Jeremy Clement, MBA, PMP
Senior Instructor and Internship Coordinator
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 10:00AM - 11:00AM and 12:00PM - 1:00PM; Thursday 11:00AM - 12:00PM and 1:30PM - 2:30PM (by appointment - always call, email, or text 1st!)
Phone: (843) 953-5455
E-mail: clementj@cofc.edu
Curriculum Vitae: Download
Jeremy Clement is an Instructor & Internship Coordinator at the College of Charleston School of Business, in the Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management. He joined the department in 2014, and in 2017, he was named Director of the Schottland Scholars Program, a leadership development program for exceptional business school students. Mr. Clement earned his B.S. from the College of Charleston School of Business and his MBA from The Citadel Graduate College. He has years of industry experience in hotel and restaurant operations, finance, and strategic planning.
Mr. Clements’ focus for the department is on internship advising, industry relations, and career placement. Additionally, he teaches courses in event and project management; and his research interests are in career and workforce development, organizational best practices, and workplace development. Mr. Clement serves as Co-Director of the Meeting & Convention Management spring break travel program to Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada as well as the Destination Iceland Maymester travel program. Mr. Clement is a travel enthusiast and has also taught a past study abroad program in Dublin, Ireland. Recent developments in his event practicum curriculum include the development and production of a ‘flipped’ Hospitality Career Fair and leading students in volunteering at the Cork Midsummer Festival in Cork, Ireland.
Education
Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional, 2013
The Citadel Graduate College - Charleston, SC
MBA, 2010
The College of Charleston - Charleston, SC
B.S., Business Administration (Concentration: Hospitality and Tourism), 2001
Research Interests
- Experiential Education
- Employee Behavior/Satisfaction
- Consumer Psychology/Loyalty
- DMO Planning and Performance Evaluation
- Project Management
- Event/Venue Management/Planning
- TQM and Continuous Process Improvement
Courses Taught
- Hospitality Internship
- Service Operations Management
- Project Management in Event Planning
- Event Management
- Meetings and Conventions Management
- Destination Marketing and Management
- Event Practicum
- Professional Development
- Adventure Tourism
Honors and Awards
2021 Distinguished Instructor Award, School of Business
2022 REACH Professor of the Year
Publications
- Clement, J.C. (2019). Event Management Practicum Development Workshop: Flipping the Production,
Flipping the Event, 38th Annual International Society of Travel & Tourism Educators Conference,
October, 2019. - Smith, W. and Clement, J., and Pitts, R.E. (2017). Oh the places they'll go. Examining the Early Career Path of Hospitality Alumni. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, Vol. 0 (0) 2017, 1-14.
- Smith, W. and Clement, J. (2016). Where Do They Go? Examining the Early Career Path of Hospitality Alumni, to be presented at International Society of Travel & Tourism Educators, Hangzhou, China, October, 2016.
- Woodside, A.G., Xia, X., Crotts, J.C., Clement, J.C. (2016). Best and Worst Practices in Management Performance Audits: Constructing and Testing an Algorithmic Model, Making Tough Decisions Well and Badly: Framing, Deciding, Implementing, Assessing. Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing, Volume 24, pp.19 – 51.
- Clement, J. (2013). A Case Study in Disruptive Technology Innovation and Tourism: City Corridor and Charles. Journal of Tourism, XIV (1), 63-77.