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Dutch Presented Champion’s Cup for Community Support
Greensboro, N.C. – Michael Dutch, associate professor of business administration and chair of the Department of Business Administration and Economics at Greensboro College, was awarded the Champion’s Cup at the Communities in Schools (CIS) awards luncheon on April 24.
Dutch serves as advisor to the college’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization that developed the “I CHOOSE” program to assist CIS. Dutch was chosen to receive this recognition for his leadership in the “I CHOOSE” program and its impact in the community.
From November through April, SIFE members held nine sessions with approximately 20 high school sophomores from Dudley High School. The sessions were designed to educate the participants on a variety of topics.
Topics included opportunities the free enterprise system provides, social mobility, the cost and value of education, how to apply and pay for higher education, leadership styles, career preference assessment and interviewing and job seeking skills.
“With the recent report of a nationwide 50 percent high school dropout rate, this program’s message that our society presents countless opportunities for students to be successful, beginning with them staying in school, was particularly relevant,” said Dutch.
The “I CHOOSE” program is supported by a grant from the Marcus Foundation. This marks the third consecutive year in which SIFE has received this award.
CIS is the largest dropout prevention organization in the nation. The mission is to connect with community resources to help youth learn, stay in school and prepare for life.
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Haeseler Selected as Fulbright Scholar from Greensboro College
Greensboro, N.C. – Jillian Haeseler, assistant professor of English and communication studies at Greensboro College, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Guatemala for the academic year 2008-2009. Fulbright recipients are selected for their academic merit and leadership potential.
With her award, Haeseler will join the faculty at the satellite Solola campus of the University of Del Valle of Guatemala (UVG-Solola) overlooking Lake Atitlan. At UVG-Solola, faculty develop and provide training programs to youth and adults from the mostly indigenous Mayan highlands.
Haeseler will help prepare indigenous youth for university studies in computer science, forestry, sustainable tourism and other areas. She will also lend her expertise to the English as a Foreign Language teacher training program for public school teachers in the Lake Atitlan area.
A Fulbright Scholar is expected to become involved with the educational, political, economic, social and cultural lives of the host countries. The scholarship also enables the recipient to develop and foster international understanding and long-term cooperative relationships between the United States and other countries.
Haeseler received her B.A. degree from Guilford College and the M.A degree from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She also earned the M.A. and D.A. degrees from Syracuse University.
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Greensboro College’s Cheryl Brown Receives Statewide Service-Learning Award
Greensboro, N.C. – Greensboro College Professor of Sociology Cheryl Brown received the 2008 Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award during the tenth annual North Carolina Campus Compact Service-Learning Conference, recently held at Elon University.
The Sigmon Award is presented each year to a North Carolina faculty or staff member who has made significant contributions toward furthering the practice of service-learning. It is named for North Carolinian Robert L. Sigmon, regarded as one of the pioneers in the national service-learning field.
Brown is considered to be one of Greensboro College’s experts on the topic of service-learning. She has taught at Greensboro College since 2001, receiving the Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award in 2005.
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Paul Leslie said, “Dr. Brown has been an important part of our commitment to service-learning. Her ability to lead and organize service projects for the sake of authentic, life-altering learning experiences is unparalleled.”
For several years, Brown has worked to establish and to advance ties with the people of Ixmiquilpan in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. In order to strengthen the work in Mexico, Brown worked with former Greensboro College student, Ascary Arias, to found Vidas de Esperanza – meaning “Lives of Hope” – dedicated to improving the health and education of children in rural areas of Mexico and in the Triad.
Lovingly known in Mexico as “La Maestra Brown,” or “the one who teaches,” Brown leads trips of students, faculty, and staff to Ixmiquilpan to engage in the actual work alongside the Mexican families, with whom they live during the visit. Once back home, the work continues as the college has incorporated service-learning initiatives throughout the curriculum to address needs locally, nationally and internationally.
