Do you have an idea for how Guilford can increase enrollment, boost revenue or cut costs? If so, the new Innovative Grants Program wants to hear from you by Friday, Oct. 12. Community members — faculty, staff and students — can apply for small grants, including honoraria, that will be available in the spring. The [...]More
Oct. 9, 2012
Associate Professor of Political Science George Guo has written a new book entitled “China’s Security State: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics.” Published by Cambridge University Press, the book discusses the security and intelligence agencies in China, looking at their creation and development. Moreover, it examines the influence that these agencies have held over the Chinese Communist [...]More
Oct. 9, 2012
Jesse Wilbert ‘Wil’ Edgerton ’40 did crossword puzzles in ink and could write a limerick for any occasion. Wil died Oct. 1 in Greensboro. He was 93. A celebration of his life will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, in the living room at Friends Homes West. A member of the Guilford College [...]More
Oct. 9, 2012
Following outstanding performances in two recent games, soccer player Freddy Gomez ’13 has been named Guilford’s Student-Athlete of the Week. A midfielder, Freddy scored the team’s lone goal in a Sept. 25 loss to Roanoke College, and he scored two goals in a Sept. 29 victory over Shenandoah University, the seventh multiple-goal game of his [...]More
Oct. 3, 2012
“Birthright,” a poem by Charles A. Dana Professor of English Carolyn Beard Whitlow, has won the 2012 Sonia Sanchez/Amiri Baraka Prize in Poetry. Her poem “At the Blank Blank Bar” appears in the fall issue of storySouth. A chapbook collection of her poems, When the Wind Stills, has been selected for publication by Finishing Line [...]More
Sep. 28, 2012
After nearly 13 years of service, Vice President for Enrollment Services Randy Doss ’82 is leaving Guilford College in November to become director of admission and enrollment at Greensboro Day School. Greensboro Day School is a private, highly selective independent school for pre-kindergarten through 12th graders and has an enrollment of 879. Before coming to [...]More
Sep. 28, 2012
Melanie Lee-Brown, associate professor in the Biology Department, has been selected by the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE) program as one of 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows. In a yearlong effort, the fellows will consider and recommend models for improving undergraduate life sciences education. The PULSE program is a joint initiative of [...]More
Sep. 25, 2012
“Integration is not just about percentages of X or Y or Z group,” President Kent Chabotar said Tuesday. “It’s how those groups are treated. It’s how those groups have access to power. It’s how those groups have respect.” Other speakers at the the first event in a yearlong series— Journeys in Blackness — to commemorate the [...]More
Sep. 25, 2012
Dana Professor of Psychology Richie Zweigenhaft has co-written a new book with University of California, Santa Cruz professor G. William Dumhoff entitled “The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies.” “The book is based on a rather dramatic change that’s taken place in the last 20 years or [...]More
Sep. 21, 2012
An enterprising Greensboro college student is going to earn $1,000 in two minutes this fall. The N.C. Entrepreneurship Center at UNCG is sponsoring the “2 Minutes to Win It” business idea contest, open to full-time students who are at least 18 years old at Guilford College, UNCG, NCAT, Greensboro College, Bennett College, Elon University and [...]More
Sep. 21, 2012