Faculty Laurels

Greensboro College's George Cheatham Named Dean at Marymount University  

Posted: July 26, 2010
Marymount University News  

Arlington, VA -- George Cheatham, Ph.D., has been named Marymount University's dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. He comes to Marymount from Greensboro College in North Carolina, where he was chair of the English Department, professor of English, and an assistant dean of the faculty.

Dr. Cheatham taught English at Greensboro College for 20 years, sharing his passion for Shakespeare and for modern American fiction. During his years at Greensboro, his responsibilities included serving as director of the Honors Program, chair of the Humanities Division, study abroad advisor, and editor of the college's self-study report for reaffirmation of accreditation. Previously, he taught at Eastern Kentucky University.

Through teaching, Dr. Cheatham discovered an interest in the early writings of Ernest Hemingway and has published a number of articles on the author's short stories and first novel, The Sun Also Rises. His articles on Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Joseph Conrad and other modern authors have also been published in the Hemingway Review, South Atlantic Review, The Mississippi Quarterly, and Studies in Short Fiction. In addition, he has published a book-length study of Renaissance dramatist William Rowley.

From 1993 to the present, Dr. Cheatham has served as the chief consultant and chief reader of the State of Tennessee's 11th-grade Writing Assessment, part of the state's Comprehensive Assessment Program. He also has conducted writing workshops and training sessions on scoring for high school teachers across Tennessee. Earlier, he served as chief reader and project director for the Kentucky GED Essay Scoring Project.

He earned his B.A. in English and Philosophy from Hendrix College in Arkansas, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee.

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Laurie Callahan
Marymount University
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Phone: 703-284-1648

Greensboro College Professor Helps Set States’ Teacher Licensure Requirements  

Posted: July 23, 2010
Greensboro College Communications Office  

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s Beth Hair, an associate professor of special education, has been selected to serve on a panel that will help determine licensing requirements for special-education teachers.

Hair, director of the college’s Teacher Education Program, will serve as a panelist in a multi-state standard-setting study conducted by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J. Panelists were nominated by their states’ teacher licensing agencies, and final selections were made by ETS. Panelists were selected for their content expertise and experience and represented diverse professional perspectives.

The primary purpose of the standard-setting study is to collect the panel’s recommendation regarding the minimum score needed to pass the licensure test for Severe/Profound Disabilities. This score indicates how much of the tested content a candidate needs to demonstrate to be considered qualified to enter the teaching profession in his or her state.

Results of the study will be documented and shared with participating states’ licensing agencies. These agencies decide what the passing score will be in their respective states.

Hair holds an A.B. from UNC-Chapel Hill, an M.A. from Appalachian State University and a Ph.D. from UNC-Greensboro. She joined the Greensboro College faculty in 2003.

Greensboro College is an undergraduate, liberal-arts college, also offering four master’s degrees. Coeducational and independent, the institution is located near downtown Greensboro. It was founded in 1838 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

The college enrolls about 1,260 students from about 30 states, the District of Columbia and 21 nations. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features a 16-sport athletic program and dozens of service and recreational organizations.

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Greensboro College Wins Service Award for Third Consecutive Year  

Posted: June 30, 2010
Greensboro College Communications Office  

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the third consecutive year. The college has received the award every year since the program began in 2007.

The citation recognizes the college for “the extraordinary and exemplary community service contributions of its students, faculty and staff in meeting critical community and national needs” in calendar year 2009. Honorees are chosen by the Corporation for National & Community Service, based on factors including scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.

The college contributed at least 6,324 hours of such service through programs such as Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and the Angel Tree gift program for underprivileged children, said the Rev. Dr. Robert W. Brewer, campus chaplain and director of the college’s Village 401 community-service program.

Greensboro College is primarily an undergraduate college, also offering four master’s degrees. Coeducational and independent, the institution is located near downtown Greensboro. It was founded in 1838 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

The college enrolls about 1,260 students from about 30 states, the District of Columbia and 21 nations. The school features a strong liberal-arts program and a 16-sport athletic program.

