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Campus Update
St. Fort leads Lakers to NCAA Southeast Regional Championship And the Elite Eight
For the second time in the last three seasons, the Clayton State Laker women’s basketball team qualified for the NCAA Division II “Elite Eight.”
With four players scoring in double-figures, led by South- east Regional MVP Marie St. Fort, Clay- ton State won the Di- vision II Southeast regional Champi- onship with a strong 89-73 victory over Peach Belt Confer- ence rival Francis Marion University in a game played at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C. The Lakers improved
to 26-6 overall with the victory.
Senior forward Lisa Jackson recorded a double-double
with a career-high 22 points and 10 rebounds, while St. Fort, a senior guard from West Palm Beach, FL, who became Clayton State’s fourth leading scorer (1044 points)of all-time during the game, wrapped up Southeast Regional Most Valuable Player honors with 16 points and six rebounds.
Clayton State’s MBA is coming to Rockdale County
It’s official. The School of Business at Clayton State Uni- versity is bringing its already-successful MBA program to Rockdale County.
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia recently gave its approval to Clayton State’s proposal to es- tablish a cohort of the MBA program at the Rockdale Career Academy, 1064 Culpepper Dr., Conyers, Ga., starting in Jan- uary 2010. The Clayton State MBA program, which graduated its first degree-holders this past May, is already operating with cohorts based on the main campus in Morrow, and the Univer- sity’s instructional site (Clayton State – Fayette) in Peachtree City.
Micheal Crafton Named Interim Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs
Dr. Micheal Crafton, previously a pro- fessor of English at the University of West Georgia, has been appointed interim provost and vice president of Academic Af- fairs at Clayton State University. He began his appointment on Aug. 3, 2009.
Crafton replaces Clayton State’s first
Provost and Vice President for Academic
Affairs Dr. Sharon E. Hoffman, who resigned her position at the University as of July 1, 2009.
According to Clayton State Interim President Dr. Thomas J. Hynes Jr., “Clayton State University has been incredibly well served by Dr. Hoffman’s leadership. Her dedication to our institution, and especially her exceptional work in academic program development, leave a proud legacy to Clayton State University. We are all very much appreciative of that work.”
An expert on medieval literature, Chaucer, the Bayeux Tapestry and a member of the Department of English at West Georgia since 1985, Crafton brings to Clayton State a wealth of experiences, both from the professorial ranks and from ad- ministrative and academic leadership responsibilities. His Ph.D. and M.A. in English are from the University of Ten- nessee Knoxville, and he holds a B.S. in English from the Uni- versity of Tennessee at Nashville.
In addition to his faculty appointment at West Georgia, Crafton twice served as interim vice president for Academic Affairs at the University for a total of two years, and twice led that institution’s Strategic Planning efforts.
Clayton State sets Spring enrollment mark
According to figures released by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, Clayton State University’s en- rollment for the spring 2009 semester reached 6,127 – the highest spring figure in the University’s history and the sec- ond-highest enrollment for any semester in Clayton State’s history. The only higher enrollment figure was a spike to 6,212 in the fall 2005 semester.
Dr. Micheal Crafton
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