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Campus Review
June 11, 2012
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The Loch Shop’s Linda Campbell to Retire on June 30
Clayton State Welcomes
Athletic Director Carl McAloose
A new era for one of the most successful
athletic programs in NCAA Division II
began on Monday, June 4… the first day
on the job for Clayton State University’s
second Director of Athletics, Carl
McAloose.
“I’m excited to be on campus,” he says.
“We have a great opportunity to do some-
thing special and take our athletic pro-
gram beyond even what it is already. I’m
looking forward to building our program
both athletically and academically.
There’s no question we can do both, ath-
letics and academics mesh at Clayton
State.
"I would like to thank (Clayton State
President) Dr. Tim Hynes for the great
opportunity he has given me. (Clayton
State’s first athletic director) Mason
Barfield did a great job assembling a fan-
tastic group of coaches, and I hope to con-
tinue to build upon his dream. And, I’d
also like to thank all
of Clayton State’s
student/athletes for
all of their efforts.”
“Carl brings to
Clayton State a
wealth of knowl-
edge and experience
both as an athletic
director and as a
conference commissioner,” says Hynes.
“We anticipate that he will build on the
foundations of an excellent program now,
and only make it better-measured not only
by continued athletic excellence, but by
expanded student academic success, com-
munity engagement, and community sup-
port.”
McAloose most recently served as presi-
dent and CEO of Athletics Staffing &
Consulting, a consulting company that
supports college and university athletic
programs with feasibility studies, strate-
gic planning, compliance reviews, NCAA
membership initiatives and conference
realignment proposals.
Prior to his role with Athletics Staffing &
Consulting, he served as the director of
athletics at Florida Gulf Coast University
(FGCU) in Fort Myers, Fla., from 2000 to
2008. As Barfield did at Clayton State,
McAloose built the FGCU program from
scratch, overseeing a program with 14
sports and an annual operating budget of
$8 million.
A few of his more notable achievements
at FGCU include: leading the program’s
move to NCAA Division I and the A-Sun
Conference in 2007, the fastest in NCAA
history; overseeing the construction of the
University’s $30 million athletic complex,
which included multiple facilities; and
“I am really looking forward to retire-
ment. It is going to be fun.”
That’s
what
Linda Campbell,
assistant manag-
er of business
operations for
Clayton State
University’s The
Loch Shop, said
in a recent inter-
view on the sub-
ject of her pend-
ing (June 30, 2012) retirement.
Anyone who has had the opportunity
to work with Campbell during her 16
years at Clayton State would agree,
she’s earned the opportunity to take it
easy. One of the best- known and best-
liked staff members on campus,
Campbell has been a constant at the
University’s bookstore through sever-
al iterations of that entity, including
Clayton State. “(And) the campus is
so beautiful.
“The students and faculty and staff are
wonderful to work with, and has made
my time here fly by. I have really
enjoyed my time at Clayton State
University. I will miss everyone.”
Following her retirement, Campbell
says she is looking forward to spend-
ing time with her husband Ray and
their horses, cats and dog.
“The Loch Shop has kept me busy the
last couple of years, so I hope to get
back to riding,” she adds. “I have real-
ly missed riding, now I will have time
to do that.
“It has been wonderful working at
Clayton State University. Good luck
to everyone in the future! Keep
Clayton State University great!”
four moves (between the Student Center
and the James M. Baker University
Center), three different locations, and a
name change.
Indeed, Campbell says that her most
memorable moment at Clayton State was
last year’s renovation of The Loch Shop,
and how wonderful the new facility looks.
While Campbell has been at Clayton State
for 16 years, that’s less than half of her 38
years in the University System of
Georgia. Prior to coming to Clayton State,
she spent seven-and-half years at what is
now Georgia Perimeter College, and four-
teen-and-a-half years at Georgia State
University. Not surprisingly, she has a lot
of good memories, including the people,
the campus and the transitions she’s wit-
nessed.
“Watching Clayton State go from a junior
college to a University,” she says when
asked about the rewards of working at
McAloose
Campbell
McAloose, cont’d., p. 5