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Susan Bagley-Admissions
Photo: Kric Buck
Curriculum Review Begins
by Alexandra Duckworth
Guilford faculty and ad
ministration are launching
a "zero-based" cur
riculum review. A Cur
riculum Task Force has
been created to aid in a
several-year examination
of the college's current
academic structure.
The task force is com
posed of faculty, students,
and administrators. It
plans to poll the entire stu
dent body, consult with
academic departments,
and examine other cam
puses wiJth different cur
ricular models.
Numbers of Quaker Students Increasing
In an attempt to assess
varying curricula, the task
force hopes to visit al least
three other colleges along
the East Coast. It has re
quested a $29,400 grant to
carry out the review.
Samuel Schuman,
Chairman of the Task
Force and Vice-President
for Academic Affairs, sug
gested that the com
prehensive review is a
result of internal reflec
tion rather than external
pressure.
"It has been a genera
tion since we've done it fa
curriculum review]," he
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Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
by Holly Fairbairn
Three percent of the
Guilford student body
drive BMWs; seventy per
cent have hair below their
shoulders. Ninety percent
know who the President of
the U.S. is; a select one
percent know the color
scheme on a medium
range missile.
Of course these
statistics do not exist, and
they probably never will.
Because the Admissions
Department seeks special
people and not special
numbers, there is little
need for an abundance of
student profile numbers.
What attention is paid to
numbers happens in the
form of goals, not strict
quotas. The College has
set goals and designed pro
grams for minorities,
regions of the world, and
Quaker students.
Susan Bagley, one of six
Admissions Officers, gives
special attention to incom
ing Friends, but em
phasizes the search for the
"whole student."
"Certainly, the [Quaker]
values are not unique to
one group," says Bagley.
Simply determining who
said. "There is an increas
ing lack of accord and
agreement about basic
educational philosophy."
The grant proposal re
quest states that "as the
1980's end, the College's
educational program ap
pears remarkably stable,
well-balanced, comfor
tably accepted, and
moderately out-dated."
"It's been so long since
the curriculum has been
examined that we don't
remember why we do
everything we do,"
Schuman said.
The time span given for
the completion of the cur
riculum review is 5 years.
Schuman hopes that the
Faculty Profile:
Kathy Adams
p. 10
is a Quaker is difficult.
Some may not be listed as
members of their
meetings, but are no less
affiliated with the Friends'
community.
This presents a sticky
situation when deciding
who is to receive financial
aid from the Quaker fund.
This fund matches what a
student's meeting can
give, up to SSOO a year
(total aid: sl,ooo/year).
Though the amount sounds
small, the funds that are
available may be useful in
encouraging young
Friends to attend a Quaker
College.
Declining numbers of
self-proclaimed Quakers
are evident in the
Registrar's office,
although this semester,
the percentage increased.
Since the academic year
1982/1983 when 8.9% of the
main campus student body
marked their religious
preference "Quaker,"
there has been a steady
decline to 5.8% in 1986/87.
This semester marked a
turnaround and the
percentage is now at 6.3%.
The need-based matching
funds program, begun in
plan will be approved by
the 1988-89 year. Actual
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Samuel Schuman
Photo: Eric Buck
December 11, 1987
had probably played a
role in this turnaround.
Attracting Quakers to
Guilford helps the school
maintain a group that has
historically been in
terested in social activism
and peace and justice con
cerns. Guilford - College's
nurturing concern for the
individual seems to have
attracted people who will
pursue openness and com
munity cohesion.
Because Admissions
Department seeks
special people
and special
numbers
Diana Coles, a junior
Quaker student says that
she came to Guilford
because, "I liked the open
atmosphere that seemed
to be here." Coming from
a Quaker high school, she
expected that people at
this Quaker school might
have some of the same at
titudes about community
and sharing with which
she had come to identify.
implementation may
begin the following year.