Program will help architecture students get to workforce more quickly
September 1, 2015
CLEMSON, SC — Clemson University’s School of Architecture has been named one of the National Council of Architectural Registration Board’s first accredited architecture programs accepted for participation in its integrated path initiative.
In short, this means Clemson will be able to offer students a quicker path to licensure in the architectural community by allowing them to hold down an internship in parallel to their academic programs, thus getting them into the workforce sooner.
Kate Schwennsen, director of Clemson University’s School of Architecture, said, “We are enthusiastic and optimistic about this opportunity to provide an accelerated path to licensure for South Carolina’s aspiring architects. Throughout the school’s 100-plus years of architectural education it has been seeking innovative ways to advance the discipline and practice of architecture in service to the peoples of the state of South Carolina and beyond.”
Clemson joins 12 other programs across the country nominated to offer the program.
“We look forward to coaching these programs and future program participants, as well as celebrating the licensure of their alumni,” said Dennis S. Ward, president of the National Council of Architectural Registration Board.
“We’re pleased to be at the vanguard of this new initiative to put in practice what has been a core principle of the program — melding the academy and practice — to the betterment of both,” Ray Huff, director of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston, said of the honor.
Clemson hopes to begin offering the program as soon as next year.
