Tag: Clayton State University

Jonesboro is enjoying a downtown renaissance, like many other small cities. New restaurants, residential projects, art venues and galleries, and even a water park are helping make the town into a destination. It also benefits from proximity to Clayton State University in nearby Morrow.

Ashley Mains often felt like hiring managers lost interest when they heard she didn’t attend a gold-plated tech school. But once she participated in Clayton State’s Launchpad Academy—a yearlong program designed to give students real-world training in information technology, cloud computing, and more—she began to get a different reaction.

We talked to graduates—from kindergarten to graduate school—to see what they think of the city now and their hopes for our future