Making sense of new financial aid rules
Director of Financial Aid Bill Wells will be on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show on Tuesday from 11 a.m. until noon to talk about changes in student loan programs. As part of the healthcare legislation, the federal government will directly issue student loans, eliminating private lenders as middlemen.
Categories: Experiential Learning
The threads that led to a profitable business tie Laura Bullins Lough ('07) to Wake Forest.
She credits the launch of her business, Unique Sheep, to help she received from the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts.
Instead of the usual spring break trip to the beach, sophomore Matthew King and junior Lexi McBride are leading a group of students to El Salvador to work in a dental clinic this week.
For most high school students, learning happens one individual discipline at a time. But in the world outside the classroom, finding solutions to challenges requires looking across disciplines. Wake Forest is starting a summer residential program this year to help high school juniors and seniors learn that the biggest challenges in the world can only be solved by studying a variety of perspectives.
Opportunities for students interested in film direction and production have grown at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom. WAKE TV, the student-run campus television station, has filmed nine sports segments for ESPN-U, which have aired during basketball games this year and on ESPNU.com.
Whether in Venice or Vietnam, Steve Duke, director of the Center for International Studies, advises students to go beyond being tourists to interact in significant ways with those who live in the country they are visiting. Making cultural connections is what makes study abroad the most meaningful, he says.