Pearce Center Programs
The Pearce Center for Professional Communication offers seven programs serving Clemson faculty and undergraduate and graduate students. Each of these programs aims to improve communication across campus through a variety of projects and services. Learn more about each of our programs below.
Student Programs
The Visual Information Design internship offers an opportunity for undergraduates to learn design skills and put them to use in helping university clients with visual projects such as posters or PowerPoint presentations.
Pearce Interns work in the Class of 1941 Studio for Student Communication using cutting-edge communication technologies to produce a range of communication deliverables for campus and community non-profit clients.
Professional Editing at Pearce offers a paid one-on-one editing service to community and university clients. PEP accepts an array of written works including journal articles and dissertations. Discounts are available for campus clients.
The Graduate WAC Fellows class consists of 19 students, with representatives from almost every college on campus. These TAs learn how to incorporate writing into their classrooms while developing their own writing skills.
Faculty Programs
Professional Editing at Pearce offers a paid one-on-one editing service to community and university clients. PEP accepts an array of written works including journal articles and dissertations. Discounts are available for campus clients.
The Client-Based Program, created by the late Dr. Summer Smith Taylor, matches Clemson classes with local clients who need communication deliverables. Students learn real-world communication skills in a classroom setting.
The Pearce Center Service-Learning Fellows Program is a year-long program that provides an opportunity for selected faculty members to learn best practices in service-learning and community engagement and to integrate service-learning into their teaching, research and public service work.
Pearce Center’s WAC Faculty are committed to teaching WAC and WID principles to others in an effort to emphasize the importance of writing in classrooms across all disciplines. They primarily work toward this goals through co-teaching the Grad WAC Fellows class.
Initiatives and Sponsorships
WAC and CxC are defined as proficiency in writing/communicating through instruction and practice in a variety of courses and fields. Pearce Center prioritizes WAC principles in all of its programs and will be hosting the upcoming IWAC conference in 2023.
The Pearce Center regularly sponsors visiting speakers and series that expose Clemson students and faculty to nationally and internationally recognized figures. Many of these events are hosted in the Class of 1941 Studio for Student Communication.