Home » News

News

Greensboro College welcomes five new full-time instructors to its staff this fall.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2020 GREENSBORO, N.C. – Dr. Sandra L. Cooke will join the School of Science and Mathematics as an Assistant Professor of Biology. Dr. Cooke most recently was an assistant professor of biology at High Point University, after stints as a lecturing fellow and research scientist at Duke University. She received……
Greensboro College Fall Sports Season Postponed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2020 Greensboro College Fall Sports Season Postponed GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s athletic conference announced today that fall sports conference competition is postponed until the spring 2021 semester because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Pride sports impacted at GC are football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball. Winter……
Greensboro College Exceeds Capital Campaign Goal Topping $21 million

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2020 Greensboro College Exceeds Capital Campaign Goal Topping $21 million GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greensboro College today celebrated the successful completion of its 6-year capital campaign totaling $21,104,963, exceeding by more than $6 million the $15 million campaign goal announced in 2017. The GC20/20: Uniquely Focused capital campaign focused donors’ attention……
Greensboro College Professor Says “Laziness” May Hide Creativity

GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Greensboro College psychology professor has told an Australian science website that apparently laziness in some people can mask productivity. Todd McElroy, associate professor of psychology, told author Kate Raynes-Goldie that laziness frequently masks efficiency and creativity. In 2016, McElroy led a study that found that people with a higher “need for……
2019 Greensboro College Graduate Wins Davidson County Schools’ Teacher of the Year Award

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Angelica Yepes Velosa, who received her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Greensboro College in 2019, has been named Teacher of the Year for 2019-2020 by the Davidson County (N.C.) school system. Yepes Velosa teaches kindergarten in the Spanish immersion program at Southwood Elementary School, where she also……
Greensboro College Offers Virtual and In-Person Open Houses Regarding Its Upcoming Paralegal Education Program

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College is offering people the opportunity to learn about its fall paralegal certification educational program both online and in person. The college will offer an online open house from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, and an in-person open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. Dates are……
Greensboro College Extends Eligibility for “Stay Local” Scholarships to North Carolina Students Statewide

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has extended eligibility for its “Stay Local” scholarships to first-time freshmen students throughout North Carolina. “We know that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused students in many cases to want to attend college closer to home,” said Lindsay Latham ’08, senior director of student financial services. “This is our way of……
Greensboro College Recognizes Dozens of Faculty and Staff on Virtual Recognition Day

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College recognized award-winning and long-tenured faculty and staff at its recent Virtual Recognition Day. Anna Peluso Simonson, associate professor of health science, received the Virginia Clarke Gray Award for outstanding teaching by a junior faculty member. Only faculty who have taught full-time at a college or university for five years or……
A Statement to the Greensboro College Community from President Lawrence D. Czarda, Ph.D.

To the Greensboro College Community, Like many of you, we are disturbed and shaken by the recent murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer. We are equally disturbed that this is only one in a long line of black lives lost due to systematic racism that plagues our country. We grieve for all……
Greensboro College Announces Fall 2020 Schedule, Admissions Resumes In-Person Campus Tours on Limited Schedule

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will hold in-person fall classes, but classes will end before Thanksgiving and students will not return until the new year, the college said today in announcing its Fall 2020 Schedule. Classes will begin as originally scheduled on Wednesday, Aug. 19. But there will be classes on Labor Day, and there……