West Campus & Residential Life
West Campus is a new living and dining hub anchored by a 260,000-square-foot mixed-use facility that includes three residence halls, a dining hall and fast-casual dining options. This facility is also home to the Honors Residential College at Cribb and DesChamps halls. Other student housing includes the “shoeboxes” (Benet, Cope, Geer, Sanders and Young), Mickel Hall and the fraternity and sorority quad. The quad includes Wannamaker, Simpson South, Simpson North, Norris, Bowen, Bradley, and Donaldson. Parking and Transportation Services is located in the nearby Edgar A. Brown University Union, and you’re just a short walk away from the Athletic District.
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Living-Learning Communities
Dining
Greek Life
Clemson University Honors College
Clemson History
🛏️ Living-Learning Communities
A Living-Learning Community (LLC) allows you to live with people who have similar interests, majors, or courses. We offer a wide selection of LLCs focused on a variety of topics, including academic interest, identity, and involvement. Being a part of an LLC gives you an instant group of people that have something in common to live with while at Clemson, giving you a home within a home.
Some highlights from Clemson's 15 Living-Learning Communities include:
- CONNECTIONS (First-Year students of color)
- Honors Residential College
- RISE (Residents in Science & Engineering)
- WAVS (Women in Animal & Veterinary Science)
🍕 Dining
Clemson offers various dining options for students, including traditional dining halls and retail eateries throughout campus. The Fresh Food Company, one of three dining halls on campus, is located in West Campus and Starbucks, Which Which, Twisted Taco, and Raisin' Canes.
📣 Greek Life
Clemson fraternities and sororities are student-led organizations that enhance the student experience inside and outside the classroom. Becoming a member of Clemson’s fraternity and sorority community is a fantastic way to make new friends, develop leadership skills, serve the community, get involved on campus and enhance your academic potential.
Clemson has four Greek Life councils: College Panhellenic Association, Interfraternity Council, Multicultural Greek Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council.
With about 25% of the student population involved in Greek Life, there are also many other ways to get involved, including 500 different clubs and organizations!
💡 Clemson University Honors College
The Clemson University Honors College challenges students to excel by offering specialized courses with Clemson's best professors; by encouraging participation in a wide range of innovative learning experiences on campus, across America, and around the world; and by promoting intellectual engagement through formal and informal interactions with other Clemson students, staff and faculty. We encourage our students to create their own ideal education, by sponsoring programs such as study abroad and undergraduate research, and by providing individualized funding for internships, educational travel and professional development.
⏳ Clemson History
Clemson was founded in 1889 through a bequest from Thomas Green Clemson, a Philadelphia-born, European-educated engineer, musician and artist who married John C. Calhoun’s daughter, Anna Maria, and eventually settled at her family plantation in South Carolina. A longtime advocate for an agricultural college in the Upstate, Clemson left his home and fortune to the state of South Carolina to create the institution that bears his name.
In November 1889, Gov. John Peter Richardson signed a bill accepting Clemson’s gift, which established the Clemson Agricultural College and made its trustees custodians of Morrill Act and Hatch Act funds, federally provided for agricultural education and research purposes by federal legislative acts.
Initially an all-male, all-white military school, Clemson Agricultural College opened in July 1893 with 446 students. Clemson became a coeducational, civilian institution in 1955. In 1963, with the admission of Harvey Gantt, Clemson became the first traditionally white institution in South Carolina to desegregate since Reconstruction. With academic offerings and research pursuits, the institution became Clemson University in 1964.
In summer 2015, the Board of Trustees established the task force on the History of Clemson to find ways to tell our complete story – one that past generations, current Tigers and future members of the Clemson family can be proud of for many decades to come.
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