GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College is pleased to announce that the following students received their degrees on May 11, 2019: Alla Ahmed Alaghbri of High Point, N.C., B.A. in History and Religion Moira Elizabeth Bailey of Burlington, N.C., B.A. in English Patrick Austin Bane of Warrenton, Va., B.A. in Criminal Justice Brianna Evorn Best of Greensboro, N.C., B.A. in Criminal Justice Jahi Emaud Bogard of Greensboro, N.C., B.A. in Theatre Teron Kalid Brooker-Parquet of … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Announces May 2019 Graduates
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Five Greensboro College Students Receive Paid Summer Internships Through Campus Greensboro
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Five Greensboro College students have received paid summer internships as part of Campus Greensboro’s Fellows Program. In addition to an internship, the 10-week program includes mentoring from a community leader and a two-day leadership training session through the Leonard Kaplan Leadership Institute at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro. The five are: Devin D'Agostin, a rising senior health sciences major from Morrisville, N.C., who will be interning … [Read more...] about Five Greensboro College Students Receive Paid Summer Internships Through Campus Greensboro
Greensboro College Announces Spring 2019 Dean’s List
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College is pleased to announce that the following students achieved Dean’s List academic status for the Spring 2019 semester. To qualify, a student must have a 3.5 grade-point average or better for the semester while having taken at least half of his/her course credit hours at Greensboro College’s main campus. The students are: Daniel Lee Absher, North Wilkesboro, N.C. Alla Ahmed Alaghbri, High Point, N.C. Ashton Jay Albright, Liberty, N.C. … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Announces Spring 2019 Dean’s List
Greensboro College Awards Its Highest Honor to Security Chief Calvin L. Gilmore
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College awarded its highest honor, the Nannie Lee Smith Exemplary Service Medal, during today’s Commencement ceremony to Calvin L. Gilmore, the college’s longtime director of campus safety and security. In presenting the award, college President Lawrence D. Czarda, Ph.D., cited Gilmore for his helpfulness, kindness, patience and consistency, characteristics as revered by alumni from decades ago as they are by today’s graduates. Since joining the college staff … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Awards Its Highest Honor to Security Chief Calvin L. Gilmore
Greensboro College Grants Retiring Professor Debra Davidson Emerita Status During Commencement
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s Debra Davidson, a professor of education, was granted emerita status today during the college’s Commencement ceremony. Emeritus/emerita status may be awarded to a Greensboro College faculty member who has limited or terminated his/her responsibilities as a faculty member for reasons such as retirement after 10 or more years of distinguished service to the college. Davidson, who is retiring this spring, was cited for her 33 years of distinguished … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Grants Retiring Professor Debra Davidson Emerita Status During Commencement
Greensboro College Awards 2019-2020 Moore Professorship to Michelle Plaisance
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has named Michelle Plaisance, associate professor of English and of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, its Moore Professor for 2019-2020. Since her appointment in August 2014 to the Department of English, Communication & Media Studies and to the directorship of the college’s M.A. program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Plaisance has developed the program from a few dozen students to more than 120. In two weeks she … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Awards 2019-2020 Moore Professorship to Michelle Plaisance
Greensboro College Names Paola Carolina Forigua Cruz Distinguished Graduating Graduate Student
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has named Paola Carolina Forigua Cruz its Distinguished Graduating Graduate Student for 2019. Forigua Cruz, a native of Venezuela currently living in New Bern, N.C., received the award along with her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) during the college’s Commencement exercises earlier today. Forigua Cruz was cited for her perfect 4.0 grade-point average and her recent Best Paper Award at the TESOL and Applied Linguistics … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Names Paola Carolina Forigua Cruz Distinguished Graduating Graduate Student
Greensboro College Recognizes Samantha Renee Saint as Outstanding Adult Undergraduate Student
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has presented Samantha Renee Saint the William Henry and Martha Grant Likins Award as this year’s outstanding graduating adult undergraduate student. She received the award today along with her B.A. in history and Social Studies education, cum laude (with honors), during the college’s Commencement exercises. “Having overcome some significant obstacles early in life, Samantha vowed to herself and her son, Seth, that she would graduate from college … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Recognizes Samantha Renee Saint as Outstanding Adult Undergraduate Student
Greensboro College Names Alla Ahmed Alaghbri Outstanding Traditional Graduating Senior
