PPS Programs
Principled Problem Solving (PPS) Scholars
The PPS Scholars program equips Guilford College students from diverse backgrounds and academic majors with the knowledge, practices, and creative and critical thinking skills to become ethical agents of social change and innovation. PPS Scholars receive financial and academic support as well as professional development, including a stipend for a summer internship after the completion of PPS Scholar coursework. For more information and application instructions, contact CPPSET Director Mark Justad at 336.316.2853 or justadmj@guilford.edu.
Faculty Fellowship
The CPPSET Faculty Fellowship provides financial, academic and project support for College faculty members to advance the curricular priorities of principled problem solving over the course of an academic year. For more information and application instructions, contact CPPSET Director Mark Justad at 336.316.2853 or justadmj@guilford.edu.
The 2023-2024 Faculty Fellowships are closed for this year.
ChangeMaker Grants
The ChangeMaker Grants Program is designed for Guilford College students, staff and faculty members wishing to engage issues of social concern as related to our Core Values of Community, Diversity, Equality, Excellence, Integrity, Justice, and Stewardship.
More about the Guilford College CPPSET ChangeMaker Grant Program.
CPPSET ChangeMaker Grant Application
For more information, contact CPPSET Director Mark Justad at 336.316.2853 or justadmj@guilford.edu.
Every Campus A Refuge
Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) is an initiative that mobilizes college and university campus resources (within and beyond the institution’s physical borders) to provide housing and other forms of assistance to refugees seeking resettlement in the institution’s local area. ECAR was founded by Diya Abdo, associate professor of English at Guilford College. We provide the best practices on how colleges and universities around the globe can become a refuge by following our process of hosting refugees on campus grounds and assisting them in resettlement.
At Guilford College, we temporarily host refugees in a permanent residence dedicated to ECAR. Thus far, Guilford has hosted 86 refugees, 38 of them children between the ages of 10 months and 17 years. The families have come from Africa and the Middle East, including two from Syria.
Students can choose to minor in the Principled Problem Solving Experience, which currently focuses on ECAR. Information on events and the latest colleges and universities to become refuges can be found on the Every Campus a Refuge Facebook page. More information on the program itself and how other campuses can join the movement can be found on the Every Campus A Refuge website.