University Marketing and Communications

From Philadelphia to San Diego, 18 alumni clubs and hundreds of Wake Foresters will be participating in volunteer projects nationwide as part of Pro Humanitate Days 4Good. The event will run from June 1-4.

Though she was in one of the first classes to enroll on the “new” campus, Susan Brinkley ('62) is passionate about sharing the heritage of old Wake Forest. She'll swap stories with Bill Friday on his “North Carolina People” television program over the weekend.

Wake Forest wasn’t exactly a hotbed for campus unrest and student activism in the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s. But one night 42 years ago, about 600 students marched arm-in-arm up Wake Forest Road to President James Ralph Scales’ home and demanded an end to the Vietnam War and the cancellation of final exams so students could work for peace.

Wake Forest has a long history of close, mentoring relationships between faculty and students. It's an opportunity to explore the liberal arts, tie scholarship and research and create the teacher-scholar ideal. For biology professor Ron Dimock, mentoring comes naturally during hours in the lab -- going beyond the books.

Wake Forest University is one of 24 schools in North Carolina to be named to the 2012 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.