Students who

have been out of high school for five years or more and have completed

fewer than 30 semester hours of transferable college credit must take

the COMPASS test before applying for admission.

Those students

will be given an extension until July 31 to complete the test. Students

are encouraged to prepare for the COMPASS test by purchasing Chart Your

Success on the COMPASS by Callahan, Commander, and Cotter (available at

the Clayton State Campus Store) or by reviewing the information provided

on the Clayton State Testing Center Web site at www.clayton.edu.

Following approval

& State University 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 since October through the Fayette County Center, located

in the Peachtree City Tennis Center.

Starting in

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

and Thursdays. A group of 43 students, divided into two sections, will

be admitted for the fall.

So far, just

10 applications have been received for the Fayette Center specifically,

said John Shiffert, spokesman for the university.

But the number

isn't surprising, he said, because people tend to wait to the last minute

to apply for almost anything, and the CCSU hasn't had much time to promote

these programs.

"Although

we did surveys on local interest for academic programs at the beginning

of 2003, we did not receive approval (from the Board of Regents) to go

ahead with those programs until May. In other words, we haven't had much

time to get the word out," Shiffert said.

"The decision

to apply to a University is not typically a spur-of-the-moment thing,

so the results to date are not surprising."

Space remains

for Fayette students, he said, but students are still encouraged to apply

before the July 1 deadline.

"We expect

to fill in whatever spots are still available after July 1 with current

Clayton State students from the Fayette County area" already enrolled

in the University, Shiffert said.

Courses will

be offered again at the Fayette Center in the spring, which actually starts

in early January 2004. The deadline for applications for new students

who wish to start classes then will be Dec. 1.

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.

"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," said 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 are the populations

we are targeting. We feel we can serve people who want to get started

in college, but haven't had the time or opportunity."

For more information

on Clayton State, call 770-961-3500 or go to www.clayton.edu.