Archive for September, 2011
September 29, 2011
Students, faculty and staff can pick up free tickets for the Homecoming 2011 concert featuring the award-winning trio The Good Lovelies at the info desk in Founders Hall. Please present a valid Guilford ID to pick up your tickets.
The concert is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, in Dana Auditorium.
The concert continues a homecoming tradition that has included performances by the Indigo Girls, the Wailin’ Jennys, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Over the Rhine and alumni performers.
September 29, 2011
Following the recently completed Academic Prioritization, the Administrative Program and Services Assessment project was announced in April 2011. The purpose of this assessment is process improvement, greater accountability for results, improved metrics for assessment, and enhanced efficiency. Our goal is not to identify staff or budget reductions/reallocations. However, opportunities for reductions and/or reallocations will be considered should they appear.
The Administrative Program and Services Assessment Team (APSA Team), has been meeting since May. The team is co-chaired by JON VARNELL (Administration) and GREG BURSAVICH (Finance). Members of the team include: CHRISTINA ATKINS (Advancement), BRYAN BRENDLEY (Faculty Representative), ERIN DELL (Academic Affairs), FRED DEVINE (President’s Office), TRACY FURJANIC (Campus Life), OWEN GRUMBLES (Institutional Research), TOM PALOMBO (Enrollment Services), and CALEB WHITED-FORD (Student Representative). ERICA KIMBROUGH and BECKY RENTERIA provide administrative assistance to the team.
The APSA Team has hired the firm Academic Strategy Partners to assist the College with this project. This firm is comprised of four principals, including Robert Dickeson who assisted in the verification of the Academic Prioritization. The APSA Team recently met with Academic Strategy Partners to begin solidifying the process that will be used during the Administrative Program and Services Assessment project.
The APSA Team will be providing a dedicated website on GuilfordNet to the Administrative Program and Services Assessment project. This website will provide information including: the committee charge, team members, guiding principles, timeline, and advertisement of events pertaining to the project. This website will also include the proposed criteria for the community to review and provide feedback, prior to it being dispersed across campus for completion by departments.
The APSA Team has identified the following Guiding Principles for the Administrative Program and Services Assessment:
Transparent: The study criteria, the process and the timetable will be collaboratively developed, approved and well publicized in advance of the study. With reports from departments being posted on GuilfordNet.
Comprehensive: The study criteria will be broad in scope so as to encompass all aspects of an administrative area.
Consistent: The same study criteria will be applied to each administrative area; only their measurement may change as appropriate.
Inclusive: All College programs will be analyzed, and all College employees will have the opportunity to participate in the development of their administrative area reports.
Data-driven: While retaining our value of community, we must also embrace the culture of evidence, one that ensures that administrative area decisions now and in the future will be based on both quantitative and qualitative data. Once established, the database may be updated and used as a management tool going forward.
Confidential: All team members are charged to keep all deliberations confidential and team members are working independent from their other job duties.
The APSA Team will continue to provide updates to the community on the events and development of the process. There will be multiple opportunities for community involvement and feedback, including upcoming forums and workshops. We project that the project should be completed and the results announced to the campus community during the fall 2012 semester.
September 29, 2011
As part of a commitment to sustainability, the Office of Human Resources has provided an electronic copy of the 2011-12 Employee Directory for employee use. You will find the file located in Resources on “gcstore” (L:), in the folder “HR Shared for Faculty-Staff”, as a PDF file named “2011-12 Employee Directory”. The directory is current as of Sept. 1, 2011, and will not be updated until fall 2012.
Current directory information may be accessed in the online directory available through GuilfordNet.
September 28, 2011
GCRO and Campus Ministry’s annual “Take Back Your Time Week” will be held Oct. 24-31. Emphasizing the positive aspects of simple pleasures, relaxation, and scaling back busy-ness, TBYTW offers a variety of opportunities to “take back time” and enjoy — rather than “spend” — this precious commodity.
Among the activities planned are a pick-up softball game, sand lot volleyball, woods walks, all-terrain croquet, chocolate passional attraction groups, a book discussion of Heschel’s “Sabbath,” a barn dance and hayride, a Hallowe’en evening lantern tour of the Quaker graveyard, a Guilford farm tour and slow food offering, homemade doughnuts, bedtime stories & s’mores for vespers, wood chopping, and more.
Check the GCRO “Caw” newsletter, the Buzz, and future Beacons for a full schedule. If you would like to offer an event during the week, contact Campus Ministry.
September 28, 2011
Book study of Shane Claiborne’s The Irresistible Revolution, 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30. The Hut.
