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set student charges
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Board of Trustees Vice Chair Charlotte Roberts and Chair Bruce Stewart with President Don McNemar (L-R)
Nancy Houston
STATT WRITER
The Guilford College
Board of Trustees concluded
their two-day January session
last week expressing confi
dence in three areas: finances,
facilities, and faculty.
Referring to Vice Presi
dent and Chief Financial Of
ficer Phil Manz, and Jim
Vroom, who serves as a budget
ing and management consult
ant, trustee chair Bruce
Stewart said, "We have tre
mendous confidence in the new
business leadership and the
consensus emerging in the bud
get process."
The board approved the
budget for the current year and
set student charges for 2001-
2002. The rates represent an
overall increase of 3.7 percent,
or SB3O, for a full-time student
selecting a double room and
full meal plan.
The charges for a single
room increased 6.3 percent, or
S6BO. "We are raising the single
room price so that it more accu
rately reflects the cost of provid
ing that resource," Manz said.
THE
GUJLFORDIAN
Greensboro, NC February 2, 2001
Stewart praised Associate
CFO for Facilities John Jenkins
for his work in buildings and
grounds. "We were thrilled to
see the improvements in the dor
mitories." He added that the
board was pleased to see the
nearly complete Bryan Audito
rium in the Frank Family Sci
ence Center and the 23 recently
planted trees.
The board awarded tenure
to five outstanding teacher
scholars on the Guilford faculty.
Faculty members receiving ten
ure are: Nancy Daukas, philoso
phy; James Hood, English;
Catherine Kannenberg, psychol
ogy; Steven Shapiro, physics; and
Jill Wiesner, mathematics.
The trustees enjoyed several
meetings with students. Senior
Mary Johnson sang a song from her
CD, Says the Water, at the Satur
day session. Sixteen trustees
bought copies of the CD as a result
of her command performance.
On Friday, the board had lunch
with students involved in commu
nity service groups.
Sophomore Warner Graham,
site coordinator for the reading
discussion group at the
McLeansville Prison, attended the
lunch. He said the trustees showed
great interest in the students'
work and related their own com
munity service experiences.
"I used to view trustees as
just delegating what they thought
should be done according to their
own opinions," Graham said. "Af
ter this meeting, I saw them in a
new light. They're pretty cool
people -- concerned and involved."
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Guilford to
offer two
computer
majors
Donion Moore
STAIT WRITER
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Guilford College will begin
a new era of learning next se
mester, as two new computer
majors, Computer Information
Systems and Computer Informa
tion Technology, were swiftly ap
proved by the faculty.
Rob Whitnell, director of
Information Technology and Ser
vices, the person who proposed
the majors said, "Students will
be able to pursue a stand-alone
major in" Computer Information
Systems that is housed in the
Management Department, or an
interdisciplinary major in Com
ogy that requires a double ma
jor,"
The popularity of existing
classes in information technol
ogy and the results of various
surveys of other collets and
Guilford students helped the
majors pass easily through the
various stages of approval.
There are approximately
200 Guilford students taking
computer related classes.
Junior Brian Oplinger said,
"These majors are definitely
needed. It will make it a lot
easier for people who are inter
ested in computers to take the
major and courses they want."
The two majors are the lat
est move by the college in a se
ries involving information tech
nology education that included
a revision of the Computing and
Information Technology concen
tration in 1998.
Please see Computer ma
jors, page 2.