Search for new president begins
Jared Axelrod
STAFF WRITER
The Board of Trustees is
only worried about a smooth
transition. They have utter con
fidence that they will find a
suitable candidate to succeed
Don McNemar. Utter confidence
that this candidate will please
not only Guilford staff and stu
dents, but also the community
at large.
The only thing the Board
seems to be worried about is
whether or not the candidate
will be found and ready before
classes begin in August.
"We've met with a consult
ant who walked the Board
through the search process,"
said Ellen Hamrick, an alum
who is heading the search com
mittee. "He said this type of
search takes about six to seven
months, usually. We might be
able to do it in four or five."
"Even if this did roll out in
five, six, seven months, that is
not a lot of time," said Ty
Buckner, Director of College
Relations. "We were lucky that
Don [McNemar] let us know
when he did."
Princeton Review ranks
Guilford in new book
Julie Balasalle
STAFF WRITER
Last week the 2002
Princeton Review's Best 331
Colleges was un
veiled, with
Guilford College
making the grade
as one of the 331
as well as being
ranked in eight of
the 62 top 20 cat
egories.
The informa
tion gathered to
assemble these
rankings suppos
edly comes
straight from students' mouths,
assuring that the rankings are
accurate.
Student Senate representa
tives Spencer Ward and Jason
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In order to be as efficient
as possible with the time they
have, the Board has assembled
three committees to handle the
selection process.
The Consultant Selection
Committee, chaired by Alan
Hunt, will find an appropriate
consulting firm to assist with
the search process.
Once a consultant is found,
the Leadership Committee,
chaired by Martha
Summerville, will craft a lead
ership statement. This will
identify what the needs of the
college are and what qualities
the college is looking for.
"We want someone with
leadership experience not just
in education, but also with
profit and non-profit leadership
experience," said Bruce
Stewart, the Board of Trustees
chair. "We're looking beyond the
traditional model of a college
president. We don't want a ge
neric leadership statement. You
can use a consultant firm, you
can use a machine. But Guilford
wants a statement crafted to
Guilford."
To meet this goal, the rough
Brown hold similar views of the
rankings. Ward says that "the
rankings are true for the most
part, but I am the exact oppo
site of most the rankings."
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Nalbantyan says that the
rankings "definitely describe
the student population really
well. Specifically on the one
about God, I feel that there is
Brown
agrees, but adds,
"I agree with the
rankings but a
student body
should not be
judged by major
ity since we are a
Quaker school
and we make de
cisions by consen
sus."
First-year
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draft of the Leadership
Statement will be circu
lated through the commu
nity for critique. The final
draft will then be avail
able to the public once
more, for approval. After
the Statement is ap
proved, the Leadership
Committee will draw up
the contract for Guilford's
eighth president.
The Leadership Com
mittee will also be re
sponsible for evaluating
the new president each
year.
Once the Leadership
committee constructs a
contract, the Search Com
mittee will take over.
Chaired by Hamrick, the
committee will also in
clude Hunt, Joe Bryan,
Jr., M.L. Carr, and
Howard Haworth, the previous
Board chair.
It will also include one main
campus student, one CCE stu
dent, one member of the Board
of Visitors, one community
leader, three faculty representa
tives, and one staff representa
an extreme anti-Christian sen
timent here. This campus
claims it values tolerance, but
if you don't think like Guilford
liberals than you and your ideas
are not accepted."
Along with the rankings,
each college has a page that
breaks the school down into
academics, student life, student
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tive. This will bring the
committee's size to 13 members.
"Lucky 13," said Stewart,
who is not on any of the selection
committees.
"As Board chair, I elected not
to be involved in this decision, to
keep it impartial," he said.
Stewart was on the Board of
Trustees when McNemar was
selected, but was not involved
in the selection then, either.
While the Board is prepar
ing to find his replacement, they
have not forgotten about
McNemar quite yet.
"Don [McNemar] called me,
in Washington, two or three
weeks ago," said Stewart. "I think
he felt that this was a good time
to stand aside. He felt that the
things he had come to do, con
struction of new buildings on
campus, turn enrollment around,
oversee a new, younger adminis
tration, he had accomplished.
"It was a good thing that he
gave us such long notice. He
wants a smooth transition.
"The man wants what is best
for Guilford."
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