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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……
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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……
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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……
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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……
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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……
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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……
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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……
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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,……
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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,……
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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,……
