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Volume 77 Issue 4
Network to reach Archdale, beyond
Flagstones hit the road
By Joe Gaines
Staff Writer
In order to extend Guilford's
computer network to Archdale
Hall and prepare for future expan
sion, construction will begin Oct.
13 to run piping under the "flag
stone path" outside Founders Hall.
Because the historic slate walk
is slippery when wet and increas
ingly uneven, it will be replaced
by a simulated brick walkway af
ter the pipe, or "conduit," is placed
underneath it.
Inside the conduit will run opti
cal fiber capable of supporting
data transmission. It will eventu
ally carry voice and video in addi
tion to the data service.
The construction will enable
Archdale faculty to take advan
tageof Internetandelectronic mail,
which are controlled by the sys
tem in the Bauman telecommuni
cations building.
The Alumni gym, Hege-Cox,
English hall, Dana auditorium, Po
litical Science, Worth 11, Pope
Faculty begins accreditation preparation
By Matthew Levy
News Editor
Guilford's faculty has begum
preparing for the upcoming ac
creditation assessment by the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools (SACS).
According to Provost Poteet,
SACS will be on campus "in a
couple of years." While an exact
date has not been set, the size of the
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house and Hildebrandt will also
enjoy these technological advance
ments in the future.
Construction on the walkway
will be conducted in three install
ments to reduce inconvience to
those who use the path.
The path will be lifted one third
at a time, lengthwise, leaving the
rest usable to pedestrian traffic,
The flagstone walk
joins the Guilford Oak
as a departing historic
monument.
according to Provost Dan Poteet.
Total construction will take four
to six weeks. By Christmas break,
the necessary wiring installation is
expected to be complete in
Archdale.
The new walkway will be com
posed of concrete pavers, which
look and feel like real brick, but in
actuality are rectangular concrete
task warrants early preparation, ac
cording to history professor Dottie
Borei.
Borei, who also serves as clerk
of faculty, decided with the clerk's
committee to put an information
session about the upcoming SACS
evaluation on the Sept. 16 faculty
meeting agenda.
"This institution has to show that
assessment has been going on all
the time, and we have not been
doing iL So it seemed smart to me
to start this year, so that when these
people show up, they will see that
we've been doing what we prom
ised we would do.
'The former [academic] dean,
Sam Shuman, had said that we
would start this year. Assessment
has been going on in very informal
ways, at some points on the cam
pus. We now must do it in a sys
tematic way on a regular basis,"
said Borei.
Accreditation is a standard of
excellence and qualifies an educa
tional institution to receive federal
funds or financial aid for students.
Guilford has been a member of
SACS, which is a private accredi
Guilford College, Greensboro. N.C.
which has been dyed "old Guil
ford" red. The color was specifi
cally designed to match the bricks
that already exist on Guilford's
campus.
The new walkway will not only
be safer, explained Art Kopcsak,
chief engineer and director of
facilities planning, it will also
facilitate maintenance.
In comparison, the slate walk
way is more difficult to remove
in sections than its replacement.
This removal will be necessary
to access the conduit below for
repairs or additions to the con
duit.
The flagstone walk joins the
Guilford Oak as a departing his
toric monument.
It was constructed by faculty
and students in 1935 to replace a
road that ran right up to Founder' s
hall.
Thirty-two years later, the flag
stone was the only walkway on
campus and soon became the
marker dividing east and west
campus.
tation organization, for many
years. As a routine process, ac
creditation of members is re
viewed every ten years, based on
an elaborate self-study provided
by the school itself.
The emphasis of the SACS
evaluation has changed since
Guilford's last self-study, per
formed in the 1984-85 academic
year.
While in the past there were
minimum levels set for re sources,
staff and credentials, the new ap
proach requires that, in addition,
institutional effectiveness be as
sessed.
As director of institutional re
search, Cyril Harvey has led the
self-assessment already per
formed by Guilford.
"Right now we are in a phase
where departments are beginning
to write down what their goals
are," he said. I assume by spring
we will have appointed the vari
ous necessary committees....
"Probably about a year from
now we will be officially con
tacted by the Southern Associa
tion. They will want to know
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Photo by Charles Almy
Brick replaces the flagstone walkway beginning Oct. 13,
what progress we've made.
"The new rules that SACS has set
for accreditation are such that the
process really is no longer a once
every ten year process; its really
something that will go on all the
time."
According to the pamphlet dis
tributed at the Sept. 16 faculty meet
ing, Guilford must do the following
to receive the accreditation:
• Establish planning and evaluation
procedures which are "systematic,
comprehensive, and clearly related
to the purposes and goals of the
institution.
• Define its expected education re
sults by outlining clear goals and
objectives.
• Describe how the achievement of
these results will be ascertained. This
involves listing the criteria and meth
ods for assesment, as well as a
time-table and the specific delega
tion of authority.
• Engage in continuous study, analy
sis, and appraisal of institutional
purposes, policies, procedures and
programs, so as to put the assess
ment results to use in improving the
planning process.
September 25, 1992
"There is a spectrum of outcomes
possible in this process," Harvey
explained. "Almost nobody comes
through without some type of stern
advice from SACS about what they
need to do if they want to insure
their accreditation. And almost no
one actually loses their accredita
tion....
"We probably will not pass ev
ery single requirement the first time
we are evaluated, because almost
nobody does....
English Professor Beth Keiser
has already felt the effects of the
new accreditation requirements.
"The requirement to state clearly
what you are doing and to have
some way to determine the degree
of success you are having, has ex
cited us.
"All of us do it individually in
our courses, but when you think
about the department as a whole
and the cumulative effect that you
want to have on your majors—and
even the sequential effect... lead
ing to culminating experiences,
that's pretty different from what
our present set of requirements
does.