With the thwack of tennis balls

slamming into racquets as a backdrop, college credit courses will be unveiled

next week at Peachtree City's tennis center in Planterra Ridge.

Clayton State College and State

University has scheduled four informational sessions at the college's

new Fayette County site the evening of Thursday, June 5, according to

college spokesman John Shiffert. The info classes are free, setting the

stage for the beginning of fall academic credit courses starting in August.

To familiarize the public,

including prospective students, with the new programs, the series of four

information sessions will be at 5:30 p.m., 6:15 p.m., 7 p.m. and 7:45

p.m. The sessions are free and open to all interested individuals on a

space-available basis. Due to the limited space at the Fayette Center,

those interested in attending the information sessions must sign up in

advance. For information, or to sign up for the sessions, go to https://adminservices.

clayton.edu/admissions/fayette.htm.

Following approval by the Board

of Regents of the University System of Georgia, Clayton State will begin

offering academic classes at the Fayette County Higher Education Center

to students accepted for admission into the University for the fall 2003

term.

Clayton State has been offering

non-credit, continuing education and small business development classes

at the tennis center since it opened Oct. 1, 2002. Starting later this

summer, four college-credit evening classes will be offered on Tuesdays

and Thursdays. A class of 43 students, divided into two groups, will be

admitted for the fall.

Students in Group 1 will take

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., and

then a Survey of U.S. History to 1877 (6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.).

Students in Group 2 will take

English Composition I (5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.), and then Introduction to

General Psychology (6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.).

Students attending the Fayette

Center will be expected to take both courses in their group. All four

courses are part of the core curriculum needed by all Clayton State baccalaureate

students.

This fall's classes will be

focused towards adult or non-traditional students who have little or no

college credit but wish to pursue a bachelor's degree. Non-traditional

students are defined as those individuals who graduated from high school

five or more years ago. Traditional students (those whose graduation from

high school is within the last five years) will be allowed to enroll on

a space available basis.

"We are focusing on non-traditional,

adult students to better serve that part of the population in Fayette

County, the people that would have a hard time getting to our main campus

in Morrow," says Dr. Sharon E. Hoffman, provost and vice president

of Academic Affairs. "Working parents, individuals holding full-time

jobs during the day, people working in the Peachtree City or Fayetteville

areas and the like. People who want to get started in college, but haven't

had the time or opportunity."

The information sessions will

cover such academic basics as information on the admission process, financial

aid, registration, testing, etc. Additionally, representatives from Clayton

State's admissions, financial aid, testing center, and records offices

will be on hand so that attendees can turn in applications or consult

individually with university representatives after the general sessions.

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