When it comes to inequities concerning race and college sports, you can talk about changing rules or paying players, but in the end, the most important reform is providing players – even the at-risk ones – with a useful education, according to experts convened at Wake Forest’s “Losing to Win” conference.Categories: Alumni, Athletics, Happening at Wake
Though now in a wheelchair, former Wake Forest and NBA basketball star Rodney Rogers still has his familiar broad smile and an ability to engage an audience, as he did during an appearance on campus during the ‘Losing to Win” conference.Categories: Alumni, Athletics, Happening at Wake
In a wide-ranging conversation, journalists Al Hunt ('65) and Judy Woodruff talked about politics and government, working and raising a family in Washington, D.C., the rise of social media and the decline of traditional journalism, and the increasingly partisan, bitter style of politics, during an appearance at Wake Forest.Categories: Alumni, Happening at Wake, University Announcements
In the race to have the best team, win the most games and make the most money, college sports programs have exploited student-athletes for university gains, according to some of the nation’s leading experts on race and intercollegiate sports. Those experts were gathered at Wake Forest as part of the "Losing to Win" conference.Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake
How do you increase attendance at an international film festival for the most difficult demographic to attract — young adults? Ask junior communication major Mandi Yohn. She took on the challenge when she accepted an internship position with RiverRun International Film Festival.
An increasingly vocal group of experts is calling attention to the growing divide between the big business of NCAA sports and the well-being of student athletes who are generating record revenues for their universities.Categories: Athletics, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Two prominent Washington D.C. journalists, Al Hunt and Judy Woodruff, will speak at Wake Forest at 6 p.m. April 13 in Wait Chapel as part of the University’s Voices of Our Time series.
Categories: Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus Wednesday to paint their very own desk. Wake Forest students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 11 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
More than 200 faculty, staff, students and guests gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking for Farrell Hall, a new home for the Schools of Business, on Friday at the building site across from Poteat Field, near the Polo Road entrance to campus.Categories: Happening at Wake, University Announcements
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg's communications class are putting what they've learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Mentorship, Pro Humanitate, Research & Discovery, University Announcements