Learn more about how and when decisions are made about changing the schedule for opening the College and delaying or cancelling classes.

The College uses a variety of internal and external means for communicating information about changes in the schedule.

The first event, “Collective Voices Igniting Change,” is 1-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Dana Auditorium. Pastor Santes Beatty ’97, high school pastor at Kentwood Community Church in Kentwood, Mich., will deliver the keynote address. He is a former Guilford football player, assistant football coach and director of African American affairs.

The event also will feature student reflections and live music performances. It is being held Jan. 30 because Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls during the College’s first January Term, when most students are off campus.

For more information, contact Jada Drew, interim director for educational initiatives and community partnerships and Africana Community coordinator in the Multicultural Education Department.

There will be several more events during the following days:

C.P. Gause, associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education at UNCG, will give a talk, “The Journey to Loving Black Men, Hip Hop, and Transgressive Masculinities: How I Got Over,” 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in Bauman Gallery West, Founders Hall. The event will be followed by an informal talk in the cafeteria 12:30-1:30 p.m. For more information, contact Parker Hurley.

“Negotiating the (un)contested terrain of transgressive black masculinities, love, and intimacy continues to be wretched in most circles; yet, applauded in others,” C.P. writes. “Utilizing the narratives from research and auto-ethnography, I interrogate and rupture the notion of popular culture, mainly hip hop pedagogies, as the source for inciting crises for loving black men.”

Jorge Zeballos and Nick Cream will lead the program “Breaking the Silence: Looking at Dr. King in a New Light,” 12:30-2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in the Multicultural Resource Center, Room 128, King Hall. The program will examine the revolutionary speech “Beyond Vietnam, A Time To Break the Silence” by Dr. King in an attempt to understand his prophetic voice as he offered a deep critique of capitalism and militarism in the United States. For more information, contact Nick Cream.

“Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin,” a documentary chronicling the life and contributions of the late civil rights leader, will be screened 6-7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in the Bayard Rustin Center, Room 128E, King Hall. For more information, contact Parker Hurley.

A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. Five years in the making and the winner of numerous awards, “Brother Outsider” presents a feature-length documentary portrait, focusing on Rustin’s activism for peace, racial equality, economic justice and human rights.

The American Association of University Professors has called for more faculty input when institutions are considering whether to close academic programs.

Administrators can reduce suspicion among faculty by maintaining financial transparency in good times as well as bad, Kent said. The use of standard student-to-faculty ratios or student-to-administrator ratios also can help reduce the mystery in decision making, he said.

She will give a talk, read from her novel that was released in September, take questions from the audience and sign books. The event is open to the public at no charge.

Those We Love Most is told through the perspectives of two generations within a family and chronicles how an unimaginable sudden twist of fate forces each family member to confront their choices, examine their mistakes and fight for their most valuable relationships.

Woodruff garnered critical acclaim for the No. 1 New York Times bestseller In an Instant (2007), co-authored with her husband, Bob, which is the compelling and humorous chronicle of her family’s journey to recovery following his roadside bomb injury in Iraq.  She is the author of the essay collection, Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress (2009).

Woodruff has written numerous articles about her family and parenting in magazines such as Health, Parade, Redbook and Ladies Home Journal. As a contributing editor and spokesperson for Family Fun, she has written about health and travel and participated in national and regional broadcasts to discuss various topics on its behalf.

In addition to freelance writing, Woodruff ran her own public relations and marketing consulting business for 16 years.  Before that, she was senior vice president of the public relations firm Porter Novelli. She is a graduate of Colgate University.

She and her husband established the Bob Woodruff Foundation to assist wounded service members and their families.

For more information, visit www.leewoodruff.com.

The event will be at 7:30 p.m. at War Memorial Auditorium, replacing a presentation by Caroline Kennedy, who cancelled her appearance due to another professional obligation. This year’s series is sold out on a subscription basis, and tickets for the original event will be honored. If any tickets are unused by subscribers or the College, they will be put on sale approximately two weeks before the event.

“We are very pleased to host two national leaders discussing how to reduce partisan gridlock and solve America’s problems,” said Ty Buckner, associate vice president for communications & marketing. “Following the recent election campaign and battle over the fiscal cliff, people are looking for answers, and Senator Bradley and Governor Bush will offer their ideas in this bi-partisan conversation.”

Bradley served in the U.S. Senate from 1979-97. He ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2000, was an Olympic gold medalist, two-time NBA champion, Rhodes Scholar and merchant banker. He has authored six New York Times best sellers on the revitalization of American politics, culture and the economy including his latest book—We Can All Do Better (May 2012).

Bush, a Republican, served as governor of Florida from 1999-2007. He led transformation efforts on issues of education, healthcare and immigration, and managed the crisis response to eight hurricanes that hit Florida during his time in office. He is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2016 and is the son and brother of former presidents.

