Greenville College Annual Report 2002-03

Campus Highlights

Associated Colleges of Illinois named student Nathan Holbert as one of four winners of their 2003 Liberal Arts for Leadership Essay Contest. The contest directed junior and senior education majors to write about leadership in classroom teaching and the role that a liberal arts education plays in developing leading teachers. Holbert received a $2,500 scholarship for his efforts.

Thanks to the generosity of the Florence A. Chinn Estate, Greenville College students will have over $220,000 in loan funds available. The college will determine the eligibility, terms and amount of the loan, which students must repay with interest. Greenville College currently disperses approximately $4 million in financial aid annually.

Greenville College Associate Professor of Philosophy Dr. Craig Boyd became one of 35 participants chosen for the John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the purpose of the seminars is to encourage young faculty members in scholarly research in the fields of science and religion, creating opportunity for dialogue.

President Mannoia contributed an essay to College Faith: 150 Christian Leaders and Educators Share Faith Stories from Their Student Days . The book contains short personal testimonies and essays about faith lessons the writers learned while they themselves were students in higher education.

Greenville College received one of 43 Illinois Centennial Awards presented earlier this month by the Illinois State Historical Society. The ceremony, held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, recognized Illinois businesses and other enterprises that complete or surpass a century of continuous operation.

With plans to convert the 37,000 square foot facility into a new music center, Greenville College and the Greenville Free Methodist Church signed a purchase agreement for the college's official acquisition of the church property. The official price was $2.15 million and the sale will close on December 31, 2004.

Campus facilities got a face lift this summer funded primarily by a state grant received last year. Significant changes include renovations to LaDue Auditorium, Marston Hall, the Information Technology wing of lower Hogue Hall, and the new college Mail Room.

Greenville College has announced a record traditional undergraduate student enrollment for the second time in three years with 970 students attending the institution this fall. Taking into account the undergraduate adult degree completion program (GOAL) and the graduate program in ministry (LAMP), Greenville has grown 27 percent from 955 students in 1997 to 1,215 students today.

Head Librarian Jane Hopkins, helped Greenville College secure a grant for $2,255 from the Illinois Cooperative Collection Development Program to purchase “Multicultural Education Teaching Methods” books this year. Hopkins got G.C. “on the map” through her service as Conference Coordinator for the Association of Christian Librarians' annual national conference in June.

The Illinois Board of Education and NCATE has selected Dr. Ed Blue (Education) as one of eleven people trained to oversee accreditation team visits that evaluate college and university education programs across the State. His first assignment will be to co-chair the evaluation team on a visit to DePaul University in Chicago.

G.C. students will represent us across the globe in a variety of off-campus programs during the Fall 2003 semester. Eight students will go to Mozambique for the “Greenville in Africa” program. In addition, seven G.C. students will participate in CCCU programs in Oxford, Cairo and Martha's Vineyard.

Coach Barber has taken members of the men's basketball team for the past four summers to work at Hoop Heaven, a Christian basketball camp that ministers to inner-city kids from New York City. The group pays their own way and accepts no money for their efforts, viewing this outreach as “a tithe from our program.”

Dr. Arlene Larabee and senior Nathan Liechty participated in an experimental run at Argonne National Lab (ANL) from this summer using an instrument called the Gammasphere. They investigated the element thallium-181, trying to determine its decay processes, going from hi-energy to more stable states.

Last updated: January 13, 2004