A recent attempt was made in the SC senate to move Clemson's PSA(Public Service Activities) under the SC Department of Agriculture, which would strip Clemson of their land-grant institution status. The SC Poultry Federation along with many other interest groups and organizations including, Clemson University, SC State University (also a land-grant institution), and Clemson's Cooperative Extension Service, Experiment Station, Livestock-Poultry Health, and Regulatory Services, all came out against S.872, the bill that made the proposal to move Clemson's PSA. After much testimony against S.872, the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee tabled the bill, keeping it from moving forward.
Clemson University (formerly Clemson College) was founded in 1889 on Thomas Green Clemson’s belief that education could create a better way of life for the people of South Carolina. Clemson is South Carolina’s 1862 land-grant university, with a federal mandate to improve the quality of life for the citizens of South Carolina by developing and delivering research and education programs that support the state’s largest industry, the $34 billion agribusiness community.
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