Ifill has interviewed newsmakers and reported on issues ranging from foreign affairs to politics on PBS news programs since 1999, and she has a long and distinguished career as a broadcast and print journalist. She moderated the 2004 and 2008 vice presidential debates.

The next program in the Bryan Series is Sunday, Feb. 10, with children’s advocate Geoffrey Canada. More information is available at bryanseries.guilford.edu.

The first annual run/walk in Greensboro’s Sunset Hills neighborhood raised $18,500 for Second Harvest Food Bank, an organization dedicated to reducing hunger and malnutrition.

The event is named for the lighted Christmas balls that residents of the neighborhood use to decorate trees in their yards. To see photos from the event, visit its Facebook page or the News & Record website.

The center will sponsor Cate’s trip to the United Kingdom during January Term to do original reporting on the murder conviction of Gary Dobson, a topic Cate proposed. Gary was sentenced last year to life in a UK prison for a 1987 killing despite having earlier been found innocent.

Cate is the College’s second Pulitzer Center fellow, following Keyla Beebe in the 2011-12 academic year.

In April, Guilford will host the third Pulitzer Center visitor in the past year, science journalist and radio and web producer Dan Grossman, for discussions and a presentation on climate change. A video about Dan and his work is available on YouTube. Details about his visit will be announced early in the spring semester.

The program was established by President Kent Chabotar to tap the creativity and expertise of the Guilford community for ideas that can increase enrollment, boost revenue and cut costs.

The successful proposals were contributed by students, faculty and staff, and reflect the kinds of innovative and practical thinking the College needs to move forward. They are as follows:

Guilford Mediation Certification Program, Amal Khoury and Jeremy Rinker. The Conflict Resolution Resource Center plans to further develop the theory and practice link in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies at Guilford College by expanding and institutionalizing a mediation and conflict intervention certificate program.

Researching Green Burials at Guilford, Grace Chafin ’13 and Bennett Christian ’12. Conservation and revenue? It is possible through green burial. This project examines what it might look like for Guilford to offer sustainable interment options for those who would like to choose our campus as their final resting place.

Identifying Prospective Guilford Students, Steven Shapiro. A proposed computer program that would make use of available data associated with successful Guilford students in combination with the Neural Network technique to improve the college’s ability to identify prospective students.

SPROUT Summer Leadership Academy for High School Students, Rashawn Edmond, Erin Fox and Alan Mueller. A nine-week experiential leadership program for high school juniors and seniors that builds on Guilford’s SPROUT Emerging Leaders Experience, a collaboration between the Career Development Center and the Office of Student Leadership.

Global Guilford Viewbook, Jack Zerbe. A “take-away” full-color mini-magazine of 12 pages that highlights students’ engagement in and the impact of international education. This publication will feature written testimonials and photos of returning study abroad students and international students in residence at Guilford.

Academic Recruiting Initiative, Heather Hayton, Jim Hood and Steven Shapiro. This project examines the possibility of supplementing traditional admissions work with focused academic recruiting across the disciplines. Academic recruiters would search for and enroll students who are good matches with Guilford’s academic program.

Research for Possible Guilford Autumn Term, Tammy Alt, Barbara Boyette, Erin Dell, Aaron Fetrow, Jim Hood, Andy Strickler. Research into the possibility of designing and implementing a three-week Autumn First Year Experience term for entering traditional age students. This term would combine orientation activities with a sound introduction to the academic expectations of Guilford students and foster student success.

Comprehensive Experiential Learning Program, Jen Agor, Tammy Alt, Erin Fox and Jacob Reardon. A co-curricular experiential learning component that builds on current programs and over time will work to establish a foundation for all leadership involvement outside of the classroom. This program will bring external training in-house and develop a program component available on a fee basis to local high schools, churches and other groups.

Marketing Liberal Arts Business Administration Program Grounded in Quaker Values of Integrity, Community and Stewardship, Betty Kane. A plan to recruit students to Guilford’s unique liberal arts business administration program grounded in Quaker business values. The plan will take advantage of Guilford’s core strengths and reach out to students otherwise not in the College’s admissions pool.

Grant applications were judged based on the following criteria:

• INNOVATIVENESS
  The proposal offers something novel, original, inventive.
  The innovation is an improvement over what exists now.
• IMPACT
  The number of people the proposal may reach.
  The innovation meets an existing or future need.
• FEASABILITY
  The timeline is reasonable and can be implemented within one year.
  The innovation appears to be feasible.
  The budget for the project is detailed, fully explained, reasonable.
• EFFECTIVENESS
  The innovation meets the purpose of the Innovative Grants Fund: to increase enrollment, boost revenue or cut costs.
• SUSTAINABILITY
  The innovation shows capacity for sustainability, future development, and application.

Fans are invited to bring a new, unwrapped toy to any home game in December and receive free admission. Donations may also be made at the Alumni House during regular business hours.

Toys will be distributed by the Greensboro Interactive Resource Center, which helps people who are homeless, recently homeless or facing homelessness reconnect with their lives and the community at large.