As the new school year begins, we are pleased to introduce our new faculty members! With their passion and expertise, we look forward to the incredible impact they will have on our department and our students. Felipe Bertazzo Tobar, an international scholar from Brazil, holds the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in the Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management Department at Clemson University (USA). With an interdisciplinary background, he also earned a Master’s in Cultural Heritage and Society as well as a Bachelor of Law and Social Science, both from Univille University in Brazi ..read more

Barry A. Garst, Ph.D. and Ali Dubin Camp is a principal positive youth development setting providing critical supports and opportunities for children and adolescents during summertime and across the calendar year (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2019). After two years of programmatic and operational disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the camp community is once again providing camp experiences to millions of youth across the U.S. While the summer of 2020 relied heavily on virtual engagement and significant reductions in the overall number of youth served, the s ..read more

Momentum Bike Clubs (MBC), a group mentoring initiative facilitated by the Clemson University Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, begins a new chapter this spring, as leadership passes from David Taylor to Tavaghn Monts. Monts, who also serves as the assistant director of community collaboration for the department’s Race, Ethnicity, Youth and Social Equity Collaboratory, will take over as executive director of Momentum Bike Clubs on June 1, moving from his current role as associate director of the organization. “David has poured his heart and soul into making MBC the s ..read more

This week, we celebrated the hard work and achievements of an outstanding group of parks, recreation and tourism management students! Awards were given to undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni. Each award winner was chosen based on his or her academic achievement, leadership and professional involvement and strength of character. This week, we celebrated the hard work and achievements of an outstanding group of parks, recreation and tourism management students!  Awards were given to undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni. Each award winner was chosen based o ..read more

https://www.inc.com/tanya-hall/how-to-strengthen-your-company-from-within-by-volunteering.html In this blog post our very own Marian Robinson – Faculty Associate and Community Outreach Coordinator in PRTM and YDL – shares her experiences of volunteering. Marian’s words are heart felt, eye opening, and act as a rallying call for all of us to do more in our local communities. We thank her for sharing her story and we hope you appreciate this piece. Marian’s story First, I would like you to consider this, if April is National Volunteer Month: do you limit your time to just once a month? Oppor ..read more

During the first in a series of important environmental conservation discussions facilitated by faculty and graduate students in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University, Assistant Professor Aby Sene-Harper and Tigers United Fellow Pramod Yadav led a conversation on the role of environmental conservation in international relations, politics and policies. The discussion encouraged dialogue about topics not often addressed in classroom settings and provided an opportunity for scholars to foster co-learning, enhance awareness of local impacts of conservati ..read more

This weekend Dr Corliss Outley will be presenting her keynote speech at the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors 15th Biennial Research Symposium. The speech is entitled, “Stand Up!: Race, Freedom Calls and Outdoor Education”, and emphasizes that: “Everyone deserves the opportunity to experience quality environmental and outdoor learning. Yet, for many the right to live, work, learn and play in the outdoors has been limited. The inclusion of all cannot be the work of one person or even one organization–individuals must work together to intentionally change policies, pedagogy, curriculum, cu ..read more

  Meet Dr. Em Adams, assistant professor in parks, recreation and tourism management’s recreational therapy concentration!   Em received her doctorate from Clemson University in parks, recreation and tourism management with a cognate area of recreational therapy and a certificate in clinical and translational science. After completing her degree, she spent several years as an assistant professor at Lehman College in Bronx, New York before rejoining the Clemson PRTM family last year. Let’s get to know her! Q: What courses do you teach in PRTM’s recreational therapy concentration ..read more

January is annually recognized as National Mentoring Month. Honoring the efforts of mentors and promoting mentoring activities makes a great deal of sense. Mentoring relationships are one of the most important assets for promoting thriving and reducing risk behaviors in young people. Youth who have mentors in their lives report a range of better psychological, socioemotional, and behavioral outcomes across adolescence as compared to youth without these relationships. As part of this celebration of mentors and their efforts, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership has released a new resource ..read more

Our Youth Development Leadership (YDL) team strive to contribute novel and significant research to the field of youth development. In the current issue of the Journal of Youth Development (JYD), our YDL team were lead and co-authors on four of the 15 articles published. In this blog post, you can find the titles and abstracts of each of these articles and read a statement from the authors to hear what excited them about their research. Article 1 – Silence is Not an Option: Oral History of Race in Youth Development Through the Words of Esteemed Black Scholars, Dr Corliss Outley and Dr Keshia L ..read more