Dr. D. Douglas Miller’s, dean of the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, State of the School Address has been rescheduled for noon Friday, Aug. 15 in the Natalie and Lansing B. Lee Jr. Large Auditorium in the Auditoria Center. The address had been scheduled for July 23.
The address will be given during the school’s monthly Faculty Senate meeting.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Dean Will Give State of the School Address
Monday, July 21, 2008
Upcoming Events at Clayton State University
Customer Service Initiatives Ready to Roll Out, Aug. 1
Clayton State’s Customer Service Team is preparing to roll out two new customer service initiatives for the University, one involving providing information (Ask Me!) and the other looking for customer feedback (Tell Us!).
The “Ask Me!” program is a partnership between the Customer Service Team, the Department of Campus Life and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority that will help welcome newcomers to the University in the week before the start of fall semester classes. Featuring welcome tents and student volunteers wearing bright orange T-shirts, “Ask Me!” will start three to four days prior to the start of classes on Monday, Aug. 18.
In addition to the welcome tents, other orange-clad student volunteers will act as weekday “floaters” around campus, answering questions and generally helping point people in the right direction(s). Depending on the number of student volunteers – many of whom will come from the Honors Program – the bright orange floaters will start floating on Wednesday, Aug. 13 or Thursday, Aug. 14.
A couple of weeks before the “Ask Me!” program starts giving out information, the Customer Service Team is set for the Aug. 1 rollout of a program that will ask for information – a standardized customer service feedback form. “Tell Us!” customer service feedback forms will be available in 10 to 12 boxes around campus.
This program is a new tool to measure to how successful Customer Service is at Clayton State, and is in keeping with the governor’s customer service initiative, which mandates a measurement function in customer service plans.
School of Graduate Studies Holding Open House, Aug. 12
The Clayton State University School of Graduate Studies will be holding its next monthly informational Open House on Tuesday, Aug. 12 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in room 201 of the University’s Harry S. Downs Center.
The Open House will give prospective graduate students a chance to learn more about the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Master of Business Administration, Master of Health Administration, and Master of Science in Nursing. The Clayton State School of Graduate Studies regularly holds open houses on the second Tuesday evening of each month.
Clayton State Premiere, Aug. 14 – Aug. 17
Clayton State’s welcoming its first class of residential students, Clayton State University Premiere, will take place Aug. 14 to Aug. 17 with the opening of Laker Hall with several activities and events planned.
“This will be an historic time at the University with the opening of the first-ever on campus housing,” says Dr. Brian Haynes, vice president for Student Affairs. “We are encouraging students, faculty and staff to participate in the many activities associated with this occasion.”
“Operation Move-in” will begin in the morning of Thursday, Aug. 14 with students moving into their rooms. Several additional activities and events are being planned and will be released shortly for the four-day span by the Premiere Committee and the Office of Residence Life.
2008 Welcome Week, Aug. 18-22
As a way to welcome Clayton State University’s new and returning students to campus, the Department of Campus Life is scheduling Welcome Week 2008 for August 18 thru August 22.
The theme for this year’s Welcome Week is E3:Explore. Experience. Excel. The mission of Welcome Week is to provide events, programs and information for students that will enhance their chances of excelling in and outside of the classroom. The week will feature several events and programs that will make new and returning students’ college transition and experience memorable and productive.
Third Annual New Student Convocation & Reception, Aug. 26
The Third Annual New Student Convocation will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. This ceremony will inspire, motivate and officially welcome new students to Clayton State University. Per faculty feedback regarding last year’s program, we will return to academic regalia for this year’s event. Please allow eight-10 weeks for turnaround time if you plan to order or rent regalia. Please contact the University Bookstore or Linda Campbell at LindaCampbell@Clayton.edu for additional ordering information.
The program will provide an opportunity for students to connect with their faculty, staff and classmates. Faculty support at last year’s event was phenomenal. Approximately 140 faculty and staff and 240 students were in attendance for the program. Your continued support and assistance is greatly needed and appreciated.
