Ad Hoc Admission Committee February 19, 2015 Meeting Minutes Attendees: Barb Boyette, Tom Guthrie, Kami Rowan, Steve Shapiro, Andy Strickler, Wenling Wang (minute recorder) The committee’s discussion centered on the prospective meeting with Jane and what to talk with her during the meeting. The points raised in our discussion include: Future of this committee …
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Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda Monday April 6, 2015 8:30 am 1. Gathering and Moment of Silence – 3 minutes 2. Approval of Minutes from March 30, 2015 – 2 minutes 3. For review: Minutes from faculty meetings – 10 minutes a. Meeting March 4, 2015 b. Called Meeting March 25, 2015 4. For approval: Proposed …
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Please use this space to comment on today’s meeting if you wish. You may post anonymously here if you like, or you may include your name. Comments on cards from the meeting: (Space for a circle) Can we please have our next called faculty meeting in a more open shared space? I think it …
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Ad Hoc General Education Curriculum Review Committee Friday, April 3 12:45 p.m. Study Abroad/Career Development Conference Room, King Hall Agenda 1. Moment of silence 2. Approval of notes from last meeting, 3/27/15; note taker for this meeting 3. Update on mining CIRP or other existing student data about general education—Rich & Stephanie 4. Update on …
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GenEd Ad-Hoc Committee 2015-03-06 Attendance: Jennie Knight, Melanie Lee-Brown, Marc Williams, Heather Hans, Stephanie Hargrave, Kathryn Shields, Richard Schilhavy, Jeff Ray, Robert Duncan Missing: Jim Hood Faculty Survey Committee discussed the current state of the faculty survey distributed by Heather via email, and the timeline to distribute the survey to faculty. Marc raised concerns about …
Jack Zerbe suggested this piece by Fareed Zakaria as potentially helpful as we consider curriculum revision. Less a defense of the liberal arts and more a statement of their broad entrepreneurial value, as valuable (or perhaps more) than technical skills.
I got a question recently from a faculty member about how frequently we have offered President Emeritus status to our outgoing presidents. It turns out that Liz Cook, one of the library archivists, did a study to answer that question last fall. Here are the results. Emeritus Status for Guilford Presidents
Gwen Gosney Erickson found an interesting set of documents in the college archives – minutes from the trustee meetings from the early 1930’s. As the Great Depression swept the country, the college was in some financial trouble, suffering from deficits and apparently unable to pay full salaries. Faculty proposed a salary policy – a combination …
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Please feel free to leave comments here about our called faculty meeting on March 25th, 2015. If you wish your comments to be posted anonymously, you can just enter them without using your real name, or you can e-mail them to me at ddobson@guilford.edu. Here are comments from note cards submitted at the meeting. Fair …
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Ad Hoc General Education Curriculum Review Committee Friday, March 27 1:00 p.m. Study Abroad/Career Development Conference Room, King Hall Agenda Moment of silence Determine note-taker rotation Approval of notes from last meeting 3/7/15 Student survey—finalizing it, sending it out? Faculty survey—preliminary results, further analysis Report to faculty—continue assigning writing tasks (see outline below) Next …
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