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Media Contact:
Lex Alexander, Director of External Relations
lex.alexander@greensborocollege.edu

You Belong Here!
Greensboro College
815 W. Market St.
Greensboro, NC 27401
336-272-7102, ext. 398
www.greensborocollege.edu

College Library Director Reviews Award-Winning Reference Book  

Posted: June 18, 2010
Greensboro College Communications Office  

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s library director has published an article highlighting the year’s top new reference work as selected by a librarians’ academic journal.

Christine A. Whittington initially reviewed The Encyclopedia of Human Rights, edited by David P. Forsythe and published by Oxford University Press, for the Dec. 15, 2009, edition of Reference Books Bulletin. That book won this year’s Dartmouth Award, presented annually by the American Library Association for a reference work of outstanding quality and significance.

For a profile of the book in the May 15 edition of Reference Books Bulletin, Whittington followed up with an interview with Forsythe and Timothy Sachs, development editor for Oxford University Press.

Greensboro College’s James Addison Jones Library, which Whittington directs, has a special academic focus on human rights. It houses the Levy-Loewenstein Holocaust Collection, an extensive collection of scholarly monographs, memoirs and reference books detailing the history of the Holocaust. That collection is funded by former trustee Richard Levy and his wife, Jane.

Whittington is a past chair of the Reference Books Bulletin Editorial Board, a committee of the American Library Association. This year she also chaired the association’s Greenwood Publishing Group Award Committee, which selects the year’s best book in library literature.

Also this spring, Whittington served as Conference Coordinator for the North Carolina Folklore Society's annual meeting, held March 27 at UNC-Asheville. The title of this year's meeting was "Sustaining Traditions: A Celebration of Western North Carolina Folklife in the 21st Century."

Whittington joined the Greensboro College staff as library director in 2002. She holds a B.A. from Purdue and an M.S.L.S. from Clarion University in Pennsylvania.

Greensboro College is primarily an undergraduate college, also offering four master’s degrees. Coeducational and independent, the institution is located near downtown Greensboro.  It was founded in 1838 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

The college enrolls about 1,260 students from about 30 states, the District of Columbia and 21 nations. The school features a strong liberal-arts program and a 16-sport athletic program.

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Media Contact:
Lex Alexander, Director of External Relations
lex.alexander@greensborocollege.edu

You Belong Here!
Greensboro College
815 W. Market St.
Greensboro, NC 27401
336-272-7102, ext. 398
www.greensborocollege.edu

Greensboro College Professor Appointed Examiner for Baldridge National Quality Award  

Posted: June 8, 2010
Greensboro College Communications Office  

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Associate Professor Michael A. Dutch, chairman of the Department of Business Administration and Economics at Greensboro College and director of the college’s Executive Bachelor’s Degree Program, has been appointed by Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to the 2010 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

The Award, created by public law in 1987, is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive.

As an Examiner, Dutch is responsible for reviewing and evaluating applications submitted for the Award.

The board is composed of approximately 500 leading experts selected from industry, professional and trade organizations, education and health care organizations, and nonprofits (including government). Those selected meet the highest standards of qualification and peer recognition.

All members of the board must take part in a preparation course based on the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence and the scoring and evaluation processes for the Baldrige Award.

The Baldrige Award may be given annually in each of six categories: Manufacturing, Service, Small Business, Education, Health Care, and Nonprofit.

Awards have been presented to 80 organizations, including the 2009 recipients: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Kansas City, Mo. (manufacturing); MidwayUSA, Columbia, Mo. (small business); AtlantiCare, Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (health care); Heartland Health, St. Joseph, Mo. (health care); and VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center, Albuquerque, N.M. (nonprofit). 

Information about the Baldrige National Quality Program and the application process is available from the Baldrige National Quality Program, at (301) 975-2036 or nqp@nist.gov, or from the Baldrige Program's Web site at http://www.nist.gov/baldrige.

The Award Program is managed by NIST in close cooperation with the private sector. ASQ in Milwaukee, Wisc., administers the program. For further information about Michael Dutch, contact (336) 272-7102, ext. 398. For media inquiries or interview requests about the Baldrige Program or the Award, reporters may contact Michael E. Newman, NIST Public Affairs Office, at (301) 975-3025 or michael.newman@nist.gov.