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Pat Barton and The HUB Win Chancellor’s Customer Service Awards
Clayton State Strikes Gold – Twice
Rosalynn Gresham
Continues to Overcome Adversity
by John Shiffert, University Relations
Serving the CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY Community
Vol. 43, No. XVI | October 22, 2012
DREAMS. MADE REAL.
It’s a story that proves the strength of the
human spirit. Rosalynn Gresham, a 33-
year-old Clayton State University student
from Hampton, Ga., is continuing her
studies, despite a medical condition that
put her in the hospital last week, and will
imperil her life if she cannot find a match-
ing donor for a kidney transplant.
Gresham’s on-going struggle with lupus
and, more recently, kidney failure, was pro-
filed last month by WXIA-TV, in part
because her Clayton State Criminal Justice
professor, Dr. Sarah Stein, has volunteered
to be tested as a match to donate the kidney
Gresham needs to discontinue her three-
times-a-week, for three hours and 15 min-
utes at a time, dialysis treatments.
However, life doesn’t stop during the test-
ing process, either medically or scholasti-
cally, and Gresham
had surgery last
week for colitis.
N e v e r t h e l e s s ,
undaunted, she’s
back in class, mak-
ing up the work she
missed, and taking
steps on her own.
She has recently
set up a website
(http://www.give-
forward.com/newlifenewbeginnings) for
the purpose of fundraising and to raise
awareness for people to get tested to see if
they are a match.
"This is an extreme case of trying to help
a student, but if you can, you should,"
says Stein.
Clayton State University struck gold
twice on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the 2012
University System of Georgia’s (USG)
Chancellor’s Customer ServiceAwards, held
at Clayton State’s Student Activities Center.
Pat Barton, Clayton State director of
financial aid, won the gold medal award
for Outstanding Customer Service
Leadership Award. Clayton State’s IT help
desk, The HUB, won the gold medal
award for Front Desk Support Excellence.
“We have a campus full of potential gold
medal winners,” said an understandably
proud Clayton State President Dr. Thomas
J. Hynes after the awards ceremony.
Although all 35 institutions in the
University System submit nominations
for the yearly Chancellor’s Customer
Service Award program, only nine were
represented among the finalists, and only
one other USG institution had two gold
medal winners among the six award cate-
gories, meaning that Clayton State won a
third of the gold medals for 2012.
“We are all so very proud of Pat for
receiving this well-deserved award,” says
Dr. Mark F. Daddona, Clayton State asso-
ciate vice president for Enrollment
Management & Academic Success and
Barton’s immediate supervisor. “She has
done an outstanding job developing new
initiatives and communication strategies
to support our students with their financial
needs. She leads a remarkably talented
and committed staff. Pat is also one of the
most called upon financial aid directors to
offer assistance to other institutions as
well as the University System Office.”
Barton has served as Clayton State’s
director of financial aid for four-and-half
years. She is responsible for all aspects of
interpretation and implementation of fed-
eral and state guidelines for awarding of
financial aid for the University, a task
requires long hours and numerous
resources, especially at Clayton State,
where 62 percent of the students receive
the Pell Grant, and a total of 79 percent of
the students receive some form of need-
based federal financial aid.
All Financial Aid offices experience an
exceptionally high volume of student con-
tacts via phone, email, and in person.
Volume is heaviest during the summer
months as students complete the financial
aid process for the new academic year.
Gresham
Gold, cont’d., p. 11
Gresham, cont’d., p. 5