Archive for April, 2012
April 26, 2012
CAPE CHARLES, Va. – Men’s golf won a league record-tying 12th Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championship Tuesday at Bay Creek Resort. The 19-stroke victory was the team’s fifth tournament win of the year and second straight conference title.
The team earned the conference’s berth in the NCAA Division III Championships May 15-18 at Mission Inn and Resort Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., where it will be making a league-record 17th NCAA appearance.
Read the full story at the Guilford Athletics website.
April 26, 2012
Guilford will hold the commencement exercises of its 175th year at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 5, on the lawn in front of King Hall. President KENT CHABOTAR will preside over his 10th commencement and give the charge to the graduates.
Invited speaker PATTI DIGH ’82, a writer, teacher, speaker and social justice activist, will deliver remarks entitled The Geography of Verbs. Students TIFFANY LAUDERBAUGH KALLAM ’12 and JUSTIN SCOTT KIRCHNER ’12 also will speak. More
April 26, 2012
The Greensboro News & Record on April 25 covered a study of housing gaps by Guilford students led by associate professor SHERRY GILES and teaching assistant JOHN ST. LOUIS.
A dozen justice and policy studies students interviewed 57 homeless people in collaboration with the Interactive Resource Center, which provides assistance to those who are homeless. They found that “the city needs more and safer temporary shelters; more help for certain groups of people such as ex-felons, single parents and mental patients; and more affordable, permanent housing,” according to the story.
April 26, 2012
President KENT CHABOTAR was quoted in a Businessweek story about High Point University. The article examined the challenge of rapidly remaking a college or university. “Reputations take forever to change,” said Kent, who was interviewed due to his expertise in higher education finance.
Kent recently returned from New York where he conducted a strategic finance seminar for Bank Street College of Education’s master’s program in museum management in addition to meetings with Guilford parents, alumni and a potential donor. Later, he again taught the Seminar for New Board Members at the National Conference on Trusteeship in Washington.
April 26, 2012
Athletes from Guilford College, Greensboro College and the Special Olympics will team up for an afternoon of inclusive sports 1-4 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at Guilford College.
“Sports have taught me the value of teamwork and friendship,” said MEREDITH FOSCUE ’14, a Guilford volleyball player and one of the event organizers. “I’m looking forward to forming new bonds with the Special Olympics athletes.”
Hosted by the Guilford College Student Athlete Advisory Committee, the Sport Expo and Unity Cup will welcome athletes from the Greensboro-High Point sector of the Special Olympics. It is Guilford’s second event with Special Olympians this academic year, and reflects the partnership between NCAA Division III and the Special Olympics.
For the event’s first two hours, Special Olympians will move from station to station, learning about football, flag football, kickball and volleyball. At 3 p.m., Special Olympians and members of the men’s soccer teams from the two colleges will play together, with the Unity Cup going to the winning team.
Students interested in volunteering should contact Student Athlete Advisory Committee Vice President Meredith Foscue or SAAC Advisor EMILY GANN.
April 26, 2012
Women’s lacrosse player LILY COLLEY ’14 has been named Student-Athlete of the Week April 16-22 by the College’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
She tallied 11 points on six goals and five assists in the Quakers’ 1-1 week., and she scored a career-high 10 points, second-highest in school history, in an April 21 win over Randolph College. The 5-6 attacker finished with a personal-best six goals and four assists plus four ground balls and two caused turnovers in the team’s record 10th win of the season. She also recorded an assist in an April 18 road loss to 15th ranked Washington and Lee University.
She set Guilford’s season records for points (72) and assists (28) in the Randolph game, breaking TINA BEAHAN’s ’97 season points record (69) set in 1996 and MARY HUTCHINS’ ’08 season assists mark (25) set in 2007. She ranks fourth in the ODAC in assists averaging 1.60 per game and ninth in points per game (4.13), and has led the team’s scorers eight times this year.
Coach MATTHEW GROSSO’s team (10-6, 7-2 ODAC) has won six of its last eight games and are enjoying their best season. The team will host a quarterfinal round game in the ODAC Tournament Saturday, April 28. The full pairings will be announced upon conclusion of the regular season.
April 26, 2012
It’s a real rogue’s gallery that threatens Guilford Woods: autumn olive, akebia and multiflora rose, just to name a few. But friends of the woods are fighting back. More
April 26, 2012
Campus Life is relocating to Milner Student Health and Counseling Center on Monday, April 30, while Founders Hall is renovated. The move should be completed by 5 p.m. on Monday. It will return to Founders for the fall semester.
This includes Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students AARON FETROW and staff members in the areas of Campus Life, Student Leadership and Engagement, First Year Program and Residence Life.
April 19, 2012
For the third year in a row, Guilford has been named one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the U.S. and Canada by The Princeton Review.
The education service included Guilford in its free downloadable book The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges. The guidebook, created in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, took into account sustainability in academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation.
With a “green rating” of 93, Guilford is one of only 11 North Carolina colleges profiled in the guide. To learn more about what Guilford is doing to reduce its impact on the environment, visit our Sustainability Blog.
April 19, 2012
An internship at the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship has led to a co-author credit for CCE business major KENDRA BROOKS. Her work as a paid intern last summer contributed to a paper recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, “Online Doctor Reviews: Do They Track Surgeon Volume, a Proxy for Quality of Care.”
“Everyone was pleased with the outcome of the internship, and to have a published article from the experience is a significant benefit,” says SAM FUNCHESS ’98, president and CEO of the Nussbaum Center. He earned degrees in accounting and management at Guilford.
BETTY KANE supervised Kendra’s work last summer and will also serve as faculty sponsor for the intern to be chosen for this summer. The selection process for the 2012 summer internship with the Nussbaum Center is currently underway. The internships are funded by BB&T and administered through the Center for Principled Problem Solving.
