James McCorkle ’66 is a soft-spoken man, but at a recent event to mark the 50th anniversary of integration at Guilford he graciously answered questions about his experience as the College’s first African-American student.More
Sep. 28, 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
Emmy Award-winning journalist Steve Sapienza will make a presentation, “Global Goods, Local Costs: Peru’s Wildcat Gold Rush,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in Founders Gallery-East. The program is free of charge and open to the public. Sapienza, this semester’s Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting visitor, will discuss how some Peruvians are cashing in on the [...]More
Sep. 26, 2012
The Guilford Farm exemplifies our core value of stewardship.More
Sep. 26, 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
The commemoration of 50 years of racial integration at the College begins Tuesday, Sept. 25, with more events planned for Homecoming and Family Weekend. In August 1962, James McCorkle ’66 of Winston-Salem became the first African-American student to enroll at the College. In that same year, two Kenyan students were enrolled. The kickoff event at [...]More
Sep. 21, 2012
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