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Psych Central
8 mental health trends to watch in 2022
Keep an eye out for these emerging trends and exciting new research developments in mental health in the new year. Wake Forest counseling professor Nathaniel Ivers weighs in on trauma-informed care, the mental health effects of doom scrolling, blood tests to detect depression, telehealth and more.
January 3, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
Local universities adjust on-campus COVID-19 protocols as students return
Wake Forest issued the latest version of its pandemic policies last week that still requires all students to be fully vaccinated. Classes begin on Jan. 10. The University continues to adhere to the city of Winston-Salem’s indoor face mask requirements. “We anticipate that the current requirements will remain in effect through the month of January.”
January 2, 2022
Winston-Salem Journal
NC remains on sideline in raising minimum wage debate
“State minimum-wage increases have been passed either by Democratic-controlled legislatures or through citizen-initiated ballot measures in states that allow the public to bypass legislative opposition and place measures directly on the ballot,” said politics professor John Dinan, who is a national expert on state legislatures.
January 1, 2022
Triad City Beat
Triad artists first to be featured in nationwide ArtCities exhibit
While ArtCities is a national project by Guilty By Association, the organization teamed up with Wake Forest University’s Wake the Arts initiative to host the first ArtCities House Party on Dec. 11 at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. Five local artists — Krystal Hart, Ashley Johnson, Lakea Shepard, Mariam Aziza Stephan and Antoine Williams — were carefully selected by WFU Acquavella Curator of Collections Jennifer Finkel.
December 30, 2021
Triad City Beat
Indigenous artists showcase works and process at Wake Forest University
Sitting at a long white table across from two women inside the Lam Museum of Anthropology on the campus of Wake Forest, Tamra Hunt reaches across lines of watercolor paints and containers of markers to gesture in wide circles at the blank paper between them. Born and raised in Greensboro, Hunt is a member of the Lumbee tribe and a longtime arts educator in the Triad.
December 30, 2021
Triad City Beat
Inaugural Every Campus a Refuge gathering exemplifies community-making
Since its inception in 2015, ECAR has worked on building chapters with colleges and universities across the country, leveraging their resources to assist refugee resettlement processes in their communities. To date, there are 12 ECAR chapters across the country, including a chapter at Wake Forest University.
December 30, 2021
Psychiatric Times
Fathers and daughters: custody plans and other steps to protect their relationships
Education professor and nationally recognized expert on father-daughter relationships Linda Nielsen offers insights into why father-daughter relationships are typically more damaged after a divorce than father-son relationships.
December 28, 2021
United Press International (UPI)
Overweight older adults lose weight, keep it off by moving more
Moving more throughout the day offers enhanced weight-loss benefits for older, severely overweight adults, even without structured exercise activities, a new study shows. “We hope that these findings empower older adults to seek out an array of enjoyable activities that help them to move more throughout the day and to sit less,” said Jason Fanning, Wells Fargo Faculty Scholar in the Department of Health and Exercise Scien
December 21, 2021
Triad Business Journal
WFU’s part-time MBA program ranked among top 25 nationally, No. 1 in NC by Fortune
“We are tremendously proud of our part-time MBA program for its strategic focus and flexibility,” said Michelle Roehm, Interim Dean and Peter C. Brockway Chair of Strategic Management. “We consider this not only a significant accomplishment for our MBA program, but it also underscores the quality of our faculty and commitment to academic excellence.”
December 17, 2021
news.wfu.edu
$8.6M Kern Family Foundation grant puts character first
The Kern Family Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University an $8.6 million grant to develop programs that put character at the center of preparing students for work in the professions. The grant will expand the work of the University’s nationally known Program for Leadership and Character to equip future leaders in medicine, law, engineering and other professions to think in holistic ways about their values and work.
This story was covered by the Winston-Salem Journal.
December 16, 2021
The Crime Report
America’s rocky road to justice-informed policing
In this interview with Greg Berman, Distinguished Fellow of Practice at The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Kami Chavis, the director of the criminal justice program at Wake Forest School of Law, talks about issues of police reform and the relationship between police violence and the recent increase in shootings in many American cities.
December 16, 2021
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Advice: How to hire leaders better than yourself
As a university president for 16 years and a provost for nine, I witnessed time and again how the right leader can animate an academic program, financial office, athletic department, or medical center. In fact, I have never seen significant progress made in any part of a campus without a transformative leader. As the retired CEO and writer Lawrence A. Bossidy once said, “At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies.
December 15, 2021