The article, “The Relationship Between Drinking to Cope and Comorbid Depression & Social Anxiety,” appears in Papers and Publications: Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Research. Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology Richie Zweigenhaft served as Will’s thesis advisor.

The study suggests that those who suffer from both depression and social anxiety are more likely to drink alcohol to cope than those who suffer from only one of the two disorders, and that drinking to cope appears to be more rooted in social anxiety than depression.

David M. Dobson

David M. Dobson in the Geology and Earth Sciences Department has been promoted from associate to full professor.

Chair of his department, Dave earned his doctorate in oceanography, marine biology and geochemistry at the University of Michigan. His recent work includes co-authoring the abstract “Archive of Iowa Small Mammal Metadata” and developing a number of commercial software programs: the puzzle game Snoodoku (2005), the action game Chowder (2005), the Web-based multiplayer strategy game Sultan (2005-07), the Facebook word game Scryptix (2009), the word game Wordy (2011) and the puzzle game Cairo (2012).

He has served the Guilford community as chair of the Nominating Committee (2004-08), as a member of the Faculty Affairs Committee (2008-11), as Munich Study Abroad Program leader (2009) and as a member of the Honors Advisory Council (2012).

Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako

Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako in the Sociology and Anthropology Department has been promoted from associate to full professor.

Edwins earned his doctorate in anthropology at Washington University. His recent publications include “Costly Punishment Across Human Societies” (2006), “More ‘Altruistic’ Punishment in Larger Societies” (2008), “Homo Equalis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games” (2009), “Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment” (2010), “Evolution of Fairness (Reply)” (2010), “Culture Does Count for Variation in Game Behavior” (2012), and the forthcoming book chapter “Maragoli and Gusii Cash Crop Farmers in Kenya: The Impact of Economic Hardship upon Experimental Behavior.”

His service to the College community includes coordinating the African American Studies major (2008-12), chairing the Sociology and Anthropology Department (2001-07), and serving as a member of the Faculty Affairs Committee (2011-present) and the Diversity Action Committee (2008-11).

Diya Mohammed Daoud Abdo

Diya Mohammed Daoud Abdo in the English Department has been promoted from assistant to associate professor.

Diya earned her doctorate in English literature at Drew University. Her recent scholarship includes the articles “My Quarina, My Self: The Homoerotic as Islamic Feminism in Alifa Rifaat’s My World of the Unknown,” “Chameleonic Text: Peritextual Transformation in Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass and Nisa’ Ala Ajnihat Al-hilm,” and the forthcoming, co-authored “Don’t Claim to ‘Speak for’ Algerian Women: Reading Djebar across Disciplinary Borders?”

She has submitted “Go Underground, Young Woman: Writing the Writing Self in Miral Al-Tahawy’s Al-Khiba’a” for publication in the anthology Reading Arab Women’s Autobiographical Writings, and in October 2012 she was a guest lecturer at Wellesley College. She has served Guilford as a member of the Strategic Long-range Planning Committee and as a sponsor of student work for the Guilford Undergraduate Symposium.

Kami M. Rowan

Kami M. Rowan in the Music Department has been promoted from assistant to associate professor.

Kami earned her doctorate in guitar performance at Shenandoah Conservatory, Shenandoah University. Her recent performances and creative activity include a fall guitar performance at the American Choral Directors Association Conference at UNCG, 2011 and 2012 performances for the UNCG and Guilford College faculty concert and recital, and the composition of original music for local performances at The Green Bean and Mack & Mack.

Her service includes being faculty advisor to campus radio station WQFS and a member of the Strategic Long-range Planning Committee and the Instructional Technology Planning Committee.

Darryl P. Samsell

Darryl P. Samsell in the Business Department has been promoted from assistant to associate professor.

Darryl earned his doctorate in business administration at Old Dominion University. He co-authored the paper “Why some countries trade more, some trade less, some trade almost nothing” (2012), which appeared in the journal International Business Review.

He also authored or co-authored three conference papers: “Effects of Survey-Based Sentiment on the Formation of Conditional Volatility and Predictability of Returns” (2012), “The Effects of Survey-based Sentiment Measures on the Cross-section of U.S. Stock Market Returns during the 1990’s Bubble” (2010), and “Why some countries trade more, some trade less, some trade almost nothing” (2010).

He has served as a member of the Curriculum Committee and the Budget Committee, Frank Fellows Entrepreneurship judge, and advisor for the Investment Club.

Philip H. Slaby

Philip H. Slaby in the History Department has been promoted from assistant to associate professor.

Philip earned his doctorate in comparative history at Brandeis University. His recent scholarship includes the publication of “Violating the ‘Rules of Hospitality’: The Protests of Jobless Immigrants in Depression-Era France” (2011) and the conference presentations “‘Grand Expulsions Through Powerful Means’: The State and Immigrant Political Violence in Interwar France” (2012), “The Contradictions of Controlled Immigration: Mines, Foreign Labor, and the State in Interwar France” (2011), and “Managing Discrimination: Mines, the State, and the Struggle to Control Immigrants in Interwar France” (2011).

