August 11, 2009
GREENSBORO - Greensboro College has named a professor acting CEO while searching for its next president.Paul Leslie, who is also the school’s vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty, has been guiding the school as part of its lea...
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August 6, 2009
GREENSBORO — Greensboro College’s board of trustees has formed a committee to find an interim president. The group, made up of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members, will take on the task of replacing longtime President Craven...
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August 1, 2009
GREENSBORO — Carter Pate’s BlackBerry Smartphone was almost dead by Friday afternoon. The 55-year-old finance veteran flew south from New York to spend his first day as chairman of Greensboro College’s board of trustees among staff and f...
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July 31, 2009
GREENSBORO — UNCG is becoming a bit more neighborly. The growing university, which has bumped heads with neighborhoods bordering its campus for years, has formed a consortium to prevent conflicts and help the school grow without being too disruptive...
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July 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — R. Carter Pate, a Greensboro College alumnus who has spent his career turning around financially troubled businesses, will be the new leader of the struggling school’s board of trustees. “I am who I am today because faculty...
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July 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — Six N.C. A&T staff members were laid off Monday as A&T and UNCG brace for possible budget cuts. “We were hoping not to eliminate any filled positions until at least the spring,” said Robert Pompey, vice president for...
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GREENSBORO — When students begin returning to Greensboro College next week, some familiar faces will be missing — along with some classes. Last week, the small Methodist college announced 10 layoffs. Among them, as students and faculty learned...
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July 26, 2009
To outsiders, Greensboro College runs under the radar — a small, genteel campus easy to overlook, if it weren’t for its life-size nativity scene each Christmas. Yet to the faculty and alumni now confronted with a fiscal crisis that is shaking...
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July 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — UNCG and N.C. A&T have released proposals to cut 10 percent from their respective 2009-2010 budgets, ahead of what likely will be greatly reduced state funding. UNCG would cut more than $17 million from its budget, and A...
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July 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — Greensboro College will lay off seven full-time and three part-time faculty and staff members, the school announced Thursday. The college did not announce which positions would be eliminated. The regular part-time faculty salary budget...
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July 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — Next week comic book fans of all stripes will descend on San Diego for Comic-Con International, the world’s largest comic book convention. Television and movie trailers will be premiered, grown men will dress as Superman and a com...
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GREENSBORO — Bennett College for Women had its accreditation reaffirmed this month, according to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. The small college of less than 700 students has struggled with accreditation in...
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July 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — Greensboro College could have an interim president as soon as next week, according to Robert Stout, chairman of the board of trustees. The school has been without a leader since President Craven Williams abruptly retired last week after...
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July 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — Greensboro College closed ranks Wednesday following the retirement of President Craven Williams amid the school’s ongoing financial crisis. Faculty, staff members and trustees declined to talk publicly about Williams, who abruptly...
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July 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — Craven Williams, who helped revive an ailing Greensboro College when he became president in 1993 but in recent years watched the Methodist-affiliated school sink into mounting debt, abruptly retired Tuesday. Less than two weeks after Wi...
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July 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Zimuzor Ugochukwu created Ignite Greensboro last year, her goal was to raise student awareness and to get donations for the International Civil Rights Museum here. She couldn’t have imagined that a year later, she would be a...
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GREENSBORO — Bennett College for Women has received $125,000 in scholarship money from the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Citizen Education Fund. The $5,000 scholarships — 25 of them — represent half of all the...
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July 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — The new fiscal year came and went Wednesday, but the state budget is still in flux. At UNCG and N.C. A&T, that means more waiting as administrators, faculty and staff anticipate just how deep the budget cuts at UNC schools will real...
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July 1, 2009
GREENSBORO — Elon University’s service learning programs are being recognized with a national award. The school is one of five receiving the Washington Center’s inaugural Higher Education Civic Engagement Award. The national nonprofit or...
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June 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — The N.C. A&T community gathered Tuesday evening around the campus statue of the A&T Four to celebrate their new chancellor, Harold Martin. That statue commemorates one of the proudest moments in the school’s history......
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June 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Triad health professionals are warning people to take flulike symptoms seriously in the wake of a number of H1N1 virus cases. Moses Cone Health System spokesman Doug Allred and Guilford County public officials stressed Friday that fluli...
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June 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — Staff at The Women’s Hospital took additional precautions Thursday after learning a respiratory therapist unknowingly exposed 33 babies to the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. Moses Cone Health System officials learned Thursday night tha...
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June 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — A $2.5 million grant to explore commercial uses of nanotechnology research could mean more support for UNCG and N.C. A&T’s Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. The four-year grant to the Center of Innovation in Nan...
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June 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — An endowed professorship will honor former UNCG Chancellor Patricia Sullivan.Several donors contributed or pledged $417,000 for an endowment toward the Patricia A. Sullivan Distinguished Professorship in the Sciences.UNCG will apply for...
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June 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Harold Martin was named N.C. A&T’s chancellor last month, the job came with an almost messianic level of hype. Students, staff, faculty and alumni so praised the A&T graduate, a former professor and administrator at t...
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