I hope you'll enjoy listening to my interview with Mika!

Departments and Positions:

Hege Library, Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship Technologist

Phones:

School Extension 336.316.2044

davistm@guilford.edu

I hope you enjoy listening my interview with William Anderson.

Department of Public Safety

Director of Public Safety

andersonwj@guilford.edu

Hope you enjoy listening to my interview with Ian. He is a tremendous support for faculty and students at Guilford College!

ITS Department

Help Desk Team Lead

Departments and Positions:

Office of Communications & Marketing, Vice President of Marketing

Administration, Vice President of Marketing

Phones:

School Extension 316.2123

degermanre@guilford.edu

Biography:

Roger is responsible for creating a consistent and compelling brand presence that gives Guilford competitive distinction in the marketplace. His marketing team collaborates College-wide to conceive and execute effective strategies for growing and sustaining success in student recruitment and retention, as well as donor support. 

For 14 years, Roger served at the cabinet level at Concordia College (Minnesota), as senior director of communications and marketing. He was communications director and news bureau director in his first three years at the college, 1998-2001, and worked under four presidents. 

At Concordia, Roger championed major repositioning initiatives to elevate the college’s brand and developed marketing communication strategies that contributed to 4 percent gains in the freshmen academic profile and first- to second-year student retention. His leadership also included brand development for Concordia’s Offutt School of Business and co-founding a new employee brand orientation program.

In addition to his work in higher education, Roger was sports director and anchor at KXJB-TV in Fargo, N.D., 1991-98.

A 1984 graduate of Concordia with a bachelor’s degree in communications, Roger earned his master’s degree in organizational leadership from the University of Denver in 2013. His master’s thesis focused on the urgent need for private higher education institutions to re-imagine and retool their marketing strategies based on research.

Sign Language Interpreter for president of Guilford College

johnsonjb@guilford.edu

Free Lance Interpreter

Interpreter, School for the Deaf - Wilson, NC

Designated Interpreter, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, NC

Jennifer Boyd Johnson, M.Ed, CI, CT, NIC

Jennifer first joined the field of interpreting in 2002 upon receiving her B.S. in English/ASL Interpreting from Bloomsburg University.  After holding several staff interpreter positions, including five years as the designated interpreter for the Director of the NC Division of Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing (DSDHH), she returned to school to earn her Master of Education in Interpreting Pedagogy from Northeastern University.  During her studies at Northeastern, Jennifer connected with her passion for teaching and working alongside colleagues to assist them in assessing their work and developing their skills.  Her favorite areas of discussion and development relate to ethics, decision-making and language. 

Jennifer held the position of Communication Access Manger with DSDHH for two years.  In this role, she created professional development trainings for working interpreters and served as a mentor and lead interpreter.  She currently works as the designated interpreter for the Guilford College President in Greensboro, North Carolina.  Originally from outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jennifer is happy to now call North Carolina home. 

I really enjoyed my interview w/ Rudy Gordh and hope you enjoy listening to it on this podcast.

Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics

rgordh@guilford.edu

Univ Californa River, PHD

Guilford College, '66

Research Interests

• Continuum theory
• Ordered topological spaces

Courses Taught
All math courses at all levels, including:

• Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
• Foundations of Mathematics
• All levels of Calculus
• Numerical Analysis
• Geometry
• Algebraic Structures

Notable Works

• Charles A. Dana Scholarship, 1964-65
• Western Electric Fund Scholarship
• National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scientist, 1973-74
• “Monotone decompositions of irreducible Hausdorff continua,” Pacific Journal of Mathematics 36 (1971), 647-658.
• “Arc components of chainable Hausdorff continua” (with Sam B. Nadler, Jr.), General Topology and its Applications 3 (1973), 63-76.
• “The shape classification of torus-like and (n-sphere)-like continua” (with Carl Eberhart and John Mack), General Topology and its Applications 4 (1974), 85-94.
• “Characterizing local connectedness in inverse limits” (with S. Mardesic), Pacific Journal of Mathematics 58 (1975), 411-417.
• “Monotone retracts and some characterizations of dendrites” (with Lewis Lum), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 59 (1976), 156-158.

