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News & Record
In this new virtual world, area colleges move classes — and campus events — online
COVID-19 almost meant the cancellation of the university’s largest student-run philanthropic event, the 15th annual Wake ‘N Shake dance marathon to raise money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund, but in only a few short weeks, student organizers transitioned the whole 12 hour event online. Students posted videos to Instagram of their best moves. Inspirational messages from cancer survivors and Piccolo’s three daughters were aired throughout. Wake Forest students raised $383,550.29 for the Research Fund, and about 1,500 people watched the final hour live on Facebook. “I have been overwhelmed by the amount of response we’ve received,” said Kylie Reed, a Wake Forest senior from Atlanta and one of the event’s three student directors. “Fundraising aside, it was a really important 12 hours for the Wake Forest community to be able to come together.”
April 14, 2020
Bloomberg Law
EPA to relax quality tests for air monitoring during pandemic
Companies unable to get outside contractors to verify the accuracy of air emissions monitoring data because of the pandemic would be able to delay some tests under an EPA rule now under review. Stan Meiburg, director of Wake Forest’s graduate program in sustainability and former EPA associate administrator under the Obama administration, questioned the need for the rule. “What is it about Quality Assurance requirements for power plants that is at risk because of COVID-19? I am not saying there is nothing, but why couldn’t it be handled through enforcement discretion rather than this rulemaking, which appears to be being rushed through in the hopes that no one will notice.”
April 13, 2020
CNN
Beijing faces a diplomatic crisis after reports of mistreatment of Africans in China causes outrage
Lina Benabdallah, an assistant professor of politics at Wake Forest who specializes in China-Africa relations, said that the “delicate” nature of the issue required a “coordinated response,” as Chinese diplomats would need to prevent a backlash against the more than one million Chinese currently living in Africa. “De-escalation in that sense is probably a priority. It’s a sensitive thing.”
April 13, 2020
The Investors Podcast
Improving our character with Christian Miller
Christian Miller, Wake Forest professor of philosophy, appeared as a guest on “The Good Life” podcast to discuss virtues that make up a good character, why character matters and how we can improve our character. “Character makes a big difference to our own individual lives,” Miller explained. “There’s good empirical evidence to support the idea that the better character you have, the better your life will go. There are studies that have been done that correlate measures of good character, like hope, conscientiousness, and honesty, with things that benefit us like being in a better mood, being healthier, achieving more in life, have better life satisfaction, and more purpose and value.”
April 13, 2020
KPVA (Pocatello, Id)
Rural state governors’ COVID-19 responses draw national attention
Even with an increase in compliance, can Wyoming truly expect to be successful without a state-mandated shelter-in-place order? According to Allan Louden, an expert in political communication at Wake Forest who spent six years as an educator in Wyoming, success without hard-line enforcement comes down to consistent messaging — particularly messaging that outlines the severity of the crisis.. “In a state geographically designed around social distancing and defined by self-reliance, invoking a voluntary, normative compliance could result in more acquiescence than a restrictive executive order.”
April 11, 2020
WXII
Graduating seniors open up about academic adjustments, job search uncertainty
Andy Chan, the vice president of innovation and career development at Wake Forest, said graduating seniors should attempt to stick to a schedule as best they can during these uncertain times, as well as take care of their physical and mental wellbeing. “Senior year is definitely a year where you’re excited about the future but also enjoying time with your friends and wrapping up your studies,” Chan said. Chan encouraged students to stay focused on their studies and to be persistent with their job searches following graduation. “All sectors, in some ways, are being hit if you aggregate it.” Chan encouraged students to look for opportunities in health care, nonprofit work and with companies that functioned online or remotely before the pandemic and to tap into networks of friends, families, college and university and other.
April 11, 2020
Grad Reports
25 best colleges for finance 2020
Wake Forest ranked fifth on the Grad Reports’ list of best colleges with a Bachelor’s in Finance; colleges were ranked in order of highest median salary one year after graduation.
April 10, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Covid-19 is scrambling the job market for recent grads. Here’s how colleges are trying to respond
After the Great Recession, some colleges began expanding and strengthening their career-counseling offices, putting career programming into orientations, special events, and the curriculum — which helped some institutions attract notice. Andy Chan arrived at Wake Forest in 2009; by 2013, his work on career development and life design at the university was the feature of a lengthy New York Times article. Colleges also began to abandon a long-held false dichotomy in education: that institutions either are training for curiosity and deep thought, or are merely offering skills for a trade. The upheaval that’s now roiling the economy may lead to more changes at colleges’ career centers.
April 10, 2020
USA Today
Grads face uncertain job market as coronavirus pushes companies to rescind offers
Andy Chan, vice president for personal and career development at Wake Forest, advised graduates: “There will be time to find that beautiful job down the road,” he said. Despite uncertainty in the job market today, Chan expressed optimism about the Class of 2020. “Depending on how long this crisis lasts, companies actually do, I believe, want to hire young talent who are the future leaders of their organizations.’’
April 10, 2020
Media Entertainment Arts Worldwide (Meaww)
Kim Kardashian docu shows prison rehabilitation programs reduce crime and save taxpayers money
Kami N. Chavis, associate provost for academic initiatives and professor of law at Wake Forest said it is inhuman how most states in the country treated criminals in prisons. “We cannot afford to simply warehouse people while they are serving their sentences. Having an education and an opportunity to learn a skill can help them cope while incarcerated and provide an avenue and the ability to earn a living when they leave.”
April 9, 2020
Smithsonian
More than 30 million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America
Fossil teeth uncovered in Peru reveal that an extinct family of primates, thought to have lived only in Africa, made it across the ocean. “Parapithecid teeth are distinctive,” said Wake Forest paleoprimatologist Ellen Miller, who was asked to comment on the research. Miller said, “The implications of this research should be a game-changer in primate biogeography. Primates made oceanic journeys to new places over and over again through prehistoric time, and paleontologists may find additional evidence of these dispersals in the fossil record.”
April 9, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
The solution for balancing COVID-19 social distancing with social liberties could be widespread testing and surveillance, according to a brief posted Thursday by the New England Journal of Medicine. Mark Hall, a law and public-health professor at Wake Forest University, is co-author of the brief. Hall said the basic point of the brief “is that, in order to sensibly lift current restrictions, we need a lot more testing. Both of who has the virus and who has had it, in order to replace blanket restrictions with more targeted protections in a way that balances civil liberties with public health.”
April 9, 2020