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Campus Review
Serving the CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY Community
Vol. 43, No. XIV | September 19, 2012
DREAMS. MADE REAL.
Inside
Departments:
Across the Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Arts Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Trivia Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
In This Issue:
Complete College Georgia . . . . . . .2
Bonner Wins Hatfield Teacher
Of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Beta Gamma Sigma Honored . . . . .3
Foster to Present on Capitol Hill . . . .3
Atlanta and a Healthcare
Opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
SEBA Gets High Marks . . . . . . . . .9
Fourth Annual Diversity and
Multicultural Conference . . . . . . .9
Olympic Volunteer Joins
Recreation & Wellness . . . . . . . .10
Clayton State Enrollment Tops 7,000 for the First Time
Clayton State Ranked Fifth Among
Public Regional Colleges in the
South by
U.S. News & World Report
For the first time since opening its doors
as Clayton Junior College on Sept. 29,
1969, Clayton State University’s enroll-
ment has surpassed the 7,000 mark.
According to unofficial figures released
last week by Associate Vice President for
Enrollment Management & Academic
Success Dr. Mark Daddona, Clayton
State’s enrollment for the fall 2012 semes-
ter is 7,145, an increase of 4.1 percent
from the fall 2011 semester’s total of
6,864.
“We are very excited about our increase in
enrollment which is two percent higher
than our original goal for this fall,” he
says. “This growth reflects months of
planning and interventions at many levels
Clayton State University has made its first
appearance among the top five southern
public regional colleges in the current
rankings by U.S. News & World Report.
Clayton State is ranked fifth among public
regional colleges in the south in U.S.
News & World Report's 2013 edition of
Best Colleges.
In addition, Clayton State is once again
ranked in the first tier of the top regional
colleges in the south, coming in at 55th
overall. The rankings, which include eval-
uations of more than 1,400 schools
nationwide, are currently available at
www.usnews.com/colleges, and will also
be published in U.S. News & World
Report's 2013 edition of Best Colleges,
which will be on newsstands starting
Sept. 18.
One possible factor for Clayton State’s
ranking among public colleges is its
increasing freshman retention rate, a sta-
tistic that will increase once again for the
2014 U.S. News rankings.
Clayton State Associate Vice President for
Enrollment Management & Academic
Success Dr. Mark Daddona points out that
the increased freshman retention rate, like
the University’s increasing enrollment, is
a tribute to Clayton State’s on-going
efforts to serve first-year students, notably
the First Year Advising and Retention
Center -- recently featured in the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution and on WXIA-TV –
an initiative that is in keeping with both
the University System of Georgia’s and
Students on the first day of classes, fall semester 2012
Photo Credit: Kevin Liles
7,000, cont’d., p. 6
Ranked Fifth, cont’d., p. 3