Over the past few years, Clemson University has set an ambitious agenda — Clemson Elevate — that’s aimed at placing the university among the academic elite like Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley and UNC-Chapel HIll. But recent actions by Clemson’s leadership are undermining the university’s ability to get where it wants to be. With incoming Provost J. Cole Smith taking the helm in January, the Clemson administration has an opportunity to correct its course. We hope it does, but it will be a monumental challenge given the self-inflicted damage that has already been done. And while the recent, surprising announcement that President...