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Vol. 43 No. V
Serving the
CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Community
March 26, 2012
Inside
Departments:
Across the Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Arts Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Trivia Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
In This Issue:
VRC Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Clayton State License Plates! . . . . .2
First-Year Student
Honor Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
MAA Conference Success . . . . . . .4
Civic Engagement Research
Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Orientation and SROW . . . . . . . . . .5
Women’s Forum Scholarship
Luncheon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Tanisha Woodard Selected
WBCA Division II First Team All-American
by Lee Wright, Sports Information
In culminating a remarkable career at
Clayton State, Tanisha Woodard received
the ultimate honor for a women’s basket-
ball player – WBCA (Women’s Basketball
Coaches Association) Division II First
Team All-American.
Woodard was one of 10 players through-
out the nation selected first team Division
II All-American, becoming the first
Clayton State player ever to earn first
team honors. In addition, Woodard
becomes the third Laker to receive
Division II All-American recognition.
Last season, Teshymia Tillman was an
honorable mention All-American selec-
tion by the WBCA, as was Catreia Shaw
in 2003.
“I am so thrilled that Tanisha is being rec-
ognized for the amazing season and unbe-
lievable career that
she has had for us at
Clayton State,” says
Clayton State head
coach Dennis Cox.
“She is the most
complete player that
I have ever coached,
and I am grateful to
have had the oppor-
tunity to do so. She
did it all for us over
her four-year career, and she is truly, truly
deserving of this award.”
Woodard will go down as one of the best
complete and all-around players in the
history of Clayton State women’s basket-
ball. In her four seasons, she helped pace
the Lakers to a 104-19 mark with two
Peach Belt Conference regular season
championships,
one
Peach
Belt
Tournament championship, four NCAA
Division II National Tournament berths,
two appearances in the NCAA Division II
“Elite Eight” and the 2011 NCAA
Division II National Championship.
A 5-foot-10 senior wing from Rome, Ga.,
Woodard was selected both first team All-
Peach Belt Conference and Peach Belt
Conference Defensive Player of the Year
for a second straight season, in addition to
Division II All-Southeast Region honors as
well. She leads the PBC in both steals and
assists, and is ranked fourth in assist-to-
turnover ratio and fifth in blocked shots.
For the season, Woodard averaged 11.7
points and 6.1 rebounds a game, while
recording 175 assists and 111 steals.
Tanisha Woodard
IT Strategic Planning
Committee Fully Engaged
by Jim Flowers, Strategic Planning Officer
President Tim Hynes invited 15 faculty
and staff to form a committee charged
with the task of developing a new IT
strategic plan for Clayton State University
by Oct. 15, 2012. The committee has two
objectives:
• Develop a strategic plan and vision for
technology at Clayton State university;
• Determine how use of technology can be
applied to the achievement of our broader
strategic goals.
Two assumptions guide the committee’s
work. First, technology must be seen as
one of a few critical means for facilitating
campus learning, and it should support
operations in all five of the divisions of
the university (Academic Affairs,
External Relations, Student Affairs,
Business and Operations, and Information
Technology and Services). Second, spe-
cific technologies (e.g. Intel, MS Word,
etc) are critical only insofar as they sup-
port learning activities and necessary
business practices.
The committee challenged itself to create
a plan that will guide the allocation of
scarce resources to provide an infrastruc-
ture that supports connectivity of any
device. And, to create an environment
where technology is seen as the support
platform that enables faculty, staff and
students to innovate and excel.
Woodard, cont’d., p. 10
Strategic Planning, cont’d., p. 8