CU Trustees approve Educational and Facility Plans

Clemson University Trustees approved new educational initiatives, program changes and facility plans at their quarterly meeting Thursday in Columbia.  Trustees gave concept approval for a new outdoor wellness and fitness center on Hartwell Lake, west of the campus. The facility is to include about 16,000 square feet of climate-controlled activity and support space and about 15,000 square feet of unheated space for outdoor-covered programming.  The board approved a new Social Technologies and Analytics Research Institute. It will engage academic and industry partners in funded research to understand social media for organizations.  The Clemson University Board of Trustees also approved a new department of youth, family and community studies, which will create a common core of faculty, research and resources to focus Clemson’s commitment to solving problems facing young people, their facilities and communities.