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Campus Review
July 3, 2013
Another Clayton State
Dual Enrollment Student to Study in China
Maggie Shiffert, a
rising senior at
Northgate
High
School in Newnan,
Ga., who is also
dual enrolled at
Clayton
State
University,
has
been awarded a
National Security
Language Initiative
for Youth (NSLI-Y)
scholarship for the summer of 2013.
The NSLI-Y program is funded by the
U.S. State Department and provides
merit-based scholarships for eligible high
school students to learn less commonly-
taught languages in summer and academ-
ic-year overseas immersion programs.
Shiffert will be Clayton State’s second
consecutive dual-enrolled student in the
NSLI-Y program. During the summer of
2012 Blake Traeger, a Starr’s Mill High
School student from Fayetteville, Ga.,
also represented the University in China
as part of NSLI-Y.
Shiffert will use her NSLI-Y scholarship
to study Chinese in Chengdu, Sichuan
during the months of July and August
2013. The scholarship covers all program
costs including travel; tuition, academic
preparation; testing; educational and cul-
tural activities; orientations; meals; and
accommodations with a host family.
While living and attending school in
Chengdu as an official representative of
the U.S. State Department, Shiffert will
also serve as an unofficial representative
of Clayton State and The Loch Shop; tak-
ing the University’s name (and Loch) to
China, and joining Clayton State
Associate Professor of Education Dr.
Mary Hollowell who is currently teaching
American Educational Policy and
American Children's Literature in English
to Chinese college students at Shaanxi
Normal University (SNNU) in Xi’an.
“I’m really excited to be able to learn
about Chinese culture and the language,
and I can’t wait for the adventures that
I’m going to have while I’m in China,”
says Shiffert, who is a native of Longyan
in the Fujian Province of China.
Launched as part of a U.S. Government
initiative in 2006, NSLI-Y seeks to
increase Americans’ capacity to engage
with native speakers of critical languages
by providing formal and informal lan-
guage learning and practice and by pro-
moting mutual understanding through
educational and cultural activities.
The campus community wished happy retirement to JoAnn Quattlebaum, Clayton State’s longest serving staff member and administrative assistant in
the Center for Academic Success, on Thursday, June 27. “Thank you for all these years and memories,” says JoAnn, who will begin her retirement by
traveling to see out of state family. JoAnn was featured in the spring 2011 issue of The Laker Connection magazine on p. 25.
http://www.clayton.edu/Portals/1/newsroom/lc/lc-spring11.pdf
Maggie Shiffert