Sarah Smith Malino Recognized by Worldwide Branding for Excellence in Education

    GREENSBORO, NC, February 02, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Sarah Smith Malino, Professor of History Emerita for Guilford College, has been recognized by Worldwide Branding for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in education.

Dr. Malino retired in June 2013 after 34 years as a history professor at Guilford College, and was named a VIP member with Worldwide Branding a year later. She specialized in U.S. social history, women's history, public history and the history of race, class and ethnicity. She was instrumental in developing the Guilford College's Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. Dr. Malino also served on a variety of committees at the college during her years of teaching.

In retirement, she is working on a collaborative research project with her mentor, the founder of the women's studies program at Guilford, several former and current faculty members, alumnae and students about the origins evolution and impact of 40 years of the women's studies/women, gender, and sexuality studies on the college, documenting its strategies, struggles and achievements with minimal budget and staffing. They are planning to apply for grant money to fund this project and anticipate publishing a book. They have surveyed all alumni who were women's studies minors, concentrators, majors and friends of the program. The college archivist will also create an e-portfolio. Excellence in her industry earned her a place as an expert resource chapter feature with Worldwide Branding in 2014 and 2015, and a Top Female designation with the same organization in 2014.

She attributes her success to a lot of hard work. She raised three children while working full time. Teaching is a highly labor-intensive, intellectually and physically demanding labor of love. One must enjoy interaction with students and take pleasure in their progress and be willing to work closely with them to assist them in taking their next intellectual steps! She became involved in her profession through her first job after college teaching history and philosophy in a small private high school in New York, a therapeutic school in the late 1960s. She discovered that high school teachers, especially in this unique school with students labeled 'underachievers,' spent far too much time on disciplining students, especially in that school and were not able to go into sufficient depth in the subject matter.

Eventually, after a year living in England and another in Israel, she realized that her goal was to pursue a graduate degree in U.S. history, and to educate students on the need to conceptualize the multiple narratives of U.S. history in order to include the voices of ordinary people. She was fortunate enough to find a position at Guilford College, a teaching institution which values excellence in the classroom, as the primary criterion for evaluation. Other requirements for evaluation and tenure were excellence in advising, community participation and professional growth as a scholar. Guilford College does not have the kind of publishing requirements that research institutions have, so attention to developing creative and individualized pedagogical techniques are the primary focus of Guilford's faculty. She had excellent mentors and colleagues. The institutional expectations at Guilford College and her personal goals in teaching history made this institution a good fit for her.

One of the highlights of her career was being honored by her colleagues with heart warming statements upon her retirement, but the real highlight of her career was what moved her the most on a daily basis: her relationships with her students and her distinguished and wise colleagues. In a private Quaker institution focused primarily on teaching, both her students and colleagues taught her about new perspectives on history, on Quakerism, on institutional governance by consensus and on working for social change. They shared their lives with her and she is much richer for their many gifts.

Dr. Malino holds a Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University (1982), a Master of Philosophy in History from Columbia University (1974), and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Wellesley (1967). Memberships with organizations that further advance the lives of women are also important to her, as she is the founding board member of the Women's Resource Center of Greensboro and the chair of the Women's Studies Committee. She raised money for the Women's Resource Center and served on a six-year commission for the Status of Women Greensboro, two voluntary posts that enabled her to learn what was happening to women in city issues for different ethnic groups; this lead to a book club at a synagogue advocating for women's issues.

Other professional affiliations include such organizations as The Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, The Southern Jewish Historical Society, faculty representative of the College Administrative Council, and the Coalition of Voices Against Racism, Sexism and Homophobia for the Guilford College Anti-Racism Initiative. Charitably, she supports Beth David Synagogue, Greensboro Jewish Federation and the B'nai Shalom Day School. In the next five years, Dr. Malino would like to continue to do grant writing.

For more information about Guilford College, visit http://www.guilford.edu.

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