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Hot topics in college athletics
April 14, 2011 | Athletics, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories
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.
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Join the conversation
April 12, 2011 | Athletics, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, National, School of Law, Speakers, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
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.
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Inside scoop from D.C. journalists
April 12, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, President, Speakers, Top Stories
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.
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Reitman speaks to Festival crowd
April 3, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
“Nepotism failed me,” director Jason Reitman told the crowd gathered in Wait Chapel on Saturday night to hear his keynote address concluding the 2011 Reynolda Film Festival. The son of successful producer and director Ivan Reitman told the story of his journey from a teenager fearful of being overshadowed by his father in the movie industry, working his way up as a writer and director of short films and television commercials, to finally getting his big break with “Thank You for Smoking.”
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Institute grows from grassroots
March 31, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers, Top Stories
The Humanities Institute is designed to “help faculty and students make the most of the energy, intellect and creativity they bring to humanistic learning, research and teaching,” according to director Mary Foskett. Read more in our Old Gold and Black story of the week.
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Alumnus shares LEGO journey
March 30, 2011 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Business, Speakers, Top Stories
With a tower of LEGO Architecture building block sets at his side, Colin Gillespie (MBA ’00) returned “home” during the Schools of Business Elevator Competition to share his journey around the world with the LEGO company.
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The curse of corruption in Africa
March 25, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, International, Speakers, Top Stories
Nuhu Yaqub, the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, will discuss how corruption in Africa has limited economic and political development in a continent rich with natural resources during a lecture on Monday. It’s part of a new series, “Winston-Salem and the World Scene,” sponsored by Wake Forest and other local colleges and universities.
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Humanities at heart of education
March 21, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers, Top Stories
The humanities aren’t an idea whose time has passed, but a content-rich trove of knowledge that should be actively shared to help students and others understand the past and present, historian Edward Ayers said during his keynote address Friday at the official launch of Wake Forest’s Humanities Institute.
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NAACP leader addresses school issues
March 15, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Speakers, Top Stories
Ben Jealous, the national president of the NAACP, said Monday night in a speech at Wake Forest that his organization is committed to fighting school re-segregation and disparities in the numbers of black and white students expelled from schools in North Carolina.
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The role of race in health care
March 13, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, School of Medicine, Speakers, Top Stories
With numerous reports documenting poorer quality of health care and outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities, several prominent experts will take on the issue of disparities in health care during a symposium on campus Wednesday.
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