{"id":16161,"date":"2016-09-06T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=16161"},"modified":"2016-09-06T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:00:11","slug":"immelt-receives-honorary-doctorate-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/immelt-receives-honorary-doctorate-at-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Immelt receives honorary doctorate at commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Immelt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15809 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Immelt-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"InTheseHills_Immelt\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Immelt-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Immelt-557x705.jpg 557w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Immelt.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>University officials bestowed an honorary doctorate of humanities on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ge.com\/about-us\/leadership\/jeff-immelt\">General Electric Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey R. Immelt<\/a> at the commencement ceremonies in May. Immelt, who spoke at the ceremony, was honored for his continued partnership with Clemson as well as his devotion to excellence in business and to improving the lives of citizens around the globe.<br \/>\nThe ninth chair of GE, a post he\u2019s held since Sept. 7, 2001, Immelt became an officer of GE in 1989 and joined the GE Capital board in 1997. He was chair of President Obama\u2019s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Under Immelt\u2019s leadership, GE has been named by Fortune magazine as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Admired Company,\u201d and he has repeatedly been named one of the \u201cWorld\u2019s Best CEOs\u201d by American financial magazine Barron\u2019s.<br \/>\nGeneral Electric has generously and consistently supported education, technology and health care initiatives around the globe. Under Immelt\u2019s leadership, GE has been a key partner with Clemson in the study of innovative technology and workforce development \u2014 on campus and in the innovation campuses across the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; University officials bestowed an honorary doctorate of humanities on General Electric Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey R. Immelt at the commencement ceremonies in May. Immelt, who spoke at the ceremony, was honored for his continued partnership with Clemson as well as his devotion to excellence in business and to improving the lives of citizens around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[6],"tags":[1358,1363,1405,1574,1650,2851,2855],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-these-hills","tag-ge","tag-general-electric","tag-graduation","tag-in-these-hills","tag-jeffrey-immelt","tag-summer-fall-2016","tag-summer-fall-2016-in-these-hills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/InTheseHills_Immelt.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161","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=16161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}