CLEMSON — Clemson University education professor Lamont A. Flowers has been selected to the 2008-09 class of Emerging Leaders by Phi Delta Kappa International.

Flowers is the Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the Eugene T. Moore School of Education and executive director of the Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education.

“I am pleased to be selected as an Emerging Leader by Phi Delta Kappa, an organization that is dedicated to improving education systems in America and abroad,” Flowers said.

The honor will be presented officially at the Phi Delta Kappa International Summit on High-Performing Educators in San Antonio, Texas, in November.

Flowers and 20 other educators from across the country were selected for this year’s class based upon Phi Delta Kappa tenets of leadership, research and service. The Emerging Leaders were selected from a competitive pool of applicants age 40 or under based on their outstanding professional accomplishments.

Flowers came to Clemson from the University of Florida, where he was an associate professor and associate director of the Institute of Higher Education. He has served as a visiting scholar at Educational Testing Service and visiting assistant professor at Indiana University’s Center for Postsecondary Research. Flowers also worked as a high school teacher.

He is editor-in-chief of the “Journal of the Professoriate” and the author of many journal articles and book chapters.

The Charles H. Houston Center conducts research, produces scholarship, implements programs and serves as an information source on issues pertaining to the black experience in education in South Carolina and across the country.

Phi Delta Kappa International is a leading association of education professors with approximately 50,000 members worldwide.