(President Karen Whitney photoshopped with an Adam Levine shirt. It is fake news, but we couldn’t resist.)

The cult of personality is the fuel for attracting national attraction, and a t-shirt is viewed by some more important than top national accreditation of academic programs.

While the power of a t-shirt is amazing, Clarion has a lot of other good things to promote that won’t necessarily fit on a shirt. Looking for some of the positive messages to somehow squeeze on to other pieces of clothing, I looked at Clarion’s website and found #clarionproud items.

In no particular order, here are some of the points of pride that are listed:

• Business graduates have a 96 percent employment rate; computer information science graduates have a 100 percent employment rate.
• Clarion has the lowest debt of any Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education University.
• Speech Language Pathology’s Masters level graduates have a 100 percent program completion rate and a 98 percent employment rate.
• This is the eighth year in the row that Clarion has been designated military friendly.
• Pennsylvania has 399 schools of higher education; Clarion’s enrollment places it in the top 10 percent.
• Within the PASSHE system, Clarion has the highest endowment per full-time student.
• Clarion earned national recognition for the 289,818 volunteer hours of work by 3,022 students in 2004–15.
• Alumna Kristen Day is the first NCAA Woman of the Year from any Pennsylvania University.
• A team of Clarion business undergrad students took first nationally in the 2016 SAM student case competition.
• Clarion’s direct economic impact on Pennsylvania is $160.9 million.
• More than a dozen rankings place Clarion University among the best universities in the region and state.
• Clarion is ranked among 30 safest towns in the United States by the SafeWise report.
• The online accounting program was ranked seventh in the nation by college navigator.
• Seventeen of Clarion’s students – the most from any University – experienced last year’s Decembers Republican and Democrat national conventions last year.
• Clarion’s small business development center provided over 6,800 hours of one on one consolidated to 514 clients.
• In 2017, 183 student athletes — 50 percent of all athletes – were named scholar-athletes for their academic achievements. Both the total number and percentage are school records.
• A College of Health and Human Services was launched to better reflect the growing demand for programs within this academic area.
• In 2016, 100 percent of the students in the associate of science in nursing program pass the state licensure exam.
• From fall 2016 to fall 2017, Clarion retained 87 percent of first time in college students who lived on campus, an increase of 4.6 percent.
• Clarion conferred its first doctorate degrees at spring commencements this year. Nine students graduated from the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, which was launched in 2014.
• Since 2014, Clarion has introduced six new degree programs, 10 new minors, 11 new concentrations, and four new certificates.
• Clarion will celebrate its 150th anniversary starting on Founders Day this fall. There will be a yearlong series of events to highlight this milestone.

There are a lot of Clarion accomplishments you may never see on a t-shirt, but you can be just as proud.

In the meantime, copies of the shirts worn by Adam Levine are now on sale in Clarion.