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F GUILFORDIAN
GREENSBORO, NC
Guilford
receives grant
ByMarjorieHall
NEWS EDITOR
Guilford will be getting a
new science program to go along
with its new Frank Family Sci
ence Building.
The school has received a
grant from the U.S. Department
of Education that will allow it to
develop a new program for sec
ondary education in science.
Guilford will play a role in a
larger plan to develop centers of
excellence in secondary educa
tion in Greensboro.
The $75,000 grant, of which
Guilford will get $20,000, is a ca
pacity-building grant. Guilford
will first look at developing a
program to license high school
science teachers, and will later
look towards developing a pro
gram for math. Bennett College
will develop a program for spe
cial education. There is a short
age of all three types of teachers
in North Carolina, as well as in
most of the country.
The Education Studies de
partment currently licenses stu
dents wanting to teach English,
social studies, Spanish and
French, as well the elementary
grade. The school has not offered
licensure for those students wish
ing to go into the sciences.
"We want a bigger second
ary program," said Deborah
Roose, chair of the Education
Studies department. "We want
to have a program that includes
physics, math, chemistry, and bi
ology."
Each education major is re
quired to have a double major. If
the school offers licensure in the
sciences, more Ed. Studies stu
dents will choose one of the sci
ences as their second major.
"It's something I wanted to
do to help both the science de
partments here and the Ed.
Studies department," said Thom
Espinola, a physics professor and
the driving force behind the
grant. "It will help the class
rooms get more diverse."
Some Ed. Studies students
are interested in teaching high
school science. "They know they
can't get the kind of program we
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(T|utsourcing decision looms
Fate of Bookstore hangs in balance
By Chris Roose and Simon
By next week a decision is
expected among the three op
tions regarding the outsourcing
of the campus bookstore. Two of
the options require Guilford to
turn over the bookstore to one
of two large book-selling corpo
rations: Follette or Barnes and
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Outsourcing the bookstore has positive and negative implications
First-year retention increased
Seventy-eight percent remain for second year
By Peter Morsheck
STAFF WRITER
The numbers are in.
Guilford's first-year enrollment
may be down, but retention is up
from last year, as are payments
and the school's reputation in the
press.
78% of last year's entering
first-year class is still here, an in
crease of 5% over the previous
year. Director of First-year Pro
gramming Anne Lundquist said
the improvements in the First
year Program, now in its fourth
year, may have been among the
many contributing factors. "Some
times people make a decision to
leave early before we have a
chance to pinpoint and diffuse the
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Noble
The Barnes and Noble agree
ment would include the establish
ment of a Starbucks coffee shop
on campus.
The third option, put forth
by Betsy Johnson, current man
ager of the Guilford College book
store, is to renovate and imple
ment new technology in the ex
isting facility.
Last January's Trustees'
meeting was a turning point in
problem," said Lundquist. Hoping
to change that, the First Year Cen
ter has adult staff in the residence
halls. "Having J.J. [McEachern] in
Milner and Tica [Brown] in Bryan
allows them to be there and solve
problems on the fly."
Lundquist also cited last year's
implementation of the new curricu
lum as indirectly responsible for the
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the debate surrounding this is
sue. At community meetings
leading up to this time dissent
was developing which culminated
in a student demonstration in
which students lined the hallway
and stairwell of Founders
through which the Trustees
walked to their meeting. Stu
dents expressed discontent with
the disregard for student opinion
by duct-taping their mouths and
holding signs reading "Don't sell
our school, Corporate
does not equal Commu
nity," and "Outsource
the CFO."
At that meeting,
the Trustees surren
dered authoritative dis
cretion on the book
store decision to Presi
dent McNemar.
"The trustees have
ultimate authority but
this is an administra
tive matter and they
have given [Don
McNemar] full author
ity," said Bobby Wayne
Clark,Vice President
for Public Affairs.
As the decision ap
proaches, supporters of
an independently
owned Guilford College
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retention increase. Prior to that,
faculty and staff were spread very
thinly on task forces and adminis
trative committees charged with
developing things like the new cur
riculum, leaving little time for at
tention to students.
Associate Academic Dean
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