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Campus Review
June 25, 2012
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Hollowell Family Headed to Xi’an, China
Former Clayton State Dean Shakun
In Demand… All the Way to the Yalu River
Clayton State University Associate
Professor of Education Dr. Mary
Hollowell and her family will be heading
to the home of the Terracotta Warriors in
2013.
Following a meet-
ing between Nathan
Keltner of the U.S.
Embassy
in
Beijing, and repre-
sentatives
of
Shaanxi Normal
University (SNNU)
in Xi’an, China,
Hollowell will be
teaching American
Educational Policy
and American Children's Literature in
English to Chinese college students at
SNNU for the spring and summer of
2013. The capital of Shaanxi Province in
central-northwest China, Xi’an is also
home to the famous Terracotta Warriors, a
collection of sculptures that depict the
armies of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. A form
of funerary art, the 8,000 plus statutes were
buried with the emperor sometime around
210 B.C., to both protect him in the afterlife,
and to make sure that he still had subjects to
rule over.
Of more recent significance, Hollowell is
going to China on a Fulbright Teaching
Scholarship. Clayton State faculty mem-
bers have previously earned a half dozen
short-term Fulbright-Hays Grants, but this
is the University’s first Fulbright
Teaching Scholarship. Journeying to
Xi’an from Peachtree City with Hollowell
will be daughters Kate and Sophie Mei.
Husband Scott Hollowell, who has busi-
ness commitments in the spring, will join
the rest of the family later in the year. The
Hollowells have previously journeyed to
China to adopt daughter Sophie Mei.
News of Hollowell’s appointment has
already appeared on the SNNU website,
http://news.snnu.edu.cn/bencandy.php?fi
d=1&id=8916, although only readers of
Chinese pictographs will be able to com-
pletely appreciate the story as it appears
there. An English version of the SNNU
website
is
available
at
http://english.snnu.edu.cn/. From the
SNNU website, it is clear that the fit
between SNNU and Hollowell, one of the
nation’s most respected and well-known
children’s advocates, and one of Georgia’s
foremost teacher educators, is a good one.
“Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU) is
one of the key institutions of higher learn-
ing directly affiliated to Ministry of
Education and it entered `211 Project
University’ in 2006. It is an important
base of fostering teachers of higher educa-
tion, middle school education and educa-
tional administrative cadres. It is regarded
as `the cradle of teachers’ in Northwest
China.” reads the SNNU homepage.
Hollowell’s Fulbright award comes from
the J. William Fulbright Foreign
Scholarship Board (FSB), the presiden-
Dr. Hollowell
Dr. Wallace “Wally” Shakun, former
dean of the School of Technology at
Clayton State University, may have
retired from the University System of
Georgia in June 2004, but he’s still in
demand throughout the world as a tech-
nology-related guest speaker and semi-
nar instructor.
Ostensibly retired to Evansville, Ind.,
after 15 years at Clayton State as dean
of Technology and then dean of
Continuing Education, Shakun is cur-
rently on his way to Dandong, China,
along the Yalu River and just north of
North Korea. It’s Shakun’s 10th lecture
trip to China at the invitation of the
Chinese government, and his fourth
appearance in a series of lectures on Test
Automation and Instrumentation, as well
as a review of the technology associated
with same. As has been the case previous-
ly, Shakun is the keynote speaker.
A businessman turned educator, Shakun
spent 15 years at Clayton State following
10 years as a senior research engineer at
the Georgia Institute of Technology,
where he was responsible for industrial
program development and providing
administrative leadership in the develop-
ment and support of contract activities.
Prior to joining the Georgia Tech facul-
ty, Shakun held engineering and
research and development positions
with General Electric Company, Torin
Corporation
and
Modernfold
(American Standard). In addition, in
the 1950's he was an Army Ordinance
Corps researcher. Throughout his
entire professional career he has deliv-
ered a wide range of presentations and
authored or co-authored numerous
reports and publications.
Shakun earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in mechanical engineering from
Hollowell, cont’d., p. 7
Shakun, cont’d., p. 7