Please look for additional information regarding this event in the near future. If you have additional questions, please contact Celena Milner at (678) 466-5443 or via e-mail at CelenaMilner@clayton.edu.
NARA Records Administration Conference, Sept. 9
The Southeast Region of the National Archives and Records Administration Director of Records Management is developing a regional version of NARA's national Records Administration Conference (RACO), which is held annually in Washington, DC.
The Southeast region event will take place at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008, and will consist of a keynote address by the Archivist's (of the United States) lawyer on challenges associated with the management of ephemeral electronic records, plus several sessions relating to disaster preparedness and response, collaborative records management tools such as Web 2.0, records management training, and implementation of Records Management Applications.
A buffet lunch and docent-conducted tours will round out the event. All interested faculty and students within Atlanta's academic community are invited. More information will be forthcoming in Campus Review and Laker Lines.
Daniel Pyle to Open 2008/2009 Spivey Hall Season, Sept. 13
Dr. Daniel Pyle, adjunct instructor of Music Appreciation and Harpsichord for the Department of Music, and music director/organist for The Church of Our Savior in Atlanta, will open the 2008/2009 Spivey Hall season on Saturday, Sept. 13, with an organ recital presented by the Department of Music
The free concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will feature music of Northern Germany and Scandinavia by Baroque master Dieterich Buxtehude and Commotio by 20th-century Danish composer Carl Nielsen.
A unit of the University System of Georgia, Clayton State University is an outstanding comprehensive metropolitan university located 15 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta.
It's Time For Back To School Vaccinations
(StatePoint) It's that time of the year again when parents nationwide are making sure their children have everything they need to head back to school. At the top of your list should be checking that your child is up to date on all of the required immunizations.
The clustering of children in the school setting increases the chances of spreading an infectious disease. Vaccines are the first and best line of defense to protect infants and children against the most devastating childhood illnesses, according to pediatric health experts.
"Immunizing their child is the single best thing parents can do to ensure their child's health," says Dr. Renee R. Jenkins, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). "The benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks. I firmly believe in the importance and safety of vaccines, as a doctor, as a parent and as a new grandparent."
While many young parents today have never witnessed a case of polio, measles or rubella, these diseases still circulate in the world and are just a plane ride away. They can easily return to the U.S. if immunization rates were to fall.
Indeed, outbreaks of measles and whooping cough in the U.S. in recent years show how quickly and easily these diseases can spread among unvaccinated populations.
According to the experts at the AAP, the current immunization schedule provides the best protection. Before they start school, children need to be immunized against such illnesses as measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, polio, hepatitis, diphtheria, tetanus, meningitis, whooping cough and others.
To obtain a copy of the current immunization schedule, visit the Web sites of the AAP (www.aap.org) or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.goc). Be sure to check with your pediatrician to evaluate each child individually before each vaccine is due.
Experts in infectious diseases designed this vaccine schedule to protect infants, children and adolescents when they are most susceptible to infection by specific diseases. The schedule is designed to deliver vaccines when they will generate the best immune response. Delaying vaccines could leave your child open to infection when he or she is most vulnerable, and may reduce the effectiveness of a vaccine.
However, some parents have expressed concern about giving their children many vaccines in a short period of time.
"Although the number of shots has gone up, the total viral load has gone down. Instead of containing thousands of antigens, a vaccine today contains just a handful. Today's vaccines are smarter, purer versions of the ones we got as kids," responds Jenkins who stresses the safety of combination vaccines and their ingredients.
Statistical health data underscore the benefits of childhood vaccines. According to the CDC, before immunizations were implemented over 13,000 people in the U.S. contracted paralytic polio each year. Thousands of children were left in crutches, braces, wheelchairs and iron lungs.
And 9,000 people - mostly children - died of whooping cough in the U.S. yearly. Prior to widespread vaccinations, 6,100 people in the U.S. died of invasive pneumococcal disease each year, with many children developing long-term complications such as deafness or seizures.
"Our children shouldn't have to risk the devastating complications associated with diseases that were common a generation ago," says Jenkins.
