NEWS
February 7,2014
Budgetary crisis looms, enrollment numbers uncertain
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of the cuts involves the revenue
generated from enrollment. Revenues
and enrollments of traditional, CCE and
summer school have plmnmeted in recent
years.
In Fall 2010, the total number of
traditional students was 1,416 while CCE
students totaled 1,316.
Three years later, the number of
traditional students hovered near 1,200
and CCE students were a meager 940.
The worse-case budget anticipates 409
new traditional students and 259 new CCE
students enrolling in the fall and 234 new
CCE students enrolling in the spring.
To achieve the better-case scenario,
the college needs to recruit and retain
1,400 traditional students and 1,300 CCE
students to be enrolled over the next
three years according to a PowerPoint
presentation given by the Budget
Committee.
This amounts to 460 new incoming
traditional students in the fall and spring
of 2014^15 and 810 new incoming CCE
students for each of the next three years.
For the budget to be the middle case.
traditional students must number 1,238
and CCE must reach 940.
For the worse case 1,179 traditional
students and 865 CCE students must be
enrolled in Fall 2014.
Darryl Samsell, associate business
professor and chair of the budget
committee, says that in the grand scheme
of things, the college is safe from overall
harm.
"Even though student counts are down
from the recent past, the budget process,
especially in managing costs, has resulted
in a financially secure college," said
Samsell. "We are in no danger of losing
accreditation for financial reasons. Our
endowment has grown."
Chabotar says that finding a solution
is a matter of strategically planning and
preparing for any possible situation.
"We will not know our first-year
enrollment for next year until at least
February, and in some cases, much later,"
Chabotar said. "It is too early to tell."
Prematurely or not, Julie Burke, assistant
professor of education studies, said that
another dent in the college's budget would
affect the quality of education and the
resources given to professors.
"Our students will have limits with the
types of supervision and support we are
able to provide in the field because we
may have less funds to pay for travel to
the schools to observe interns and student
teachers," Burke said.
Ben Marlin, associate professor and
chair of mathematics, believes cutting the
budget will weaken departments campus
wide.
"I've been told that (the math
department) cannot keep our temporary
half-time position that we had this year,"
Marlin said. "In the past few years, we lost
two full-time tenure-track position^ got
one full-time temporary position, (then)
had it reduced to half-time."
According to Rita Serotkin, associate
vice president and dean of CCE, there is
no silver bullet that will solve the budget
issues.
"We all need to put our heads and hands
together to come up with creative ideas,
strategies and projects that will better
convey the college's image, strengths
and uniqueness," said Serotkin. "There is
work to be done for and by everyone —
students, faculty, staff, administrators and
trustees."
Final deddons on APSA
recommendations announced
On January 31, a memorandum
written by President and Professor of
Political Science Kent Chabotar was
published via the Guilford Beacon
detailing his decisions on the final terms
of the Administrative Program and
Services Assessment. Major changes
from the initial draft include:
• staffing of Career Development
center no longer recommended for
cuts
• position of ombudsperson retained
• no major changes to the status of
the CCE program planned for the
immediate future
• three positions in the Advancement
Office will be gradually reduced
See next week's issue for detailed
coverage of the APSA updates.
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FaR2014
Matthews awarded Public Safety Officer of the Year
BY CHASE CLAUSEN
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This past December Guilford
College honored Public Safety
Supervisor John Matthews' hard
work and consistent dedication to
the conummity by awarding him
Public Safety Officer of the Year.
"John Matthews is a great officer
.and great guy," said Director of
Public Safety Ron Stowe. "He has
really good experience that he
brings to Guilford."
Matthews has been a member of
the Guilford Public Safety staff for
five years and has earned himself
a well-respected reputation from
both students and fellow Public
Safety officers.
"He definitely takes his job
seriously," said sophomore Danny
Hulburt. "He sympathizes with
the students and has their best
interest at heart."
In addition to carrying out his
required officer duties, he is also
approachable and easy to talk to,
providing students and faculty
with a supportive and welcoming
presence on campus.
"John is very good at what he
does," said Public Safety Officer
Steve Armstrong. "He taught me a
lot of what I know now. He's one of
the few that can handle anything
that comes up by himself. He
knows how and what to do in any
situation that I've seen (develop)."
Like in the case of other officers
that have won the award before
him, Matthews' dependability and
commitment to the commimity is
obvious.
"He's a very good supervisor,"
said Pubhc Safety Officer David
Gauldin, a previous award winner.
"You can call him at any time.
He's good to work with and fun
to kid with, but when iPs time to
get down to business, it's strictly
business."
Matthews, who currently works
the 3-11 p.m. shift Wednesday
through Sunday, is a natural at
his job. Before coming to Guilford,
he worked 20 years for the High
Point Police Department as a park
ranger.
Matthews' around-the-clock
devotion and passion for his work
will not tire after achieving this
award.
"My goal is to make sure people
feel safe more than anything else,"
said Matthews. "1 talk to people
and treat them with respect
because I want to treat people the Officer of the Year John Matthews
has been in Public Safety for five years.
way I would want to be treated.