1,240 first-year students join the Wake Forest community
Categories: Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning
A handbook for college parents
Retired business professor Helen Akinc explains in her new book, “The Praeger Handbook for College Parents,” how parents can help get their children through college.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
New plan to strengthen campus life
Wake Forest is improving residential life to preserve the health and safety of students; create an engaged and inclusive community; emphasize the primacy of the academic endeavor; and encourage students to live lives of meaning and worth.
Categories: Experiential Learning
Undergraduate orientation begins today
About 1,240 first-year students are moving onto campus today. The new class is made up of 22 percent North Carolinians, 22 percent students of color and 3 percent international students.
University ranks 12th in teaching quality
Wake Forest is ranked 25th among national universities in U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of “America’s Best Colleges” and 12th among “schools where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching.”
Students help other students save
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning
New South Residence Hall models sustainability
With solar panels on the roof to heat water and touch screens in the hallways for monitoring energy usage, Wake Forest’s newest residence hall has the latest in green technology.
Categories: Campus Life, Environment & Sustainability, Experiential Learning
A college student’s guide to the law
From using a fake ID to practical jokes gone wrong, law professor Wilson Parker explains in his new book, “Ignorance Is No Defense, A College Student’s Guide To North Carolina Law,” how students can quickly find themselves in legal trouble.
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
‘Innocent Man’: John Grisham to speak
Lawyer and best-selling author John Grisham will bring the story of “The Innocent Man” and other stories of wrongful convictions to Wake Forest on Sept. 14. His speech is free and open to the public.
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Newest residence hall set to open
South Residence Hall, the first campus building designed to meet LEED certification, will be home to about 200 first-year students this fall and will be dedicated on Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. Step inside for a preview.
Categories: Experiential Learning