Exploring new traditions
Students create new event traditions at Wake Forest, celebrating fun and service, while still honoring tried and true autumn happenings.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Students create new event traditions at Wake Forest, celebrating fun and service, while still honoring tried and true autumn happenings.An enchanted Halloween
The 24th annual Project Pumpkin brought more than 1,400 Winston-Salem area children to campus for an afternoon of fall celebrations. Sponsored by the Volunteer Service Corps, Project Pumpkin is one of WFU’s largest community events.Categories: Campus Life, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
The student-athlete balance
Established in 2005, the Dean’s Cup recognizes the Wake Forest athletic team with the highest grade point average each academic year. Recently, men’s track and field/cross country and women’s golf celebrated a three-peat. Each team has captured three consecutive titles. Categories: Athletics, Awards & Recognition, Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, University Announcements
Hit The Bricks turns 10
When Hit the Bricks began in 2002, it raised about $3,000 and had only a handful of teams participate. Last year, the competition raised more than $26,000 and had 89 teams enroll. This year, a new record of 93 teams ran laps to support the Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive.Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Leadership & Character, University Announcements
‘Love, Money and Work’
A social entrepreneur is someone who tries to make things tomorrow better than they were today. That is the definition Jessica Jackley, perhaps best known as the co-founder of Kiva, an online microlending service, gave Wake Forest students, faculty and staff at a talk in Brendle Recital Hall.Faculty House Calls
On August 30, more than 40 faculty members representing 13 academic disciplines visited first-year students in their residence halls. Each faculty pair, along with a residence life and housing staffer, welcomed an average of 60 students in the Class of 2016 through a program called Faculty House Calls.
A new Old Gold and Black
When students picked up the freshman issue of the campus newspaper, “The Old Gold and Black,” on move-in day, they might not have realized the substantial ways the editorial staff is reinventing its coverage, both in print and online.
Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character
Suite new residence halls
“I’ve been on many other campuses, and I believe Wake Forest has the best-designed and intentional residential experience for students,” said Donna McGalliard, dean of Residence Life and Housing.Categories: Campus Life, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning
Juggling it all with a soldier’s discipline
As the 4th of July approaches, members of the Wake Forest community reflect upon the hard work, discipline and self-sacrifice that were integral to our nation’s founding. Senior Alexis Lauria embodies these values. Lauria is a resident advisor, aspiring doctor and one of only 15 women in the Demon Deacon ROTC Battalion.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Learning outside the classroom
Almost every university has a mentoring program — independent initiatives hosted by campus life or student development. Wake Forest is one of the first higher education institutions in the nation to adopt a campus-wide model.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Personal & Career Development, University Announcements