentioned the DSA winners. You are one of them.

The President’s advisory board is an essential value member. Thank you for all that you do for this university. Also, collect lessons on your legs or his 50th University anniversary and your retirement after many years of leading executive

Operations. Thank you. >> [ Applause ] >> [ Laughter ] >> Thank you. Thank you Karen an attorney. Does anybody have any questions? For them? So, I want to thank you all for being here and I’m also going to

Thank you for the tremendous I like to partner you have been for us. You have allowed us to be very nimble and do things that we would not be able to accomplish. I’ve set on the foundation board for the last

Several years and I can attest to the strength of that board and the quality and the talent they have is very impressive and the financial results. Would you take my personal account — >> [ Laughter ]

>> — Because you are doing much better than that. Give it to the University. >> [ Laughter ] >> [ Inaudible – overlapping speakers ] >> So, at this time, I am

Going to turn it over to Max Allen for report. >> Tony, are these your phones? Tony, are these your phones? >> Oh, I need that. >> [ Laughter ] >> [ Inaudible – overlapping

Speakers ] >> [ Inaudible ] >> [ Inaudible – overlapping speakers ] >> [ Laughter ] >> It is a big lead. >> Good afternoon. I want to begin my present tension by

Mentioning the great work being done by the entire mark on team that includes those visuals coming from various colleges and divisions across the University. I have shared with you previously how Mark Holmes new centralized organization structure has increased collaboration across our

Division and between Mark home and the University and today I want to share some examples of that progress while focusing on Clemson Elevate both the first penalty living the number one student living experience in the nation. So, we are

Constantly looking for ways to enhance the overall student experience with the Clemson break. You all know the Tiger paw logo is powerful and we are leveraging that especially through enrollment management. By consolidating efforts and streamlining communication

Across enrollment management and a more cohesive and impactful message is being delivered to current and prospective students. Now I’ve asked the Scout and David to be here today because David has been a close friend. This

Improved collaboration has resulted in a more unified and consistent branding image ultimately leading to a more positive and engaging experience for all students and prospective students. So, I want to take a minute to shout out Amber pageant who works on

His team and works for us on Mark home and her team of communicators who have led the charge to consolidate efforts and communications across enrollment management. They have strategically evaluated and recommended ways that they

Can deliver a more cohesive and impactful message as they recruit the next generation of Tiger town bound students. Before we dive into some specific examples, I want to share with you the goals and content objectives that the

Enrollment mitigations team uses to guide their efforts. The growth in national awareness of Clemson’s next known research client with our second pillar of Clemson Elevate, doubling research expenditures and 2035 and recruit well-rounded

Academically driven students who can succeed at Clemson, and this aligns with our number one student experience. And to recruit more diverse student body and to support year-over-year targets and initiatives. We are fully aware of the unprecedented

Growth we have seen over the past four years with our undergraduate applications. The demand is real. If you heard David earlier today, 28,000. More than 60,000 this year. The development of a dynamic recruitment strategy has

Contributed to this massive demand. Our team knows that the success to successfully recruit students, we must create compelling content through every audio challenge. Students use a variety of resources reinforcing the need to a balanced approach to

Market. So how have we seen this dynamic recruitment communications and strategy come to mind? First of all, one of the major factors is what colleges a student will apply to is whether or not

Colette has the major they are interested in. Clemson’s breadth a program is a selling point to families. 61% of overall students sophomore through seniors say that a list of academic programs with great is the most viable college

Website content second only behind tuition. 31% of the top web experiences according to students are those that are easy to see, which programs and degrees are offered. That survey reported that a bad web experience would cause one in

Three students to go elsewhere and want to tend to drop the campus from consideration. So, the old comes in clemson.edu/degrees only had the bachelors degree on the page. Clicking a graduate degree program would take the

User to the program rage on the college department website. Minus the certificates, we are not even listed anywhere. There was no established path for students to find information about Clemson’s bachelors to graduate programs. The old clemson.edu/degrees only

Listed bachelors and graduate degrees and while the degrees site was a useful tool, it was limited in its scope with an outdated design. Having an updated degree site aligns Clemson with peer universities and differentiates us from

Those that do not have this resource. And so we took on this brand and now, I can tell you, you can see that the total pages created with degrees was 300 and 30 pages total. This was a collaborative total effort across enrollment

Effort mitigations team, web services team, our writing and storytelling team and much more. As we look at the metrics shown an update of degrees since June 2022 to May of ’23, that 1,105,000 page

Views from users on the old site so that was 70 5.9% of those old users came from was organic searches. Those were typing in their browser I keyword about a major program for answers and bring brought

To our degrees site. So, in 2019, the undergraduate admissions office admitted a slate CIM software system opening the door to endless possibilities for segmented communications with effective students. Over the past five

Years, admissions and Markoff teams have built a robust email campaign strategy with compelling visuals and relevant information. Our email strategy is to developer compelling content covering a variety of topics on a consistent basis. As soon as a

Student enters a slate CRM as a prospect, they received a email from Clemson every two weeks. We deliver emails through five major campaigns , the brand campaign which highlights academics. Campus life. Research. Student stories. X-ray mental learning.

