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July 16, 2012
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Counseling & Psychological Services
The Office of Counseling and
Psychological Services is moving to a
temporary location while renovations are
going on in their office. They will be
located in Clayton Station, Building 100,
Apartment 102, until further notice.
Facilities Management
Construction will last for about 10 days
on North Lee Street at Caldwell Drive (the
north entrance to campus.) The south-
bound inside lane (not both lanes, just
one) of North Lee Street will be closed
from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the construc-
tion. They are cutting through the medial
strip on North Lee Street, so that south
bound traffic will be allowed to turn left
off of North Lee Street onto Caldwell
(when it's finished.) However, there will
still be no left turn allowed coming out of
Caldwell.
International Student Services
Clayton State Associate Director of
International Student Services Brett
Reichert just hit a major personal mile-
stone; personally raising $10,000+ for a
cancer cause through three different long-
distance events since May 2011. The ben-
eficiary is the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society through its “Team in Training”
program. Reichert is interested in carrying
names of any Clayton State faculty or
staff affected by any type of cancer with
him on the approximately seven hour
route of the Augusta Ironman on Sept. 30.
Anyone interested should email Reichert
to provide the name of an honored cancer
survivor or victim. He’ll add it to a special
arm band that will be sealed and worn
during the course.
SBDC
Whether in business for two or 20 years,
many small business owners are so busy
working in business, they neglect working
on business. As a result, the Clayton State
University Small Business Development
Center (SBDC), together with the
University of West Georgia SBDC, is
bringing a new program, GrowSmart, to
Fayette County for the first time. SBDC’s
GrowSmart gives business owners the
steps, tools and strategies to grow. In
seven weeks, from Aug. 1 to Sept. 18,
business owners will learn how to analyze
and manage a business like a seasoned
CEO by combining the latest ideas with
timeless business principles. GrowSmart
will be held at the Clayton State -- Fayette
instructional site, located at 100 World
Dr., Ste. 100, in Peachtree City. The pro-
gram fee of $895 per person includes
weekly networking breakfasts and lunch-
es and course materials. Thanks to gener-
ous sponsors, there are a limited number
of $500 scholarships available. For more
information, please contact Heather
Chaney at (678) 466-5100 or
morrow@georgiasbdc.org.
University Health Services
University Health Services will be closed
on Monday, July 30, for training purposes.
Regular hours will resume on Tuesday,
July 31.
Across the Campus...
economy of the community where it is
located. The Selig Center began produc-
ing the annual economic impact report in
1999.
Most of the $13.2 billion economic
impact consists of initial spending by
USG institutions for salaries and fringe
benefits, operating supplies and expenses,
and other budgeted expenditures, as well
as spending by the students who attended
the institutions. Initial spending by USG
institutions and students equaled $9.5 bil-
lion, or 72 percent of the total output
impact.
The remaining $3.7 billion (28 percent) of
the output impact was created by re-
spending – the multiplier effect of the dol-
lars that are spent again in the region. For
every dollar of initial spending by a
University system institution, research
found that, on average, an additional 39
cents was generated for the local econo-
my.
The study shows that between FY 2007
and FY 2011, total spending by all 35
institutions and their students rose by 30
percent, and the number of jobs that owe
their existence to that spending rose by 24
percent – from 106,267 jobs to 131,990
jobs.
“That job growth is quite impressive
given that the state’s total employment
declined by seven percent during this
period” said Humphreys. “Without excep-
tion, each college or university is an eco-
nomic lynchpin of its host community.”
That’s mostly due to rising demand for
higher education even when overall eco-
nomic conditions deteriorate said
Humphreys. Higher spending by increas-
ing numbers of enrolled students rather
than higher spending by the institutions
accounted for most of the job growth. The
number of on-campus jobs barely
increased while the number of off-campus
jobs that exist due to institution-related
spending rose by 41 percent.
One striking finding is that university – or
college-related spending – creates far
more jobs off the campus than it does on
the campus. On average, for each job that
exists on campus, two off-campus jobs
exist because of spending related to the
institution. Almost all of the off-campus
jobs are in private sector businesses.
“That’s really not too surprising,” said
Humphreys. “After all, the private sector
businesses operating in the communities
that are home to USG institutions are by
far the biggest recipients of institution-
related spending.”
“Each of Georgia’s public colleges and
universities are strong pillars and drivers
of the economies of their host communi-
ties. That translates into more jobs, higher
incomes, and greater production of goods
and services than would otherwise be the
case’ said Humphreys.
The full study with data for all 35 USG
institutions
is
available
at:
http://www.usg.edu/economic_develop-
m e n t / d o c u m e n t s / P S -
USGImpact2011.pdf.
Impact, cont’d. p. 1