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Campus Review
October 8, 2014
Clayton State and Georgia Perimeter
Sign “2+2” Teacher Education Agreement
Craig Hill Named to Charles S. Conklin Endowed Chair
by John Shiffert
Clayton State University and Georgia
Perimeter College (GPC) are going “2+2”
in teacher education.
The two University System of Georgia
institutions have signed an articulation
agreement for secondary teacher educa-
tion students. Known as a “2+2” agree-
ment because it facilitates students taking
their first two years at GPC and their sec-
ond two years at Clayton State, the new
agreement allows Georgia Perimeter stu-
dents who earn their Associate of Science
in Teacher Education to transfer seamless-
ly to Clayton State to finish their bache-
lor’s degrees in teaching.
Rob Watts, GPC interim president, and
Dr. Thomas Hynes, president of Clayton
State, signed the official documents at
GPC’s Decatur Campus.
This is an exciting opportunity for
Clayton State University and Georgia
Perimeter College to further develop our
partnership in producing quality high
school teachers in math, biology, English,
and history,” says Dr. Ruth Caillouet,
chair of Clayton State’s Department of
Teacher Education in the College of Arts
and Sciences. “This agreement will give
future teachers a clear path toward
becoming successful educators. Together
Georgia Perimeter College and Clayton
State University can share in the dreams
of these future teachers, providing
Georgia high schools students with com-
petent, caring, collaborative and cultural-
ly-responsive reflective practitioners who
are committed to becoming the best edu-
cators they can be.”
Students will be certified secondary edu-
cation (high school) teachers after gradu-
Dr. Craig Hill, a professor of Supply
Chain Management in the College of
Business at Clayton State University since
2009, has been named to the Charles
Schmidlapp Conklin Endowed Chair of
Supply Chain Management.
Supply Chain Management has been a
part of the University’s undergraduate
offerings since 2001, when Dr. George H.
Messer, Jr., was named as the first holder
of the Charles Schmidlapp Conklin
Chair/Eminent
Scholar
in
Logistics/Supply Chain Management. Dr.
James Keebler was the second holder of
the Conklin Chair, until his retirement last
academic year. The Conklin Chair is sup-
ported in part by the Charles Schmidlapp
Conklin Trust and the Georgia Eminent
Scholars Program. The Conklin Trust was
formed in 1985 in memory of Charles
Schmidlapp Conklin by his wife,
Margaret B. Conklin, and his son, then-
Clayton State University Foundation
Trustee Charles S. "Chuck" Conklin, II.
“We are grateful to the Conklin family for
this endowed professorship,” says Dr.
Avinandan Mukherjee, dean of the
College of Business. “It is particularly
gratifying that this endowment recognizes
the numerous achievements of our unique
program in this important high-demand
career.
“Dr. Craig Hill has numerous publications
and sits on the editorial boards of top jour-
nals such as Journal of Operations
Management, IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management and the
International Journal of Integrated Supply
Management. His passion for experiential
education and student mentoring is sec-
ond to none. I am confident that Dr. Hill's
new role as the Conklin Chair will inspire
an exciting period of growth and develop-
ment of new initiatives in the Supply
Chain Management program within the
College of Business.”
A native of Lennox, S.D., Hill majored in
agricultural business at South Dakota
State University and went to work in the
food processing industry in Nebraska and
Wisconsin.
He nurtured his interest in analyzing and
improving systems by earning an MBA in
operations management at the University
of Minnesota, and then working in a man-
agerial role with Oscar Mayer, and as a
management consultant with Prime
Management Resources.
He eventually took his interest in improv-
ing processes in manufacturing to a more
global level by earning a doctorate in
operations management at Vanderbilt
University and becoming a college pro-
fessor. Before coming to Clayton State in
2009, Hill, who says he is happy and
proud to receive and hold the Conklin
Chair, taught at Belmont University, the
University of Evansville, and Georgia
State University. Among his other Clayton
State accomplishments, he earned the
Outstanding Faculty Award for the
College of Business in 2011.
2+2, cont’d, p. 15