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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Maria Madrid, who received her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Greensboro College earlier this year, has been named the Incredible World Language Teacher of the Year by the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. Madrid teaches a second-grade class in the Spanish-immersion program at Elm City Elementary……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Department of Music presents its Fall Musicians’ Honors Convocation, 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in the Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building on campus. The event is free and the public is invited. Student musicians will perform a variety of vocal and instrumental works. The Greensboro College……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s Office of Admissions will hold information sessions beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, and Saturday, Nov. 11. The sessions will be held in the lobby of Cowan Humanities Building on campus. Prospective students can learn about the college in small groups, learn about the admissions process, and take……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will name a planned outdoor theatre on the Downtown Greenway for former president Craven Williams and his wife, Judith. The announcement was made Thursday at a dedication ceremony at 501 Guilford Ave., a block northeast of the main college campus. Ownership of the property was conveyed to the college earlier……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s Opera Workshop presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic opera “The Gondoliers,” 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3-4, in Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building on campus. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for seniors and may be reserved by calling Cathy Jansen at 336-272-7102, ext. 5242. The……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College presents the seventh annual Reynolds Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The speaker will be Steven R. Cureton, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The title……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Brass Ensemble will present a concert at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, in Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited. The Greensboro College music program stresses intense individual musical development in the context of a rigorous liberal-arts curriculum. For more information……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Three members of the Greensboro College Board of Trustees and two senior college members were elected Oct. 6 to the Board of Directors of the Greensboro College Foundation. The five are: The Rev. Frank “Duke” Ison, a trustee Fred Jones, secretary of the Board of Trustees Lynn Lane ’73, chair of the……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Board of Trustees elected two new members, re-elected two more, and elected its officers for 2018 during its meeting Oct. 6. The new members, who take office Jan. 1 for four-year terms, are Brittany Carroll ’12 and Martha Bradberry ’74. In addition to her Greensboro College degree, Carroll holds……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has promoted two assistant professors to associate professor. They are Michelle Plaisance, associate professor of English and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and director of the college’s M.A. in TESOL program, and William MacReynolds, associate professor and dean of the School of Business. Both promotions are retroactive to……