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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Two Greensboro College students will present research during a conference on theology and disability June 14 in Raleigh. The two, Alla Alaghbri and Abigail Bügger, will join Benjamin Wall, assistant professor of religion at Greensboro College, in presenting their work on “The Continuing Significance of Jean Vanier” at the Summer Institute on……

June 1, 2018 GREENSBORO, N.C. – A granddaughter of the man who served as Greensboro College’s secretary-treasurer a century ago has left the college more than a half-million dollars. Charlotte Anderson Straney, who was 72 when she died March 25, was a granddaughter of the Rev. Walter Makepeace Curtis, who served as secretary-treasurer and business……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will offer a free information session on its upcoming Paralegal Certification Education Program at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, in Lea Center in Main Building on campus. Advance registration is requested; to register, please visit https://www.greensboro.edu/certification-and-innovative-programs/ and use the form at the bottom of the page. The session will provide……

May 16, 2018 GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Greensboro College Board of Trustees unanimously approved a four-year extension of the president’s contract from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2024, at its May 11 meeting. Lawrence D. Czarda, Ph.D., assumed the presidency of the 180-year-old college in 2010, in the turbulent years following the Great Recession,……

May 16, 2018 GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has promoted Jason A. Myers, assistant professor of religion, to associate professor of religion. The college Board of Trustees approved the promotion at its meeting May 11. Prior to joining the faculty in 2015, he was pursuing his doctorate at Asbury Theological Seminary, where he was a……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will host the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department’s “Music for a Sunday Evening in the Park” (MUSEP) series at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 10, on the campus’s front lawn at 815 W. Market St. The Greensboro Big Band will perform swing and jazz tunes. Admission is free, and the public……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Randy R. Hunt, a professor of exercise and sport studies and chair of Greensboro College’s Department of Kinesiology, was granted emeritus status today during the college’s Commencement ceremony. Hunt, who is retiring, was cited for his 43 years of distinguished teaching, 28 of them at Greensboro College, where he has been a……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has named Allison Palmadessa ’03, associate professor of history, its Moore Professor for 2018-2019. Palmadessa was cited in particular for her most recent book, “American National Identity: Policy, Paradigms, and Higher Education,” which has been hailed by scholars for “taking the study of higher education in bold new directions.” In……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has named Jaime Alvaro Paredes Paez its Distinguished Graduating Graduate Student. The award, established in 2014, is presented annually at Commencement to a graduating graduate student who has excelled in all areas of graduate studies at Greensboro College and contributes to the life of the program, has expanded his/her own……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has presented Traci Apple DeCongilio the William Henry and Martha Grant Likins Award as this year’s outstanding graduating adult undergraduate student. The award, named for the 16th president of Greensboro College and his wife, was begun in 1993 upon Dr. Likins’s retirement from Greensboro College.  Established by Dr. Jeanne M.……