GThe
UILFORDIAN
Board of Trustees
approves 9.5%
tuition increase
Peter Smith
News Editor
The Guilford College Board
of Trustees met Friday, estab
lishing a 9.5 percent percent tui
tion and room and board increase
for the next academic year and
passed a $7.7 million net bond
issue which will go toward a
variety of improvements within
the college.
Some of the main concerns
examined by the Board included
the current enrollment manage
ment situation of the college, the
improvement of faculty salaries,
Meeting in Gallery encourages alternate Painter Blvd. route
Peter Smith
News Editor
State engineers gathered in the Gallery
last Thursday to discuss questions con
cerning Painter Boulevard and to address
concerns expressed by many neighbor
hood residents.
Nate Benson, head of the Painter proj
ect, Don Bryson an engineer for the N.C.
Dept. of Transportation, and Terry Bel
lamy, a member of the Greensboro DOT,
attempted to allay concerns expressed by
many northwest Greensboro residences
over the proposed eastern corridor of
Painter Blvd. which would cut through
many local residential neighborhoods and
destroy over 60 acres of the Guilford
College woods.
The meeting was sponsored by GREAT
(Greensboro Residents Encouraging Al
ternative Thoroughfares) and was de
signed to help inform members of the
local community, including' Guilford
College, to the complexities of the Painter
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and the Painter Boulevard issue.
"Our meeting today was very
fine, very productive," said newly
appointed Trustee Chairman
Monty Milner, a 1963 Guilford
graduate. "We addressed con
cerns about the continued im
provement of student life at the
college and we reaffirmed our
commitment to nurture the high
quality of education at Guilford."
Said President Bill Rogers,
"We were very positive and the
trustees were very positive about
the meeting today. It was a care
ful and thorough discussion of
some weighty issues and good
decisions were reached."
The Board agreed to a 2.5
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A DOT engineer explains various corridor proposals of Painter Blvd.
Blvd. issue.
"Basically, the GREAT meeting was to.
help educate people from a variety of the
neighborhoods which are in the path of
the eastern route of Painter 81vd.," said
Elizabeth Place Beary, a Guilford College\
reference librarian and one of the leaders ,
of GREAT. "Through the years people!
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Guilford Board of Trustees sit Friday to discuss the future of the college.
percent faculty salary increase
with a promise to provide addi
tional increases based on the
enrollment situation for next year.
Any revenue from an increase in
enrollment above the projected
budget figures for next year will
be given to faculty salary in
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creases up to the 4.5 percent level.
If further revenue from increased
enrollment is received, 50 per
cent of that money will go to
improving faculty salaries to the
6.5 percent level with the re
maining 50 percent going toward
program increases and main
have forgotten about this proposal, but
now that it is being reconsidered, people
are starting to take more of an interest in
the possible impact of this road."
Seven members of GREAT have pro
posed a more westerly alignment for the
Interstate 40 to Interstate 220 segment of
the western corridor of the Painter Blvd.
photo by Charles Almy
tainence.
The college will have a more
clear picture of its enrollment
management position during the
spring of this year as admission
deadlines go into effect and total
see BOARD on page 5 >■
proposal. The new proposal could poten
tially allow for less environmental, resi
dential, and commercial damage to sur
rounding areas; however, it is somewhat
controversial because it will cut through a
group of tank farms. Tank farms are large
storage facilities used by major oil and gas
industries and pose a threat to road con-
see GREAT on page 5 >•
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