克莱姆森大学｜Clemson University

克莱姆森大学（Clemson University）创建于1889年，1893年正式招收第一届学生共446人，该校原名克莱姆森学院（Clemson College），是一所只招收男生的军事学校，直到1955年，该校才改为男女合校的普通非军事院校。1964年，由于其研究生项目和研究成就得到了州立法的认可，从而该校改名为Clemson University。

英文版介绍

Clemson University is a public, coeducational, land-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States.

Founded in 1889 , the University is academically divided into five colleges: Architecture, Arts and Humanities; Business and Behavioral Sciences; Engineering and Science; and Health, Education and Human Development; Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences.

The University currently enrolls more than 17,000 students from across all 50 states and 89 countries.

1、Location

Clemson University is located in upstate South Carolina in Pickens County just north of Interstate 85 and Anderson, South Carolina, along the shores of Lake Hartwell. The University is located just outside of the greater Greenville area and is approximately two hours away from Atlanta, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbia. Clemson is situated in South Carolina s foothills, where excellent vistas of the rising Blue Ridge Mountains in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia abound.

Clemson University operates a research park off Interstate 85 and is currently constructing its Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research center in Greenville, also off Interstate 85. The university has extension offices in every county in South Carolina as a public service in its furtherance of its founding goals as an agricultural institution.

The city of Clemson is served by the Clemson Area Transit bus system, as well as the Amtrak s Crescent line running through Clemson s train station right off Highways 28, 76, and 123. Oconee County Airport is located adjacent to the university s campus and is the closest public-use airport to the campus (as well as the home of the Clemson Flying Club and Dixie Skydivers), with Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport offering commercial airline service only an hour away.

2、Academics

（1）Admissions

The Carnegie Foundation classifies it as more selective, while Clemson admitted less than 55% of those who applied to be Freshmen in 2006.When admitting Freshmen, the university places emphasis on the rigor of high school study and scores on standardized tests, SAT or ACT. Clemson also considers class rank, extracurricular activities, and an optional personal statement. The average incoming freshman had a combined SAT score of 1200 and a high school weighted GPA of 3.99 in 2006.

（2）Calhoun Honors College and National Scholars Program

Clemson is home to The Calhoun Honors College, which is designed to offer academic diversity to gifted undergraduates and to provide for an atmosphere of a higher seminary of learning that Thomas Green Clemson outlined in his will within the large University.

Admission to the college is by application to freshman as well as to any student beyond freshman year. Admission to the college is based on a combination of standardized test scores, high school class rank, and leadership and extracurricular activities. A GPA of at least 3.5 is required for applicants to the college after their freshman year. Members of the honors college are permitted to live in the honors-only dorm, Holmes Hall, and are granted a variety of other benits including complementary copies of the New York Times and free tickets to on-campus cultural events.

The Clemson National Scholars Program is the institution s top academic recruiting scholarship, offering a full tuition and fees scholarship plus a laptop, 5-week study abroad in the UK, along with other learning and travel opportunities. The NSP selection process is highly competitive, with approximately 15 scholarships offered out of over 12,000 applicants to Clemson each year.

（3）Top-20 initiative and research

The University has recently undertaken an endeavor to become a Top 20 public institution, undergoing a process of enhancing its graduate programs while continuing to emphasize the quality of the undergraduate experience. The initiative has led to increased faculty compensation, higher graduation rates, and higher incoming student SAT averages. The University has steadily moved up the rankings from 34, to 30, to 27in 2005, 2006, and 2007 respectively: according to the U.S. News and World Report. As part of its push to enhance graduate-level education, several new Ph.D. programs have been created including interdisciplinary doctoral programs in Rhetorics and in Environmental Design and Planning. Also noteworthy is a new master s degree in historic preservation, jointly offered in collaboration with the College of Charleston.

The university s currently most ambitious academic and research endeavor is the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).ICAR is a 250 acre (1 km2) automotive and motorsports research campus located in nearby Greenville, South Carolina. ICAR will include a graduate school offering Master s and Doctoral degrees in automotive engineering, and offering programs focused on systems integration. The campus also includes an Information Technology Research Center being developed by BMW. BMW, Microsoft, IBM, Bosch, Timken and Michelin are all major corporate partners of the ICAR center. Private-sector companies that have committed so far to establishing offices and/or facilities on the campus include the Society of Automotive Engineers and Timken. Plans for the campus also include a full-scale, four-vehicle capacity rolling-road model wind tunnel.

Clemson also recently established the Restoration Institute whose mission is to advance knowledge in integrative approaches to the restoration of historic, ecological, and urban infrastructure resources. The institute will be located in North Charleston and subsume the Hunley Commission that is currently undertaking the stabilization of the Hunley, the world s first submarine to sink a ship.

3、Student life

（1）Athletics

Clemson offers club, intramural, and varsity sports. The University s 19 varsity men and women s sports teams compete in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA s Division I as the Clemson Tigers. The most prominent athletics facilities on campus are Memorial Stadium, Littlejohn Coliseum, Doug Kingsmore Stadium, Historic Riggs Field, and Fike Recreation Center. Clemson has won 4 national championships including football (1981), 2 in men s soccer (1984 1987), and men s golf (2003).

（2）Greek life

Clemson s Greek system is somewhat different from other large universities in the southern United States in that there are no Greek houses on campus. There are residence halls designated for fraternities and sororities, but there are no traditional Greek houses on Clemson s campus. The Fraternity Quad on campus (consisting of 6 fraternity halls) has recently undergone a major renovation and is certified by the U.S. Green Building Council s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. Clemson is about to undertake a major central campus reconstruction program that will include all-new sorority housing. Currently, just over 20% of students participate in Greek organizations.

（3）Recreation

Students tend to socialize off campus in downtown Clemson. Downtown Clemson is located adjacent to the University s campus, and students on campus are within walking distance to restaurants, bars, cafes, and shopping. Greenville is about 45 minutes away and is a popular destination for many students on the weekends.

Lake Hartwell and the near-by Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and North Carolina offer students many outdoor recreational activities like boating, rafting, kayaking, skiing, rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking and backpacking.