His service to Guilford includes chairing the History Department (present) and Benefits Committee (2011-12), belonging to the Nominating Committee, and advising Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society.

The search committee will identify candidates to succeed President Kent Chabotar, who has served since 2002 and will retire June 30, 2014.

Carole Bruce

Trustee Carole Bruce chairs the committee, which includes five trustees and 10 members representing faculty, staff, students, alumni and volunteer board leaders. Carole is a partner with Smith Moore Leatherwood and chair of the board’s Finance Committee.

The search committee will begin its work immediately, Carole said. As a committee of the Board of Trustees, its role is to screen applicants and recommend finalists. The board itself has the ultimate responsibility to interview candidates and choose the next president.

“The selection of a president is probably the most important decision any board of trustees or directors makes,” Carole said.

“Our board chair, Joe Bryan, has selected a very inclusive search committee, and we will be reaching out to the campus community and other key constituent groups to gather input on qualities desired in the next president. We expect our key constituents to be engaged throughout the process, which will be a national search.”

Other trustees on the search committee are Daryle Bost ’93, Vic Cochran ’71, Ed Winslow and Kathy Coe.

Daryle is a sales director for Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, a business law firm, and chair of the board’s Advancement Committee. Vic is president and owner of Sharp-Carter Corp. and will be returning to the board in October. Ed, the board’s chair-elect, is managing partner of the Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard law firm. Kathy is a retired former pastor of Jamestown Friends Meeting and a trustee emerita.

Other members of the search committee were selected by Joe from nominations submitted by campus constituency groups including faculty, senior staff, staff association, student governments and the alumni association.

Faculty members on the committee are Jim Hood ’79, professor of English; Barbara Lawrence, assistant professor of justice and policy studies; and Kami Rowan, associate professor of music.

Administration and staff members on the committee are Jon Varnell, vice president for administration; Sandy Pearman ’80, director of enrollment information (Admission and Financial Aid); and Suzanne Sullivan, assistant director of communications and marketing-outreach (Advancement).

Students on the committee are Lyes Benarbane ’14 and Jessica Hilliard ’15, who is treasurer of the CCE (adult) Student Government Association.

Volunteer board leaders on the committee are Bradley Anderson ’77, president-elect of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, and Paul Kress ’82, chair of the Board of Visitors. Bradley is the retired fire chief of Columbia, S.C., and Paul is a commercial banker with Wells Fargo.

Joyce Eaton, executive associate to the president, is committee liaison.

The meeting was a historic “getting-to-know-you opportunity” for the leaders that could allow them to build personal ties and shape a cooperative relationship, George told the Desert Sun, a newspaper serving Palm Springs, Calif., and the Coachella Valley.

“The summit can certainly cool tensions between the U.S. and China,” he said.

A professor of political science and East Asian studies, George is the author of  China’s Security State: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics, a book published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press.

Guilford College student billing has gone green! Beginning with the fall 2013 student billing, we will no longer be mailing paper invoices! We previously announced our partnership with Higher One and our plans to begin billing Guilford students electronically through a secure Internet portal. This system is now live, and the first electronic invoices will be available July 1.

• Electronic statements will be provided through our new Internet portal, and up-to-date balances will be available 24/7 at this secure site.
• Students and parents will be able to easily process electronic payments for all enrollment-related charges.
• Our new online portal will also allow families needing deferred payment options to quickly set up monthly payment plans.
• Enhanced refund options have already been introduced. More timely refunds are now being issued, and students are no longer required to pick up refund checks at New Garden Hall.

As economic uncertainty continues and so many families are impacted by job losses, we are ever mindful of our responsibility to be diligent stewards of funds entrusted to us by our students, their parents and others who support us. Guilford College remains committed to providing excellent instructional and transformative programs as cost effectively as possible, and we are focused on efficiencies and opportunities for reductions in our operating costs.

The College provides students the convenience of using credit or debit cards to pay tuition, fees, and other enrollment-related costs. However, the fees associated with these transactions must be paid to financial institutions, and the cost to Guilford College for accepting credit and debit card payments has been about $150,000 annually. While we certainly understand the reasons families choose these payment methods, we also believe these funds are better spent supporting our educational mission. Thus, in order to continue accepting credit and debit card payments, the changes summarized below are necessary and will be implemented effective July 1, 2013.

• Payments of tuition, fees, room and board, and other enrollment-related charges made with VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express cards will be assessed a non-refundable 2.75% convenience fee.
• Families wishing to avoid convenience fee charges are encouraged to use online checks, ACH payments, wire transfers, personal checks, or other available payment options.
• Although we previously announced that VISA card payments would no longer be accepted for enrollment-related charges, VISA has now become eligible for our new program. Thus, VISA debit and credit cards will be accepted through the online portal.
• Credit or debit card payments for tuition, fees, room and board, and other enrollment-related charges will now be accepted only through our new online payment portal. Credit or debit card payments over the telephone will no longer be available.
• The only forms of payment accepted in the Student Financial Services (SFS) office for paying tuition and other enrollment-related charges will be cash, check or money order. However, online access will be provided to SFS visitors wishing to make payments through our new Internet payment portal.