This campaign is sent to sophomores, juniors and seniors pre-application. The sophomore campaign. This provides college preparation and readiness tips for sophomores on a bimonthly basis. The junior campaign. This provides college prep and readiness tips to juniors on a

Monthly basis and then, in admitted student campaign that provides highly’s to the institutions, majors colleges from outreach Dean’s, and Hartman Chair’s to students admitted to Clemson. The parent of an admitted student campaign provides highlights of

The institution, article next steps institution. Our most successful emails to our specific students have been around-and dining, ways to apply, financial aid, praying for A.C.T.s S.A.T. for those want to opt in and visit in

Person engagement. For our admitted students, our top email has been the president’s email with a video, deletions followed by our email on undergraduate research for the admitted students and information on the academic success Center for their

Parents. And then, to Clemson’s Tiger town bound packet is our kind. For decades, students would check their mailboxes and in anticipation to receive one of these coveted you are Tiger town bound envelopes.

Beginning in 2020, however, Clemson released admissions decisions digitally through the slate CRM and are now a common practice among universities. However, to continue to capitalize on the brand stock of the Tiger town bound packet, admissions and marketing,

Negations refreshed this packet to reinforce the excitement of receiving the packet as the first official print welcome to the Clemson family after being admitted. However, before April is sent to the Tiger Pound mount, . Now, a photo

With stickers, a tiger red, coupons for 55 exchange, and Clemson Tigers.com, is will journal style field guide and a housing card and more. The acceptance video the admitted students and their parents are a visible reputation of the

Excitement. On social media, we are always ready to our students whether it is the moment they are accepted or when across the state at graduation. Since December of 2022, that media team has been collaborating with the undergraduate admissions team

To determine the time admissions decisions will be released and have coordinated it call to action for students to record the moment they received their decisions and upload them to a specific box folder. The social media team then curates the reactions and

Produces user generated content during each admission style. A breakdown of the content that we have shared since December 2022 was around 29 content pieces, impressions of over 1.87 million, engage with about 278,000 and that is about

140% better than all other content and 214% better than any content that we have impressions on different social outs. The best way to sell the Clemson experience is through the voices and experience of our current

Students. Each year, with solicits missions of potential student profiles from across campus. These profiles are used in emails, videos, and social content focused on recruitment. One mark number worked on a centralized process for these students stories as they are

Used not only for admissions, but across our webpages, and social media efforts, college, and major specific winter pages, across campus photography needs, video projects, and much more. The centralized project helps Phil feel the Nields for student

Stories without going in search for students multiple times for different needs. I want to highlight three of these students that you see here . One of them you just recently met . Elizabeth Caldwell we just heard that she became a

Truman scholar, but she is a junior who has studied human-based genetics and Clemson research labs and her hands on experience, as you heard, have was something that we highlighted. The one on the left, Roberto Cortez in

Houston, Texas is studying marketing as a junior and he is also joining Clemson student led branding agency and the dead mill soma fight Delta Sigma phi College of business. In his assessment led him to assist and writing Dean Whitney

Walks speech after recent Clemson brand elevation sign. That also supports the number one student experience. The student on the right, black run is a student studying wildlife and fisheries biology. He helped lead by , Feingold

Meadow service fraternity giving back to communities near and far. They host the annual blood drive each November and he also does my — this supports our services to the safe and beyond. So highlighting students is

Something that we always try to do. And then, I want to take a minute to talk about one student in particular that is now a graduate who happens to have been a Clemson life student and that is Terrance

Smith. He is a 2022 graduate of the Clemson life program and was a star in season two of Love on the Spectrum . We showed a video of him crossing the state at graduation in

‘2022 , resulting in nearly 375,000 views. We noticed Tanner’s personal brand was significant growth as a result of the show and wanted to leverage it as it way to increase the brand awareness for Clemson. This year,

Terrence and Sam following has grown more than 290,000 followers. We talked with him about his experience as a student at Clemson on the show and the video is already the top-performing piece of content for us this year. Video views

Over 1.3 million engage with over 74,000, an 85% of the video views are from non-followers. While we do not act evenly engage with influencers on social media, this is a great example of how

