Agenda for Opening Community Meeting

Attached please find the agenda for the opening community meeting, Tuesday afternoon at New Garden Friends Meeting Hall, across from the college on New Garden Road.  The meeting begins at 2pm, and the annual community picnic will follow at 5pm. Guilford College Community Meeting Agenda 2014 Final

Are we supporting the research we demand for tenure?

A colleague forwarded me part of an e-mail from a tenure-track faculty member who chose to leave the college to teach at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.  The following is shared with permission: I just thought I would let you know that I just got 4x as much money to start up a …

Faculty News Items

The following was sent to faculty by e-mail on July 19, 2014. Hi colleagues – I hope you are all having a good summer. I thought I’d let you know a couple of things that might be of interest: Opening Meeting: The opening community meeting for the 2014-15 academic year will be held on Tuesday, August 19, …

Faculty Work Environment Survey Results

I have compiled the results from the survey of faculty on work environment issues into a report.  This report is available here:  Faculty Survey Results Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.  Feel free to comment below.

Revisioning

I floated the idea for this blog last week, and I received some encouraging feedback and also some strong cautionary remarks from people I respect a great deal. On the encouraging side, there seems to be a general desire for more transparency and communication on campus, and this may provide one route toward that goal. …

Welcome

Hi, everybody. I’m hoping to use this as a space to discuss issues facing Guilford College faculty during my tenure as clerk of faculty. I think having an informal discussion space here might offer the possibility for more communication and clarity than is available through normal faculty discussions. I’ll post my thoughts on faculty issues …