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McNeill Gets Another Opportunity For Special Summer Grant Program

Contact: ROBurchette@gtcc.edu (Released 4/20/11)

McNEILL GETS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR SPECIAL SUMMER GRANT PROGRAM

HIGH POINT - Paul McNeill, an English instructor who started as an adjunct teacher at Guilford Technical Community College in 2008, continues to win grants that provide him study opportunities and expand his teaching.

McNeill has been awarded a grant to participate in a program to "infuse content, context and connections on the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations into community colleges."

The program, valued at $750, is offered by World View in collaboration with Duke University and UNC's Consortium for Middle East Studies. McNeill will make several day trips to UNC-Chapel Hill for research this summer, where he will work with librarians and faculty arranged by World View. He will gather course materials and develop a course to teach

McNeill recently was selected for a $1,200 grant to attend a workshop about "Black Mountain College: An Artistic and Educational Legacy" July 10-16 at UNC-Asheville.

Soon after going to GTCC, McNeill won the Nell Ann Pickett Award given by the Two-Year College English Association's Southeast division for the outstanding conference proposal made by a part-time instructor. That award carried a $550 stipend.

McNeill gained a bachelor's degree in media studies and English and a master's degree in English from UNCG. He also has an associate in applied science degree in broadcast technologies from Central Carolina Community College in Sanford.            .

He has studied in Mannheim, Germany. McNeill is a graduate of Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines.

Before becoming a teacher, he was a copy editor in the sports department of the News & Record in Greensboro. Earlier, he was a disc jockey at a soft rock radio station in Southern Pines.

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