We can leverage the personal brands of alumni and students to organically increase their awareness of Clemson and their outstanding student experience they have to offer and if this works, but I’m going to show you the little video clip of

Campus. >> It totally changed my life because it showed me how to be on my own and be independent and have a good job. I was a little nervous about it at first but I knew I had it any

And being an alumni. >> [ Music ] >> What was it like being on Love on the Spectrum ? >> Was great. It was cool. We had some conversations and talked about cavemen’s and

Species and we talked about hamburgers and French fries and we did something that I haven’t done before and I can be proud of myself because when I was a little boy I like to stay in my comfort zone but now

That’s met this is great. And this is cool and unique too. >> [ Music ] >> [ Applause ] v. great guy. Really awesome. >> So, once we submitted our students to Clemson, where their communication outreach

When they are out here? I will share with you about communication share the efforts another part we work with and how they engage to support them during their time. Student affairs related emails to our students were executed

Through a robust content land including thematic related content, , quarter two to October through December’s traditions, quarter three, January through March as a and grow, and quarter four April through June success messages

From vice president and dean Chris Miller, introduction to key campus resources and involvement pathways and upcoming student events and opportunities and highlight student success. This example of an email are shown up here

From vice president Dean of students, Chris Miller. Today the team has delivered 16 email campaigns from the VP account all current students and I will just tell you, the email open rates for the students have averaged 67.4% ,

Which tells me that at least they are opening up. I know my reading of them, but they are at least opening them. Okay. The student affair communication team collaborated with the office of institutional excellence in the

Fall and spring survey the power of the Paw, would you heard about this morning was developed to provide baseline data on key indicators on a sense of belonging, well-being, institutional values within Clemson Elevate as a number

One student experience pillar. Student affairs supported power of the Paw through this email campaign through campus digital signage and help generate more than 6000 survey responses in the fall of 2023. One of our top priorities is

To ensure well-being and sense of belonging for all. In the fall of 2023, the team introduced Tiger pause, a monthly electronic immigration to students focus it on safety and well-being. Email open rates on that one averaged

About 70% among students. The team also reassured that how are you willing mental health campaign in the fall of 2023. The goal was to spread mental health awareness and build a campus of advocacy. Deliverables included campus

Signage, Tigers together cards and University facilities. Another was a lunch of well-being Wednesday on February a social media series focusing on an aspect of student well-being each week. And for our final example,

This slide shows ways in which the team utilized a multichannel approach through social media digital signage and web to support and document unique Clemson experiences such as welcome we, homecoming, military, appreciation week and amendment. In the upper left

Corner, you will see the story of Jackson Graham, an Army ROTC cadet and student veterans during the student appreciation week. This collaboration with the social media team generated 44,000 plus video views on interim reels. To the right of the Jackson grant image in the

Center of the slide is an example of our collaboration with the College of business , negation team to showcase the father and daughter graduation moment. 65,000 plus video views on Instagram reels for that one and at the bottom left

Corner of the slide, you will see the example of the tradition Tuesday which was launched in the fall of 2023, which focuses on unique Clemson student traditions. Not only do we communicate about the number one student experience

But we also provides opportunities for the students to work with the brand and on behalf of the brand to share their stories and their expertise. One example is the Southwestern wildlife exposition submission and since Clemson goal of aligning

To raise awareness of the conservation of wildlife and to positively influence wildlife in nature education. The event held in February of this year averages 40,000 visitors in four primary locations in Charleston. The Clemson president was in partnership

With the collaboration between capitals, the Jane F Kennedy waterfall and wetlands conservation wetland center and that Institute. We also highlighted we are South Carolina posted — and I like to use the word premier

University that’s not with a deeply rooted presence from corner to corner of the state impacting all aspects of South Carolina’s public life. Over a dozen students work in our space located in the heart of Mary and spare square and

Engage with alumni donors and the public. One repeat student comment was it was the most meaningful thing they do all year. It is exhausting but edifying to share your work and your passion with thousands of

People. And then we have interns in the yard. Three of these interns have done amazing work. You will seek Greg Murrell highlighted on the right. She is in turn on the honors college. Working on

Civil writing and social media projects. Her first major sign was a profile of Elizabeth Caldwell. And you met her. She played a lead role in developing the Clemson news story working to complete the collaboration with the social

Media team and College of science. The one in the middle, Eleanor Gladden is a public relations intern from the College of behavioral social and health sciences she manages the College of social media platforms to help out

Awareness of the college among prospective students, current students in the Clemson community as a whole. In addition to creating greater content for the colleges social media plan from, she introduces, students and faculty members with monthly

Features, videos and is photography. She is an access to the team. She helped design graphics for multiple students story webpages, including the daily story and design illustrating and installed a new cohesive wrap for students

