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Campus Review
December 18, 2012
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President Announces IT Planning, Phase 2
Health Care Management, Health & Fitness Management
Join the Clayton State University College of Health
As promised earlier this year, an IT
strategic planning committee would
issue a plan, as well as an initial strate-
gy for establishing some priority rec-
ommendations for campus actions.
The report can be found at our web site
under
period
communications
http://www.clayton.edu/Portals/1/presi-
dent/IT-Strategic-Plan-Phase2-Final-
Report.pdf. At very least, please review
the material on page five of the very
thoughtful report that outlines a pro-
posed strategic plan. Next steps will
include the development of an informa-
tion technology council, which will
assist with the review and advancement
of IT infrastructure, support, and uti-
lization (with an eye toward more
effective applications of IT for learning
and academic and institutional sup-
port.)
The report was the result of many
months of work, and included the
engagement of a significant part of the
campus community. Let me express my
special thanks to the committee, that
included:
Carolina Amero, co
‐
chair AVP,
Auxiliary & Administrative Services
Ginny Bass Director, Degree
Completion
Rodger Bates Professor of Sociology
Dolores Cox Communications
Coordinator
Jim Flowers, co
‐
chair Strategic Planning
Officer
Deborah Gritzmacher Assistant Professor
of Healthcare Management
Pamela Barnes Programming Director,
Continuing Education
Tom Marshall Director, Administrative
Systems
Katherine Ott Assistant Dean, Libraries
Richard Pearce
‐
Moses Director, Master
of Archival Studies Program
Lila Roberts Dean, College of
Information & Mathematical Sciences
Steven Smith Faculty Developer, Online
Learning
Faculty in CIMS & Education
Sheryne Southard Assistant Professor of
Legal Studies
Shannon Thomas Director, Client
Support Services
Leon Wheeler Human Resources
Information Systems Coordinator
John Bryan – ex officio consultant
Vice President for Information
Technology & Services.
This is most impressive and thoughtful
work, and I publicly express my appre-
ciation to our colleagues for helping us
get to this point. We have been known
in our history as an innovator in the
application of information technology
to learning. We will be working in the
very near future to form the technology
council, whose work at very least will
help establish structures to support
transparency of university activities
similar to the processes already estab-
lished for budget development, facili-
ties master planning and strategic plan-
ning. And those efforts in turn will
allow us to better use present and future
resources to support learning, and make
key choices that capture that spirit of
institutional innovator.
Thanks in advance for your support of
these efforts, and your willingness to
serve should you be asked to do so. And
should you have any questions, please
let me know at your convenience.
-- Dr. Thomas Hynes, president
The Department of Health Care
Management, and the Health & Fitness
Management program are joining the
College of Health.
After a great deal of conversation that
emerged out of strategic planning and out
of discussions with outside with consult-
ants, the leadership in Academic Affairs
and President Dr. Thomas Hynes have
agreed that, consistent with Clayton
State’s strategic desire to present health
care education as a significant part of
what the University will be known for in
the region, the department of Health Care
Management (HCM), now in the College
of Business, and the program of Health &
Fitness Management (HFM), now in the
College of Arts and Sciences, will become
part of the College of Health. Health &
Fitness Management will also become
part of the Health Care Management
Department, under the direction of Dr.
Peter Fitzpatrick. Dr Lisa Eichelberger,
current dean of the College of Health, will
serve as dean of the entire expanded unit.
This move will take effect on Jan. 1, 2013,
however, a number of details will be final-
ized over the course of spring semester
and a public celebration and launch of this
new arrangement will take place in the
fall of 2013. Initially this move is more of
an administrative or organizational move
than a physical move; however, over time
there will be efforts made to make some
physical moves as well.
Dean Eichelberger notes that the location
for advisement of the HCM and HFM stu-
dents will transition to the College of Health
after the Jan. 3, 2013 orientation.