Robert Brewer, Greensboro College campus minister, said, “Dr. Brown does all of this work without recognition or fanfare. Through her humble service, she has impacted the lives of countless students and community partners locally and abroad. She has inspired students to continue in service long after they leave her class.”
Elon University President and Chair of the NC Campus Compact Executive Board Leo Lambert and Sigmon presented the award to Brown during the conference luncheon. More than 250 faculty, staff and administrators from 49 universities in seven states attended the event.
North Carolina Campus Compact is a coalition of 38 colleges and universities collaborating to increase campus-wide civic engagement. For more information, contact Executive Director Lisa Keyne at 336-278-7278.
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GC Chamber Singers and Music Faculty to Perform at Bach’s Lunch Series
Greensboro, N.C. – The Greensboro College Chamber Singers and music faculty will perform at the Bach's Lunch mid-day music series. Free and open to the public, Bach’s Lunch is presented yearly at Starmount Presbyterian Church, 3501 West Market Street, Greensboro.
The series begins at 12:15 p.m. daily, March 10-14. A complimentary lunch follows the performances.
The complete schedule follows:
- Monday: Susan Bates - organ
Bates has served on the music faculties of Yale University and Salem College and is on the music faculty at Wake Forest University. Also, she is organist at West Market Street United Methodist Church.
- Tuesday: Michael Parker - piano
Parker currently serves on the piano faculties of both Greensboro College and Guilford College. In addition, he is organist/pianist for Starmount Presbyterian.
- Wednesday: Chamber Singers of Greensboro College
The Chamber Singers perform a wide variety of music and have toured extensively throughout the Eastern U.S. The Chamber Singers are under the direction of Professor of Music Jonathan Brotherton. Brotherton is also the director of choral activities at Greensboro College.
- Thursday: Anita Cirba and Rhonda Overman - trumpet and solo soprano
Cirba is principal trumpet of both the Winston-Salem and Greensboro Symphony Orchestras. Overman is the artistic administrator for the Winston-Salem Symphony.
- Friday: Alicia Campbell and Helen Rifas - flute and harp
Campbell is a principal flutist with both the Greensboro and Winston-Salem Symphonies, and is on the music faculty at Greensboro College. Rifas plays principal harp with both the Greensboro and Winston-Salem Symphonies.
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Professor of Music Jane McKinney Serves as Chair for State C-MENC
Greensboro College music education majors attended the most recent North Carolina Music Educators Conference. Ten students served as mentors to high school students who are part of the Young Professionals Symposium, a program designed for high school juniors and seniors considering a career in music education.
The Greensboro College affiliate, Chapter 19, is one of the oldest chapters in the country. This marks the tenth consecutive year in which Chapter 19 members have earned the award of excellence.
Senior music education major, Josh McElvey, was elected as the new collegiate state president for C-MENC, the state collegiate chapter of the National Association for Music Education. He will work with chapters across the state in planning collegiate music education events for the coming year.
Greensboro College Professor of Music Jane McKinney serves as chair for the state C-MENC and assisted with coordination of collegiate events throughout the four-day conference. She also served as an adjudicator for the Young Professionals.
For more information about music education at Greensboro College or about the conference, contact McKinney at 272-7102, ext. 281.
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Saari Presented as Guest Artist
Professor of Theatre John Saari presented several workshops as guest artist for the North Carolina School of the Arts as part of their Intensive Arts Program at semester's end.
The first workshop entitled "It's Not Only Color," focused on the methodology of color, light, and the nature of pigments, dyes, and inks.
The second demonstration was entitled "Painting on Pile Fabrics," and the final workshop called "Armour Construction Techniques" involved a demonstration on how to build various implements of classical warfare.
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Greensboro College Faculty Attend National Convention
Jane Girardi, assistant professor of German, and Edith Shepherd, associate professor of Spanish, recently attended the 41st convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in San Antonio, Texas.
The conference theme "Bridging Cultures through Languages," featured over 500 educational sessions.
This is the only national conference that brings together all languages, levels and assignments within the foreign language teaching profession.