And career services spaces. And as I close, I want to just mention a few final thoughts. I am thoroughly enjoying my interim role consuming to keep things moving in a very positive direction. Hopefully, you haven’t heard any

Negativity coming from Mark Holmes as Ivan in the role because things have been going positively. I like to tell people to remain positive. There are all kinds of things you think about from a negative things to think about what we

Have all kinds of people working on this team. I want to quickly update you about the search as some of you want to know are we going to get a permanent VP for marketing on board. Andrew Lykins was task

To lead the search with my colleagues Tom Wagner and Lisa Mike’s and Brian with a the others. It is generating a lot of interest and we have over a or so applicants that have applied and the search for a

AGB is assisting us and encouraging highly qualified candidates to apply and goes to have a short list of candidates before the end of the semester to be with a broader group of individuals among the president to select individuals sometime in May and the

President has asked me to stay close to this process as an ex officio member of the search committee. So I been doing that. But I will certainly work closely with the chosen individual and a comp rancid transition plan so that we can

Continue to move with this great momentum that this Markoff team is displaying. I can tell you we have wonderful people. Wonderful members throughout the University doing great work in this communications and marketing team and I just hope that this

Today has given you an example of the great work that is taking place and chairman, that concludes my report. >> I want to thank you. You always fill in. You will a utility. You can fill in or

Fill out and you can do anything. You can set up a force once again and I thank you for that. And — >> I have one thing. The one student, Kristen, has not been announced yet but —

>> [ Applause ] >> Chairman, I echo your comments. I know only want to serve as chief staff but he serves this role I believe three times . And whatever we need him to do, he always does.

He always brings a positive, amazing attitude. >> Thank you once again. With that, any other questions or comments? And do I have a motion to adjourn? >> [ Inaudible ] >> Second.

>> So we are adjourned and we will start finance and facilities at 3:00. >> [ Inaudible – overlapping speakers ] >> [ The event is on a recess. The session will reconvene at (3:00pm ET). Captioner on

Standby. ] >> Lisko had to get started. The Clemson’s board of trustees finance and facilities committee. April, will you please call the role and indicate whether we have a quorum once you sit down. >> President Clements.

>> Here. >> Trustee McCarter. >> Here. >> Trustee McKissick. >> Here. >> Trustee Phyfer-Kubu. >> Here. >>Trustee Swann. >> Here. >>Trustee Wilkerson. >> Here. >> Thank you, Max, will you

Introduce any members of the committee are still here with us. >> [ Captioners transitioning ] >> [ Inaudible – low volume ] >> Thank you, folks, welcome. Are there any edits or corrections to those minutes?

Hearing none, is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> [ Inaudible ] >> And a second? All in favor, please say aye. >> Aye. >> And approved. Now I could turn it over to Tony Wagner

For our facilities and finance updates. >> Thank you, chair, . There you go. Thank you. Now, I can’t even tell you how excited I am about this project. Now, this is a 600 seat state-of-the-art

Classroom that is in one of our most historic buildings. It is going to take this old theatrical space and turn it into a classroom right in the center of campus that I think is just going to be transformational. It will have

Absolutely state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment and it is is really going to be a very special space for our students to be in. As a reminder, $11.5 million project . This hall is 13,000 square feet . Along

With this, in that part of the building, we are going to have new bathrooms. We are redesigning the stage area. We will bring in a lot of natural . You can see a lot of those beautiful windows in the aft

Part of the hall. You can see them from the previous space because they were covered up so they will let in a tremendous amount of natural . Ask Sergeant is our expert on this. Harper is our

Contractor. It will be completed around this time next year. If you go in there right now, I was in there yesterday, it is gutted down to the brick of the original space so when you’re looking at that, you

Are looking with the bread that was late over 100 years ago. The engineering that had gone into redesigning the space and making sure that structurally, we can do all this work and really change the design of the space so really proud of this

And with our theme of really number one student experience, I just wanted to mention this project. Next slide, please. >> I will be glad to do with the flag is is give me — >> [ Laughter ]

>> That would be fantastic. Another project I think is very near and dear to the students heart is the student Memorial meditation garden. Student affairs, Dr. Chris Miller and his team sponsored this project. They designed in

Collaboration with an advisory committee , which was comprised of students, alumni, parents, and siblings of the seized students this incredible space. You can see of the picture on the left the chapel in the background and this was

Funded by a gift by Ashley Johnson, who was mentioned earlier . Just joining our costs board here shortly and the memorial statement here is as followed. This memorial is dedicated to the memory of the students who have passed away

While attending Clemson University. Here we honor and remember their lives. We are expired by them to carry forward by fulfilling our own. Just an absolutely egg order space . Next slide, please. So, we are replacing all of

