Vision Statement
The vision or goal of our Department has been and continues to be to strive to be nationally recognized among our peers as an outstanding chemistry department that responds to the educational technological and economic needs of the state of South Carolina, the immediate southeast region and the nation. More specifically within the next 5 years we hope to be recognized by our peers as being among the top 50 of the 212 Ph.D. granting chemistry departments in the United States.
Although this vision was not expressed until a departmental self-study report was prepared in 1978; it has informally been the guiding force for the direction the Department has taken since it acquired its Ph.D. program in 1959. It remains the dominant consideration for our long term planning. Our short term planning takes into consideration the state and national needs and the environment within the university and the state.