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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Benjamin Wall, assistant professor of religion and ethics at Greensboro College, has been selected to deliver the 2017 Jean Vanier Emerging Scholar Lecture at this year’s Summer Institute on Theology and Disability. The lecture, to be delivered in June at the Summer Institute at Azusa Pacific University in California, honors Vanier, who……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Michelle Plaisance, assistant professor of English and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages  and director of Greensboro College’s M.A. program in TESOL, has published a paper on that subject. “Like Driving from ‘the Back Seat’: Teaching English as a Second Language in Commodified Curricular Terrains”  was co-written with Spencer Salas and……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Meegan McCarthy, a sophomore at Greensboro College, has received a $500 scholarship award from the North Carolina Association on Higher Education and Disability. McCarthy is a psychology and art major from Loudon, N.H. The association awards the scholarship yearly to a current undergraduate student based on leadership and service to the campus……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Lisa Alley ’93, Greensboro College’s director of academic support, has been honored by the North Carolina Association of Higher Education and Disabilities. Alley received the association’s Laura Thomas Award, established by the association’s executive board in 1996 in memory of Laura L. D. Thomas, the Director of Disability Services at UNC-Chapel Hill……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Rev. Dr. Robert Brewer, Greensboro College chaplain, spoke at the recent Summit youth retreat, sponsored by the Western N.C. Conference of the United Methodist Church. About 150 high-school and middle-school students attended the program, whose theme was “In the Shadow of Giants.” The weekend messages talked about confronting and addressing the……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Four teams of Greensboro College business students have scored in the top 50 worldwide in the Glo-Bus business-strategy simulations for business and marketing students worldwide. All four teams, called “companies,” are in BUS 4900, the senior business capstone class taught by Mike Crombie, assistant professor of business administration. They all placed in……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College presents the Ninth Annual Schleunes Lecture, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in the Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The speaker will be Karen Auerbach, assistant professor in the Department of History and Stuart E. Eizenstat fellow in the Carolina……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Music Department presents its Spring Wind Ensemble Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, on campus in the Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in the Odell Building. This event is free and open to the public. For information about the concert contact Jane McKinney at 336-272-7102, ext. 5281, or……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Music Department will hold its annual Alumni Choral Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday April 9 in the Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. For information about the concert contact Jane McKinney at 336-272-7102, ext. 5281, or by email at mckinneyj@greensboro.edu. Greensboro……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s Tannenbaum-Sternberger Colloquium Series will feature author and alumna Jann Haynes Gilmore ’68 at 3 p.m. Friday, April 7, in Campbell Lyceum, 109 Proctor Hall West on campus. The event is free and open to the public. Gilmore will be speaking on “Olive Rush in the Context of the New Woman’s……