Provost Tiefenthaler: The true value of a college education
In response to the June 30 Winston-Salem Journal article “Learn. Earn. Is it a deal?” Provost Jill Tiefenthaler offers Wake Forest’s perspective on the value of a college degree. “Our mission at Wake Forest is to educate the whole person and prepare graduates to apply their knowledge, interests and experiences throughout well-considered lives.”
Categories: Community Impact, University Announcements
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library received three grants recently to fund a symposium on the late poet A.R. Ammons (’49) and to digitize collections of material from North Carolina Baptist churches.
Eleven students and two professors are in Managua, Nicaragua, for a month for a service-learning experience combining health care, communication and service.
With communication professor Steven Giles and health and exercise science professor Gary Miller, the students are studying global health issues and using a variety of communication techniques to promote healthier lifestyles among the local people.
As Congress scrambles to finalize financial-reform legislation before the July 4 holiday, business professor and former Federal Reserve economist Rob Bliss warns that such sweeping reform could have serious unintended consequences.