Basic HTML Version
Campus Review
June 25, 2012
Page 6
Facilities Management
Justin Parkerson reports that the ware-
house recently received a pretty good
amount of office furniture. He notes that
many people inquired earlier this year
about surplus furniture, so he’s making it
available to the campus before trying to
sell it through DOAS. Currently available
are desks, bookcases, and assorted
sizes/shapes of tables, all in fairly good
condition. The furniture will be disbursed
on a first come, first serve basis. Just call
Parkerson at extension 4251 to set up a
time to come and look at the furniture.
ISSO
Brett Reichert, associate director of
International Student Services, was a pre-
senter at the 64th Annual NAFSA (the
International Educator’s Association)
annual conference in May. The annual
international conference of professionals
involved in international student and
scholar services, education abroad, and
international recruiting and admissions
was held in Houston, and was attended by
more than 8500 people. Reichert’s ses-
sion, “Small ISSO, Medium University,
Large Impact” took place on May 30.
NARA
The National Archives at Atlanta will be
holding,
“Coming
to
America:
Celebrating the Immigrant Experience”
on Friday, July 20, 2012, from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m., and featuring various activities
celebrating the immigrant experience,
including the unveiling of "The Lost
Mural" a recreation by Andrew Sabori of
a mural that hung at Ellis Island. The orig-
inal mural, commissioned by the WPA in
1938 and painted by Edward Laning, was
displayed at Ellis Island until the early
1950s at which time a storm destroyed
most of the mural. Several prominent
members of the Atlanta community who
came to America will also share their
experiences about what becoming an
American means to them. A naturalization
ceremony will conclude the formal pro-
gram, followed by a complimentary
lunch. Anyone from Clayton State is wel-
come to attend Coming to America:
Celebrating the Immigrant Experience.
Recreation & Wellness
The SAC Fitness Center Locker Room
showers will be getting a face lift over the
next couple weeks and will be closed for
repairs from Monday, June 25 through
Friday, July 6. The renovation will close
the locker rooms to patrons. Athletic
Director Carl McAloose has agreed to
allow patrons taking Group Exercise
classes to use the locker rooms in the
Athletic and Fitness Center to take show-
ers. If you have any questions regarding
the renovations, please contact Ben
Hopkins at (678) 466-5416 or
BenjaminHopkins@Clayton.edu.
The Loch Shop
The Loch Shop will be holding Wii
Wednesdays from June 13 through July
25 in The Loch Shop’s lounge, starting at
noon and ending at 3 p.m. Come relieve
some test stress every Wednesday in June
and July (except July 4). Play your
favorite Wii games – bowling, Mario
Kart, basketball three point contest, the
Michael Jackson Experience and more.
Win prizes just for participating, enjoy
free snacks, plus, play for the top score
and qualify to enter the June 27 and July
25 prize drawings!
*****
The Loch Shop will close early for inven-
tory on Wednesday, June 27, at 3:30 p.m.,
and will be closed entirely on Thursday,
June 28 and Friday, June 29. If you need
to contact The Loch Shop, please email:
lochshop@clayton.edu or call (678) 466-
4220. The Loch Shop will reopen on
Monday, July 2, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
University Health Services
Wednesday, June 27 is National HIV
Testing Day. University Health Services
is offering free HIV testing to the first 50
students who come to the clinic (Student
Center 211) between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
More than one million Americans are liv-
ing with HIV infection and about one in
five don’t know it, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). The CDC recom-
mends that everyone between the ages of
13 and 64 get tested for HIV at least once
in their lives.
Across the Campus...
speaker in May 2011, Cramer invited
Clayton State to take part in Day of
Action, noting, “we hope you'll help us
reach our goal of 5,000 local participants.
Imagine what we can accomplish when
we lend a hand to one in order to influence
the condition of all!”
Clayton State is also involved with the
United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
through the Dean of the College of
Business, Dr. Alphonso Ogbuehi, who is
leading United Way’s 2012/13 fundrais-
ing efforts in Clayton County.
State President Dr. Thomas J. Hynes. “To
be recognized by our colleagues as a great
place to work is an honor and a responsi-
bility. Our responsibility is to work
together daily to find new opportunities to
support our learning efforts.”
The list of National TopWorkplaces is deter-
mined based solely on employee feedback
from the 805 companies with 1,000+
employees surveyed from across the 30 Top
Workplaces programs. This includes survey
responses from more than half a million
employees. By way of comparison, the
Fortune 100 Best Companies list was deter-
mined based on 280 companies with 1,000+
employees and 246,000 survey responses.
The Workplace Dynamics metro
Atlanta/AJC survey began in October
2011, when Workplace Dynamics sur-
veyed 188 metro organizations represent-
ing 77,848 employees. A total of 43,500
metro workers participated in the survey.
They were asked to respond to a set of
statements using a seven-point Likert
scale. Each statement was tested to ensure
a high correlation with how metro
employees rate their workplaces. This was
calculated by correlating the statement
responses to a control question that asked
each employee to rate his or her work-
place on a scale of zero to 99.
After completing the 20-question survey,
metro employees were asked to rank the
factors that meant the most to them in terms
of job satisfaction. The top five were; com-
pany direction, job appreciation, confident
of future, career opportunities, confidence
in leader. After the survey was completed,
Workplace Dynamics ran a series of statis-
tical tests to look for questionable results to
see if disqualifications were needed.
United Way, cont’d. from p. 3
Top Workplaces, cont’d. from p. 1