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GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Admissions Office will host an open house for prospective college students 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 22. Participants can tour campus, learn about the admissions process and financial aid options, and meet people who can show students how to get involved once they enroll. The event is free, but advance……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s annual Spring Streamwalk will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 21. Participants should meet at the north (Market Street) end of the parking lot behind James Addison Jones Library on campus. Members of the public are invited to take part. Participants should wear pants and shoes that can get……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – As part of a psychology class on death and dying, Greensboro College will hold a panel discussion featuring speakers from Greensboro-based Hospice of the Piedmont at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in Room 206 of the Cowan Humanities Building on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The discussion,……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College alumna Lynette Tannis ’95, Ed.D., will be the college’s 2017 Commencement speaker, the college announced today. The speaker for the 2017 Baccalaureate/Cap and Gown Service will the Rev. Daniel G. Martin. Tannis’s address is titled, “Endowing Those Within Your Sphere of Influence.” Tannis is a career educator whose work most……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Greensboro College student has won a $1,000 scholarship for her first year of graduate school beginning this fall. Melanie Smith won the scholarship from Region III of Alpha Chi, a national honor society. Region III includes the Southeast, the Middle Atlantic states and Puerto Rico. Smith, a senior history and sociology/cultural……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Benjamin Wall, assistant professor of religion and ethics at Greensboro College, has been selected to deliver the 2017 Jean Vanier Emerging Scholar Lecture at this year’s Summer Institute on Theology and Disability. The lecture, to be delivered in June at the Summer Institute at Azusa Pacific University in California, honors Vanier, who……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Michelle Plaisance, assistant professor of English and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages  and director of Greensboro College’s M.A. program in TESOL, has published a paper on that subject. “Like Driving from ‘the Back Seat’: Teaching English as a Second Language in Commodified Curricular Terrains”  was co-written with Spencer Salas and……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Meegan McCarthy, a sophomore at Greensboro College, has received a $500 scholarship award from the North Carolina Association on Higher Education and Disability. McCarthy is a psychology and art major from Loudon, N.H. The association awards the scholarship yearly to a current undergraduate student based on leadership and service to the campus……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Lisa Alley ’93, Greensboro College’s director of academic support, has been honored by the North Carolina Association of Higher Education and Disabilities. Alley received the association’s Laura Thomas Award, established by the association’s executive board in 1996 in memory of Laura L. D. Thomas, the Director of Disability Services at UNC-Chapel Hill……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Rev. Dr. Robert Brewer, Greensboro College chaplain, spoke at the recent Summit youth retreat, sponsored by the Western N.C. Conference of the United Methodist Church. About 150 high-school and middle-school students attended the program, whose theme was “In the Shadow of Giants.” The weekend messages talked about confronting and addressing the……