Brother Ken Robinson passes the gavel at the Annual RSS Conference to the current president, Lisa R. Pruitt.
Kenneth Robinson (Fall 1983, charter member), associate professor in the Clemson University Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice and agribusiness extension specialist, will serve as outgoing president and chair of the executive committee of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS) through 2026, concluding his three-year term as the Society’s eighty-eighth president-elect, president and outgoing president. He is the first Clemson University professor to hold the position.*
Congratulations to Brother Robinson on this great achievement, and best of luck on your term as Executive Board Chair of this historic group. You can read more about his appointment on Clemson's News website.
* sourced from Clemson News article on August 27, 2025.