Our gasoline powered maintenance equipment on campus for a variety of reasons but probably the most important is it is noisy and if somebody is working in their office and might be on the Zoom meeting or might be having an in person

Meeting or students in the classroom and unintentionally, one of our facilities folks walked by with a leaf blower and it completely shuts down was happening inside. Also, the gas powered equipment creates a significant amount

Not only of noise but there is an air-quality aspect of that as well and a productivity quality. So we are really just a little thing but in terms of number one student experience, it is a lot of little things

That often make up, you know, the really big things so we are excited about this one as well. And then, the next slide, please. So, this is a group of Clemson students. They are truly remarkable students.

They are part of our student led brand agency out of the college of business, which is called patency. So what they do is they work with clients both internal and external who hire them to help them really

Figure out how to better engage, better communicate all things around the brand. What my division has done is we have brought this group on board to help us with the communication and engagement around all of our business transformation

Initiatives. The ERP, RBV and I will tell you, they are so impressive. When you meet with them, they are professional, there they are prepared. It is been truly fantastic to work with them.

The ringleader of this group is the young lady on the lower left. Her name is Haley Sheridan and if you just kind of work your way around that counterclockwise, right above her — Haley is a marketing

Major and she is a senior and provider of her , about 9:00 is summer Spano. She is also a marketing manner major . And right above her is Antonio Rogers. He is a senior. Marketing major. Right above

Her is Abby Petty. She is a marketing senior. Right in the middle of the group is — let me see here. Right in the middle is Kate Bagnel . Kate bacchanal is at 3:00. She is a junior marketing major. Right

Next to Haley is Amelia Wiles. She is studying graphic communication. So they are just doing a great job for us. The work they are doing is important and I would also like to mention their mentor on the faculty. Katie Hildebrand

Who is a PLI graduate which is fantastic and also, for marketing communications. Lori hockey and Melissa Templeton. So they have a really great work and once again, the number one student experience. >> [ Inaudible ]

>> Yes. She has been the leader of this group and would love to hire all of them if I have the chance. The next slide, please. You know, we have been putting a lot of focus on the on-campus dining

Experience and it is important. We will serve over 2.4 million meals this year. The average weekday lunch, which is our single biggest meal, we serve 28,000 diners at lunch on campus. Just think about that number. Obviously, our

On-campus residents, a lot of off-campus students in the dining halls. A lot of staff, visitors, so it is a big crew. We have two groups that really help us understand how are we doing? Where should we make

Changes? The first is our long-standing student advisory board and their responsibility — they have represented is from a number of different areas, but they help us understand how we should be thinking about food

Sensitivities . How we should be moving the various selections . Which direction we should be moving them. So, they do a great job. And we also have a new auxiliary student advisory board that is really focused on all aspects of

Student life but also dining. So it has been very helpful. >> If I may add, do you have the names of that patient? >> Yes. We have. We have champions for all of the food sensitivities and so we work

With them to really understand, how do we address their needs. >> More than those who are sensitive, — >> [ Inaudible ] >> Yes. We do. And we are at the next slide, please. I ju%-úl

Framework plan. So we have selected, and thank you to Trustee Richardson for helping with this, we selected the Smith group to lead the long-range flame workplan update. This will update our

2017 plan that really was a great road map for the campus, but with the advent of Clemson Elevate , really, it was time to update the plan . So the goal of this work is to make sure we aligned Clemson Elevate

with all of our facilities planning. We think this is going to take about nine months for us to work through this. We are working right now to collect data and engage with stakeholders from around campus

. We have a route from research, a group from campus life, a group from athletics . A group focus on landscape. A group focused on design standards, and a group focus on the digital component of this

Plan. All of those groups are meeting and providing input and we will be keeping the board updated. One of the ways in addition that we are making sure that we are aligned with Clemson Elevate his we have the pillar champions that are a

Part of the Clemson Elevate framework integrated into all of these groups. Two of the things that we will really be focused on in addition to the other things I just mentioned are space utilization. Making sure that we are utilizing all

Of our spaces to the degree that they should be utilized. We are not building space unnecessarily because, obviously, it is expensive to build space. Sometimes, the best building that you build is the one you don’t build

Because you figured out how to better utilize your space. We are also focused on remote work so, Rick, if you would advance the next slide, please.And next. So, I just wanted to update this. And once again, the space component of this is

Important. The University put in place an in-state — so we are talking about in-state remote work policy that was affected a number first. All that work was work that went through the executive leadership team. That policy

Specifies all of the different things that need to be considered when we do remote work and how we put remote work agreements together because everyone who is working remotely has an agreement in place with their supervisor

