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January 10, 2012
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Clayton State Schedules Annual
Martin Luther King Jr., Celebration, Jan. 16 to Jan. 19
NSSE Results Show Clayton State
Students Recognize Focus on Diversity
The theme of the 2012 Martin Luther
King, Jr., Celebration at Clayton State
University will be, “His Dream, Your
Vision.”
The Clayton State Department of Campus
Life will coordinate the Celebration from
Jan. 16 to Jan. 19, 2012, in collaboration
with AmeriCorps and Diversity Education
Experiences for Peers (D.E.E.P.)
Educators. This year’s theme, “His
Dream, Your Vision,” will include a day
of service and MLK Rally and March in
Atlanta, an MLK Rally at Forest Park
High School, and the MLK Showcase.
Of special note, this year’s celebration
will feature an essay contest that is open
to all high school students at Forest Park
High School, Jonesboro High School,
Morrow High School, and Mt. Zion High
School. Participants will write an essay
reflecting on the theme and focus on how
King’s dream has influenced them person-
ally, civically, and educationally. Students
with the top three essay submissions will
be acknowledged at the MLK Showcase
on Wednesday, Jan. 18.
This year’s events are as follows:
Monday, Jan. 16
MLK Day of Service –
A Day On Not A Day Off
8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Atlanta
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said,
"Life's most persistent and urgent ques-
tion is: 'What are you doing for others?'"
Each year, Americans across the country
answer that question by coming together
on the King holiday to serve their neigh-
bors and communities. Clayton State stu-
dents will have the opportunity to volun-
teer at several sites in Atlanta\ through
Hands On Atlanta. Upon completion of
the service projects, students will partici-
pate in the Annual MLK Rally & March at
noon at Peachtree and Baker streets in
downtown Atlanta. Transportation will be
provided for 50 participants.
Tuesday, Jan. 17
“His Dream, Your Vision” Rally
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Forest Park High School
Campus Life along with AmeriCorps and
Diversity Education Experiences for
Peers Educators will sponsor a rally at
Forest Park High to educate students
about Dr. King’s dream, vision, and life.
Wednesday, Jan. 18
“His Dream, Your Vision”
MLK Showcase
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Spivey Hall
The National Survey of Student
Engagement (NSSE) recently released
its newest report, Fostering Student
Engagement Campuswide – Annual
Results 2011. The report is the result
of a national-scope survey designed to
provide data to colleges and universi-
ties to assess and improve undergradu-
ate education, inform accountability
and accreditation efforts, and facilitate
national and sector benchmarking
efforts.
With one of the key elements of
Clayton State’s new strategic plan and
mission statement focusing on the sub-
ject of diversity, it’s not surprising that
one of the survey’s findings about
Clayton State, as derived from an
NSSE survey of 603 randomly-select-
ed Clayton State students, showed that
the University’s diverse student body
recognized its efforts at promoting
diversity.
Clayton State students aren’t the only
ones who have recognized this aspect
of the University. James magazine has
proclaimed Clayton State as being
“proof that ethnic diversity and
scholastic achievement can make for a
happy marriage in the modern South.”
Annual Results 2011 is sponsored by
The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching. The entire
report can be downloaded from the
NSSE website at nsse.iub.edu.
Seventy-one percent of all first-year stu-
dents and 64 percent of all seniors said
Clayton State “substantially encourages
contacts among diverse peers” the survey
found. The statewide averages in these
categories, as published by Annual
Results 2011 are 60 percent (first-year)
and 53 percent (seniors.)
During the October launch party for the
Clayton State strategic plan, President Dr.
Thomas J. Hynes. Jr., listed among the
key elements of the new mission state-
ment as a rich and complex view of diver-
sity, which is inclusive of similarity and
differences in age, income and class, and
political, social, educational and geo-
graphical experiences and backgrounds,
as well as race and ethnicity.
“We must continue to deepen and enrich
that diversity,” he said. “It must include
living and working with a diversity of
people.”
MLK, cont’d., p. 7