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GC Faculty Presented and Reviewed
Director of Institutional Assessment and Research Nancy McElveen presented at the recent meeting of the North Carolina American Association of Teachers of French/Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. Her presentation was titled, "Web Quests as a Strategy for Engaged Learning."
Artist-in-Residence Robert Overman recently performed Verdi's La Traviata with the Piedmont Opera, a professional opera company. The Winston-Salem Journal and the Classical Voice of North Carolina reviewed his performance.
Reporter Ken Keuffel said, "Robert Overman, a local talent who plays Giorgio Germont, has never put in better work. Verdi's writing seems tailor-made for his rich, engaging baritone."
Reviewer William Thomas Walker said, "Piedmont Opera's baritone Robert Overman was far more successful than most Giorgios I have seen during some 30 years of attending regional performances. The Greensboro College-based singer has had a singing career of more than 20 years, including 15 years in Europe. His firm and evenly balanced voice is still in its prime and he fully brought out his character's anguish during Violetta's death scene."
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Galleries Transformed By A Sense of the Sacred
Greensboro College's Irene Cullis Gallery and Galyon Gallery will be transformed by a sense of the sacred. Beginning September 30 and running through October 28, Professor of Art Ray Martin will exhibit over 70 of his most recent works.
A reception is planned September 30 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The exhibit called "Finding the Numinous" began New Year's Day 2005. After 2 1/2 years, Martin is now presenting this gift to the community as a place of peace and solace.
Martin's exhibit includes a collection of oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, mixed media works and sculpture ranging from lyrical realism to fantastical symbolism. Many of the pieces were created in his tree house studio and portray a 360 degree view of his surroundings.
He says, "Painting the way a flower grows, instead of its surface appearance, leads me to see relationships, not "things." It's easy to feel the sacred and divine in a cathedral. I learned to feel this same sense of the spirit in everyday surroundings."
The term "numinous" was first coined by a German theologian, Rudolf Otto, in his work "The Idea of the Holy." The work describes the sense of awe-inspiring wonder which can be felt in certain places or situations where the presence of God or spiritual beings are present.
The galleries are located in the Cowan Humanities Building on the Greensboro College campus, 815 West Market Street. Hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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Fox Reviewed by Prestigious Publications
Greensboro College Associate Professor of Music Dave Fox has received several positive reviews of new and past recordings from national and international publications. The Foxbourne Chronicles, with Eugene Chadbourne, was recorded in Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on the campus of Greensboro College.
ORM, with German reedman Frank Gratkowski, was recorded in Winston Salem, while the Dave Fox group's If These Songs Could Talk was recorded at Overdub Lane in Durham (with John Plymale of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame engineering.)
John Barron of JazzReview.com says, "The Foxbourne Chronicles is the forward thinking collaboration of pianist/composer Dave Fox and banjoist, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne. Fox's compositions are inventive without relying on melodic clich or imposed harmony. The Foxbourne Chronicles is honest, fresh music conceived in an era occupied with blandness and imitation.
This CD was also reviewed in the prestigious jazz magazine Downbeat, where Bill Meyer says, Fox is unabashedly warm-hearted and approachable. This one's a keeper.
Ken Waxman, of JazzWord.com, speaking about the recording ORM, notes that Fox is an "unjustly unknown American", and, The pianist, who teaches at Greensboro College, has a quirky command of inside and outside piano mechanics
In May 2007, Fox's own group, The Dave Fox Group, released their second recording, If These Songs Could Talk, to critical acclaim.
Writing for AllAboutJazz L.A., George Harris sums up the disc's impact, saying, The Dave Fox Group runs through a series of intriguing originals mixed with surprising standards, all presented with broad strokes of creativity and experimentation. The idea of putting a calypso groove behind the warhorse Cherokee was creative genius.
Fox earned the B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
These recordings are available at CDBaby.com, or by contacting Fox at dave@davefoxgroup.com.
