Scope and Content Note This series contains the records of the Dean and Associate Dean of the College of Commerce and Industry (formerly called the College of Industrial Management and Textile Science). The majority of files are those of Ryan C. Amacher, Dean, and Tomas D. Efland, and Associate and Acting Dean. Also found in the series are files of Amacher's predecessor, Wallace D. Trevillian.The records consist of correspondence, minutes (both college and departmental), annual reports, budget...

Abstract

Writer and professional consultant Joseph C. Ellers conducted a series of research interviews in the mid 1980s for his book "Getting To Know Clemson University Is Quite An Education: Determination Makes Dreams Come True."

The interviews focus on key events that shaped the progress and development of Clemson University during the presidency of Robert C. Edwards (1958-1979).

Abstract The records of the Office of University Research primarily document this Office's operations during the period 1981-1992. Beginning in the 1940s, records document the Claud W. Kress Fund's research programs that the Faculty Basic Research Committee oversaw. A variety of files starting from the 1950s relate to corporate grants and donations for funding faculty and graduate student research. The bulk of the records concern the activities of the Director of University Research Stanley Nicholas...