Archive for June, 2012
June 21, 2012
Dianna Laverne Miller Combo, who was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Business Management at Guilford, died Friday, June 15. She was 45.
A funeral service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 2700 W. Vandalia Road, Greensboro. She is survived by her husband, Robert Leon Combo; and four sons, Adrianne, Dejuanne “DJ,” Deonnte and Bryson.
The College community offers condolences to the family and all who knew Dianna. Her obituary is available on the News & Record website.
June 21, 2012
Following is updated contact information for most service areas within the administration division:
The Solution Center is located in Bauman Telecommunications Center. Contact the Solution Center on GuilfordNet or at 316-2020 when you need assistance with the following items:
• Help desk tickets
• Meeting room reservations
• Maintenance work orders
• Media check outs
• Key requests/pick-ups
• Quaker card services
• Door access needs
Other Key Contacts:
• Brian Wenger: Events planning and management in addition to small project management and overall summer operations management.
• David Petree: Sustainability issues, including the community garden
• Craig Gray: Information Technology and Systems (IT&S).
• Randy Rasmussen: Maintenance
• Mike Merkel: PE Center
• Lynn Van Horn: Mail and Print Services
• Eric Brown: Grounds
• Gerald Little: Housekeeping
• Teresa Sanford: Help Desk
• Rex Harrell: Support Services (Quaker Card Services, door access, project management, administration division website management, campus signage, special projects and support for the vice president for administration with bookstore and dining management)
• Becky Renteria: Support for the vice president and all business activities within the division.
• Snehal Deshmukh: Dining
• Karen Swindells: Bookstore
• Brett Hacker: Energy
If you have questions about any of these items or anything not covered above, email or call Vice President Jon Varnell at jvarnell@guilford.edu or 316-2153.
June 21, 2012
More than 20 years ago, Emily Currie stayed for about six months at the Women’s Shelter in Charlotte. She’s felt called to help others ever since. More
June 21, 2012
Women’s lacrosse coach Matt Grosso is leaving Guilford after eight years to start a women’s lacrosse team at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, that will begin play in 2014.
Grosso is Guilford’s winningest and longest tenured women’s lacrosse coach with a 56-75 overall record including a record-setting 11-7 mark in 2012. He was named Old Dominion Athletic Conference Coach of the Year Award this spring after leading the Quakers to a share of second place in the regular-season standings and their first ODAC Tournament berth since 1992.
A search for Grosso’s replacement is underway. The new coach will inherit 12 letter winners from the 2012 team, including six starters and four All-ODAC honorees.
June 21, 2012
Donna Rasmussen ’04, has been appointed digital communications coordinator in the Office of Communications & Marketing and begins work Monday, June 25. She succeeds Eva Hardy, who left the College April 26.
Most recently, Rasmussen was a project manager for Get You Found Online Marketing of Greensboro. In that role she assisted multiple clients with blogging, social media, email marketing and building websites. She created social media guides and website training manuals.
Among a range of duties as digital communications coordinator, she will work with departments to develop and post content for the College website and contribute ideas and content for the College’s Facebook, Twitter and other social media presences.
Rasmussen earned a bachelor’s degree in peace and conflict studies and political science and was a presidential scholar at Guilford. She has a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke University.
June 21, 2012
The Board of Trustees at its June 2 meeting awarded tenure to seven faculty members:
- Alfonso Abad Mancheño, assistant professor of Spanish
- Sarah Estow, assistant professor of psychology
- Thomas H. Guthrie, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology
- Christopher D. Henry, assistant professor of psychology
- Benjamin A. Marlin, associate professor of mathematics
- Sanjay Marwah, assistant professor of justice and policy studies
- Julie A. Winterich, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology
June 21, 2012
Nancy Rae Baecker, mother of bulk mail specialist Nelson Baecker, died June 10. She was 81 and lived in Brown Summit. No public service was held. A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., she is survived by Nelson, his two sisters and a grandson.
The College community offers condolences to Nelson and his family.
June 21, 2012
President Kent Chabotar was quoted in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about Theresa Sullivan, who was forced out of the University of Virginia presidency. Theresa, a self-described “incrementalist” who had led the institution for two years, felt pressured by members of the Board of Visitors to quickly make dramatic changes.
Faced with financial challenges and a changing landscape in higher education, governing boards are increasingly impatient, Kent said. Whereas new presidents were once allowed two years to learn the campus, assemble a leadership team, and connect with alumni and board members, that period has shrunk to more like six months, he said.
Theresa was a participant in the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents in which Kent has taught financial leadership since 1990.
June 21, 2012
I write to address questions expressed after the recent reduction-in-force due largely to the $2.5 million loss in North Carolina state funded financial aid. There are limits due to College policy and best practice in higher education to what we can disclose about personnel matters. That can be frustrating when myths and rumors cloud conversations and the College cannot comment.
That is also hard because we deeply sympathize with the persons affected and their families. We thank them for their service to this College and our students. It is small consolation that colleges and universities across the nation are taking similar actions such as Greensboro College eliminating six faculty and two staff positions earlier this month and the UNC system losing $440 million and cutting 3,000 positions. Nevertheless, even with the personnel and expense cuts announced on June 8, the College still faces a significant deficit next year although we have been able to limit endowment spending to 5 percent of its market value.
Faculty, students, staff and other users of the College network can log on to GuilfordNet for the full budget message.
June 21, 2012
The Wilmington Star-News on June 16 published a Father’s Day profile of Jack Holley ’63.
“Jack Holley’s 412 coaching victories make him the leader in North Carolina high school football history. That feat seems to pale in comparison to accounts of him as a father of three children and grandfather to seven,” the article begins.