Parents who have questions about vaccines should talk with their child's pediatrician. More information about vaccines and childhood illnesses is available at www.aap.org.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
MCG School of Allied Health Sciences Video Receives Telly Award
A video celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Medical College of Georgia School of Allied Health Sciences has earned MCG videographer Tim Johnson a Bronze Telly Award.
Mr. Johnson directed, edited, co-produced and served as videographer of Remembering 40 Years of Excellence, which debuted during MCG Homecoming in April. Dean Shelley C. Mishoe was executive producer, Dr. W. Kent Guion, associate dean for student, faculty and community affairs, producer and Grace Miller, the school's director of advancement, co-producer.
The video features historical footage and photographs and interviews with the school's founding dean, the late Raymond Bard, via archival footage, Dean Emeritus Biagio Vericella and Dean Mishoe. MCG President Daniel W. Rahn and Provost Barry D. Goldstein also are featured.
The Telly Awards honor video and film productions and local, regional and cable commercials and programs and are considered premier awards for the industry. This year's 29th annual competition received 13,500 entries from all 50 states and across the world. Entries don't compete against each other, but against a high standard of excellence, with only 18 to 25 percent of entrants receiving a Bronze Telly Award for outstanding achievement.
Mr. Johnson earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Augusta College (now Augusta State University). He has worked for production houses in California, Augusta and Aiken, S.C., and spent 10 years in cable television as a video producer and freelancer before coming to MCG's Department of Visual and Instructional Design in 2004.
He has garnered five national awards at MCG, including two Telly Awards for other School of Allied Health Sciences videos: a 2005 Silver Telly, the highest honor, for To Teach, Discover and Care, and a 2007 Bronze Telly for If Given the Opportunity. He received the Health and Science Communications Association’s Silver Award and the Admissions Advertising Award for his video, A Closer Look: MCG Admissions. In Augusta's Southern Fried Flicks Film Festival, he received the 2005 award for Best Short Feature and the 2006 award for Best Local Feature.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Burns-Ardolino Appointed Director of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
Dr. Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino has been appointed the second director of Clayton State University’s first graduate program, the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS).
Burns-Ardolino took over direction of the MALS on July 1, 2008 from Dr. Thomas Barnett, who remains department head of Communicative Arts and Integrative Studies but, “has passed the torch of the MALS program on to me,” according to Burns-Ardolino.
The new MALS director is a person of many accomplishments and skills. In addition to directing MALS, she is also an assistant professor of Integrative Studies at Clayton State, an expert on popular culture, and the author of a provocative new book, “Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women,” released by Lexington Books (www.lexingtonbooks.com) in December 2007. In “Jiggle,” Burns-Ardolino begins in the 1930s with a discussion of traditional foundation garments, and proceeds to analyze contemporary shapewear in terms of shaping women physically, culturally and socially. Burns-Ardolino will be appearing in Atlanta and Montreal later this fall in conjunction with her book.
The MALS program is, in its own way, as thought-provoking as “Jiggle,” in that it is designed to provide a solid overview in the liberal arts while also providing education in areas of specialization within the broader background of the liberal arts.
“We’re doing two things simultaneously,” says Burns-Ardolino. “First, showing what liberal arts can do and then tending to the students’ needs in areas of specialization they would choose.
“It’s both an interdisciplinary program and a program that provides 18 hours of concentration… that’s what makes it so valuable.”
Burns-Ardolino also points out that MALS has a liberal arts focus for people who want to pick and choose their coursework on topics they are interested in. However, she adds, most MALS students want to take the 18 hours in a specific area of interest.
The two main areas on interest within the MALS are currently History and English, and there are plans to further diversify the program, “as we go forward.” Burns-Ardolino lists Psychology, Sociology and Communications as three logical areas of interest for the MALS to expand in to.
“Doing something interdisciplinary like cultural studies or global studies, that could also potentially happen,” she adds. “We’re sitting exactly where we want to be in terms of the breadth of scope for the program. Our next step is to look at the student demographics.”
On the subject of where MALS is getting its students, Burns-Ardolino notes that the clearest audience is comprised of teachers in Clayton, Henry, Fayette and Fulton counties who need to continue their education and their professional development.
