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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
Guilford Board Pauses Budget Cuts
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Guilford College will pause a program prioritization plan that would result in dozens of layoffs and program eliminations, the college s Board of Trustees announced Wednesday.
“We are hearing particularly from alumni who are offering fundraising ideas. We are also hearing internally and from those in the wider education community who are offering ideas as well,” Ed Winslow, chair of the board, said in a statement.
Carol Moore, the college’s interim president, announced in November that the college would need to undergo sweeping budget cuts. The program prioritization plan would lay off more than two dozen faculty members and eight staff members. It would also ax half of the college’s majors.
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