Month: May 2019
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Greensboro College Recognizes Samantha Renee Saint as Outstanding Adult Undergraduate Student
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has presented Samantha Renee Saint the William Henry and Martha Grant Likins Award as this year’s outstanding graduating adult undergraduate student. She received the award today along with her B.A. in history and Social Studies education, cum laude (with honors), during the college’s Commencement exercises. “Having overcome some significant obstacles early……
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Greensboro College Names Alla Ahmed Alaghbri Outstanding Traditional Graduating Senior
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has awarded the Harold H. Hutson Award, presented annually to the outstanding traditional graduating senior, to Alla Ahmed Alaghbri of High Point. Alaghbri, who received his B.A. in history and religion summa cum laude (with highest honors) today, came to the U.S. in high school from his native, war-torn Yemen,……
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Greensboro College Names D’andre Hardy Director of Retention
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has named D’andre Hardy director of retention. She began work May 6. In that role, she will oversee the college’s student retention efforts as part of its larger effort to increase student persistence and graduation rates with a five-year, $1.93 million Title III grant from the U.S. Department of Education,……
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Greensboro College Professor Wins Second Research Fellowship for Forthcoming Book
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Heather Chacón, an assistant professor of English at Greensboro College, has won a $4,000 grant for research on her forthcoming book. Chacón is receiving $4,000 from the Legacy Center at Drexel University for research in the center’s archives this summer and fall. The research is for her forthcoming book, “Health Movements: Medicine,……
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Greensboro College Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Productions
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College Theatre’s 2019-2020 season will feature seven productions, including a mystery, a Shakespeare play, a musical, a period romance, and a touring children’s play, the department’s chairman, David Schram, Jefferson Pilot Professor of Theatre, has announced. The schedule follows. Performance venues and showtimes will be posted later this summer at www.greensboro.edu/theatre.……
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Greensboro College Student Newspaper Ties for First Place in Journalism Contest
GREENSBORO, N.C. – For the third consecutive year, The Collegian, Greensboro College’s student-powered newspaper, has tied for first place nationally in its category in the annual American Scholastic Press Association awards. The Collegian tied for first place with Elizabethtown College’s Etownian and Waynesburg University’s Yellow Jacket in the category of schools with 1,001 to 1,750……
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Greensboro College Announces 2019 Baccalaureate and Commencement Speakers
GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Greensboro College trustee and retired law-school dean will address Greensboro College’s 2019 graduates at Commencement May 11, and a minister and alumnus of the college will speak at the college’s Baccalaureate/Cap & Gown ceremony May 10. The commencement speaker will be George R. Johnson Jr., dean emeritus and professor of law……
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Greensboro College Names New Athletic Training Center for Former Trustee and Alumnus’s Parents
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will name its new athletic training center after a former trustee and his wife in recognition of their major capital-campaign gift. The Willie and Lisa Bullock Athletic Training Center was completed in December. Through it, the college’s athletic training program delivers traditional athletic training and sports medicine services to student……
