Wake Forest University is hosting Freedom School, a free six-week literacy-based summer program aimed at strengthening children’s reading skills and closing achievement gaps.
Categories: University Announcements
Corey D. B. Walker, humanities professor and director of the Program in African American Studies, discusses the history of Juneteenth and the importance of marking the holiday.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Reversing Roe v. Wade and declaring that the U.S. Constitution does not protect abortion rights would return the issue to the 50 states and put the spotlight on state constitutions.
Categories: Experts
When Wake Forest sophomore Gabi Overcast-Hawks searched the 1950 U.S. Census records, she found her grandfather’s handwritten name, along with his mother and father and seven brothers and sisters. Place of birth: Carroll County, Virginia. Occupation: farmer. She and the other students in Professor of Sociology Ana-Maria Gonzalez Wahl’s “Sociology of Work, Conflict and Change” class, used the demographic snapshots of people in their own family trees to better understand bigger picture societal trends.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
As he celebrated Wake Forest’s first-ever win in the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) National Championship sophomore competitor Dimarvin Puerto said Wake Debate’s strength comes from the community its coaches and teammates have created.“ He and Asya Taylor won the championship held April 8-13.
Categories: University Announcements