THE GUILFORDIAN
Greensboro, NC
McNemar proposes changes
♦President's plan includes a 25 percent cut in faculty and a new curriculum.
BY MARJORIE HALL
News Editor
Guilford prides itself on be
ing a community. The commu
nity is now reeling from the an
nouncement August 21 that the
school may lay off 25 percent of
the faculty.
President Don McNemar said
that the school is not generating
the revenue that it needs. More
students are going to public uni
versities. The personal attention
that Guilford gives to students is
no longer cost-effective. "Parents
value it, but they won't pay for
it." said McNemar. "We are sub
ject to the market and the market
has changed."
Last year, Guilford's budget
had a $750,000 deficit, a big dif
ference from a few years ago. It
has been several years since the
faculty has received raises. "It is
bad already that we are into a few
years of no raises," said McNemar.
But when we're ten years into no
raises ... we can't go there."
McNemar says that students
will still receive the personal atten
tion they have come to expect,
however. "Guilford's strength is
that we have excellent teachers,"
Guilford invites police to campus
As part of the fallout from last year's security forum, GPD patrols the campus on Fridays and Saturdays
BY ADAM PALMER
Staff Writer
At the beginning of last sum
mer, a new policy went into effect
regarding security on the Guilford
campus. Since May, the Greensboro
Police Department has supplied of
ficers to be on duty both Friday and
Saturday nights from 10:00 in the
evening to 2:00 in the morning. As
well," uniformed officers take what
is called details and return to duty
to do random drive-throughs of the
college campus.
Many are concerned with this
major change in rule enforcement
on campus, but there are still many
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McNemar said. "We want to con
tinue that tradition, but we may
not be able to offer that to students
in the exact same way we have in
the past."
Actually, the number of stu
dents at Guilford have diminished
in the past few years while the
number of faculty has stayed the
same. The school is currently be
low the target student-to-faculty
ratio of 15:1.
McNemar also wants to up
hold the strong tradition of giving
students financial aid and keeping
who support Security's decision.
Alumni Kristian Kaseman showed his
enthusiasm by observing, "I love the
police." Last year saw an increased
level of violence on campus result
ing from both non-college students
on campus as well as from an in
creased amount of drug trafficking.
After a fight broke out late last
spring and security officer Lenora
Lee was hit by a male student, fac
ulty, security, and students banded
together to discuss more stringent
law enforcement The result is the
patrols on campus now. The meet
ing was attended by Provost Dan
Poteet, Dean of Student Life Mona
Olds, and various faculty members,
security staff, and students.
Change is a part of fife.— Don McNemar
Since 1914, but never quite like this
tuition as low as possible. He wants
the school to be affordable for as
many people as possible.
Guilford borrowed the money
that it used this summer for all of
the improvements on campus. The
college felt like the improvements
were necessary in order to keep
Guilford competitive with other
colleges.
The motivation for these
changes is not purely financial.
McNemar believes that the school
could emphasize Guilford's special
strengths by better integrating the
It does
make sense to
call in a force
beyond
school secu
rity. But al
ready there is
an increasing
amount of
tension
among stu
dents and the
police are
looked upon
with hostility
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preprofessional program, the
liberal arts program, and
Guilford's traditional Quaker
values.
Don McNemar wants to
first redesign the curriculum of
the school so that it can best
prepare students for the world
outside of Guilford. Then the
school will decide which faculty
members will be cut. The school
is putting together task forces
to look at ways in which Guil
ford can be changed.
The cuts will not be across
the board—all departments will
not be asked to make equal cuts.
The administration will take
cuts as well as the faculty. Also,
the cuts will not be decided solely
on numbers. Programs which do
not enroll many students will not
necessarily be phased out.
"Some programs with few stu
dents teach a fundamental way of
thinking, a fundamental value,"
said Provost Dan Poteet. "You cut
those out, you lose the college."
McNemar wants to reassure
students that the program they are
involved in will continue. "We
have an obligation to students to
allow them to continue in the pro
grams they have begun. We will
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