{"id":16141,"date":"2016-09-06T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=16141"},"modified":"2016-09-06T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:00:51","slug":"president-clements-receives-honorary-degree-from-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/president-clements-receives-honorary-degree-from-alma-mater\/","title":{"rendered":"President Clements receives honorary degree from alma mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Clements-UMBC-Grad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15813\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Clements-UMBC-Grad-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"InTheseHills_Clements UMBC Grad\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Clements-UMBC-Grad-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Clements-UMBC-Grad-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Clements-UMBC-Grad-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Clements-UMBC-Grad.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>President Clements may be a three-time alumnus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umbc.edu\">University of Maryland \u2013 Baltimore County (UMBC)<\/a>, but he can now add a fourth degree to his resume. In May, he and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/biography\">Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust<\/a> received honorary degrees from the institution during the spring commencement ceremonies. He is pictured here with <a href=\"http:\/\/president.umbc.edu\">UMBC president Freeman Hrabowski III<\/a>.<br \/>\nUMBC is a member of the University of Maryland system and is a public research university with an enrollment of approximately 14,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Clements, who earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science in 1985 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in operations analysis in 1991 and 1993, respectively, received an honorary doctorate of education and spoke\u00a0at the graduate school commencement ceremony. Faust spoke at the undergraduate commencement ceremony and received an honorary doctorate of public service.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m so pleased and honored to return to my alma mater to address the graduate students of the university that has significant personal meaning in my life.\u201d Clements said. \u201cI stood in their place not so very long ago, and I\u2019m anxious to see how they will make a difference with the education they have received. UMBC is one of the most innovative universities in the country and highly regarded. A degree from this prestigious university will help open many doors for these new graduates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Clements may be a three-time alumnus of University of Maryland \u2013 Baltimore County (UMBC), but he can now add a fourth degree to his resume. In May, he and Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust received honorary degrees from the institution during the spring commencement ceremonies. He is pictured here with UMBC president Freeman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[650,1462,1523,1574,2292,2851,2855,3152],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-these-hills","tag-clemson","tag-harvard","tag-honorary-degree","tag-in-these-hills","tag-president-jim-clements","tag-summer-fall-2016","tag-summer-fall-2016-in-these-hills","tag-university-of-maryland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Clements-UMBC-Grad.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141","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=16141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}