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Campus Update
Eagle’s Landing High School wins Clayton State Student Business Competition
Eagle’s Landing High
School, Henry County, won
the first annual High School
Student Business Competi-
tion hosted by the School of
Business at Clayton State
University on Apr. 30 and
May 1. Sandy Creek High
School from Fayette County placed second.
The theme of the competition was “Strategic Manage- ment in a Competitive Environment.” The high school teams, from Eagle’s Landing, Forest Park, Morrow, and Sandy Creek high schools, each managed a manufacturing company in a web-based simulation for a virtual four-year period. The four teams competed for sales, profits and market share, and earned points for financial performance.
The students learned how to plan a business strategy; analyze competition; make decisions on product design, mar- keting, production and finance; read financial statements; and work effectively as a team.
“We were impressed with the quality of the students. They were totally engaged in the learning and had a lot of fun too,” notes Dr. Gary May, project leader and a professor of management in the School of Business.
Spivey Hall launches “Project Jupiter”
Spivey Hall welcomed
the Jupiter String Quartet for
its Atlanta debut in a pair of
Young People’s Concerts
earlier this year, heralding
the beginning of a multi-year
relationship that will involve
the four musicians in a wide
variety of performance,
teaching, community outreach and audience development ac- tivities collectively named “Project Jupiter.”
Primary objectives of Project Jupiter include providing greater access to outstanding string chamber music in Spivey Hall’s immediate community, supporting musical achieve- ment by high-school chamber orchestra programs in Clayton, Henry and Fayette counties and developing greater audi- ences for string chamber music in the Southern Crescent.
Project Jupiter calls for a minimum of two full weeks from the Boston-based musicians each season, with the first week confirmed for November 2010. In each Project Jupiter week, the musicians will visit three high schools in south suburban Atlanta to coach and assist students in their chamber orches- tra programs. The three partner schools and their ensemble conductors are: Lovejoy High School, Stephen Lawrence; Union Grove High School, Richard Bell; and Whitewater High School, Darilyn Esterline.
McIlwain named Interim Dean of Clayton State’s School of Graduate Studies
Dr. Thomas McIlwain
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Dr. Micheal Crafton, Clayton State University interim vice president of Aca- demic Affairs and provost, announced the appointment of Dr. Thomas McIlwain, cur- rently director of Clayton State’s Master’s in Health Administration program in the School of Business, to the position of in- terim dean of the University’s School of
experience and graduate education experience at Ap- palachian State University, the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Southern Mississippi and the Uni- versity of Alabama at Birmingham.
He holds a B.S. from the University of Southern Missis- sippi, an M.P.H. from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Graduate Studies. His appointment began Feb. 1, 2010. McIlwain brings to this position a wealth of administrative