{"id":14057,"date":"2015-09-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=14057"},"modified":"2015-09-05T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T17:00:00","slug":"magnolia-clemson-club-supports-call-me-mister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/magnolia-clemson-club-supports-call-me-mister\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia Clemson Club supports Call Me MISTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MagnoliaClub\"<\/a>The Magnolia Clemson Club has partnered with the Call Me MISTER\u00ae<\/sup> program at Jackson State University, supporting the program and serving as ambassadors for Clemson.
\n\"Lifelong-MagnoliaClub\"Call Me MISTER\u00ae<\/sup> is\u00a0a nationally acclaimed program started at Clemson to increase the number of African-American male teachers in South Carolina\u2019s public elementary school classrooms.\u00a0In 2012, the\u00a0University partnered with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Jackson State University\u00a0to broaden the program to Mississippi, and an additional gift of $1.3 million from the Kellogg Foundation in 2014 supported the program\u2019s continued success. This effort by the Magnolia Club, supported by a grant from the Alumni Association, is another joint effort of the two universities.
\nSince both Clemson and Jackson State have Tiger mascots, the group coined themselves \u201cTigers United.\u201d Events have included a viewing party for the Boston College game last fall where alumni and Jackson State MISTERS gathered to watch the game, eat barbecue and celebrate the partnership.
\nThis spring, the group sponsored a service project to beautify the schools in the Jackson area where Jackson State MISTERS work. Plans for the fall include a conference focusing on career development and effective leadership practices.
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The Magnolia Clemson Club has partnered with the Call Me MISTER\u00ae program at Jackson State University, supporting the program and serving as ambassadors for Clemson. Call Me MISTER\u00ae is\u00a0a nationally acclaimed program started at Clemson to increase the number of African-American male teachers in South Carolina\u2019s public elementary school classrooms.\u00a0In 2012, the\u00a0University partnered with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[508,994,1802,1847,2850],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","tag-call-me-mister","tag-diversity","tag-lifelong-tigers-summer-fall-2015","tag-magnolia-clemson-club","tag-summer-fall-2015"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/09\/MagnoliaClub.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14057"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}