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Campus Review
April 1, 2013
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Biology
Clayton State University’s resident her-
petologist, Assistant Professor of Biology
Dr. Joshua Parker, will be travelling to
Gainesville, Fla., next month to speak at
the University of Florida’s 35th annual
regional herpetology conference. The
conference will be held Apr. 5 and Apr. 6
at the Paramount Plaza Hotel and Suites
in Gainesville. Parker will be speaking on
his research over the past four years on his
favorite species of snake, the Midget
Faded Rattlesnake, which he has been
studying since his Ph.D. days.
Business
three-day long forum that included
addresses by, among others; State Rep.
Dee Dawkins-Haigler, chair of the
Georgia Legislative Black Caucus; State
Sen. Gail Davenport; and State Sen.
Donzella James. The theme of the forum
was, “Harnessing Africa - The New
Economic Frontier.” The forum was
designed to bridge the gap between
African investors and their American
counterparts and provided a means for
discussing, harnessing and developing the
growth potentials that the African conti-
nent offers.
Campus Life
In October 2012, the Clayton State
University Department of Campus Life
submitted a proposal to participate in the
President’s Interfaith and Community
Service Campus Challenge. This initiative
is out of the White House and is designed
to advance interfaith cooperation and
community
service
in
higher
education.Campus Life has since been
notified that its plan was selected to par-
ticipate in the 2013 Challenge, along with
approximately 280 other higher education
institutions across the country. The goal of
the Clayton State University Interfaith
Challenge plan is to bring awareness,
appreciation, and acceptance of religious
diversity on campus and in our communi-
ty. To meet this goal, the Interfaith
Council’s objectives will be to charter a
faith-based social Greek-letter organiza-
tion and to develop a service component
that explores different ways to remain
spiritually and physically healthy using
the philosophies and traditions of differ-
ent faiths—reinforcing the case that often
times, we have more commonalities in our
ideals than we are aware, although we
may take different routes to materializing
those ideals.
Continuing Education
Clayton State University Executive
Director of Continuing Education Janet
Winkler spoke to a class is made up of
business leaders, government officials and
the arts community on the subject of the
film industry in Georgia. Along with
Craig Dominey of the Georgia
Department of Economic Development,
Winkler addressed an Arts Leaders of
Metro Atlanta (ALMA) class on the sub-
ject of “The Georgia Film Industry.”
Music
Clayton State University was well repre-
sented in the performances of new music
at the 34th Regional Conference of the
Southern Chapter of the College Music
Society (CMS), hosted at Clayton State
during the first weekend in March. The
Clayton State Division of Music in the
Department of Visual and Performing
Arts welcomed attendees from across the
Southern Chapter of the College Music
Society, the principal umbrella organiza-
tion for academics in the field of music to
its Music Education Building and Spivey
Hall for several days of presentations and
lecture-recitals by CMS member scholars
and performers, and concerts of new
music by CMS member composers. The
local site host for the conference, Clayton
State coordinator of the Division of Music
and director of Opera and Vocal Studies
Dr. Kurt-Alexander Zeller, reports that the
Clayton State student string quartet (vio-
linists Donté Davis and Brandon Holmes,
violist Evonee Mitchell, and cellist
Rebecca Rolland, all of whom are
coached by Dr. Richard Bell), performed I
Was Never Good with Words, a work by
Blair Boyd of the University of Tennessee
at Knoxville.
Nursing
Up to 20 middle and high school students,
grades eight through 12, will get a chance
to learn about careers in nursing this sum-
mer, thanks to the free “Careers Into
Nursing” camps at Clayton State
University. Part of the Clayton State
School of Nursing’s Workforce Diversity
Grant, the “Careers Into Nursing” camps
will run from Monday, June 17 to Friday,
June 21, and from Monday, July 15 to
Friday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
These week-long programs target minori-
ty or disadvantaged middle and high
school students who have expressed an
interest in nursing as a career… providing
an entrée for their dreams to be made real.
Participants will receive information
about health promotion and careers in
nursing as well as CPR certification and
the chance to visit various health facili-
ties. Each session will culminate with a
graduation ceremony and lunch for the
participants.
Across the Campus...
Congratulations to our inductees to
Alpha Lambda Delta, the national honor
society for first-year students.