Dolores Stegelin elected to Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education Board of Directors

Clemson Professor Emerita of Teaching and Learning Dolores Stegelin, Ph.D., was elected to the Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE) Board of Directors in December 2024. The AROHE Board of Directors provides strategic direction and support to the organization. Comprised of innovative and forward-thinking leaders with expertise in facilitating retiree engagement, the board helps to ensure that AROHE furthers its goal of transforming retirement in higher education.

In addition to AROHE Board service, Stegelin, an I. Dwaine Eubanks Emeritus College Fellow, has remained active in research, scholarship, and community service after retiring from Clemson in 2017. In 2024, she was selected as the Kenelly-Voss Distinguished Emeritus, recognizing her distinguished service as Chair and member of the Emeritus College Advisory Board as well as the SC Prison Education Interest Group, Fundraising Committee -Chair, Community Outreach and Speakers Bureau Committees, Program Planning Committee, and as a member of the Memoir Writing Group.

Her ongoing contributions to the University include serving as Clemson Outdoor Collective: 2025 (COE; Ag, Forestry and Life Sciences; and College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences), Board of Directors, US Play Coalition: 2014-Present, and Faculty Mentor: COE Graduate School Conference and Reggio Emilia Study Abroad, 2017-Present.

In service to her field, Stegelin is a Senior Fellow and Chair, Policy Research Fellows, Institute for Child Success (ICS), Greenville, SC 2020-Present, Board of Directors, Child Development Research Center, USC, 2019-Present, Adjunct Faculty, USC, Dept of Teacher Education, COE. Teach graduate course: EDEC 750: Play Theory and Early Learning in Early Childhood Contexts, Advisory Board, Champions for Children, Columbia, SC: 2020-Present, Manuscript Reviewer, Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012-Present and is an active member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and South Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children. In addition, Stegelin has produced numerous publications in the past three years and presentations at the state and regional levels.

ABOUT AROHE

AROHE is the first stop for college and university administrators, retiree organizations, and individuals seeking to serve and engage their retired faculty and staff.  AROHE gathers, disseminates, and fosters transformative theory, practices, and programs for all stages of faculty and staff retirement – the preparation, the actual transition, and post-retirement programming – to bring about a smooth and productive life-course change. AROHE also assists in the formation and ongoing development of campus-based retiree organizations, which are essential to the intellectual, social, and physical well-being of retired faculty and staff.

AROHE evolved from the West Coast Conference on Retirement in Colleges and Universities annual meetings in the late 1980s. In 2000, efforts were made to expand beyond the west coast with early organizers from successful retiree organizations at Florida State University, Emory University, Clemson University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, Indiana University, and the University of Washington. During a conference held at North Carolina State University in 2000, conversations about establishing a nonprofit national organization ensued, and AROHE was launched in 20022 under the leadership of Paul Hadley, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, who served as AROHE’s first organizing president. Read more about AROHE’s history through 2022.