Yesterday’s article in the Chronicle on a proposal at St. Mary’s College to link salaries throughout the college to one another raises many issues that have come before our community in recent years. The rise of executive pay in higher education has been well-documented and the struggles to address income inequality and its threat to …
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A study of an approach at addressing grade inflation has been getting quite a bit of news of late. Wellesley College seems to have achieved what they set out to do: bring down the college’s overall GPA and better align the use of certain grades between departments on campus. While grade inflation certainly does not …
Here is the presentation made by Ellie Yearns at the opening community meeting. Crowdfunding Initiative
Below are the materials presented by Bronwyn Corry and David Petree on the college’s sustainability efforts. Aug 19 2014 Sustainability Presentation Slides Zero Waste Video Guilford Farm Video
Natalya Shelkova (Assistant Professor of Economics) sent me the following to links to ideas for increasing enrollment and revenue. – Center for Learning in Retirement (at Uconn): http://clir.uconn.edu/ – ChildCare Center for Adult Students at Lehman College at NYC (which can help with enrollment of adult students): http://www.lehman.edu/child-care-center/index.php#one
Hi, all – The faculty conference Moodle site for 2014-15 is coming but not yet set up. I’ve had several questions about calendar information and faculty meetings – the schedule for Wednesday events is in the document attached here, and they should be in the college official and Google calendars. 2014-15 FM FF FD Schedule
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
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 …
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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, …
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.