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August 28, 2012
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Clayton State Welcomes
Third Group of Presidential Scholars
Dr. Alexander Hall Named Winner of the
Fourth Annual Gene Hatfield Scholar of the Year Award
Clayton State University’s third “class” of
Presidential Scholars have begun their
full-time college careers in Morrow.
The Clayton State Presidential Scholars
program consists of six, four-year presi-
dential scholarships that continue annual-
ly. With the program having started in the
fall of 2010, by the start of the 2013 aca-
demic year Clayton State will have 24
honors students on presidential scholar-
ships. The Presidential Scholars supple-
ment the University’s long-standing
Honors Program.
The six recipients of the 2012 Clayton State
Presidential Scholarships are as follows:
Abigail Jenkins
, Stockbridge, Ga., an
honors graduate of Woodland High
School
Malcolm Hirsch
, Atlanta, a graduate of
Tucker High School, and formerly a dual
enrollment student at Georgia State
University
Mariah Hunter
, College Park, Ga., a
graduate
of
North
Clayton
Comprehensive High School
Shante Mowry
, Springville, Pa., a gradu-
ate of Elk Lake School
Toren Carr
, Peachtree City, Ga., a gradu-
ate of McIntosh High School
Tracye Lamar
, Ellenwood, Ga., a gradu-
ate of the Heritage Classical Study Center,
and formerly a dual enrollment student at
Clayton State
As Presidential Scholars for the 2012/13
Academic Year (encompassing the fall and
spring semesters), each student will receive
a $3,000 University Grant, a Housing
Grant, and a $250 Bookstore Award, for an
annual award of just under $9,000. These
scholarship awards are in addition to any
HOPE Scholarship funds for which the
Presidential scholars would be eligible.
Clayton State Associate Professor of
Philosophy Dr. Alexander Hall has been
named the fourth
annual winner of
the College of Arts
& Sciences’ Gene
Hatfield Scholar of
the Year Award.
The
Arts
&
Sciences Scholar
of the Year award
is made possible
by, and is named
after, Dr. Eugene
Hatfield, long-time (1976–2008) history
professor at Clayton State. Preceding Hall
as recipients of the Hatfield award are Dr.
Brigitte Byrd (2009), Dr. E. Joe Johnson
(2010) and Dr. Jonathan Lyon (2011).
In addition to his teaching responsibilities
at Clayton State, Hall also serves as assis-
tant director of the Society for Medieval
Logic and Metaphysics, and as the
Managing Editor of its Proceedings. In
2011, Hall co-edited the first nine vol-
umes of the Society for Medieval Logic
and Metaphysics Proceedings, which
were published by Cambridge Scholars
Publishing. He has also been one of the
organizers of the Southeast Philosophy
Conference, which annually brings a vari-
ety of national and international speakers
to the Clayton State campus.
“It is a pleasure to work with my fellow
faculty members in the College of Arts
and Sciences,” says Hall. “My scholarship
has benefited from colleagues who have
helped me to find travel funding and to
craft teaching schedules that facilitate
research, who have read and reread drafts
of manuscripts and who are kind enough
yet to leave open their doors for me, no
matter how many times I’ve materialized
in their offices to ask what x thought of y
or seek advice regarding a turn of phrase.
“I’ve consulted with faculty from depart-
ments across the University over matters
as diverse as the mind-body problem,
human nature and evolution, Aristotle and
freedom of the will, the rhythm of
Boethian prose, medieval literature, post-
modern idealism and the philosophical
implications of various popular culture
movements. All of this is to say that the
Clayton State faculty possesses a wealth
of expertise from which they generously
share, and I am honored to have received
from them the 2012 award for Scholar of
the Year.”
Hall received his B.A. from the
University of California at Davis (1992),
an M.A. from San Francisco State
University (1998) and a Ph.D. from
Emory University (2004). He began
teaching Critical Thinking as a part time
faculty member at Clayton State in fall
2001, entering the ranks of full time facul-
ty three years later.
Hall
President Hynes with five of the six 2012 Presidential Scholars