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Campus Review
April 1, 2013
College of Business Professors
Visit Local High Schools for SEBA
by Samantha Watson, University Relations
an MOU signing celebration of the new
partnership.
Clayton State’s initial collaboration with
Daejeon will be in the School of Nursing;
but, according to Director of International
Programs John Parkerson, it eventually
could include the Clayton State depart-
ments of Health Care Management,
Health and Fitness Management, and
Dental Hygiene, all of which reside in the
Clayton State College of Health. The
MOU will initially focus on faculty and
staff exchanges, student exchanges, and
special teaching and degree programs.
“This is a very significant development in
Clayton State’s international partnerships,
as it is Clayton State’s first formal partner-
ship with a higher education institution in
Korea,” he notes. “It opens the door to
expanded academic collaborations – stu-
dent and faculty exchanges, joint teaching
or collaborative degree programs, Korean
student enrollment - between the College
of Health and foreign institutions that
have compatible health curriculum.”
The MOU will serve as a general frame-
work for inter-institutional cooperation
between the College of Health at Clayton
State and Daejeon Health Sciences
College. Dr. Lisa W. Eichelberger, dean of
the College of Health and Parkerson, will
coordinate the application of the agree-
ment with Dr Hyen-sook Jeon, dean,
School of Nursing and Bongnam Lee,
director, International Programs, of
Daejeon Health Sciences College.
The AACSB-accredited College of
Business (CoB) at Clayton State
University’s Summer Entrepreneurship
and Business Academy (SEBA), spon-
sored by PEI, a Stockbridge-based logis-
tics firm, is intended to give high school
students a taste of college life.
Dr. Beverly Wright, program director, and
Dr. Alphonso Ogbuehi, professor of mar-
keting & global strategy, along with CoB
Career Advisor Sanford Dennis have
recently visited public and private high
schools to talk about the current state of
business, entrepreneurship, and also dis-
cuss their summer academy, which is
designed to help prepare students for the
future by providing a unique and exciting
hands-on learning experience. This year’s
program runs from June 16 through June
21 and will once again be held on the
Clayton State campus in Morrow.
Last year’s academy students provided
testimony for the overnight, week-long
program, and had this to say about SEBA:
“This week, I learned a lot more than I
thought I would. Not only have I learned
business, ethics and codes of ethics that I
didn’t know about the real world, I also
learned a lot about myself,” says Mt. Zion
Magnet School’s Taylor Tinsley. “There
were a lot of realizations about myself and
about other people and how to work with
other people, strangers that you didn’t
even know two weeks ago.
“I definitely recommend SEBA for other
high schoolers because it teaches you
communication, and cooperation. That’s
something that a lot of high schoolers
need because, you know, high school is
tough. It is always going to be tough. It is
good to be able know things about people
first hand and that’s what SEBA teaches
you.”
Akiah Dunlap, a Clayton County resident
who attends Grace Christian Academy in
Fayette County, also learned a lot at
SEBA.
“I’ve learned so much about the college
life, the major I want, and more majors I
might go into because of this camp,” she
says. “It opened a whole spectrum of
doors. I told my friends because this is a
great opportunity for them coming up as
seniors. I’ve learned so much in a short
time, and has impacted me in ways that I
can’t even express.”
“Our primary purpose for SEBA was to
prepare students for life after high school
and beyond,” notes Ogbuehi. “We were
very pleased that 20 students successfully
participated in this inaugural program.
The students left the University with a
new understanding of themselves and the
world around them. They also learned
about the various programs and opportu-
nities for study at Clayton State
University.”
The conclusion all parties reached about
SEBA was that the academy challenged
students to think critically and provided
them with a taste of college life… a dream
made real. SEBA was moderated by
Clayton State professors from the
accounting, management and marketing
fields, and the topics covered included
entrepreneurship, business, ethics, free
enterprise, teamwork, and personal skills.
This year’s program has added an eti-
quette dinner to give academy students
skills needed to function effectively in
professional meal situations. For more
information,
go
to
http://www.clayton.edu/business/seba.
MOU, cont’d, from p. 1