Please feel free to discuss the Guilford Edge proposal and its various parts here. You may post anonymously if you wish. Comments from anonymous and first-time posters will be held by the site software moderation until I can approve them. The Guilford Edge website is here. Feedback collected by the Edge team about the changes …
Please feel free to add your comments or ask questions about the proposed weekly and semester schedule changes here. This was the subject of our Faculty Forum on September 20th.
In our last meeting, Darryl mentioned a simpler curriculum model he had developed. He sent this to LAGER and to me in March shortly before spring break. Because others have not seen it, and it was discussed, I asked if I could share it here. I’m including the three documents he sent me and his …
Dear Colleagues, We have a challenging second half of the semester. As you know, we’ve been engaged in a curriculum revision process that began several years ago in Curriculum Committee and then moved to our ad hoc committee to determine whether we wanted to pursue a curriculum revision. We approved that committee’s recommendation that we …
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LAGER has prepared two documents for the Critical Perspectives discussion we are holding March 15th in the Collaboratory space in Hege Library. These are a set of slides that describe their ideas for incorporating Critical Perspectives and a memo summarizing what they are presenting. Note that the model they’re using here is their updated model …
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LOCATION CHANGE: This event will be in the Collaboratory in Hege Library, NOT in the Gilmer Room. We will host a discussion during the reserved time on Wednesday, March 15th, at 3:45 pm, centered around the concerns that have been raised recently about the curricular elements we currently house in the Critical Perspectives requirements, namely …
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Guilford’s Board of Trustees today approved the revisions we proposed to the tenure and promotion process today after a brief discussion. Several trustees expressed appreciation for the hard, long, and thorough work of the faculty in reaching this goal. FEP, the Dean, and the faculty were specifically commended. Congratulations and thanks to all who have …
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Here are the images of the posters we created today. Thanks for a useful, challenging meeting. Feel free to continue our discussion in the comments section below. Update to clarify: People were asked to place no sticker if they didn’t care about an issue, but if they did care, they were to place a green …
Read more “Discussion area for Faculty Forum on Curriculum Revision, February 15, 2017”
Ione Taylor, chair of the Academic Affairs committee of the Board of Trustees, just noted to the full board in their public meeting the need for improving faculty salaries to match our peers and competitors. She referred to this as ‘deferred people maintenance,’ naming it as a need equivalent to the deferred maintenance of our …
Compensation Committee has asked me to share with the community the following items. These are located on the Committees@Guilford Google Drive folder in the Faculty Meetings section under the September 28 2016 Meeting. The items are: The Faculty Salary subcommittee’s report from last May 2016 The updated recommendations from the subcommittee from September 2016 A set of slides …