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GREENSBORO, N.C. The coronavirus pandemic has challenged colleges big and small across the country. Many students haven’t been on campus in a year, schools have scrambled to move classes online, and revenue from things like conferences dried up overnight.
In a recent newspaper op-ed, Guilford College interim President Jim Hood put it this way: “To borrow and bend the opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: Happy colleges are all alike, unhappy colleges are unhappy in their own ways.”
Along with the challenges of moving students to online classes and dealing with coronavirus cases in students who stayed on campus, this small Quaker school near Greensboro is facing some big financial struggles.
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New Leadership At Guilford College Gets Vote Of Confidence by David Ford Guilford College campus in Greensboro, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Guilford College.
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New Guilford College Interim President Jim Hood is being embraced by faculty, staff, and Save Guilford College, a grassroots organization of alumni and friends of the school. The show of support comes as the college seeks a viable path forward following years of fiscal challenges.
This is the second leadership change for Guilford College in less than a year following the early departure of Interim President Carol Moore. Under her leadership, the school considered cutting some 20 tenured faculty positions and related majors. But critics said the proposal ran counter to the principles touted by the Quaker tradition school. Save Guilford College engagement committee clerk Daniel Summers says Jim Hood’s decades-long experience at Guilford as both student
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Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., named a new interim president less than a year after appointing Carol Moore to fill the temporary role. Jim Hood, an English professor at the small Quaker college, will serve as interim president until the ongoing search for a permanent president is complete. “Jim Hood is known to the entire Guilford community for his decades-long