{"id":4719,"date":"2013-06-20T19:54:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/clemsonworld\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2013-06-20T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:54:59","slug":"erwin-center-to-support-emphasis-in-advertising-and-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/erwin-center-to-support-emphasis-in-advertising-and-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Erwin Center to support emphasis in advertising and communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span>Thanks to a recent $1.05 million gift from Joe \u201979 and Gretchen Erwin, co-founders of Erwin Penland Advertising, Clemson is now home to the Erwin Center for the Study of Advertising and Communication.<br \/>\n\u201cTop companies, including most of our clients, are extremely proficient at developing more innovative and reliable products and services by using cutting-edge technology and insight-driven ingenuity,\u201d said Joe Erwin. \u201cThe Erwin Center will help prepare future generations of marketers to similarly use information, technology and modeling methods to skillfully promote these products and services.\u201d<br \/>\nInitially, the Erwins\u2019 gift will provide up to five new courses to support a new emphasis area in advertising and communication for communication studies majors and as a minor to students in other majors. Many of the classes will be taught in collaboration with industry experts at Erwin Penland.<br \/>\nThe communication studies department currently offers emphasis areas as diverse as sports communication, communication and the law, and health communication.\u00a0Erwin said that he and Clemson representatives will be meeting with major brands, marketing agencies and other industry leaders across the country to solicit input aimed at ensuring that the center develops students who are uniquely qualified to drive the future of marketing communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a recent $1.05 million gift from Joe \u201979 and Gretchen Erwin, co-founders of Erwin Penland Advertising, Clemson is now home to the Erwin Center for the Study of Advertising and Communication. \u201cTop companies, including most of our clients, are extremely proficient at developing more innovative and reliable products and services by using cutting-edge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2690],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upfront","tag-spring-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/Erwin-gift-e1398975700139.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","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=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}