The Climate Accessibility Mission Guilford College draws on Quaker and liberal arts traditions to prepare men and women for a lifetime of learning, work, and constructive action dedicated to bettering the world. Guilford seeks above all to create a special kind of learning community. We are not perfect at this. Our goal of creating independent thinkers and change agents necessarily pulls against the needs of community, and our great diversity of backgrounds sometimes works against our professed acceptance of and equal respect for all individuals. We are as a community at best in a perpetual state of becoming.
Most college buildings show a Georgian influence.
The campus includes a forest, exercise and nature trails, and a small lake. These contribute to the college's quiet, serene, and friendly atmosphere. The Student Body Guilford College students come from all across the United States and 25 other nations. About 980 students are traditional-age undergraduates, with another 285 enrolled in degree programs part time or full time through the Center for Continuing Education. In general, residential students are between 18 and 22 years old, attend college full time, and live in college residence halls.