President Kent Chabotar wrote an article, Orchestrating Change, in the July/August edition of Business Officer Magazine. “Increased student expectations, rising labor costs, a growing variety of instructional delivery systems, more stringent government regulations: If your college or university hasn’t already encountered these forces shaping higher education, it will soon,” Kent wrote. “And the way your [...]More
Aug. 1, 2012
President Kent Chabotar was quoted by Inside Higher Ed in a July 27 article about the online publication’s second annual Survey of College and University Business Officers Two-thirds of the survey’s 502 respondents said their institutions are in “good” or “excellent” financial health, a level of optimism that surprised Kent. “Endowments may have recovered but [...]More
Jul. 27, 2012
WFMY broadcast a July 26 segment about Guilford’s Leica C10 3-D Laser Scanner, a device to photograph and measure crime scenes with an extraordinary level of speed, accuracy and completeness. “It’s an exceptionally powerful tool just by allowing us to capture the crime scene before anyone destroys it, or takes evidence out of it, and [...]More
Jul. 26, 2012
The Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc. has made a gift of $1 million to Guilford College to honor 40 years of service to the College by Joseph M. Bryan Jr. The commitment pushed Guilford’s Advancing Excellence campaign past $50 million toward its goal of $60 million by June 30, 2014. The gift [...]More
Jul. 24, 2012
A column by faculty member Robert Malekoff about Penn State football and longtime head coach Joe Paterno has been published by College Sports Business News. The NCAA on July 23 announced unprecedented penalties for the Penn State football program – a $60 million fine, a four-year postseason ban, the loss of scholarships, five years of [...]More
Jul. 23, 2012
The Adult Degree Program at Guilford College, the first four-year college in North Carolina to specialize in educating adult learners, will host several events on and off campus during the coming weeks. Advisors and transfer counselors will provide information about the program and answer questions at the following off-campus events: Monday, July 30, 4-6:30 p.m. [...]More
Jul. 19, 2012
The 2012 nomination period for the Guilford College Athletics Hall of Fame will close July 31. This year’s class of inductees, the 41st, will be recognized at Homecoming, Sept. 27-30. Nominees should belong to one or more of the following categories: Outstanding performance as a Guilford College student-athlete. Students-athletes should have attended Guilford for at [...]More
Jul. 19, 2012
Ed and Vivien Bauman of Greensboro, longtime friends of Guilford, have made a $900,000 real estate gift to the Advancing Excellence campaign. Their gift is being used to enhance Founders Hall, the College’s student center. Renovations to Founders this summer are creating an atrium, upgrading the offices for student media and other organizations, and expanding [...]More
Jul. 16, 2012
Jeff Thigpen, who as a 27-year-old in 1998 became the youngest county commissioner in Guilford County’s history, profiles 16 young leaders in his new book, On Point: Voices and Values of the Young Elected Officials. The book describes the experience of the officials in life, politics and campaigning, and offers leadership advice for young people [...]More
Jul. 11, 2012
The College’s Friends Historical Collection will be working with archives at four other local colleges and universities and the Greensboro Historical Museum to digitize and publish online material about the city’s history. Led by UNCG and funded by a $203,910 grant awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, “Textiles, Teachers and Troops: Greensboro, North [...]More
Jul. 6, 2012
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