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Across the Campus ................6, 7, 28
Trivia Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
In This Issue:
Smith Award Winners . . . . . . . . . . .2
Oliver Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Scholarship Luncheonn . . . . . . . . . .3
Boudell and Science . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Vaughan Named Dean . . . . . . . . . . .5
First Arbor Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Giffin Named Director of
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
College of Heatlh News ...........12, 13
Awards Ceremonies .................14, 15
Marteace Lockhart Posthumous
Graduate Degree ..........................16
Theatre and Opera....................18, 19
Women’s Forum .............................20
Retirements ....................................26
Clayton State Named One of the
Top 100 Workplaces in Atlanta
For Second Consecutive Year
Campus Review
Serving the CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY Community
Vol. 44, No. IV | May 7, 2013
DREAMS. MADE REAL.
For the second consecutive year, Clayton
State University has been named one of
the “Top 100 Workplaces in Atlanta” for
2012 by the “Atlanta Journal Constitution.”
The University was recognized at the
Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Top 100
Workplaces invitation-only event held on
Wednesday, Apr. 24, at the Cobb Energy
Performing Arts Centre. The 2013 Top
Workplaces section ran in the AJC on
Sunday, Apr. 28.
Also for the second consecutive year,
Clayton State was the only University
System of Georgia institution to receive
this honor. The only other higher educa-
tion institution on the list is private
Brenau University.
Clayton State is ranked ninth among the
20 institutions in the “large industry cate-
gory,” which also includes Woodward
Academy, Alston & Bird, Equifax, Ernst
& Young, Children’s Healthcare of
Atlanta, CSX, and Sprint.
More than 1200 organizations were ini-
tially included in the 2013 competition,
held by the AJC and its partner,
Workplace Dynamics. After employees
responded to print and online solicitations
beginning in August 2012, Workplace
Dynamics surveyed a total of 83,565
metro Atlanta employees and compiled
the top 20 large companies (500+ employ-
ees), the top 30 midsize companies (150
Governor Deal Tells Clayton State
Graduates, “It’s… Who You Are”
by John Shiffert, University Relations
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal congratu-
lated the graduates at the 9 a.m.
Commencement ceremony at Clayton
State University on May 4.
Of course, every Commencement speaker
congratulates the graduates. Georgia’s
chief executive, the first sitting governor
to address a Clayton State graduation, had
something more tangible for the 250
degree recipients in attendance on
Saturday.
Deal neatly overturned the old adage, “it’s
not what you know, it’s who you know,”
by telling his audience, “It’s not what you
know, or who you know, it’s what you
are.”
The governor, is giving what he described
as “some practical observations” for the
graduates, also noted that, “good enough
is not good enough… who you are will
dictate your future. Are you a good per-
son?
Commencement, cont’d., p. 17
Top 100 Workplaces, cont’d., p. 26
Rain did not dampen the spirits of the spring Class of 2013 as the Clayton State University gradu-
ates walked toward the Athletics and Fitness Center for commencement.