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Trustees debate Guilford's future
Daniel Fleishman
NEWS EDITOR
When the Board of Trustees
convened on campus last week
end, it made decisions about tu
ition increases, an early college
program for Guilford County
high school students, the future
of college-owned properties, and
was updated by the administra-
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From left to right, Bruce Stewart, chairman of the Board of Trustees,
President Don McNemar, and Jim Hood, associate dean of students.
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tion of the status of the ongoing
presidential search.
The Board also spent much
of its time working towards keep
ing the college on solid financial
ground and planning the next
steps to eliminate the steep debt
the college is in following the
construction of the Frank Sci
ence Center and other campus
wide improvements.
The Presidential Search
The D.C.-area consultant
hired to solicit applicants to re
place Don McNemar when he
steps down as president in June
reported that it has received over
50 applications, twice as many
as it expected. The applications
include a range of diverse can
didates: Quakers, women,
businesspeople, and minorities.
For now, however, applicants'
names are confidential.
All applicants will be re
viewed. and the pool will be win
nowed to three to five final can
didates, each of whom will visit
the campus in February and
March to meet with faculty and
students. The selection of
See Meeting, p. 2
JUSTIN BETSON
February 1, 2002
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lOur Time
in History?
campaign
meets
ssom goal
Daniel Fleishman
NEWS EDITOR
In the major campaign to
raise $5O million to serve a vari
ety of the school's needs,
Guilford College achieved its goal
a full year early of the projected
date.
College administrators for
mally announced on Fri., Jan.
25, to the Board of Trustees that
they have raised a sum of
$50,147,689 since the "Our
Time in History" campaign was
publicly launched in September
of 1999. Donors include alumni,
national endowment founda
tions and local philanthropists.
President Don McNemar
was obviously thrilled with the
news, but cautioned that the
campaign is "not done yet."
The college still needs addi
tional finances to renovate
Founders Hall and build a new
athletic/fitness/wellness center
near the current athletic facili
ties.
Both projects were stated
goals of the campaign when it
was launched, but their success
now relies on the appropriation
of $3 million more for Founders,
and $5 million more for the ath
letic center. The debt is due in
part to the construction of the
$l4 million Frank Family Sci
ence Center, which went $4 mil
lion over budget.
"[The building ol] a new ath
letic center wall be dependent on
exceeding [the current campaign
total)," said Ty Buckner, direc
tor of college relations. "So now
we want to finish the job."
The "Our Time in History"
campaign comes to an official
close on the last dav of 2002.
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