Photos: Students protest recent cuts at Guilford College
About a dozen Guilford College student demonstrators gathered along New Garden Road in front of their school to protest recent layoffs and the announcement of the reduction of academic majors as the school.
Guilford College junior and community and justice studies major Haydyn Foulke leads student demonstrators in a protest chant.
Guilford College student demonstrators march along New Garden Road in front of their school on Wednesday. The students were protesting recent layoffs and the announcement of the reduction of academic majors as the school.
Guilford College student demonstrators march along New Garden Road in front of their school on Wednesday.
Guilford College junior and community and justice studies major Haydyn Foulke, right, leads student demonstrators in a protest chant in front of their school in Greensboro, N.C., on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. "They are cutting the Quaker values out of the school." Foulke said, of the recent layoffs and the announcement of the reduction of academic majors at the school.
Guilford College student Gretchen Waldorf holds her protest signs high as she runs across New Garden Road.
Guilford College junior Ananya Bernardo demonstrates beside New Garden Road in front of her school on Wednesday. Bernardo, a junior sociology and anthropology major, is a Bonner scholar and was with more than a dozen other students protesting recent cuts.
Guilford College junior and community and justice studies major Haydyn Foulke leads student demonstrators in a protest march along New Garden Road in front of their school in Greensboro on Wednesday. "They are cutting the Quaker values out of the school." Foulke said, of the recent layoffs and the announcement of the reduction of academic majors at the school.
Trustees of the private Quaker college said they want more time to review "the significant feedback" they had received in recent weeks and consider other ideas.
But the chairman of the college's governing board said Guilford still must "develop a sustainable path forward."