“Choosing a masters program like ours is really in keeping with their goals as educators,” she points out. “It will allow them to keep up their professional credentials and continue their education at the same time. Those are the folks that I see us reaching out to.”
Indeed, some of MALS most notable success stories to date have been secondary school teachers from the Southern Crescent. Anna Cox, who will become the University’s first masters graduate this fall, is a teacher at Clayton County’s Jonesboro High School, while Barbara James, winner of the first Clayton State Retirees Association scholarship, is a teacher at Fayette County’s Rising Starr Middle School.
“We’re building a graduate faculty that are the best teachers, the best researchers, and the best scholars,” says Burns-Ardolino with evident pride. “The students who come here to take our graduate programs will benefit from the faculty and their expertise. It’s a real honor for our faculty and a reason to come here.”
Two additional benefits to potential Clayton State graduate students include the University’s smaller size and the support for the graduate programs at the upper levels of the University’s administration, notably from the new dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Nasser Momayezi. According to Burns-Ardolino, one of his major priorities is to diversify and grow the graduate programs.
“Because we are smaller than some universities, we have an intimacy that enables learning and that fosters one-on-one interaction,” she adds. “Larger institutions cannot offer that level of intimate research and study. That sets us apart.”
For more information on the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at Clayton State, go to the MALS website at http://a-s.clayton.edu/mals/.
A unit of the University System of Georgia, Clayton State University is an outstanding comprehensive metropolitan university located 15 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta.
$3.3 billion Invested in Georgia's Pre-K Program
PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Georgia Lottery Corporation announced that it has transferred a total of $10 billion for education to the state of Georgia since its inception in 1993. Gov. Sonny Perdue accepted the oversized check marking the significant milestone of the corporation's contribution to programs such as Georgia's HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia's Pre-K Program.
Approximately $3.3 billion of those funds have gone towards the education of more than 860,000 children who participated in Georgia's Pre-K Program during the last 15 years. Georgia's Pre-K Program is administered by Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (Bright from the Start).
"Georgia's Pre-K Program was first funded by the Georgia Lottery Corporation for education in 1993. We received $37 million and served 8,700 children," said Holly Robinson, Commissioner of Bright from the Start. "During 2007-08, the program received $325 million ensuring that 78,000 of Georgia's four year olds would receive quality early learning experiences."
This is the first year that Georgia's Pre-K Program earliest participants are eligible to enroll in colleges and universities across the state. Gov. Perdue recognized some of these students during his annual State of the State address earlier this year.
Governor Perdue, Georgia Lottery Officials Announce Milestone Achievement
Today (July 15, 2008) Governor Sonny Perdue joined Georgia Lottery Corporation President and CEO Margaret DeFrancisco at Georgia Lottery headquarters to announce that it has transferred a total of $10 billion for education to the state of Georgia since the lottery’s inception in 1993.
“Today, we mark $10 billion in total that the Georgia Lottery has contributed to education in Georgia since it was launched in 1993,” said Governor Sonny Perdue. “In those fifteen years, we’ve seen record payouts, record ticket sales and, now, this staggering contribution to the future of Georgia’s children and our state as a whole.”
The Georgia Lottery has experienced extraordinary success as one of only two traditional lotteries in the nation to experience 10 consecutive years of growth in profits.
“The Georgia Lottery Corporation has a success formula that works and delivers results for Georgia’s students and families,” DeFrancisco said. “Lottery-funded HOPE Scholarships and Pre-K Programs have made a fundamental difference in the lives of so many Georgians. The transfer of our $10 billionth dollar to education is a tremendous accomplishment that we can all celebrate.”
DeFrancisco presented Governor Perdue with an oversized check for $10 billion made payable to “Georgia Students” during today’s ceremony.
The Georgia Lottery’s fiscal year 2008 profits transferred to the State Treasury’s Lottery for Education Account amount to $858,355,000, surpassing last year’s record transfer by more than $4.8 million.