We believe good stewardship compels Guilford College to discontinue our past practice of paying credit card service fees for our students, and to use those funds to further the mission of the College. Many institutions have already implemented this change (e.g., Earlham College, Elon University, and High Point University) and others are developing similar plans. We made our decision to enhance the billing, payment, and refund processes after considerable review and with an awareness of the very positive impact we believe it will have on our students and their families.

We will soon be providing more information about these new processes. Please let us know if you have questions.

Sincerely,

Greg Bursavich, CPA
Vice President for Finance
(336) 316-2841
bursavichgf@guilford.edu

The workshop and training was presented by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina and the N.C. Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

Topics covered included assessing cyber risk, threats to the homeland, FBI’s InfraGard Program and trends in IT security threats, state cyber attacks and leveraging best practices to combat cyber terrorism.

Presentations were made by personnel from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice and SAS–the Research Triangle Park-based national leader in business analytics software and services. President Kent Chabotar offered welcoming remarks to the conferees.

“Hosting this important meeting gave Guilford the opportunity to spotlight its outstanding programs in forensics and justice & policy studies as well as the really strong relationship the College has developed with law enforcement over the years,” said Ron Stowe, director of public safety.

“We are very pleased to have partnered on this event and look forward to other opportunities that bring positive attention to the College, our faculty and students.”

Guilford has offered courses in forensics for about 35 years and a concentration in forensic science beginning in 1999 and was the first college in the state to offer a forensics major when it launched forensic biology in 2002.

Many law enforcement and justice system professionals have studied in the College’s well-regarded justice & policy studies and criminal justice programs.

She will be teaching in two high schools in Wels, Austria, beginning Sept. 19. Meanwhile, Ryan Sanders ’12 will be completing the second year of his own teaching assistantship in Austria.

“I’ll be aiding two English teachers in the classroom through discussion leading and cultural lessons,” Colleen says. “This is to build the students’ conversational abilities and learn a bit more about American culture from the source.”

The teaching assistantship offers the opportunity for participants to be cultural ambassadors, develop professional skills, network internationally and live and travel in a new place. A native of Berkeley Heights, N.J., Colleen was a German Studies and English major who graduated last May.

Over the past 19 years, Guilford students with German majors and minors have received 25 Fulbright-related awards for teaching in Germany and Austria. The awards offer full support for traveling and living abroad.

Dave Limburg, professor of German foreign languages, coordinates the opportunities for the students.

Bryan Brendley

A front-page story in the June 3 Greensboro News & Record highlighted the January Term project on cold cases led by Assistant Professor of Biology Bryan Brendley.

Guilford County Assistant District Attorney Christopher Parrish, himself a part-time lecturer at the College, presented an actual case to the students.

“We’re all trying to figure out, ‘How can we assist law enforcement?’” Bryan told the newspaper. “We’re trying to bring fresh energy – fresh eyes.”

The cost is $195 for five lectures, and approximately 350 seats are available in the rear orchestra and balcony of War Memorial Auditorium.

The Bryan Series will present former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Oct. 29, scientist and ocean explorer Robert Ballard Nov. 19, violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman Feb. 13, poet and professor Elizabeth Alexander March 4, and 60 Minutes correspondents Steve Kroft and Lara Logan April 8.

New subscriptions may be ordered online at bryanseries.guilford.edu. For more information or assistance, call 336-316-2852. Discounted season parking passes are available.

The series has been sold out on a subscription basis four of the past five seasons. More than 1,600 subscribers have renewed their subscriptions for next season.

• Celine De Perlinghi-Johnson and Joe Cole (Philosophy)
• Joseph McManus and George Guo (Political Science)
• Rose McIntyre and Daniel Rhodes (CMJS)
• Tara Strefling and David Hildreth (Education)
• Travis Moore and Megan White (Biology)
• Lyes Benarbane and Lisa McLeod (Philosophy)

The teams are engaged in one-on-one mentoring and hands-on research related to Greensboro’s Bog Garden for eight weeks, May 28-July 24.

Sponsored by the Center for Principled Problem Solving and the Office of Undergraduate Research, the new program emphasizes research conscious of the ethical dimensions of knowledge and knowledge creation.

The Bog Garden at Benjamin Park is an actively preserved, 7-acre natural area in the middle of the city. The researchers will engage an ethical concern shaped by one or more of the College’s Core Values of community, diversity, equality, excellence, integrity, justice and stewardship.

All participants will meet for reflection and discussion at least once a week during the session. In addition to their research projects, teams will complete a reflection document that links their experience with the experiences of other participants.

The weekly discussions will provide an opportunity for students and faculty to see how all of the projects are connected. Outside experts and guests will be included in some of these discussions.

Students will present their research at a public reception early in the fall semester.