There are already more than 20 students signed up for the new major in math. "We

hope that there will be between 30-50 students," said Dr. Anthony Giovannitti,

the head of the Mathematics Department. Students will be prepared to either

work in an industry setting like engineering and computer science, go on

to graduate school, or work in education.

Clayton State has also hired three new tenure professors to teach classes

for the new math major. Dr. Aprillya Lanz, Dr. Catherine Matos and soon-to-be

Dr. Nathan Brushall will all be joining the Clayton State faculty this fall.

CIMS will be adding six new classes for the WebBSIT. These classes are The

Enterprise and IT, Discrete Math for IT, Technical Communication, Programming

and Problem Solving, Introduction to Information Technology, and Systems

Analysis and Design.

The WebBSIT is a collaboration of five USG institutions � Armstrong Atlantic

University, Clayton State, Georgia Southern University, Macon State College

and Southern Polytechnic State University. The program is designed to provide

students with an opportunity to obtain an IT degree � students who, without

the online aspect of the major, would be unable to pursue training in Information

Technology. Larry Booth, the WebBSIT student contact for Clayton State, is

hoping to have at least 20 students from Clayton State sign up for the WebBSIT

major.

At the end of summer semester Booth will relinquish his role as the Head

of the Department of Information Technology at Clayton State in order to

focus on a number of WebBSIT tasks related to Clayton State's participation

in the WebBSIT consortium. These duties include serving as Clayton State's

representative on the WebBSIT Operating Board and as the advisor for Clayton

State WebBSIT students. Booth will be a significant local resource for the

new executive director for the WebBSIT, since the executive director will

be housed at Clayton State. He served on both the Curriculum Committee and

the Administrative Committee during the process of WebBSIT program development.

Booth also was part of the team that developed the University's original

program in Information Technology, the Bachelor's of Information Technology,

or B.I.T.

Giovannitti, a resident of Carrolton, holds a doctorate in mathematics from

New Mexico State University. He has previously taught mathematics at California

State University, Long Beach, University of Southern Mississippi, and the

University of West Georgia. A resident of Jonesboro, Booth holds a master's

degree in computer science education and worked as a professor and curriculum

innovator in both computer science and information technology for many years

before coming to Clayton State in the fall of 1997.