CONOVER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
GRADUATE STUDY IN RECREATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

The Conover Graduate Fellowship is sponsored by Richard and Sandra Conover to further  graduate study in Recreation Resources Management.  Dr. Conover taught Recreation Resource Management at Clemson University from 1974 until his retirement in 1994.  Fellowships are awarded for one year only based on the recommendations of department faculty.

Past Conover Fellows have studied the social science perspectives related to wildland recreation management, landscape aesthetics, outdoor recreation behavior, conflict and crowding, environmental and activity socialization, use of wildlands for solitude, nonformal environmental interpretation / education, visitor segmentation studies, marketing of public lands, tourism and gateway community impacts on public lands, or related resource recreation areas.

Facilities

Students in the resource recreation program have access to the modern, well-equipped laboratories in the Department and the College. These laboratories
i nclude a PC Laboratory equipped with microcomputer hardware and software, several remote computer terminals for communicating with the Clemson University Computer Center and a Geographic Information System (GIS) Laboratory.
Housed within Lehotsky Hall (home of PRTM) are two federal cooperative research units: U.S. Forest Service Cooperative Study Unit and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Study Unit. Adjacent to the campus is the 17,000-acre Clemson Experiemental Forest and approximately 200 acre Outdoor Laboratory.

Programs

The Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management is one of the largest programs of its type in the country, consisting of over 500 undergraduate
and 60 graduate students. In total, the Department has 22 faculty, of which eleven have qualifications for teaching and conducting research in the recreation resource management area. A list of the faculty associated with recreation resource management includes:

 

Professors Robert H. Becker William E. Hammitt Brett A. Wright

Associate Professors Robert D. Bixler

Assistant Professors Elizabeth "Betty" Baldwin Chiok Oh Robert B. Powell

Additional general information about graduate school and application forms may be obtained at
www.grad.clemson.edu
or contact:

Graduate Coordinator
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
263 Lehotsky Hall, Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0735
Tel. (864) 656-2183
GRDPRTM@clemson.edu

©Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management. Last updated on February 20, 2009