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Campus Update
Antoinette Miller and Celeste Wade Named Smith Award Winners
Dr. Antoinette Miller and Celeste Wade have been named as the winners of the 2009 Alice Smith
Awards at Clayton State University.
Clayton State bringing dual Enrollment courses to Academy for Advanced Studies in McDonough
Clayton State University is partnering in bringing aca- demic courses to Henry County.
Beginning with the fall 2009 semester, Clayton State University, Gordon College and Griffin Technical College began offering both dual enrollment and evening general ed- ucation courses at the Academy for Advanced Studies in Mc- Donough... a new site located at Henry County High School.
Clayton State offers English composition and speech communications to dual enrollment high school students in the morning and American literature and introduction to so- ciology in the evening.
The dual or joint enrollment program provides one way for high school students to ease their transition into college. These programs allow students to take college courses while still in high school. The courses they complete fulfill high school requirements but also count as college credit. Such programs expose students to the nature of the college class- room, while they still have the support they receive from par- ents and their high school.
Miller and Wade received their awards at the annual Faculty/Staff Awards cere- mony, held in the University’s Spivey Hall. Clayton State’s highest honor for faculty and staff, the Smith Awards have been an annual event at the University since 1995. Presented to the faculty member and staff member ranked most outstanding as deter- mined by committees of their peers, the two, $1000 awards were originally estab- lished by the late Joseph Smith in honor of his late wife, Alice.
Dr. Antoinette Miller
Miller is an associate professor of Psy-
chology, coordinator for the Department of
Psychology and has worked at Clayton
State since 2001. She is currently an advisor for the Psychol- ogy Department and serves on the faculty council.
In 1995, Wade began working in the University’s Plant Op- erations Department as a clerk, moving in 1999 to Administra- tive Systems to work as an analyst. Since 2005 she has also provided IT support for the accounts receivable side of Banner and PeopleSoft Financials as part of the Budget & Finance Of- fice.
Celeste Wade
Wilcox, Binfield Earn Division II PING All-American Golf Honors
For the first time in a decade, Clayton State will have two All-Americans in men’s golf in the same season.
The 2009 Division II PING All-American teams were re- cently announced, and Clayton State senior Will Wilcox was selected first team Division II All-American for a second straight season, while junior Wade Binfield was selected hon- orable mention Division II All-American. In addition, with his honorable mention honor in 2007, Wilcox becomes the first- ever three-time All-American at Clayton State in men’s golf.
Both players also earned Division II All-Southeast Region honors – the third straight for Wilcox and the first for Binfield.
The Lakers 2008-2009 Men’s Golf Team. First and fourth player from the left are Will Wilcox and Wade Binfield, respectively.
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