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Campus Review
February 13, 2012
Clayton State Re-certified to
Host International Students
Clayton State University has received
approval by the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) to continue hosting inter-
national students.
Clayton State Associate Director of
International Student Services Brett M.
Reichert was notified on Jan. 25, 2012 of
the decision. The news comes as the end-
result of a process called SEVIS recertifi-
cation, which began on May 27, 2011,
eight months ago.
Short for “Student Exchange and Visitor
Information System,” SEVIS is an elec-
tronic data management tool designed for
the Department of Homeland Security to
collect, track and monitor information on
international students and scholars in the
United States. Individuals at user-campus-
es approved to access the system are
called Designated School Officials, or
DSO’s.
Reichert points out that it’s a system that
was conceived in the late 1990’s, but
gained little traction until the first terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Center in
1993. Years later, in the aftermath of the
“9/11” attacks, it was learned that one of
the hijackers who crashed American
Airlines flight 77 into the Pentagon had
also exploited the student visa process,
adds Reichert. That attacker had entered
the country on a student visa to study but
never showed up at campus. SEVIS was
quickly digitized and rolled out nation-
wide by 2003 to address the absence of a
timely, automated notification system.
Today, SEVIS recertification allows DHS
to maintain a high level of data integrity
regarding not only international students
and scholars, but also regarding all cam-
puses nationwide, approved to host them.
“Since Clayton State has grown, and
added programs and locations since our
initial SEVIS certification back in 2003,
our re-certification petition was thorough-
ly reviewed,” says Reichert. “This is
great news. Basically, DHS has given
Clayton State a stamp of approval, which
implies everything from our international
application process, to international
advising and reporting, to the programs
and locations we offer today, are in good
standing.”
SEVIS is run by the Student and
Exchange Visitor Program, which is part
of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. Last year, there were
15,539 international students enrolled in
colleges and universities in the state of
Georgia with an annual economic impact
of nearly 430 million.
to enhance their company’s logistics and
supply chain networks. He is also the
team co-leader for the newly-created
region for supply chain management
workforce ready initiatives for the
Georgia State Works Ready Program. He
has been published in the Journal of
Transportation Management, and has
been profiled in Supply Chain
Management Review in Profiles of
Leadership in September 2009.
Mascaritolo also remains an active pre-
senter on global supply chain manage-
ment to national and global businesses,
associations, and universities and is active
with the Council of Supply Chain
Management Professionals (CSCMP). He
holds a B.A. in Music Education from
Wagner College, and a MBA in
International Business from Mercer
University.
"Metro Atlanta is an unrivaled business
and supply chain center for the Southeast,
agement degree program along with a
supply chain management center for com-
munity development that supports
research and training for people wanting
John Mascaritolo on the Clayton State
main campus in Morrow, GA.
and a gateway to the world," says Mike
Orr, senior vice president operations and
logistics for Genuine Parts Company, and
chair of MAC's Supply Chain Leadership
Council. "We are delighted to showcase
our region's supply chain strengths by
honoring both our finalists, and the win-
ners of the prestigious awards."
Metro Atlanta has the nation's fifth-largest
concentration of supply chain companies
with more than one million employed in
Georgia logistics. Atlanta is a global
logistics center with more than 130,000
supply chain jobs, the world's busiest air-
port and a position as the global leader in
supply chain management software.
The MAC Supply Chain Forum and
Awards were created to recognize out-
standing individuals and companies in
metro Atlanta whose actions have
advanced the state of the supply chain
industry and promoted its continued
growth.
Mascaritolo, cont’d. from p. 1