Campus and Community Involvement

• Chair of Mathematics Department
• Clerk of the Faculty
• Chair of the Admissions Committee
• Chair of the Education Studies Committee
• Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee
• Service on other campus committees

I really enjoyed interviewing Wess and hope you enjoy listening!

Friends Center, William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center & Quaker Studies

Religious Studies, Adjunct Professor

Wess has been a full-time Quaker minister, educator, researcher and public theologian, and has been working toward cultivating renewal among all branches of the Religious Society of Friends.  For five and a half years, until mid-2015, he served as “released minister” at Camas (Wash.) Friends church, a programmed meeting in the Northwest Yearly Meeting.

As a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary in California, his area of research was renewal of the Quaker tradition within contemporary context. He created a model of renewal for use by Quakers and all faith traditions and, in July 2014, earned his Ph.D. from Fuller’s School of Intercultural Studies. Upon graduation he received the School’s Dean’s Award for academic excellence. His dissertation focused on contextual theology, participatory culture and the renewal of the Quaker tradition within Western culture. 

Wess has diverse teaching experience, including graduate-level classes for three years at George Fox Evangelical Seminary (Oregon) and Earlham School of Religion. He is the author of five books, including A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture, which was published in 2015.

danielscw@guilford.edu

I really enjoyed interviewing Gwen Erickson and hope you enjoy listening. 

Hege Library, Friends Historical Collection Librarian and College Archivist

Earlham College, BA, '94

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, MA, '96

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, MLIS, '97

gerickso@guilford.edu

I had a great time interviewing VP for Academic Affairs Beth Rushing.  Hope you enjoy listening!

Administration, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic DeanOffice of the Academic Dean, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean

Prior to joining Guilford, Beth served as vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. At St. Mary’s, she led the development of transparent budget processes, strengthened and expanded support for research and sponsored programs and expanded student opportunities for community engaged learning. 

Beth served as vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Washington Tacoma from 2007-11, overseeing significant growth of students and academic programs. As dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Georgia College from 2001-07, she led increases in both students and faculty by more than 50 percent. She was department chair at the University of Tennessee at Martin and began her academic career on the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Kent State University. 

Beth’s scholarly work has focused on the sociology of work, gender and health. She has published 25 articles and chapters, and received numerous federal, state, and local grants to support her research. She served as president of Sociologists for Women in Society, on the editorial board of Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Health, Illness, and Medicine, vice president of the Southern Sociological Society and as chair of the Jessie Bernard Award Committee of the American Sociological Association.  

Beth is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Leadership Award from the University of Washington Tacoma, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Professor at Georgia College, University Teaching Council Award from Kent State University and Outstanding Faculty Member from Kent State’s Mortar Board. 

Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Carson-Newman College (Tennessee) and master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology from Duke University. 

rushingb@guilford.edu

I enjoyed interviewing Maria and hope you enjoy listening to the podcast!

Early College at Guilford, LiasionForeign Languages

Associate Professor of Foreign Languages

Dartmouth College, AB

'94Duke University, MA

'98Duke University, PHD, '03

mbobroff@guilford.edu

I really enjoyed interviewing Tom Guthrie.  We were interrupted part of the way through by a tornado warning in the station.  Don't let that deter you--it's only for a few minutes, then we're back on. Hope you enjoy listening!

Associate Professor of Sociology & Anthropology

Davidson College, BA, '97

University of Chicago, MA, '01

University of Chicago, PHD, '05

tguthrie@guilford.edu

I enjoyed my interview with Alfonso and hope you enjoy listening!

Associate Professor of Foreign Languages, Spanish

Universidad de Alicante, BA,

'95Arizona State University, MA, '

98University of Texas, Austin, PHD, '08

amanchen@guilford.edu

I loved interviewing Arlene Cash and hop you enjoy listening!

Office of Admission, VP for Enrollment Management

Center for Continuing Education, VP for Enrollment Management

M.A., Philosophy — Kent State University

B.A., English and Philosophy — Keuka College