HIGHLIGHTS
COLLEGE SUCCESSES • The Education Studies Department celebrated a 100 percent pass rate for students taking the edTPA, a required, performance-based, subject-specific assessment used to measure and support the skills and knowledge that all teachers need in the classroom. • Guilford College joined more than 110 colleges and universities from across the country in signing an amicus brief supporting the continued existence of Optional Practical Training and the STEM OPT expansion. • The Office of Global and Off-Campus • Guilford College was named one of
• Hege Library and Learning
five institutions in the Greensboro
Technologies was awarded a Library
area to participate in Partnerships for
Services and Technology grant from the
Listening and Action by Communities
federal Institute of Museum and Library
and Educators. The initiative is a
Services for $48,158 to advance the
Bringing Theory to Practice project
Mobile Edge, an initiative reimagining
that’s being supported by a two-year,
and expanding digital media services
$800,000 grant from the Andrew W.
for enhanced mobility.
Mellon Foundation to the Association of
• The College’s Marketing Department
American Colleges and Universities.
work from the Collegiate Advertising
student newspaper, received seven
Awards.
“Small Campus” awards from the N.C.
• Guilford was recognized this year
Statewide College Media Awards.
Association of International Educators Institutional Excellence in International Education Award, and University Magazine recently named Guilford College second in the nation as one of the Best Colleges for Study Abroad.
won five accolades for exceptional 2019
• The Guilfordian, Guilford College’s
College Media Association at the 2019
Initiatives was awarded the 2020 N.C.
in six categories by the 35th annual Educational Advertising Awards, presented by Higher Education Marketing Report, the nation’s leading marketing publication for highereducation professionals.
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• Guilford College ranked fourth in
• Guilford received four 2020 District III
the Food Organics category and 16th
CASE Awards.
in the Per Capita Classic in the 2020
• The Edward M. Armfield Sr. Foundation
RecycleMania competition.
of Greensboro awarded the College
• The Bonner Center for Community
an $800,000 grant in support of
Service and Learning Mobile Oasis
improvements to the Hege-Cox Art
program received $50,000 in funding
Building and for the implementation of
from the Veggie Van project through the
the Guilford Edge.
University of Buffalo.
