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initial construction of the state institution by passing a bond issue for nearly $5
million. Construction of the new campus began in fall 1968, and the doors
opened to 942 students less than a year later onSeptember 30, 1969.
In 1981, the University added a technical division offering applied associate
degrees and certificates in cooperationwith theGeorgiaDepartment of Technical
and Adult Education. Five years later Clayton State began its baccalaureate
missionwithprograms inbusiness administrationandnursing. The institutionhas
continued to addmajors at thebachelor’s level whilemaintaining someassociate
degree programs. Through the establishment of theBachelor of Applied Science
degree, Clayton State emerged as a national leader in promoting opportunities
for graduates from applied associate degree programs to “bridge” to bachelor’s
degreeswith little, if any, lossof credit.
Five years after initiating its baccalaureate programs in 1986, Clayton State
opened the doors to the finest small performance facility in the southeastern
United States, Spivey Hall. Now, 20 years later, Spivey Hall retains its local,
national and international reputation by presenting the best in jazz and classical
music and an education outreach program that serves thousands of school
children from throughoutmetroAtlantaannually.
Clayton State now enrolls 7,000+ students in degree credit programs that, in
the words of the University’s mission, provide “career-oriented education with a
solid liberal arts foundation.” Current bachelor’s degree majors include;
Accounting (B.B.A.), Administrative Management (B.A.S.), Biology (B.S.),
Business - General (B.B.A), Chemistry (B.S.), Communications and Media
Studies (B.A.), Computer Science (B.S.), Criminal Justice (B.S.), Dental Hygiene
(B.S.D.H.), Dental Hygiene (RDH - B.S.D.H.), English (B.A.), Health Care
Management (B.S.), Health & Fitness Management (B.S.), History (B.A.),
Information Technology (B.I.T.), Information Technology WebBSIT (online),
Integrative Studies (B.S.), Legal Studies (B.S.), Liberal Studies (B.A.),
Management (B.B.A.), Marketing (B.B.A.), Mathematics (B.S.), Middle Level
Education (B.A.), Music (B.A.), Music Composition (B.M.), Music Education
(B.M.), Music Performance (B.M.), Nursing - Basic Licensure (B.S.N.), Nursing -
For Existing R.N.'s (RN to B.S.N.), Political Science (B.S.), Psychology and
Human Services (B.S.), Sociology (B.S.), Supply Chain Management (B.B.A.),
TechnologyManagement (B.A.S.), andTheatre (B.A.).
On November 16, 2005, Clayton State University’s first graduate level
program, the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, was approved by the Board of
Regents of the University System of Georgia, opening the door to a whole new
world ofmeeting theeducational needs of students and citizens inmetroAtlanta.
TheMaster of Arts inLiberal Studies is theonlydegreeof its kind in thestateand
is designed to give students with highly focused undergraduate degrees the
opportunity to explore a more multidisciplinary approach. A second graduate
program, the Master of Science in Nursing, was approved by the Board of
Regents in June 2006, a third, the Master of Health Administration, was
approved in August 2006, and a fourth, a Master of Business Administration, in
January 2007. The University’s fifth and sixth graduate programs, a Master of
Arts in Teaching in English and a Master of Arts in Teaching in Mathematics,
were approved by theBoard of Regents inOctober 2008. Graduate programs in
Archival Studies (2009) and Psychology (2010) are theUniversity’s seventh and
eighth master’s programs. In 2014, the University added a Master of Arts in
Teaching degrees in Biology and in History. The Department of Teacher
Education has admitted its first student in theMaster of Educationwith amajor in
Teacher Leadership, theUniversity’s ninth graduateprogram.
In January 1998, Clayton State became the first public university in the
Southeast and one of the first in the nation to issue notebook computers to
all
students at
all
levels in
all
majors. This “Information Technology Project” has
