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EASING THE COLLEGE TRANSITION
❖Guilford leaders have revised approaches to
pre-college programming, and first-year advising
Avanti replaces Venture, Step Ahead
Cara Skeat
Staff Writer
Guilford College's Venture and
Step Ahead programs will be com
bined into a new program this fall.
It will be called Avanti, Italian for
"to go forward" or "to go ahead,"
said program director Anne
Lundquist.
Avanti will emphasize academic
preparation and the outdoor expe
rience. Students will spend one
week developing their study skills.
Part of the second week of the pro
gram will be spent at the Nantahala
Emphasis on advising heightened
Cory Birdwhistell
News Editor
In order to ease the academic
transition from high school to col
lege, the office of the Academic
Dean has initiated a revision of the
first-year advising process.
"In a sense, nothing has
changed. In another, everything
has changed," says Jerry Godard,
associate dean of advising. He ex
plains that the alterations of the
advising program are a part of an
effort to "do what we're doing as
best we can."
The major revisions include the
Outdoor Center, where students
will rock-climb, rappel, and white
water raft.
The outdoor portion of the
course will involve "more inten
tional linking of how you take on
a challenging experience and what
you do with it," Lundquist says.
Students will keep a journal and
discuss how their experience at
Nantahala is relevant to the Guil
ford experience, Lundquist adds.
The thirty-six students who par
ticipate in Avanti will receive two
academic credits for the two-week
course. They will also receive one
following elements:
•All advisors of first-year stu
dents will be full-time faculty. Re
search has shown that students
with full-time faculty advisors
have higher retention.
•Advisors will all undergo spe
cial training, focusing on the char
acteristics and nature of first-year
students.
•Advisors will correspond with
their advisees during the summer
-going over schedules, interests
and questions, etc.
•On the Saturday of Orientation,
students will participate in an aca
demic seminar with their advisor.
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credit for the follow-up course,
"Learning Strategies."
Please see AVONTI page 5
Afterward, the group will have
dinner together.
•On Sunday, they will finalize
their schedules and the students
will take a career survey. "This
earlier expression of interests will
get students to think about things
career-wise," Godard says.
•During the year, advisors will
have regular contact with advisees.
For instance, some may choose to
have bi-monthly lunch meetings.
•All students will be in a class
taught by their advisor. This way,
advisors will have first-hand
knowledge of their advisees' aca
demic situation.
Cooley named
Academic Dean
Cory Birdwhistell
News Editor
Martha Cooley, chair of the his
tory department, will be the new
academic dean effective June 1,
1995.
This decision is the result of a
search process which began with
the resignation of Kathy Adams in
1993 and has continued through
the service of Interim Academic
Dean Cyril Harvey.
The Academic Dean Search
Committee examined many candi
dates throughout this time. The
applicant pool was narrowed to
three final candidates, and Cooley
was selected.
"I'm pleased the search worked
out the way it did," Provost Dan
Poteet comments, "I'm looking
forward to working with Martha.
I know she'll do a good job."
President Bill Rogers says,
"Clearly, Martha has a depth of
experience in liberal arts education
as a teacher and administrator."
Crossroad of suffering
♦♦♦ Syracuse professor
brings unique perspective
to Holocaust, American
slavery and child abuse
Gail Kasun
Contributing Writer
While understanding black-Jew
ish relations is a daunting and per
haps unwelcome task for most, a
professor of philosophy, political
science and Jewish studies from
Syracuse University will address
the Guilford community on these
relations. Laurence Thomas, who
is both Jewish and black, will lead
several discussions during his stay
here next week.
From recent work that relates to
research on the Holocaust, Thomas
will draw connections between
this issue and that of his presenta
tion of "The Grips of Immorality:
Child Abuse and Moral Failure,"
at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 3 in
the Gallery of Founders Hall. So
cial silence is one of the connec
tions he will discuss.
Thomas has been studying evil
and the ways to explain it. "Evil
March 31,1995
She graduated from Women's
College of the University of North
Carolina (now UNCG) with a bac
calaureate degree in history, cum
laude. She has a certificate in
Russian and East European stud
ies, an M.A. and a Ph.D. in his
tory from Indiana University.
She came to Guilford as an As
sistant Professor of History in 1965
and was tenured in 1971. In 1977
she was promoted to the rank of
assistant professor and then to full
professor in 1982.
"Her particular involvement
here at Guilford over the years en
sures a sense of continuity and
commitment which will be espe
cially valuable to [Guilford],"
Rogers comments.
Chris Behm, student represen
tative to the Academic Search
Committee, says, "Martha will do
a good job because she has exten
sive knowledge of this institution.
It is important for Guilford at this
lime to have an individual of that
caliber in this position."
manifests itself in a multitude of
ways," he said. "One's goals
should be to understand the way
evil operates."
Another public lecture will be
offered at Beth David Synagogue
at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 2.
Thomas
"Flourishing in a Hostile Society:
The Lives of Jews and Blacks,"
will focus on themes found in his
recently-published book, Vessels of
Evil: American Slavery and the
Holocaust.
Please see RELATIONS pane 5