Alabama A&M University (AAMU) Business/Industry Cluster is a cooperative effort between industry and the university to improve the University’s effectiveness in training its students to compete successfully in today’s job market. The AAMU Cluster brings together the resources of America employers with the skills of the AAMU faculty and programs to help produce trained and qualified manpower sources from which business and industry can draw.

The program’s purpose is twofold: to initiate, develop and expand a cooperative relationship between industry and AAMU, and to improve the capability of our graduates to compete successfully for professional positions in the public and private sectors.

WHO BENEFITS? Through the Cluster program, the educational institution, the participating industrial corporations, and the students benefit. The University benefits through the involvement of the business/industry community in terms of providing such resources as:

Participating Corporations Benefit by:

• Establishing a meaningful working relationship with the University• Recruiting minority job candidates who are better prepared in business, management, scientific, and technical skills, thus, reducing costly on-the-job training• Interfacing with students through Summer Jobs, Internships, Co-Op Positions, Youth Motivation Task Force (YMTF),Career Fair, Guest Lecturers and Class Presentations.• Associating with an HBCU on collaborative research efforts to enhance “win” probabilities and achieve subcontracting goals• Utilizing University faculty expertise and facilities

How the Students Benefit:• Better exposed with first hand knowledge and experience of the job market• Exposed to new technology• Provided scholarships and relevant curriculum for today’s job market.• Provided cooperative education experiences.• Offered better summer and career employment opportunities.

How the University Benefits:

• Career Planning and Placement• Scholarships• Program Development/Curriculum• Internships & Cooperative Education Assignments• Facilities & Equipment Donations• Research Support & Collaboration• Job Placement• Faculty & Staff Development• Endowed Chairs• Lecturers• Imaging the University/Public Relations• Faculty & Staff Summer Employment• More than one hundred (100) companies have participated in this organization over the past three decades.

Interested?

Contact patrick.grayson@aamu.edu

(256) 372-8327

Tournament Dedication

In Honor of Dr. Richard D. Morrison

The Alabama A&M University Business and Indus-try Cluster and the planners of the Annual Homecoming Scholarship Golf Tournament are pleased to honor Dr. Richard D. Morrison through this coveted event. A former AAMU president and long-time golf enthusiast, Dr. Morrison has long appreciated the game, and many of the early developments and growth of the sport at AAMU occurred under his administration.

Morrison served as AAMU’s fifth president, assuming the position on March 1, 1962. Morrison saw the erection of more than a dozen major buildings. The construction of the L. R. Patton Building in 1971marked the first time that AAMU had an administration building to serve as the heart of its busy hillside cam-pus.

Other building projects under the Morrison administration include the Walter T. Gravitt Faculty Apartments; Robert B. Prentice Hall for dining; Buchanan Hall, a women’s residence hall; J. F. Drake Memorial Learning Resources Center; house for home management training; the George W. Carver Multi-Purpose Complex; Morris Hall, residence hall for men; Terry Hall, residence hall for women; and the Elmore Health Science Complex.

Tournament Dedication Friday, October 13, 2006COLONIAL GOLF COURSE7:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast/Check-In8:00 a.m. Shotgun Start Door Prizes Lunch Mementos Cart Goody Bags Register Early! Call (256) 372-5684 - TODAY!!! Proceeds Benefit Student Scholarships! Trophies in Each Flight! Prizes Awarded Including Longest Drive, Closest to the Pin! Annual Alabama A&M University Tournament

Tournament Sponsors

AdTran
Atty. Walter Baker

Bill Penney

Business/Industry Cluster

Childress Accounting

Clem’s Barbecue & Fishery

Coca-Cola

Colonial Golf Course

Conoco

G’s Country Cooking

Grown Folks Bar & Grill

Mag 7

Mama Annie’s

Monrovia Market & Deli

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Options and Solutions

Parker Waller Insurance LLC

Point Mallard

R&R Sports Inc.

Redstone Federal Credit Union

Richland Golf Course

Starbucks Coffee

Turner Beverage

WJAB-FM

AAMU Business/Industry Cluster Co-Chairs

Mr. Stephen McDaniel, Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Mr. George Reynolds, Northrop Grumman

2007 Homecoming Scholarship Golf

Tournament Directors

Roosevelt Conley, (256) 721-6601

LeRoy Daniels, (256) 372-5684 or 859-4946

e-mail: ldaniels@aamu.edu

Patrick Grayson, (256) 372-8327

James d foster, (256) 852-2129

Gene Bright, (256) 852-7273

Liz Sloan-Ragland, (256) 372-5793

Jerome Saintjones, (256) 372-5607

Tournament Volunteers

John Barrett

Edmon Battle

Gene Bright

Roosevelt Conley

LeRoy Daniels

Rozell Daniels, Jr.

James d foster

Deanna Hammonds

Bob Hayden

Dr. Barbara A. P. Jones

Willie Love

Bradley MacDonald

Cynthia Nicholas-Webb

Josh Oliver

Billy Parks

Robert Richardson

Harold Smith

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