University Marketing and Communications

Wake Forest is opening its 2011-2012 academic year with a recently launched emergency website called Wake Alert. The centerpiece of a multi-faceted emergency alert system, Wake Alert is accessible to anyone at http://wakealert.wfu.edu.

"As Labor Day approaches, there is little to celebrate about the state of American labor,” writes David Coates, Worrell Chair of Anglo-American Studies in the political science department, in an op-ed that appeared in Friday’s Charlotte Observer.

Breakthroughs in science and medicine have multiplied the ethical questions confronting this generation of college students. With its 2011 summer reading assignment, Wake Forest seeks to engage incoming students in thorny bioethics issues, while also addressing broader ethical issues in society.

Wake Forest officials are staying on track with the weekend schedule for freshman orientation and other back-to-school activities, while monitoring closely news reports of the progress of Hurricane Irene.

The School of Law is once again among the nation’s “Best Value” law schools, according to the National Jurist and preLaw magazines.