That is reviewed periodically between the supervisor employee. But here is what the main things that we touch him. Supervisor/employee required training with respect to remote work. What a remote work environment must entail one folks are not working here

On campus but are working from home, primarily. Information privacy and security is a big deal when folks are accessing our university network from remote locations. Performance expectations. And monitoring performance is also a key

Thing that we have to take into consideration. University timekeeping policies and procedures. You know, they apply so, we have to have guidelines for that, and as I said earlier, remote work agreement. We have to submit a

Written report to the state on an annual basis , so, the state is very much involved in this. If you go to the next slide, please — yes, sir? >> [ Inaudible ] >> Managing the walking

Around. Seeing people able to solve problems and being able to catch them and talk about something . It is hard to do away from that and I hope they will be very, very careful.

>> You know what, trustees one, that is a great comment and I am being very, very careful about that. I’ve got some great numbers here that is helping is being very careful still. We are issuing over

18,000 W-2s in January. If you take that and turn into full-time employees, as we do have a large number of student employees and part-time temporary employees , but we have got over 5600 equivalent of full-time employees. Right

Now, there’s a total of 864 employees that are doing hybrid remote work and then, another 94 of those are actually full-time remote. So, I think that is probably the scope that you will see at Clemson. It won’t be something that is 50%

Of their workforce. It is going to be something significantly less than that. What we are finding is that in some areas, having a remote option is truly critical for us to be able to recruit. Areas like

I.T. Trying to get to the kind of sophisticated I.T. expertise we need on-campus. Brian O’Rourke’s division , that is an area where work is extensively used to make sure we get the talent we need. So,

It is something that’s not your comment is very well taken. I don’t think your see the percent of this change. That is where we are right now. The one thing I want to mention again is factoring in

Warmer work , if people are working remotely, for instance, they don’t need a private office. We don’t want to be wasting space that is just sitting empty because people are working remote. So we have been very intentional about

Studying that and making sure we are taking that into consideration on the long range framework plan. >> >> There i a lot to be said. A lot of these positions that are here are intentional because they are out-of-state

Positions raising funds for I.T. or all of our campuses. >> With those things, it is really tough with remote work . And just talking about the synergy you get. Not having that and then not being able to

— great comments. One of the reasons we put the agreement in place is just to be very intentional about laying out what the expectations are in those areas, making sure that employee evaluations happen in the way it should be happening.

So, your points are well taken and we will continue to be very vigilant about how we use it. >> [ Inaudible ] >> Thank you. Okay. Well, the next slide, I think we are going to shift gears here for

Second and I would like to invite Jake Anderson to make some remarks. Jake is just finishing up his tour of duty as the staff said President. Has done a remarkable job. Has been a great partner to the

Administration. So, very much appreciated and work with you this last year and I know you are also going to introduce your successor, Jeff Anthony, who, by the way, is from finance and operations , so we

Are excited to have Jeff step in. >> Absolutely. Thank you, Tony. Good afternoon. It has been a privilege to serve as staff president this past year. It has been honored to advocate and serve my fellow

Staff. Thank you for your time here today. I want to say again thank you to Tony. Tony, thank you for your support. Thank you for your confidence. You and your team with Kristin Lauren. Thank you. Tony will often

Tell you and text and say hey, I have to run something by you so, thank you, Tony. Also, President Clements, thank you, sir. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your leadership. I promise I won’t introduce you as the president

Of United States ever again. >> [ Laughter ] >> That might be embarrassing but I appreciate your patience. But thank you to your team. Thank you for your leadership and thank you for being an advocate for my family so thank

You so much. Also to members of the ELT and other academic leaders, thank you for thinking of staff. Thank you for letting us have a seat at the table. As you can see in our report, we had a great year. We accomplished a lot. Extremely

Proud of our 52 senators and are six different committees so from handling our constituent concerns, helping craft policies that affect staff to generating engagement and recognition opportunities and also to fundraising. So we

Are fundraising in a second, right, so we are going to talk a bit after this. But one of the biggest projects who worked on this year and this busy wasn’t on our radar but we study lookingat the internal

Structure and notice how big our student body was getting. We were using a representation model from 2017 , a 1 to 75 ratio. One senator for 75 staff members in each budgets and . as we know, we increase

Staff in 2017 and increase the budget as well so we use that members of our committee to review our presentation model and we had a lobby for some of the votes. That was pretty fun. I don’t know if you want

To do it for a full-time career but I would like to say that our representation model was a faded updated and now we have it strategically positioned Senate to advocate for all staff going forward. And if you are looking at the report,

There at the bottom I provided kind of what rings would have looked like have not done anything. We would’ve ballooned up to 53 senators this year as a result of what we done, we are now going to be at 44

