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A #VQh,me LXll, No. 5 M Guilford College. Gr—nboro. N.C. September 27,1977^^
Religion Expert to Spend Time Here
One of the major public
lectures of the year at Guilford
College will be given next
Tuesday, October 11, at 8:15
p.m. by Dr. Robert Bellah.
The topic of his address, spon
sored by the Arts Series, will
be "Civil Religion, Biblical Re
ligion and the American Rep
ublic." Robert Bellah, noted
as a sociologist of religion,
is on the faculty of The Center
for Japanese and Korean
Admissions Prospects
From all reports, it looks
as if Guilford will remain in
business, secure in its needed
enrollment. While demo
graphers are projecting a de
crease in high school grad
uates for the next twenty
five years, the Guilford ad
missions office is working
aggressively to keep ahead of
the trends. This year, the head
count for the main campus
is 1113, up from 1084 last
year. While Urban Center
enrollment had been declining,
it has now stabilized with a
head count of 561.
The freshman class for this
year looks "very sharp," ac
cording to Special Assistant
to the President for Admissions
and Financial Aid, Herb Poole.
The class of 369 is composed
of 195 men and 174 women.
While conclusive figures are
not in, it is projected that the
geographical distribution for
the class will be similar to
last year's. In 1976-77, over
50% of main campus students
were from North Carolina. Re
cruitment has traditionally
been heavy in the Mid-Atlantic
States, Virginia, and Florida.
The Admissions staff is at
tempting to open new recruit
ment territories in the Mid
west. By establishing a net
work of alumni, interested par
ents, and friends of the col
lege, the staff hopes to increase
awareness of Guilford across
the country.
In addition to this network,
admissions has made other
efforts to maintain its good
recruitment record. Poole cites
the strengthened staff, the
well-organized office pro
cedures, and Guilford's use of
the College Board's Student
Search Program as reasons for
optimism for future enrollment.
Studies of the University of
California, Berkeley.
The recipient of the
Herbison Award for Gifted
Teaching and the Sorokin
Award for his book The
Broken Covenant (1976), he is
also author of Religion in Am
erica (1968), Beyond Belief:
Essays on Religion in a Post-
Traditional World (1970) and
The New Religious Conscious
ness (Edited, 1976). In
The staff is kept busy with
forty to sixty-thousand pieces
of correspondence each year.
While the computer terminal
is useful in filing names of
prospective students, it is a
tremendous job to respond to
such a volume of mail hoping
to convert inquiries into ap
plications.
Guilford has been buying
names from the College Board
Student Search Program for
three years. The school asks
for names of out-of-state stu
dents with SAT scores of 1000
or better, and a GPA of at
least 87. Names of students
who qualify are then drawn
from those nation-wide who
have taken the SAT's. This
has been an invaluable help
in recruitment, for 23% of
last year's freshman class was
reached through the program.
Not all attention is focused
on recruitment of new
students. Guilford has also
tried to strengthen retention
of upperclassmen. While class
shrinkage is inevitable, the
faculty and administration
have tried to stabilize the
upperclasses. This is best
done, according to Poole, by
"attention to the individual,
and a responsiveness to each
student's needs" which
strengthens the student's
bonds to the school commun
ity. Guilford's small student
faculty ratio is conducive to
such personal treatment.
The outlook for stable enrol
lment in the college is good,
although the nation's enroll
ment pool is decreasing. Guil
ford is fortunate in that it has
no outstanding debt unlike
many small liberal arts colleges.
But, an enrollment drop of 50
students would wreck the
operating budget.
addition, he has studied and
written on such diverse topics
as Apache Kinship Systems,
the Religions of India, Emil
Durkheim, Paul Tillich, Con
fucianism, and American Cul
ture and Religion.
Robert Bellah will be in res
idence at Guilford College on
Tuesday and Wednesday,
October 11 and 12. Other
events scheduled during his
stay include a conversation
on "Contemplation" at 11:00
on Wednesday, and a faculty
seminar on "Pluralism and
Relativism in Teaching" at
2:00 on Wednesday. All these
sessions will be held in
Founders Hall, and all are in
vited to attend any session.
The major address on Tues
day evening is sponsored by
the Arts Series and is free
of charge to all Guilford Col
lege students, faculty and
staff.
Spend the Summer Abroad
Plans for the tenth annual
Guilford-UNC-G Summer
Schools Abroad are crystal
izing with a campus-wide rally
in Founders Hall, Monday,
October 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Summer Schools in England,
France, Spain, and Germany,
as well as a program study
ing educational systems in a
number of different countries
are being offered for the
summer of 1978.
The rally will begin with an
introduction to the overall
Summer Schools Abroad Pro
gram. Students will meet the
Guilford and UNC-G faculty
leaders and also 1977 student
participants. The group will
then break up into five work
shops to discuss with their
respective leaders courses,
credits, and costs. A tentative
itinerary will be revealed.
Each six-week Summer
School offers two courses, the
equivalent of 8 credits under
the Guilford System and 6
under the UNC-G system. At
the close of the session, stu
dents usually spend three
weeks travelling independ
ently.
For a little more than the
cost of 8 hours on campus,
participants have the round
trip flight, travel, hotels, two
Robert Bellah, noted sociologist, will speak next Tuesday
night.
meals a day, admission fees,
guides and faculty leader
ship provided for the six
weeks of formal study. During
the last three weeks students
arrange their own schedules
and handle their own
expenses.
Plans for a summer school
in Greece were dropped be
cause of the lack of faculty
leadership. There will be no
Russian summer school this
year either, but anyone inter
ested in going to Russia in
1979 should contact Martha
Cooley in the History Depart
ment.
A description of the
Summer Schools abroad
follows:
England: The group will
start in Paris but will spend
most of their time in London.
"The Age of Elegance, 1660-
1837; Art, Architecture and
Literature from Neoclassicisrr
to Romanticism" will be
taught by Kelley Griffith of the
UNC-G English Department.
Students will analyze the
English Society in a socio
logical approach in "Racial
and Ethnics Today" given by
Cyrus M. Johnson of the Guil
ford Sociology Department.
France: The French Sum
mer School will spend four
weeks in Paris, one week in
Tours, and one week in
Southern France. French Con
versation and Culture will be
taught by two UNC-G French
Instructors, Jane Mitchell and
David Fein, both of whom
lived in France for extended
periods. Guilford students
should contact Claude Chau
vigne if interested.
Germany: This group will
see both East and West Ger
many and visit many cities in
eluding Brussels, Goetlingen,
Munich, East and West Ber
lin, Leipzig and Weinmar.
German conversation at all
levels will be taught in small
discussion groups by Mary
Feagins, a Guilford German
Instructor. Rex Adelberger of
the Guilford Physics Depart
ment will be offering "The
German Roots of Science."
Participants will visit Univer
sities, laboratories, and mus
eums, delving into the nature
of the scientific effort.
Spain: Spending most of
their time at the University of
Salamanca, this group will
also spend a week in Madrid,
and a week traveling in the
South to Toledo, Cordoba,
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