Friends, I WAS DR AWN TO WORK AT GUILFOR D COLLEGE because of its bold and assertive mission to transform students’ lives and also because your Core Values, including community, integrity and diversity, are a fit with my own values. Based on my experience working with other institutions that were facing financial challenges, I was pleased to accept your trustees’ offer to lead a process that will help Guilford position itself for a successful future. Your board gave me a charge to address the College’s structural deficit and to review programs across campus to determine their viability and costeffectiveness. I am expected to hand over to the next President a balanced budget with a surplus and a set of program offerings that meet student needs and interests today. This means change, and change is hard. Also, it means difficult decisions will have to be made that will impact people and programs. In a period
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Dr. Carol A. Moore, who joined Guilford College as President Aug. 1, 2020, has a distinguished, 40-year career as an educator. A New Jersey native, Carol holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Montclair State University, and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Northeastern University. Her first teaching job was ninth-grade General Science, and in higher education she moved through the ranks of faculty member, Assistant Dean, Academic Dean and Provost to serve as President of three colleges before coming to Guilford.
of about five months, through a highly collaborative process, we will accomplish this together. Guilford last reviewed its academic programs in 2005, but every healthy college should undertake this process regularly. Generation Z students (born before 2012) have different academic and career interests, and the number of traditional college-age students is shrinking and will continue to decline. It is clear that Guilford must seize this opportunity to carve out a clear path for the future. The College community began that work with The Guilford Edge, the new curriculum and calendar. It will take discipline to succeed, as full resolution of the College’s challenges could take up to five years. One of my earliest observations about Guilford — in addition to the beautiful, well-maintained campus and the mission and Core Values that impressed me — was the number of people I met who are really committed to the College and are working very hard to ensure its future. In the past year they, and other current and
