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Campus Review
December 12, 2013
Sundee Proctor… it’s all Coming True at Clayton State
by Sarah Boyd
President Hynes Announces
"Making Things Better" Awards
Great work deserves recognition.
Individuals who make differences in
the lives of people at Clayton State
University and the community we
serve are the source of our strength
and pride. Success should inspire
even greater success, says Clayton
State President Dr. Thomas Hynes.
Accordingly, the President’s “Making
Things Better” Awards recognize
great work by our colleagues, he
adds. Awards are made via an annual
nomination and review process. Up to
six, $500 cash awards are given annu-
ally, generously funded by the
Clayton State University Foundation.
Any member of the Clayton State com-
munity may make a nomination, and an
eligible nominee can be an individual, or
any group of people, drawn from Clayton
State faculty, staff and/or students.
Any nominee (whether an individual or a
group) is eligible for only one $500 award
per annual award cycle. Nominees may be
made in multiple years; however, winners
of the President’s “Making Things Better”
Awards are excluded from the award for
the next two award cycles.
For more information, go to the official
The President’s “Making Things
Better”
Awards
website
at
http://www.clayton.edu/makingth-
ingsbetter.
“We do hope that you will go to the
Web Site listed here for more informa-
tion,” says Hynes. “We also hope that
you will nominate colleagues you
believe help make things better here at
Clayton State. And thanks as always
for all you do.”
The Honors Program Scholarship is
Clayton State University’s main academic
scholarship for entering freshmen and stu-
dents entering their junior year of college.
In addition to receiving a monetary award,
students selected for the limited number
of Honors Scholarships such as the
Women's Forum and J. E. Edmonds
Scholarship enjoy the wide array of bene-
fits offered to all students in the Honors
Program, including special course sec-
tions reserved for Honors students, priori-
ty registration, mentoring and career plan-
ning. They also offer students a variety of
competitive institutional academic schol-
arships that are mostly based on merit,
and some on financial need. Scholarships
are awarded competitively based on aca-
demic achievement and participation in
extracurricular activities.
There have been many Clayton State stu-
dents that have received these scholar-
ships, but one person in particular is
Sundee Proctor, who has received both
the Women’s Forum and The J.E.
Edmonds Scholarship.
Proctor is a Stockbridge resident who was
born in California, but has lived in
Georgia since 1982. In her very rare free
time she volunteers at Cotton Indian
Elementary where she works in the media
center.
Knowing that she could have a short com-
mute was one small reason why Sundee
chose Clayton State as her place of study.
Another reason was knowing she would
receive the academic support that she
wanted and ultimately needed. As a for-
mer employee of the Center for Academic
Success on campus, Proctor knew she
would feel comfortable and would be able
to obtain her desired degree that would
provide her with more than just an entry-
level job.
“The quality of the education program
was also a HUGE factor for me,” she
says. "Plus, I loved working on campus so
how could I not choose to be a student at
Clayton State?"
Along with being accepted into the
Honors Program, she is a member of
Alpha Lambda Delta, Golden Key, Sigma
Tau Delta and the Non-Traditional
Student Organization. As a non-tradition-
al student, Proctor finds the Honors
Program rewarding.
“I think the non-
traditional students
bring a lot of life
experience and dif-
fering views to the
table wherever we
go, especially to
the
Honors
Program,”
she
says.
Proctor believes
the scholarship program is a great oppor-
tunity for students to be able to attend col-
lege that may not be able to do so without
assistance. The scholarships she has
received have allowed her to remain in
school and be a co-author of a qualitative
research project directed by Dr. Mari Ann
Roberts, assistant professor of Teacher
Education.
Proctor finds the professors at Clayton
State an asset to the college as well as the
Honors Program.
"We have amazing, caring, compassionate
professors, who really desire to see us
learn and succeed,” she says. "Most are
Proctor, cont’d., p. 20
Sundee Proctor