Presentation by MAGGIE HARRISON ’06 on the early Friends’ practice of “going naked as a prophetic sign,” 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 1. The Hut.
Concert and CD release by JON WATTS ’06, “Clothe Yourself in Righteousness,” 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 1. The Hut.
College Meeting for Worship, led by SARAH-JAANA NODELL ’12, 1 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 2. Moon Room.
Interreligious Dialogue and Action symposium, Wednesday, Oct. 12, New Garden Friends meetinghouse:
1:30 p.m.– Introductory comments by NAJEEBA SYEED-MILLER ’94.
2 p.m. — Panel on the nature of the Divine with members of the Religious Studies Dept. and other faculty and staff of the College.
3:45 p.m. — Panel on faith and community action with Michael Usey, Sister Gretchen Reintjes, and other invited guests.
5:30 p.m. — Supper discussion.
7:30 p.m. — Keynote by Najeeba Syeed-Miller.
Fall Break work trip with Friends Disaster Service to Bertie County, N.C. Contact Campus Ministry to sign up.
September 28, 2011
A second memorial worship in the manner of Friends for LAURIN FLYNN will be held Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 5:30 p.m. in the Moon Room.
September 28, 2011
ANDREW K. “ANDY” STRICKLER was appointed director of admission effective Sept. 12. Reporting to RANDY DOSS ’82, vice president of enrollment services, Strickler supervises the day-to-day operation of the admission office.
Strickler comes to Guilford with 15 years experience in higher education admission, advancement and athletics administration, most recently as associate director of admissions at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania.
“Andy’s background as a Quaker and his experience working at colleges with values similar to Guilford’s give him a unique understanding of the type of student that will thrive at Guilford College,” Doss said. “He will be critical in identifying and recruiting prospective students nationwide and internationally.”
At Ursinus, Strickler was athletic liaison, coordinating with coaches and recruits on admission and financial aid needs. He managed the Red & Gold open house program for high school seniors as well as open houses for juniors and athletic recruits, and hosted the Open Committee program of half-day campus visits by high school counselors.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Earlham College in Indiana and a master’s degree in social studies education from Indiana University.
September 27, 2011
Guilford will recognize three former student-athletes and one team as the 40th class inducted into its Athletics Hall of Fame Saturday, Oct. 8. Men’s lacrosse player DAVE BROWN ’98 of Rougemont, N.C., men’s basketball manager and student athletic trainer CHARLIE HARRISON ’71 of Atlantic Beach, N.C., men’s soccer player CHRIS JENKINS ’89 of Beaufort, S.C., and the Quakers’ 1980-81 women’s tennis team are this year’s inductees.
The group will be formally inducted at an 11:30 a.m. ceremony in Dana Auditorium and honored at the Quakers’ Homecoming football game against Southern Virginia University that day. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
Guilford’s 1981 women’s tennis team captured a share of the NAIA national championship in the event’s inaugural year. The team was comprised of LILI CARPENTER ’84, STACY COOK ’83, SHIRLEY DUNN ’81, SUE IRETON ’81, KERRY KENNEDY ’83, LEESA SHAPIRO and TAMMY STRICKLAND ’84.
This year’s class raises Guilford’s Athletics Hall of Fame membership to 211 individuals.
September 27, 2011
ANGELA M. MOORE, associate professor of geology and contributor to the Environmental Studies program, was recently approved for registration as a Professional Geologist (PG) by the N.C. Board for the Licensing of Geologists.
Applicants are evaluated based upon education; evidence of professional experience and practice within the field; written support from qualified geologists and engineers regarding skills and moral character; and a sufficient score on two national exams. Licensed geologists are bound by a Professional Code of Conduct, and registration is required by state law in order to prepare any geologic plans, reports or documents in which the performance is related to the public welfare or safeguarding of life, health, property or the environment.
September 27, 2011
JACLYN NUCCI ’13 of the women’s soccer team earned the Guilford College Student-Athlete of the Week Award Monday.
A midfielder, Nucci had two goals on three shots in the Quakers’ 1-1-1 week. She tallied Guilford’s lone score with a first-half header in a 1-1 road draw at Emory & Henry College, the first of her college career. In the Quakers’ 6-0 win over Sweet Briar College, Nucci scored once, which helped the Quakers extend their unbeaten streak to seven. She has seven points on two goals and three assists in 11 matches.
Guilford’s unbeaten streak (5-0-2) ended last week when the Quakers fell to Averett University 2-0 in a nonconference game Sunday.