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has awarded the Harold H. Hutson Award, presented annually to the outstanding traditional graduating senior, to Alla Ahmed Alaghbri of High Point. Alaghbri, who received his B.A. in history and religion summa cum laude (with highest honors) today, came to the U.S. in high school from his native, war-torn Yemen, where he had once belonged to the Yemeni national tennis team. He has earned a full scholarship to the University of Chicago to pursue a doctorate … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Names Alla Ahmed Alaghbri Outstanding Traditional Graduating Senior
Greensboro College Names D’andre Hardy Director of Retention
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has named D’andre Hardy director of retention. She began work May 6. In that role, she will oversee the college’s student retention efforts as part of its larger effort to increase student persistence and graduation rates with a five-year, $1.93 million Title III grant from the U.S. Department of Education, awarded this past October. Title III grants are intended to help colleges and universities serve low-income students. Hardy comes to Greensboro … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Names D’andre Hardy Director of Retention
Greensboro College Professor Wins Second Research Fellowship for Forthcoming Book
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Heather Chacón, an assistant professor of English at Greensboro College, has won a $4,000 grant for research on her forthcoming book. Chacón is receiving $4,000 from the Legacy Center at Drexel University for research in the center’s archives this summer and fall. The research is for her forthcoming book, “Health Movements: Medicine, Empire, and Commerce in 19th Century American Literature and Culture.” The book examines written texts by known medical doctors, lay … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Professor Wins Second Research Fellowship for Forthcoming Book
Greensboro College Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Productions
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College Theatre’s 2019-2020 season will feature seven productions, including a mystery, a Shakespeare play, a musical, a period romance, and a touring children’s play, the department’s chairman, David Schram, Jefferson Pilot Professor of Theatre, has announced. The schedule follows. Performance venues and showtimes will be posted later this summer at www.greensboro.edu/theatre. “Babes in Hollywood: The Music of Garland and Rooney,” musical revue adapted by … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Productions
Greensboro College Board of Trustees Promotes, Grants Tenure to Several Professors
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Board of Trustees today approved several faculty promotions, granted tenure to a professor, and granted emerita status to another. Those affected are: Natasha Veale: promoted from associate professor to full professor of special education. Veale, who holds B.S. degrees from both the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and N.C. A&T State University, an M.Ed. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Ph.D. from Capella … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Board of Trustees Promotes, Grants Tenure to Several Professors
Greensboro College Student Newspaper Ties for First Place in Journalism Contest
GREENSBORO, N.C. – For the third consecutive year, The Collegian, Greensboro College’s student-powered newspaper, has tied for first place nationally in its category in the annual American Scholastic Press Association awards. The Collegian tied for first place with Elizabethtown College’s Etownian and Waynesburg University’s Yellow Jacket in the category of schools with 1,001 to 1,750 students. The award was granted on the basis of the newspaper’s Sept. 26, 2018, and Dec. 3, 2018, print … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Student Newspaper Ties for First Place in Journalism Contest
Greensboro College Announces 2019 Baccalaureate and Commencement Speakers
GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Greensboro College trustee and retired law-school dean will address Greensboro College’s 2019 graduates at Commencement May 11, and a minister and alumnus of the college will speak at the college’s Baccalaureate/Cap & Gown ceremony May 10. The commencement speaker will be George R. Johnson Jr., dean emeritus and professor of law at the Elon University School of Law. Johnson has served since 2017 on the Greensboro College Board of Trustees. His speech is titled, “To … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Announces 2019 Baccalaureate and Commencement Speakers
Greensboro College Names New Athletic Training Center for Former Trustee and Alumnus’s Parents
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will name its new athletic training center after a former trustee and his wife in recognition of their major capital-campaign gift. The Willie and Lisa Bullock Athletic Training Center was completed in December. Through it, the college’s athletic training program delivers traditional athletic training and sports medicine services to student athletes by: helping with prevention of athletic injuries. recognition, evaluation, and treatment of athlete … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Names New Athletic Training Center for Former Trustee and Alumnus’s Parents
Greensboro College Offers a Workshop on Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education Beginning June 10
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will offer a three-day workshop on the basics of Universal Design for Learning in higher education beginning Monday, June 10. The workshop, which continues Wednesday, June 12, and Thursday, June 13, is for those who want to understand Universal Design for Learning at a basic level and be empowered to take this information back to your institutions to disseminate this new pedagogy and see increases in student success. This course addresses such questions … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Offers a Workshop on Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education Beginning June 10
