CLEMSON — Todd Schweisinger still lives in the abode he bought for $60,000 aback he was a Ph.D. apprentice and drives the aforementioned 1988 minivan he’s had aback he was a teen.
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It’s not that Schweisinger can’t allow a bigger abode or a newer car. He makes a adequate bacon at Clemson University as a chief academician in automated engineering and undergraduate lab coordinator.
Todd Schweisinger, a chief academician of automated engineering, poses abutting to his cars, including the minivan he has apprenticed aback aerial school.Image Credit: Clemson University Relations
Schweisinger shuns luxuries because they aren’t in band with his activity goals. He has bigger plans, and altruistic $2 actor to Clemson is at the top of his list.
As the anniversary giving division goes into abounding swing, donors beyond the country will be chief how to absolute their accommodating dollars, but few will be able to top Schweisinger in appetite and sacrifice.
Schweisinger, 42, has apprenticed 95 percent of his acreage to the university to authorize an award that will armamentarium scholarships for students. He doesn’t accept the abounding $2 actor yet, but he’s animate on it by extenuative and advance in absolute estate.
“I feel like I’m active the dream,” Schweisinger said. “I accept my health. I accept my happiness, and I accept banking independence. I afraid about money for a continued time, and I don’t anguish about money anymore. That’s absolutely liberating.”
Schweisinger confused to Clemson for alum academy in 1997 afterwards admission from the University of California-Irvine with a bachelor’s amount in physics. He now has a master’s amount and a Ph.D., both in automated engineering from Clemson.
In those aboriginal canicule at Clemson, Schweisinger had to booty out apprentice loans to pay charge and added expenses. He afterwards anchored some assistantships and was able to wean himself off the loans.
But aloof as he did, Schweisinger was diagnosed with Type I diabetes. Allowance premiums abandoned amount him $500 a month, which was about bisected his antithesis at the time, he said.
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Schweisinger had to go aback to the apprentice loans.
“I concluded up borrowing about $80,000 by the time I graduated, which is all paid off now,” he said. “It was accessible for me to do because already I graduated, rather than accepting these things anybody abroad was buying, I said, ‘I’m activity to animate like a alum student.’”
The van isn’t Schweisinger’s alone vehicle. As a backup, he keeps a 1982 auto that he originally bought to booty his kayak to the mountains.
A new car, he said, aloof doesn’t band up with his activity goals.
“Let’s say I go out and buy a new affluence car,” Schweisinger said. “That car is aloof activity to cheapen over time, and allowance payments are activity to go up. Maintenance costs are activity to go up. I don’t apperceive abundant about animate on all the electronics.”
A adolescent Todd Schweisinger poses for a annual with the R&B accumulation New Edition at his father’s skating rink, Skateland USA. Schweisinger is pictured with annoying beard and a striped shirt and continuing abutting to his cousin, Brian Scott Friesner, who is cutting a atramentous jacket.Image Credit: Craig Schweisinger
Schweisinger ashore about at Clemson afterwards accepting his Ph.D. in 2007 because Imtiaz Haque, who was again administering armchair in automated engineering, offered him a job as undergraduate lab coordinator.
“I was like, ‘I absolutely charge to eat — this is great,” he recalled.
A division later, a job opened up aback a academician larboard the university. The academician job and the coordinator job were merged, and that’s what Schweisinger has been accomplishing anytime since.
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Schweisinger, who is bachelor and has no children, has maintained his frugal lifestyle, consistently allurement himself whether purchases are in band with his abiding activity goals.
His No. 1 ambition is creating an award that will armamentarium at atomic one scholarship in perpetuity. If investments acknowledgment about 3 percent, he abstracts the award needs to be about $1 actor to accommodate an anniversary scholarship that pays charge and added expenses.
Schweisinger has set his architect on accidental $1 actor afore he dies and abrogation addition $1 actor as a bequest. He has been accomplishing acreage planning with Jovanna King, arch ability chief administrator in Clemson’s Office of Development.
“I’ve accustomed her my will and attestation that says 95 percent of my acreage would go to Clemson, and they are beneficiaries of aggregate I have,” Schweisinger said.
King said that Schweisinger absolutely understands about giving back, not alone in time but resources. It was remarkable, she said, that he accustomed at Clemson as an out-of-state alum student, fell in adulation with the abode and now works to advice acceptance and the administration.
“I’m a huge fan, and I’m actual beholden for what he’s done for Clemson,” she said. “He’s aloof amazing.”
Schweisinger has bought backdrop about his home as an advance and eventually a abode for his parents to move.
He got the bottomward acquittal by affairs a accumulating of hip-hop memorabilia, including turntables and speakers acclimated by some of the genre’s founding fathers.
Schweisinger’s father, Craig, endemic Skateland U.S.A., a Compton skating amphitheatre that provided a area for rappers to accomplish in the 1980s. The N.W.A biopic, “Straight Outta Compton,” featured a arena in which Dr. Dre brings the accumulation to Skateland, area they are afraid to acquisition the army already knows their song lyrics.
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Todd remembers animate at the roller amphitheatre for $4 an hour starting aback he was 10. The amphitheatre gave the ancestors a attendance in hip-hop history, but the recording-industry fortunes that helped accomplish Dre one of the wealthiest entertainers animate never begin their way into the Schweisinger coffer account.
Craig said that his son, the adolescent of two children, was consistently acceptable at saving. If he capital a new video game, he could focus and save his money quickly.
Now, Todd is extenuative for Clemson instead.
“I anticipate it’s purpose of family,” Craig said. “He acquainted that Clemson was area he capital to absorb his career, period. He was activity to absorb his activity in Clemson and be active in the Clemson cemetery, from what I can imagine. His activity is Clemson. That’s what his activity is about. It has been aback he got there.”
In his additional time, Todd volunteers for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Aback he goes on vacation, he visits his parents in Las Vegas or accompany in California and Indiana.
He traces the altruistic spirit that runs so acerb in him now to a branch on work-life balance. He recalls asking: “Why do we accept to animate our activity to be confined or allowance someone?”
The acknowledgment he accustomed was, “Because that’s what makes bodies happy.”
“I anticipation about it and was like, ‘Yes, that’s absolutely true,’” he remembered. “I didn’t apperceive that was accurate for everyone. But I anticipate that active a activity in the account of others is what is best accomplishing for me.”
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