Senators this year. Very, very pleased by our membership committee. It took several weeks, several months actually to get that bike. Also to some of the more fun things. We increase our speaking engagement. We went out to our

Community. We showed up at CUI car one day. Very happy to chat with them. That was a great time. We ran the numbers. We impacted with staff in person with over 1400 staff members at the University this

Past year whether that is C EGD, fire EMS. It has been a great year. Our welfare committee led by Mr. Jeff Anthony who I will introduce into the second year one of our more robust committees,

They were closely on things with HR policies that affect staff. A great win for them recently kind of hot off the press. They established a new permit tear so, for the employees making between 30,000 and 40,000, they are going to

Have a separate permit that they are going to pay for. So instead of paying $84, they are going to pay 55,000 $55. Kudos to Jeff and his team for doing that so that was a great

Win they came out to about savings of about $6000 going back to the staff members. Lastly, our advanced committee. They headed out of the bar this year. All in all, they would have generated in terms of savings as well, close

To $30,000 this year with our staff endowed fellowships scholarships. Back in December, we had a from the conversation with faculty Senate and I will give the proposed quick job here. Staff operates faculty this year so that’s met

>> [ Laughter ] >> I didn’t expect that. Wow. >> [ Laughter ] >> Very, very friendly and some of you have added to that campaign but in 12 days, we raised $50,000. >> Five

>> Also too we held our annual military appreciation branch which President Clements spoke out as well. We raised over $7000 for that so that was quite the date for sure. Each of our committees, though, they significantly helped us

This year. Without almost all our bowls and we feel that the impacts we made this you will be felt for years to come so very, very excited for the future. I’m very lucky to have co-chairs . She has been

With us for four years. She goes above and beyond and she makes sure that we are equipped to do and fulfill our mission so shut out to Aaron. So, yeah. And about 11 days I am passing the gavel to this guy right

Here. Not that I’m counting but the past year has been tremendous and I am reminded of what makes this base place special and it is the people here for sure. And as a graduate of Clemson, as a

Native of Aiken, South Carolina and now employee here for 10 years, I have always been proud of this place but I have been learning the internal structure and leadership that is in place and, man, I have

Never been prouder of Lansing University than I am today so with that, I would like to introduce you to the new staff Senate present. He is one of the most engaged folks that we have on Senate. He is one of

The most genuine , dependable senators and also have a military background will have little bit of nerves that he is going to whip us into shape by Jeff is going to be an outstanding resident so it is

My honor to introduce you to the new staff Senate President, Jeff Anthony. >> [ Applause ] >> Thanks for the recognition in service. The big thing for me is making staff Senate sustainable for the future and

Also building up the employee emergency fund and making that sustainable. Hoping to look at bringing a golf tournament. >> We have a couple of golf this year. >> Bringing a golf tournament to benefit the employee fund

For staff but thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Jeff. >> [ Applause ] >> Thank you for your leadership. Your end extending example of our service . Please staff on your staff to

Collect how important they are to this university and to making the Clemson experience very special. Jeff, I look forward to looking working with you this coming year and appreciate everything you have done.

>> By the way, thank you Chairman, Dukes, and looking forward . Jeff, thank you for your leadership. It was great working with you. I love your passion. If you look in the Roman of the College of

Business, Jeff has a lot to do with that. Jeff, I very much look forward to working with you. >> [ Inaudible ] >> Thank you. Thank you all. >> All right, folks, at this

Time, we have to go into executive session to discuss faculty matters and also discussed pending per commit contract. Do we have a motion in a second to go into executive session, we will be

Continued to have the session. Second. All in favor, say aye.. >> Aye >> Opposed? We are now an executive session at this time. Will ask all to exit the meeting except —

>> [ The event is on a recess. The session will reconvene shortly. Captioner on standby. ] >> Have approval of some projects and I will turn it over to Tony. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We

Have two projects and, Rick, if you would advance, go ahead. Advance one more slide please some of — the first project is to expand the R-4 parking lot. This is a $2.5 million project. I’m happy to report

That for all these proviso projects, we bid this before we bring them to you so that we are not giving you an estimated budget. We are giving a hard budget and that contractors have continued to be aggressive in these recent

Months and that has been good news. This is for new asphalt in our R-4 lot that we will also expand including 113 new spaces . This lot is across from that botanical garden and

it is basically the next law to down when you are traveling west on remitter, so to give you an orientation, it is close to the C-1 lot. It is and that neck of the woods. 113 spaces

, it will have complete with lighting, security cameras, stormwater, detention pond, there will be a retaining wall because of some great issues that we have there. And the plan of finance is to use