17th Annual Greensboro College Stream Walk Clears Debris from Stream, Finds Stream in Good Shape
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College faculty, staff and students pulled 22 bags of debris from the water and banks of College Branch, the stream that runs along the campus’s eastern edge, during the 17th Annual Spring Stream Walk held April 29. The volunteers also gathered a 5-gallon bucket full of pieces of metal, a sofa cushion, a desk chair, and a knapsack. Calhoun Bond, professor of biology at Greensboro College and the event’s organizer, said that in its channel the stream looked … [Read more...] about 17th Annual Greensboro College Stream Walk Clears Debris from Stream, Finds Stream in Good Shape
Greensboro College’s English Honor Society Inducts Nine New Members
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international honor society in English, has inducted nine new members. They are: Keeley O’Quinn Catarineau, a junior English & Communication Studies major from Tavernier, Fla. Glenn Maurice Evans, a junior English & Communication Studies major from Greensboro, N.C. Lindsey Rebecca Mead, a sophomore theatre/musical theatre major from High Point, N.C. Elizabeth Peyton Perdue, a sophomore English and … [Read more...] about Greensboro College’s English Honor Society Inducts Nine New Members
Greensboro College’s History Honor Society Inducts New Members
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s Phi Alpha Theta history honor society inducted five new members today. They are: Adelaide Leigh Elliott, a senior English and Communication Studies major and history and creative writing minor from Walnut Cove, N.C. Gwyneth Frances Navey, a junior history and political science major and Humanities and Legal Administration minor from Florence, S.C. Samantha Renee Saint, a senior History-Social Studies Education major from Archdale, N.C. … [Read more...] about Greensboro College’s History Honor Society Inducts New Members
Greensboro College Head Men’s Basketball Coach Resigns to Become Coach at Eckerd College
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Bryan Galuski, Greensboro College’s director of athletics and head men’s basketball coach, has resigned to become head men’s basketball coach at his alma mater, Division II Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla. “Most people never get the chance to coach at their alma mater, so this is a very special opportunity for me,” Galuski said. “But the players and their families, the coaches, and the co-workers I’ve met and worked with here at Greensboro College over the past 14 … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Head Men’s Basketball Coach Resigns to Become Coach at Eckerd College
Greensboro College Will Hold Annual Spring Stream Walk April 26
UPDATE: Because of expected rainy weather, the Stream Walk has been postponed until 2-4 p.m. Monday, April 29. GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College community will hold its 17th annual Spring Stream Walk, 3-5 p.m. Friday, April 26, to clean the banks of the creek that flows along the campus’s eastern edge and assess the health of the stream. Greensboro College “adopted” College Branch, as the stream is known, in 2003 in cooperation with the city of Greensboro’s Water … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Will Hold Annual Spring Stream Walk April 26
Two Greensboro College Students Win Scholarships from Alpha Chi National Honor Society
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Two Greensboro College students have been awarded scholarships by the national cross-disciplinary honor society Alpha Chi. Hannah Leigh Clayton has received an H.Y. Benedict Fellowship, worth $3,000, to pursue graduate education in 2019-2020. Clayton is a graduating senior athletic training major from Willow Spring, N.C., who will begin graduate work this fall at the University of Kentucky. Timothy Samuel Crowell has received an Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship, worth $2,000, … [Read more...] about Two Greensboro College Students Win Scholarships from Alpha Chi National Honor Society
Greensboro College Unveils New Athletics Logo During 24-Hour Fundraiser
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College today unveiled a new athletics logo as part of on-campus celebration of the college’s annual Give4GC 24-hour day of giving. “In a liberal-arts institution as old as this, some things never change because they are our ethos; they are in our DNA and always will be,” President Lawrence D. Czarda, Ph.D., told a crowd of about 200 students, faculty and staff gathered outside Main Building. “They are in our DNA and always will be. “But as times change, so do … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Unveils New Athletics Logo During 24-Hour Fundraiser
Greensboro College Chapter of Academic Honor Society Inducts Four New Members
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s chapter of the national cross-disciplinary honor society Alpha Chi has inducted four new members. They are: Benedict Andrew Burgess, a senior theatre/acting and English major from Earlysville, Va. Keeley O'Quinn Catarineau, a junior English & Communication Studies major from Tavernier, Fla. Kathryn Marie Stevens, a junior criminal justice and psychology major from Boone, N.C. Jordan Shea Welborn, a junior English education major from … [Read more...] about Greensboro College Chapter of Academic Honor Society Inducts Four New Members
