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Wake Forest University athletes encourage student athletes to advocate for social justice
Wake Forest student athletes are fighting for social justice with the support of their university. Wake Forest athletes have joined Local rallies for social justice; they hosted a voter registration drive, and they continue to participate in University and ACC efforts toward racial justice. “We learn from our students and our student athletes,” said John Currie, Wake Forest Athletics Director. “Expressing for oneself and learning about the challenges of our community, preparing students to be in a pluralistic society, is really important.”
September 11, 2020
91.5 WUNC
New study analyzes soaring home displacement rates in Forsyth County
Anthropology professor Sherri Lawson Clark contributed to “Displaced in America,” a year-long national study mapping housing loss led by New America with Local collaborators. The study is raising a broader awareness of the city’s shortcomings: Winston-Salem is a highly racially segregated, and residentially segregated city she said, even when it comes to the poor and the non-poor. “And so, what happens is you have sort of this barrier – many people will argue that it’s Highway 52 that creates that divide – and when we look at who lives east and who lives west and what’s happening there, this New America data also supports those findings.”
September 10, 2020
The Conversation
Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians’ climate change denial
“Studies show that belief in miracles and an afterlife is associated with lower estimates of the risks posed by climate change. This raises the question: Does religion itself predispose people against climate science?” writes philosophy professor Adrian Bardon. “Surveys of people around the world, as well as social science research on denial, suggest the answer to this question is more nuanced than a simple yes or no.”
September 9, 2020
Yes! Weekly
Wake Forest students, faculty participate in nationwide ‘Scholar Strike’
Inspired by athletes, such as Colin Kaepernick, professors have organized a nationwide “Scholar Strike” to raise awareness and prompt “action against racism, policing, mass incarceration and other symptoms of racism’s toll in America.” “A number of Wake Forest faculty have decided to participate in different ways in the nationwide Scholar Strike, by withholding their labor and/or devoting their class time to teaching about anti-Black racism,” said Kristina Gupta, Wake Forest associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. “Mass incarceration is a cornerstone of anti-Black racism and white supremacy in the United States, so prison abolition is a key component of any anti-racist agenda. Our hope is that the teach-in will give members of the Wake Forest community an opportunity to get involved in on-going anti-racist activism in Winston-Salem.”
September 9, 2020
Parlia
Philosophy professor Adrian Bardon joined the “Parlia” podcast to talk about Denialism: when the emotional reasons for thinking win over the epistemic ones. That process, called motivated reasoning, can be deeply damaging to our understanding of the world and our capacity to engage with each other. Bardon discussed how motivated reasoning works, what animates it and why it has been so useful to us evolutionarily.
September 9, 2020
John Templeton Foundation
New grant: The Honesty Project
A new three-year project, funded with $4.4 million from the John Templeton Foundation, aims to significantly advance the science and philosophy of honesty. Led by philosophy professor Christian Miller, The Honesty Project will involve key researchers from Wake Forest and Carnegie Mellon, as well as more than a dozen subgrantees investigating aspects of the philosophy and science of honesty. The collective goal of the project is to examine honesty and its moral and intellectual consequences.
September 8, 2020
Triad Business Journal
Getting your degree in NC? Report says four Triad schools among those offering the best value
Wake Forest ranks among North Carolina’s best-value colleges, according to financial planning website SmartAsset’s sixth annual rankings. The University had the second highest average starting salary at $60,700.
September 8, 2020
ABC News Spain
How do we know that the coronavirus is real and not a big hoax
Experts explained the science behind COVID-19, as well as pandemic denial and strategies to counteract it. . “The problem with fighting denialism with facts is that denialism has nothing to do with facts: it is an instinctive response to threats to identity, especially when the threat is social or economic status. And it is not something pathological. It’s normal human behavior,” said philosophy professor Adrian Bardon.
September 6, 2020
91.5 WUNC
Protester demands largely met by Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
“We never imagined that it would take this long to get these demands met,” said sociology professor Brittany Battle, an activist with Triad Abolition Project. “Just fully understanding the power of persistence, but also I’d never imagined the community building that would take place down at base camp with all the occupiers.” Law professor Mark Rabil said taken all together, the new resolution is a remarkable achievement. “I have very little expectation that the United States Supreme Court would make the changes that have been made here as a result of 49 days of direct action by the protesters in downtown Winston-Salem,” he said.
September 4, 2020
Accounting Today
A better analytic for measuring students’ potential to pass the CPA Exam
Accounting Today developed a CPA Success Index to estimate accounting students’ progress toward completing all four parts of the CPA Exam in 18 months. Wake Forest ranks among the top 10 schools with the highest student success indices.
September 3, 2020
Associated Press
Confusion over eviction ban led to selective enforcement
Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest and chair of the American Bar Association’s COVID-19 Task Force Committee on Eviction, praised the Trump administration’s action to halt evictions for most renters through the end of the year as a “tremendous intervention that promises to protect the health and safety of millions of renters.” But she also warned that it’s only a “half measure.” “Without rental assistance to cover the mounting debt, it only delays eviction and its devastating consequences.”
September 2, 2020
Charlotte Business Journal
Sports Foundation is moving Wake Forest vs. Notre Dame from Charlotte to Winston-Salem
The Charlotte Sports Foundation announced this year’s Duke’s Mayo Classic will be played at Wake Forest’s Truist Field, moving from Bank of America Stadium. The game, is part of the Duke’s Mayonnaise sponsorship announced in June that also includes the bowl game formerly sponsored by retailer Belk Inc.
September 2, 2020