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Greensboro College Faculty Present at Area Conference
Greensboro College Director of the Library Christine Whittington, along with Jennie Hunt, reference librarian and Associate Professor of History Michael Sistrom, recently presented at the "Teaching and Transformation: Transforming Students, Transforming Campuses, Transforming Ourselves" conference at Elon University.
This is the fourth annual Innovation in Instruction Conference. This years conference explored how teaching and learning can foster transformations in student learning, campus life, and faculty work.
Whittington coordinated the panel presentation entitled Free and Hot: Using Popular Web Resources to Teach Research Skills and Critical Thinking.
Panelists were:
- Christine Whittington, Director of the Library, Greensboro College
- Jennie Hunt, Reference Librarian, Greensboro College
- Michael Sistrom, Associate Professor of History, Greensboro College
- Paula Patch, Instructor of English, Elon University
- Amy Harris, First Year Instruction Coordinator and Reference Librarian, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Scott Rice, Networked Information Services Librarian and Distance Education Librarian, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Cheatham and Crane Published in Scholarly Journals
Greensboro College Professor of English and Assistant Dean of the Faculty George Cheatham has been published in the spring issue of The Hemingway Review.
His article, "The World War I Battle of Mons and Hemingway's In our Time, Chapter III, argues that Hemingway's literal details and topical allusions carried culturally-coded meaning his contemporary audience would have understood but may elude readers today.
Cheatham reasons that Hemingway manipulated these meanings to gain particular effects with possible interpretive implications.
The Hemingway Review is a scholarly journal published twice a year by The Hemingway Society and The University of Idaho. The journal specializes in researched scholarship on the work and life of Ernest Hemingway.
Cheatham earned the B.A. degree from Hendrix College, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee.
Greensboro College Professor of History Richard Francis Crane wrote an article titled, "Laicisation and Its Discontents in Early Twentieth-Century France." The article has been published in the July 2007 Catholic Historical Review, the scholarly journal of the American Catholic Historical Association.
The article concerns "la laicisation," French for the secularization of the public sphere. The books reviewed concentrate in the church-state conflict that played a prominent role in French national discourse at the beginning of the 20th century.
Crane earned the B.A. degree from Eastern Connecticut State University, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut.
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Charles-Liscombe Presents at National Symposia
Greensboro College Associate Professor of Athletic Training Robert "BC" Charles-Liscombe (B.A., Guilford College; M.S., Indiana University) recently presented at two sessions at the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) annual meeting and clinical symposia in Anaheim, Calif.
Along with Dr. Jolene Henning of UNCG, Professor Charles-Liscombe moderated a special interest group on education. A session entitled "Academic Role Orientation and Incongruency Increases Athletic Training Educators Role Strain" highlighted Charles-Liscombe's research examining academic role orientation among full-time faculty at entry-level athletic training programs.
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Greensboro College Professor Published in Athletic Therapy Today
Greensboro College Assistant Professor of Athletic Training Michelle Lesperance has been published in the May 2007 edition of Athletic Training Today, the professional journal of certified athletic trainers and athletic therapists.
The article, "Developing Computer Simulations for Student Assessment," demonstrates how to use computerized simulations to enhance critical thinking and decision-making. The purpose of the article was to present a way to design screen-based text simulations for athletic training education.
Dr. Jolene M. Henning and Dr. Jane D. Harris from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro co-authored the article.
Lesperance earned the B.S. degree from Binghamton University and the M.S. degree from Illinois State University. She currently is pursuing an Ed.D. degree in Exercise and Sport Studies.
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Hunt and McNaughton Assume New Roles at Greensboro College
Jennie Hunt, reference librarian, has been named technical services librarian at GC. She will now be working closely with cataloging print and electronic resources, the NC-PALS online catalog, and the library's website. Hunt holds the B.A. degree from Guilford College and the M.L.S. degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Drew McNaughton, technical services librarian, has been appointed systems librarian of the North Carolina Piedmont Automated Library System (NC-PALS). Greensboro College is a member of the NC-PALS consortium along with Guilford College, Salem College and Bennett College. McNaughton will continue to have an office at Greensboro College.
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