Parking improvement funds to do this project, the bid openings were March, construction will begin May if it is approved and we would estimate completion in August. So this is 2.5 million to

Expand the R-4 parking lot. Okay, and the next proviso project, the second one and final one is upgrades to the Madren Center kitchen. This is anticipating the opening of the alumni Center building that

Will open later this fall, early next winter . This will create a new commercial kitchen that will serve the manager and and the hotel complex as well as the alumni Center. It will also modify certain support spaces and meeting and seminar

Rooms, we are talking about 8624 square feet , which will be renovated . It will also include new walls, doors, ceilings, and it will modified the loading dock to make it much more presentable as we

Are getting ready to open up the alumni Center. It is $3.6 million funded by housing and dining funds and $700,000 in maintenance and stewardship funds, remember, the Madren center is a State Facility so we can use maintenance and

Stewardship funds. The bid opening was March of 2024 , construction will begin in May and we would estimate completion in December of 2024. So, we would ask for approval, Mr. chair , on both of those projects.

>> Any questions? Smith moves. All right. All in favor , aye. Opposed? Motion carries. >> [ Indiscernible ] yes, sir. Understood. Just a couple closing out, a moment with a couple of coming attractions,

Things we are really focused on right now, don’t let that picture on the right scare you, of the modernistic skin on the parking garage. >> You can but as soon as I saw the slides, I called Tony. >> Yeah.

>> That is a very hypothetical rendering. >> Very hypothetical. I want to thank Trustee McCarter help us get to this port — part with the architects and construction manager. Yeah, that was his preferred look right there. ,

So this is at 30% schematic design . We are on track for phase two approval in July . Just a reminder, this will be 1200 spaces . There will be a pedestrian bridge that will go

Over to the Plaza. We are meeting with athletics as part of this project to discuss tailgating and part of the budget for this project, which is $80 million, is to have it be structurally built so that

It can handle as much tailgating as we can throw out on a game day. That facade, the technical name for that is a scrim. They are one option for how you screen parking garage ventilation is big

Deal. That is part of what they are thinking about, but we will bring designs back to the board and make sure that the first parking garage weight build on main campus is one that we can all be proud of.

Next slide, please. Just a couple additional views , it’s going to have a nice Plaza . On the right-hand side you can see the pedestrian bridge as we go to the Lee three Plaza. This is really going to activate that part of campus. You go down to

The Plaza, not a lot going on anytime of the day or night. Want to put 1200 cars there and people moving across that bridge, it is going to activate that and make it a major thoroughfare into the middle of campus.

>> [ Indiscernible ] >> You got it. It’s got numerous names. >> [ Indiscernible ] >> It will. It will. Absolutely. We have been talking about the whole tailgating possibilities from

The get-go. The next project we want to take a quick look at is College of veterinary medicine. We are 50% done with design development and if you have gone out there, you will see that all the trees that

Are going to be cleared for that site have been cleared, so there has been a bunch of clearing going on out there. We feel really good about the aesthetic that this is taking on . The two pictures that you

See there, the bottom left is the hub or the main building of the campus from the main parking lot. That is an aerial view and then looking at the courtyard that will be right behind that, which is very

Important to the campus , but we want this to look like Clemson , but also be very much fit into that unique location where it will be . If you look at the next slide , a couple more views , these are

Ground-level views. That is the hub of building from the parking lot and on the left and then on the right is the backside of the hub building from the courtyard. So, just , it’s going to be a handsome

Facility and LS 3P is the architect on this project and I feel like I have been working around the clock. They have really done a great job. >> [ Indiscernible ] >> Yeah, this facility will be

mostly on the west side of Queen Street, but also on the east side . There will be an equine testing facility and then of course, all of the equine facilities are there so you will have a pastor with

Horses in it. Right next to this. It is going to look very good. >> You have a question? >> [ Indiscernible ] >> This is an at risk project. Okay, next slide, please. We

Are going to move forward with the next high rise when we get done with Vern’s hall. Will move right into Lieber . Remember, when you are looking at these three side-by-side, they are in alphabetical order, so it is Brents, Lever and

Manning. We are getting close to being done with burns. Will move into Lieber next and we will bring Manning next and we will move into — we will bring Lever to you in July to get that started. Projects

Going very well. It is on budget. When it is all said and done, it will be surrounded by a beautiful courtyard that will make this a great student space. Mr. Chairman, that is all that we had to present for that.

>> Thank you, Tony. Madam chair, any comments [ Indiscernible ] . >> [ Indiscernible ] tomorrow morning with it off at 8:00 a.m. >> [ Indiscernible – low volume ]

>> No further business, I moved to adjourn. We stand adjourned.

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