Archive for March, 2012
March 29, 2012
All faculty and staff are invited to a budget forum from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in the Joseph M. Bryan Jr. Auditorium. Sponsored by the Budget Committee, the forum will provide an update on the budget for 2012–13 and allow time for questions and answers.
If you would like to submit questions, comments or concerns before the meeting, please send them to Garland Granger, chair of the Budget Committee. Background about the budget is available in a March 1 Beacon article.
March 29, 2012
DAN NONTE has been appointed associate director of communications & marketing-editorial. An experienced higher education communications specialist and journalist, he began working at Guilford March 19.
As a member of the communications & marketing team, Dan manages news services and serves as the College’s key contact with media. He edits Guilford College Magazine, contributes website content, edits the Guilford Beacon and handles other writing assignments.
If you have ideas for Guilford stories that should be shared with a wider audience, please give him a call at 316-2335 or send him an email at nontedm@guilford.edu.
Dan was assistant director of university relations at UNCG for seven years, after serving as senior writer for two years. He helped the university gain media recognition in national outlets such as CNN, The Washington Post and USA Today. He wrote and edited feature stories, Web copy and news releases about university teaching, research and service.
A resident of Greensboro since 1999, he was a staff writer at the News & Record for more than three years. He also worked as a reporter for The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Va., and The Daily Advance in Elizabeth City.
Dan earned a B.A. in English literature from the College of William & Mary, where he received the Tradition of Service Award.
He succeeds SARA BUTNER, who accepted a job as director of marketing for the N.C. Shakespeare Festival in October.
March 29, 2012
Faculty members KEN GILMORE and ROBERT DUNCAN will lead a public discussion – “Is America Still Exceptional?” – at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 1, in Hege Library Lower Level.
Sponsored by the Guilford College Friends of the Library, this Bryan Series Faculty Seminar will touch on topics explored by Fareed Zacharia, a leading authority on international affairs, who will speak April 10.
Ken is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science; Robert is a visiting assistant professor of political science. Refreshments will be served.
March 29, 2012
The Faculty Affairs Committee is seeking written comments about the following faculty members, who have been nominated for promotion. Letters are used on a confidential basis, but must be signed and submitted via hard copy to the Academic Dean’s Office.
Faculty nominated for full professorships – Deadline for letters: 5 p.m. April 15
- GEORGE GUO
- DAVID HILDRETH
- STEVE SHAPIRO
- LAVON WILLIAMS
Faculty nominated for associate professorships – Deadline for letters: 5 p.m. May 15
- MARIA BOBROFF
- SARAH ESTOW
- TOM GUTHRIE
- WENDY LOOKER
- Will PIZIO
- DONALD SMITH
- JULIE WINTERICH
March 29, 2012
TOM GUTHRIE, who has spent a decade researching multicultural politics in northern New Mexico, will give a talk – “Whiteness and the Power of Invisibility” – at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in King 126. He is chair of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology.
This event is part of the Whiteness Series and is co-sponsored by Multicultural Education and the Center for Principled Problem Solving. Contact JUDY HARVEY or JORGE ZEBALLOS for more information.
March 29, 2012
New York-based installation artist Phoebe Washburn, who has been called “one of the country’s most closely watched young artists,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in Joseph M. Bryan Jr. Auditorium.
The daughter of PARKER ’69 and ARTHUR ’69 WASHBURN, the visiting artist creates monumental-scale works utilizing discarded and recycled materials such as wood from pallets, cardboard boxes and newspaper and fish tanks. Her painstaking process involves elements of chance and obsessive repetition.
Phoebe has shown at the Deutsche Guggenheim and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and is represented by Zach Feuer Gallery in New York.
March 29, 2012
“That Paradise Will Be Mine,” the fourth and final film in a semester-long series on Muslim women presented by DIYA ABDO’S IDS 485 Arab and Islamic Feminisms class, will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in Founders Gallery.
Why would a woman in one of the most liberal Western European countries choose to become a Muslim and faithfully follow the demands of her new conviction — including wearing the veil? This 55-minute film from 2005 follows the lives of three women dealing with the consequences of their choice to convert to Islam. ”
The event will be moderated by students KATE EDGREN, CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, MICHAEL O’MALLEY and MELODY ROSE. For more information contact Abdo at 316-2214 or abdod@guilford.edu.
March 29, 2012
President KENT CHABOTAR delivered the keynote address – “Has the Bubble Burst? Strategies for Higher Education in a New Environment” – at the sixth annual Evisions Conference in Las Vegas on March 25.
Kent’s address was aimed at showing mid-level data managers and institutional researchers the needs and expectations of governing boards and chief executives in uncertain times. Evisions is a software company based in California and Oregon that delivers reporting, payment processing, data protection, grant submission and document handling services to more than 900 colleges and universities, including Guilford.
March 29, 2012
National Geographic Magazine reporter Cynthia Gorney will visit Guilford April 4-5 to meet with faculty and students as part of an affiliation between Guilford and two other Triad universities, which have joined the Campus Consortium of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
Gorney, who will be joined by Pulitzer Center founding director Jon Sawyer, will discuss a project that recently attracted global attention – the heart-breaking, age-old ritual of brides as young as eight years old in countries such as Afghanistan, Yemen and Ethiopia. Their schedule is as follows:
- Wednesday, April 4
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. – Journalism class visit, Duke 103. Students in the class plus others from The Guilfordian.
- Thursday, April 5
3-4:15 p.m. – Center for Principled Problem Solving reception, remarks, Q&A, Multicultural Center, King Hall. Open to anyone.
7:30-9 p.m. – Public presentation, short film, remarks, Q&A, Bryan Auditorium. Open to anyone, free.
Guilford has joined Wake Forest University and High Point University in a two-year agreement with the Pulitzer Center that will bring top foreign correspondents to the Triad twice a year. The affiliation provides a global perspective to journalism education on the campuses.
Based in Washington, D.C., the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting provides resources for freelance foreign correspondents in all mediums to pursue important stories around the globe that are then fed back into newspapers, television news programs and web sites.
The Campus Consortium now has 15 member schools. It helps connect the work of those overseas journalists with students and faculty members around the country.
March 29, 2012
For the second straight season, Guilford faculty and staff have the opportunity to request the two free tickets the College has for each Greensboro Grasshoppers home baseball game.
The schedule begins Thursday, April 5. A seven-game opening series runs through April 11, and there are a total of 18 home games before mid-May. All games are at NewBridge Bank Park downtown.
Tickets will be distributed throughout the season on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are interested, contact SUZANNE SULLIVAN by emailing ssulliva@guilford.edu at least five business days before the game you wish to attend. (This ensures sufficient time for the tickets to be delivered via interoffice mail.)
The tickets are provided by Communications & Marketing through a College sponsorship with the team.
