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Campus Review
November 6, 2012
Jarrett Terry Joins College of Information
And Mathematical Sciences as Assistant Dean
Gordon Baker
Installed as President of
Southeastern Library Association
by Ciji Fox, University Relations
Dr. Gordon Baker, dean of Libraries
Clayton State University, was recently
installed as the president of the
Southeastern
Library
Association
(SELA). He will take office on Jan. 1,
2013.
“As president of the Southeastern Library
Association I will be representing the
more than 14,000 librarians; school, pub-
lic, academic, and special; in the south-
eastern region of the United States,”
Baker explains. “While not all 14,000
plus are members, what actions SELA
takes can impact them.”
Baker has been a member of SELA for
more than 30 years, and has been associ-
ated with Clayton State since 1979. He
has also worked as a teacher, media spe-
cialist, and a system level administrator in
Clayton and Henry counties.
“The late Charles Beard, former director of
the Ingram Library at the University of West
Georgia was the reason I joined SELA in the
beginning,” Baker says. “He was an advo-
cate, not only for libraries, but for librarians.
He always said the only way to know what
was going on in our profession was to be
involved.”
In addition to being president-elect and
president of SELA, Baker has previously
served as secretary, treasurer, chair of the
Conference Site & Exhibits Committee,
chair of the School & Children’s
Librarians Section and Trustees & Friends
of Libraries Section.
To add to his many accomplishments,
Baker has served as president of each of
the three Georgia library organizations –
The Georgia Library Association, The
Georgia Library Media Association, and
The Georgia Association for Instructional
Technology. No other individual has
accomplished this.
Baker is also a founding member, and the
only one still working, of the joint confer-
ence; the Georgia Council of Media
Organizations, founded in 1986. He has
served on their Steering Committee for
more than 20 years. He was also recently
appointed for his fourth four-year term as
Dean Dr. Lila Roberts has announced that
Jarrett Terry had been appointed Assistant
Dean for Undergraduate Advisement and
Student Services in the College of
Information and Mathematical Sciences
(CIMS) at Clayton State University.
As CIMS assistant dean, he will be active-
ly engaged in academic advisement,
developing new student success and out-
reach initiatives, and recruiting students
into CIMS programs. Terry says his pas-
sion is in guiding students toward success.
Terry comes to Clayton State from
Georgia Perimeter College, where he
served on Faculty Senate, was a member
of several Science,
T e c h n o l o g y ,
Engineering and
M a t h e m a t i c s
(STEM) grant advi-
sory boards, and
served as principal
investigator of a
University System
of Georgia Board
of Regents spon-
sored grant.
Terry received his Bachelor of Science
and Master of Science Degrees in
Mechanical Engineering from Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale and has
completed post graduate work toward a
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at
Northwestern University. He has worked
in higher education since 2006, primarily
as an engineering faculty member, but
also as coordinator for several outreach
programs, a leader of student success ini-
tiatives, a transfer program coordinator,
and an academic mentor to underrepre-
sented minority programs. He is also the
owner of a small business.
His work in the community includes serv-
ing as volunteer advisor for the Lego
robotics First Lego League. He has also
coached and served as a science fair
judge.
Austin Dickson
Named President,
Executive
Director of
Literacy Action
Clayton State University Instructor in
Critical Thinking Austin Dickson has
been named president and executive
director of Literacy Action, Georgia’s
largest nonprofit provider of adult basic
education.
Dickson, who has been teaching at
Clayton State since 2008, has previously
served as director of philanthropy for
Action Ministries, a statewide, faith-
based, homeless services and basic needs
organization. He also has worked for the
Community Foundation for Greater
Atlanta.
A native of Texas, Dickson has degrees
from Texas Christian University, the
School of Divinity at the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, the Candler School
of Theology at Emory University, and a
master’s in public policy from Georgia
Tech. His community activities include
serving at the East Lake Family YMCA
Baker, cont’d., p. 9
Dickson, cont’d., p. 5
Terry