Clayton State's

other two schools, Business and Technology, also

will review their academic offerings with an eye

toward meeting student needs and retaining

current students for a full four years.

Major

infrastructure construction has pretty much been

on hiatus at CCSU since the 1991 completion of

Spivey Hall and the Harry S. Downs Center for

Continuing Education. But Vollmer noted the

coming year will see the completion of the

university's first major classroom building since

the Technology Building was opened in the summer

of 1988. The $4 million Music Building will give

CCSU's music program an instructional facility

equal to the world class performance facility

next door at Spivey Hall.

The largest project

in Clayton State's 30 years, the University

Learning Center, is currently at the top of the

University System's five-year major capital

outlay priority list, which will be considered by

the Georgia State Legislature when it reconvenes

in January 2000. Under the current proposal, the

Learning Center will include a food service area,

lecture halls, bookstore, administrative and

faculty offices, a learning lab and classrooms.

Physically, it will be attached to the present

library, which will be fully converted into a

media and learning center.

The only thing

bigger than the Learning Center is Gateway

Village, the major economic development project

that will transform an important part of Clayton

County in the years to come and enclose the

Clayton State campus on two sides with office

space, medical facilities, a high tech executive

conference center, student housing and possibly

an intermodal transportation center.

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