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Campus Review
May 19, 2014
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Clayton State Wins an Award;
What Does it Mean to You?
by Dr. Donna McCarty
Clayton State Schedules Information
Sessions and Classes for Digital Film Technician I and II
Lights! Camera! Action! The Clayton
State University Division of Continuing
Education is gearing up for its second
round of information sessions and classes
for Digital Film Technician Training I and
II.
The highly-successful first set of Film
Tech I courses, taught by long-time digital
film industry expert Barton Bond, have
been playing to full houses of 40+ stu-
dents each since February. With the next
round of classes due to start in June,
Clayton State is holding three information
sessions prior to the start of classes.
The first will be held on Saturday, May
17, from 10 a.m. to noon in Fayette
County. The exact location is still to be
determined, so interested parties are urged
to check the Continuing Education web-
site at www.conted.clayton.edu for loca-
tion details. The second information ses-
sion will be held on Saturday, May 31,
also from 10 a.m. to noon, in the Harry S.
Downs Center on the Clayton State main
campus in Morrow. The third session will
be on Saturday, July 12, from 1 p.m. to 3
p.m., also in the Downs Center.
The maximum number of students per
class is 40. Digital Film Tech I is the pre-
requisite to Digital Film II. All classes
will be held in Clayton State’s Lucy Huie
Hall, 9157 Tara Blvd., Jonesboro, Ga.
Digital Film Tech I will be held on
Monday and Wednesday evenings, from 6
p.m. to 9:30 p.m., plus two Saturdays,
from June 9 to Aug. 27. A second evening
session of Digital Film Tech I, on Tuesday
and Thursday evenings (plus two
Saturdays), also from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.,
will run from Sept. 16 to Dec. 9
The day time version of Digital Film Tech
I will also feature two sessions,
Tuesday/Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. (plus two Saturdays) from June 24 to
Aug. 12, and the same hours on Mondays
and Wednesdays (also with two
Saturdays) from Sept. 29 to Nov. 12.
Digital Film Tech II will feature two
evening courses, the first on Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (plus
four Saturdays) from June 10 to Sept. 2.
The second Digital Film Tech II course
will run Mondays and Wednesdays from 6
p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (plus four Saturdays)
from Sept. 15 to Dec. 3.
Registration information is also available
at www.conted.clayton.edu or by calling
(678) 466-5050 or (678) 466-5118.
Sunday, Apr. 13...
I am in the office today trying to catch
up a bit (still, the effects of
Snowmageddon I and II linger) and
there are no students and no faculty or
staff around. It is a peaceful Sunday
afternoon. The beauty of the campus is
with me, the birds are chirping, the
trees are in bloom, and the lake is
serene.
With the absence of the people, I am
reminded that what makes Clayton
State such a wonderful place is not the
beauty of our campus (lovely as it is),
but the people who make up our com-
munity. We have won the “100 Top
Workplaces” award once again – for
the third year in a row, but you may
NOT know that we are the ONLY
University System of Georgia institu-
tion on the list and, in fact, the only col-
lege or university on the list. There were
approximately 1200 businesses nominat-
ed or invited to participate in the competi-
tion for this award, and Clayton State
came in 10th out of 25 award winners in
the large business category.
You might be asking why I am sitting here
on Sunday afternoon writing to all of you
to bring up this award which is, to some
extent, old news. It is because of a state-
ment that grabbed my attention: The busi-
nesses and institutions that win this award
are ones that have earned the "affection
and loyalty” of its employees. This is sig-
nificant to the students in our program,
because the faculty and staff at Clayton
State are genuinely committed to you and
to this university. We don’t just get up
and come to work everyday – Clayton
State University and the Department of
Psychology are more than a job or
even a career for this faculty (full and
part-time) and staff – working as a
team within our department to accom-
plish our shared goals is a calling and
part of how we express our values, our
dreams, and our humanity in a “real
life” way.
So when come to campus, I hope you
will take a moment to feel a bit of what
I am feeling today: gratitude for the
gift of making a difference now and in
the years to come as a faculty or staff
member, student, or graduate. By
working and learning together, we are
able to do meaningful things every
day, and that is something about which
to feel genuinely joyful.