Georgia Lottery sales for fiscal year 2008, which spanned from July 1, 2007 to June, 30, 2008, totaled $3,519,341,000 – the highest in the lottery’s 15-year history and more than $97.6 million ahead of the previous sales record of $3.42 billion in fiscal year 2007.
The mission of the Georgia Lottery Corporation is to raise revenue for education in Georgia. Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned over $10.1 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs including Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia’s Prekindergarten Program. More than 1 million students have received HOPE, and more than 860,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
Adult Students Have a New Outlet for Creative Expression
PRNewswire-- The Art Institute of Atlanta will launch an Evening and Weekend Option for several of its comprehensive, career-focused bachelor's and associate degree programs in the fall quarter starting October 6, 2008. The new option is designed to provide working adults who cannot attend class during traditional business hours the opportunity to complete their education through a combination of evening, weekend, and online courses.
The Art Institute of Atlanta will offer bachelor's and associate's degree programs in culinary arts, graphic design, and Web design & interactive media in the Evening and Weekend Option. In addition, The Art Institute of Atlanta will offer an Evening and Weekend Option for its bachelor's degree in interior design.
"We meet many potential students who are trying to find a way to balance working and going to school," says Dr. Sally Parsonson, dean of academic affairs at The Art Institute of Atlanta. Janet S. Day, president of The Art Institute of Atlanta, adds, "The Evening and Weekend Option provides excellent education choices for working adults, allowing them to pursue their passion for a creative career in a convenient time frame and schedule that fits their busy lives."
At the time of registration, students will be advised of the classes that will be offered online in their program. Students will have the option of taking any online courses on-ground at the college, if available. Students will take a minimum of two on-ground courses each quarter. Financial aid is available to those who qualify.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Morehouse Celebrates Summer Commencement July 19
Morehouse College will round out the class of 2008 when it celebrates Summer Commencement on Saturday, July 19, at 10 a.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr International Chapel.
Corey Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, will deliver the commencement address. He will also receive the Presidential Award of Distinction. Booker has been mayor of Newark since 2006 and is only the third person to govern the city since 1970. He is the founder of Newark Now, a grassroots leadership nonprofit founded to provide Newark residents with skills, tools, and support to transform their neighborhoods.
Booker received a B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University, a B.A. in modern history from Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and a law degree from Yale University.
He has been appointed to sit on the boards for Integrity Inc., Yale Law School, Columbia University Teachers’ College, the Black Alliance for Educational Options, North Star Academy and the International Longevity Center.
Booker has been recognized by several well known publications, including Esquire, where he was named “one of the country’s 40 Best and Brightest;” New Jersey Monthly, which named him one of New Jersey’s top 40 under 40; Black Enterprise, which named him on the Hot List, America’s Most Powerful Players under 40; and Time magazine.
Also receiving the Presidential Award of Distinction is alumnus Ronald L. Carter, Morehouse class of 1971. Carter is currently the 13th president of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., and has been an educator for more than three decades. In fact, his career in education has taken him from South Carolina to South Africa.
Carter graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Morehouse with a B.A. in sociology and philosophy and continued his education at Boston University, where he earned both master’s and doctoral degrees in religion. While at Boston, he served as director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Career, Educational and Counseling Services; was appointed the school’s youngest dean of students; and was senior editor of Debate and Understanding, a scholarly journal for the study of minority Americans’ economic, political and social development.
Morehouse expects to graduate more than 65 students during the summer convocation.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Georgia Department of Education Seeks Comments on Mathematics and Social Studies
The Georgia Department of Education has been receiving comments on GeorgiaStandards.org concerning proposed curriculum changes since June. The public is invited to submit your comments and feedback on:
Social Studies: 6th and 7th Grade Revisions
Social Studies: 3-5 and 8-12 Precision Review
Mathematics: K-5 Precision Review
Click here to submit your comments.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
University of Georgia Awards 2008 Charter Scholarships
The 2008 freshman class at the University of Georgia will include 331 undergraduates who have been awarded Charter Scholarships by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
The Charter Scholarship, named to reflect the university’s distinction as the nation’s first state-chartered public university, recognizes first-year students with stellar academic records, leadership and community involvement and a respect for and commitment toward intellectual, social and cultural diversity. The Charter Scholarship is funded by the University of Georgia Foundation.
