Faculty member Robert Malekoff has been named to a panel that will examine the balance of athletics and academics at UNC-Chapel Hill following two years of athletics-related scandals. Members of the committee were announced by the university’s outgoing chancellor, Holden Thorp, at a recent meeting with university faculty members upset at the toll the scandals [...]More
Mar. 13, 2013
Guilford will host an adult degree information session at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, in the Frank Family Science Center. Information will be provided about admissions, majors, financial aid, support services and course schedules. Through its Center for Continuing Education, Guilford offers adult learners a chance to earn a bachelor’s degree in any of the [...]More
Mar. 12, 2013
For the seventh straight year, Guilford has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Students performed an estimated 52,000 hours of service during the past year. The College has been named to the Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning [...]More
Mar. 7, 2013
Music faculty member Parke Puterbaugh was interviewed by NPR and The Washington Post about songwriter Tandyn Almer, who died Jan. 8 and is best known for writing the 1967 hit Along Comes Mary. “He’s one of the lost and hidden voices of the ’60s, and he left behind a body of work that’s ripe for [...]More
Mar. 7, 2013
Professor of Economics Bob Williams has written a chapter in a forthcoming book entitled Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century: Principles and Policies. His chapter is called “What Does the Rising Tide Bring?” Publisher Palgrave MacMillan has announced that the book, edited by Nikolaos Karagiannis and John Marangos, will be available in May. [...]More
Mar. 4, 2013
The College’s student newspaper has won 10 awards from the N.C. College Media Association. Competing in the category of institutions with fewer than 6,000 students, The Guilfordian was honored as best newspaper and as best online news site. Eight staffers received awards for writing, illustration and photography. Individual awards First place, Opinion Writing—Emily Currie Second [...]More
Feb. 22, 2013
Cate Schurz, the world & nation editor for The Guilfordian, traveled to London in January as a student fellow of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. While abroad, she gathered information on the murder of Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old black man who was killed while waiting for a bus in London on April 22, 1993. [...]More
Feb. 22, 2013
Guilford offered its first January Term earlier this year. Here’s what several students and faculty had to say about the three-week session. “I enjoyed every minute of the class,” said Justin Jordan ’13, who took part in a project on woodworking. “The most challenging part has been building something from my own designs and not [...]More
Feb. 19, 2013
Social activist and educator Geoffrey Canada recently spoke at War Memorial Auditorium as part of the 2012-13 Bryan Series. Commanding the stage as few do, he sounded the alarm about education in America. “I have been on a crusade to wake the country up about what’s happening to our children,” he said. “I am amazed [...]More
Feb. 19, 2013
Guilford College and Guilford Dining are working with Waste Industries USA on a greener way to dispose of campus food waste, and that effort has caught the attention of local media. Guilford Dining has been using a Food Waste Digester, a machine that uses patented microbes to break down food waste into liquid within 24 [...]More
Feb. 14, 2013
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