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  • Greensboro College Announces Five New Graduate Certificate Programs

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has created five new graduate certificate programs that are being offered to students and the public beginning in August 2019. The five are: Early Childhood Education for Emerging Bilinguals Online ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Teaching and Technology Adult Education for English Learners Applied Linguistics Teaching English Abroad……

  • Greensboro College Presents Second Annual Pride Palooza Admissions Event June 28

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s offices of Admissions and Financial Aid present the second annual Pride Palooza, an event for prospective students and their parents, on Friday, June 28. The event is intended to give guests an overview of the college’s admissions process and financial aid opportunities. It also will feature discussion by a panel……

  • Greensboro College Announces May 2019 Graduates

    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……

  • 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……

  • 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……

  • 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……

  • 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……

  • 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……

  • 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……

  • 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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Dr. Josh Fitzgerald, Greensboro College class of 2019

“I loved the GC Honors program and Greensboro College. I felt safe and a sense of genuine belonging at the college. I worked closely with my thesis advisor and professors who helped inspire me to define my path and passion of interest. That path has led me to complete my doctoral studies in Engineering Mechanics.”

- Dr. Josh Fitzgerald, Class of ’19, Mathematics Major

Dr. Josh Fitzgerald earned his master's from Virginia Tech University (studied astrodynamics) as well as earning an Engineering Mechanics Ph.D. He joined the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX as an Advanced Mission Design Engineer, optimizing trajectories for the Artemis II and III missions to return humans to the moon.

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