In-state students receive $1,000 per year in addition to the HOPE Scholarship. Out-of-state recipients are given non-resident tuition waivers with their $1,000 annual scholarships. Usually the top five percent of entering first-year students are named Charter Scholars.
This year’s Charter Scholars had an average SAT score of 1394. Their average high school GPA exceeded 4.0.
Students can renew the scholarship for up to three more years if they meet certain academic standards.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Governor Perdue Appoints Working Group to Study Education Policies and Practices to Make Georgia More Globally Competitive
Governor Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of a working group tasked with investigating innovative ways to create long-term, comprehensive education reform to make Georgia more globally competitive. This working group, chaired by Dr. Charles Knapp and Dean Alford, will build off the work of the Investing in Educational Excellence (IE2) Task Force and review a provocative national report called Tough Choices or Tough Times to determine how Georgia might reform its education policies and practices to cause needed change for its educational system.
“I believe the experts serving on this group fully understand the urgency of the challenges we face in education in Georgia,” said Governor Perdue. “I am confident that they will create a blueprint for change that will facilitate higher achievement, thereby increasing Georgia’s economic competitiveness through our most valuable resource – our children.”
The working group will meet for the first time on July 17, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Empire Room of the West Twin Tower in Atlanta to focus specifically on several areas of education policy reform:
· Moving students to postsecondary-level work as soon as they demonstrate the necessary ability;
· Enhancing the quality of preschool education opportunities;
· Improving P-12 teacher quality;
· Creating high performance school systems (in collaboration with the State Board of Education);
· Improving the academic performance of underachieving students;
· Further enhancing and supporting a world-class P-12 curriculum; and
· Ensuring the efficient use of the financial resources Georgia devotes to education.
Governor Perdue has charged the group to identify the policy changes that should be put into place quickly in order to make Georgia’s educational system more competitive in the next 15 years. He has asked them to work swiftly and submit recommendations to him in time for consideration for possible legislation in the 2009 session of the General Assembly.
Those chosen to serve on this working group include:
·Dr. Charles Knapp – (Co-Chair), Chair of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (which produced the Tough Choices or Tough Times report), President Emeritus of UGA, and Chairman of the East Lake Foundation
· Dean Alford – (Co-Chair), Chair of the IE2 task force, former state legislator, former State Board of Education member, current member of the Technical College System of Georgia Board, businessman
· Julia Bernath – Board Member, Fulton County Schools
· Veronica Biggins – Senior Partner , HNCL Executive and Board Search Firm
· Dr. Michael Bull – Superintendent, Glynn County Schools
· Representative Brooks Coleman – Chair, Georgia House Education Committee
· Tim Connell – President, Georgia Student Finance Commission
· Kathy Cox – State Superintendent of Schools
· Stephanie Laverne Haynes - Master Teacher/Academic Coach, Clifton Ridge Middle School, Jones County
· Kelly Henson – Executive Secretary, Georgia Professional Standards Commission
· Dr. Susan Herbst – Executive Vice-Chancellor, University System of Georgia
· Molly Howard - Principal, Jefferson County High School, 2007 National School Principal of the Year
· Ron Jackson – Commissioner, Technical College System of Georgia
· Representative Jan Jones – Chair, Georgia House Education Appropriations Sub-Committee
· Senator Dan Moody – Chair, Georgia Senate Education Appropriations Sub-Committee
· Jose Perez – State Board of Education member
· Jennifer Rippner Buck – Executive Director, Governor’s Office of Student Achievement
· Dr. Holly Robinson - Commissioner, Bright From the Start – Department of Early Care and Learning
· Dr. Ben Scafidi – Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia College and State University
· Ed Smith – Superintendent, Troup County Schools
· Carl Swearingen – Chair of the Technical College System of Georgia Board, businessman
· Senator Dan Weber – Chair, Georgia Senate Education Committee
· Alvin Wilbanks – Superintendent, Gwinnett County Schools
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