7/26/09

Greensboro College(July 26, 2009 update)




As administrators of the city’s second-oldest college


rang up a $19 million debt since 2001,


 neither faculty nor most of the board of trustees knew


how high the bills would run for Greensboro College.


 


Many leaders didn’t know depth of college’s financial chasm


Lorrain Ahearn


Greensboro News and Record, July 26, 2009


 How bleak is the financial outlook at Greensboro College


where salaries were cut 20 percent this spring


in an emergency move to avoid layoffs?


 


Bleak enough that a restructuring consultant last week


 sent a letter asking creditors to be patient


 in collecting past due bills of $974,508


most of them owed to local businesses


 


…the college…can barely meet its own basic needs


 according to the school’s own list of outstanding bills....


 


Trustee chairman Stout is quoted in the Chronicle


as estimating that the school needs to raise “$5 million”


in order to operate through the lean summer months


 


Greensboro College fending off creditors


Lorraine Ahearn


Greensboro News and Record, June 28, 2009

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