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Campus Review
September 19, 2012
Beta Gamma Sigma Named a Premier Chapter
Foster to Present on Capitol Hill
For Hartford Policy Leadership Institute
The Clayton State University of Beta
Gamma Sigma, the international honor
society whose mission is to encourage and
honor academic achievement in the study
of business, to foster personal and profes-
sional excellence, to advance the values of
the Society, and to serve its lifelong mem-
bers, has been named a Premier Chapter
for the 2011/2012 year by the Maryland
Heights, Missouri-based national organi-
zation.
In a letter to Clayton State Beta Gamma
Sigma co-advisor Associate Professor of
Economics Dr. Nikki Finlay, Beta Gamma
Sigma Associate Director of Collegiate
Chapters Donna Binek noted that, “Your
acceptance rate, 85 percent, as shown on
the Survey of Membership Acceptance
received in our office, indicates a chapter
where academic excellence is valued and
where the faculty officers of the chapter
work diligently to enhance Beta Gamma
Sigma’s stature on campus.”
Being named a Premier Chapter qualifies
the Clayton State chapter to:
1. Recognition as a Premier Chapter
in the Society’s print and electronic
publications; certificates awarded at
Regional Deans’ Meetings or by mail
2 Eligibility to participate in the
Beta Gamma Sigma Matching Funds
Scholarship Program next year
3. Pre-qualification to participate in
the Outstanding Collegiate Chapter
recognition program
4. Pre-qualification to participate in
the 2013 Outstanding Collegiate
Chapter Advisor recognition program
“Congratulations for this outstanding
accomplishment,” said College of
Business Dean Dr. Alphonso Ogbuehi in
an email to Finlay.” Your dedication as an
advisor to the Beta Gamma Sigma
Chapter at Clayton State is truly exempla-
ry and I could not be prouder of the won-
derful work you are doing.”
Finlay also notes that she worked with
Associate Professor of Accounting Dr.
Maria Bullen to accomplish this recogni-
tion and the student Ivana Krommelova is
this year's Clayton State Beta Gamma Sigma
scholarship winner. In addition, Professor of
Accounting Dr. Adel Novin has been
named Finlay’s new co-advisor.
Clayton State University Assistant
Professor of Nursing Dr. Victoria Foster
has been selected as a Nurse Faculty
Scholar to make a presentation of her
study, “Factors Associated with Risky
Sexual Behaviors in Older Adults” to the
Hartford Policy Leadership Institute in
Washington, D.C.
The purpose of the Institute, which will be
held from Oct. 17, 2012 to Oct. 19, 2012,
is to promote development of practical
advocacy skills including communicating
with policy makers, building coalitions,
and developing a rapport with staff/elect-
ed officials.
Foster will be doing that, and more, since
as a part of the Institute Nurse Faculty
Scholars are required to make appoint-
ments on Capitol Hill to speak with
Congressmen about the special needs of
the aging population. Foster will be
speaking to congressmen serving Clayton
and Coweta counties, and her study has
been selected to be presented in a mock
hearing on “the Hill.”
Each year, the Hartford Policy Leadership
Institute selects two participants to pres-
ent "testimony" at the mock hearing. As
one of the "witnesses” at the mock hear-
ing, Foster will write a short (about three
minutes) testimony about her work on
"Factors Associated with Risky Sexual
Behaviors in Older Adults" and then pres-
ent same at the hearing.
The mock hearing will be before the
Senate Committee on Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions, Subcommittee on
Primary Health and Aging, chaired by
Vermont Senator Bernard Sanders. The
title of the hearing is "Potential Savings
with Expanded Prevention Services for
Older Americans."
The Hartford Policy Leadership Institute
has also given Foster the mandate to feel
free to “extrapolate and paint a picture as
to why this issue is a problem that needs
congressional attention.”
Foster also points out that, “the major out-
come of the Institute is to promote a
stronger understanding of the connection
between research, academic, practice and
policy arenas.”
Clayton State’s strategic plans and
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal’s
Complete College Georgia program.
“The ratings reflect on-going improve-
ments in the success of our university and
its students, and the great efforts of our
faculty and staff,” says Clayton State
President Dr. Thomas J. Hynes. “These
improvements serve as the foundation for
continued advancing of our mission, espe-
cially in areas of student success and
alumni support. The ratings also reflect
that those accomplishments are gradually
being recognized by others. Under cir-
cumstances of shrinking resources, our
faculty, staff and students continue their
commitment to have learning and dreams
realized.”
The U.S. News rankings are based on a
variety of subjective and objective fac-
tors, including the opinions of high school
counselors and other university presi-
dents.
Ranked Fifth, cont’d. from p. 1