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Wake Forest President Susan Wente to leave position next year
Wake Forest President Susan Wente will leave her position on June 30, the end of her fifth year in that role. The decision came after discussions with the board of trustees leadership about the university’s current stability, positive momentum and the need for a succession plan. Wente and board leadership believe “that the university is ideally positioned to attract and recruit its next leader and that now is the time to begin the transition to ensure the university’s long-term strength.”
October 5, 2025
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Teaching AI skills is important. Forming character is more important.
The good news is that many universities are rising to meet the moment. Wake Forest University’s “Educating Character Initiative” has become an epicenter for the movement, distributing more than $20 million in Lilly Endowment-funded grants over the past few years to universities across the country for character education.
October 4, 2025
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Professors foster friendships in and outside of class
For the last several years, teaching college students has presented one challenge after the next. The isolation of the pandemic. Dwindling class attendance. Students’ use of artificial-intelligence tools to do work they’re supposed to do themselves. Philosophy professor Francisco Gallegos has put students into small discussion groups and asked them to meet outside of class, using a format adapted from a consulting company where he once worked.
October 3, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Governor signs ‘Iryna’s Law,’ but decries death penalty language
House Bill 307 tightens several public-safety laws in response to the stabbing death of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail system. Political science professor John Dinan said Stein likely signed HB307 to preserve his veto leverage given there remain six potential override votes this year. “If he had vetoed this bill, it would have almost certainly been overridden and with a number of Democratic legislators voting for the override,” Dinan said.
October 3, 2025
Mongabay
There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds
"In recent years, policymakers have made pledges for huge tree-planting projects a cornerstone for meeting national carbon reduction goals, while doing little to seriously cut fossil fuel emissions. But a new study shows the carbon sequestration estimates made for those forestation projects may be wildly optimistic," writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso, a regular contributor to Mongabay."
October 2, 2025
Yahoo
Susan R. Wente stepping down as Wake Forest University president in 2026
Susan R. Wente has announced she would step down as the University’s president effective June 30 which would be the end of her fifth year in the role. Under Wente’s leadership, WFU has advanced its vision of becoming a model student-centered research university while staying true to its community-focused roots. Undergraduate applications are up 70% over the past five years and WFU has seen record-setting philanthropic support in the 2025 fiscal year.
October 1, 2025
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest President Susan Wente to step down in 2026, plans return to faculty role
During her tenure, President Wente spearheaded several major initiatives that reshaped Wake Forest's approach to affordability and campus growth. “In higher education, timing is critical, and I believe now is the right moment to begin this transition,” Wente said in a message to the community. “This is because Wake Forest is in a strong, stable and even enviable position among the nation’s universities. I am confident our university is well-positioned to attract an extraordinary new leader."
October 1, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Wake Forest president Wente sets plans to step down June 30
Susan Wente, Wake Forest University's 14th president, announced Wednesday she plans to step down on June 30 following the completion of her fifth year as head of the university. “With a sense of gratitude and optimism, I write today to share a personal decision,” that Wente said was based on “considerable reflection.” Wente is Wake Forest’s first female president. She replaced Nathan Hatch, who retired on June 30, 2021, after 16 years.
Local and regional television stations also covered the news.
October 1, 2025
The Conversation
Roughly 15 years ago, curator Robert Leath brought it to the attention of Anthony Parent, then a history professor at Wake Forest University. Parent publicized the story of these material objects through local outreach and some scholarship.
September 29, 2025
Fox News
Iraqi president calls nation ‘100% safe’ even as ISIS, Iranian militia threats persist
Some argue the counter-ISIS mission is not over, and U.S. troops should remain. Others say the U.S. footprint lacks a clear purpose at this point. "ISIS is a shell of its former self — the Caliphate collapsed in 2019, and its strikes on Europe have ended since then. The remaining threat can be handled by others, notably the Iraqi government, which is popular at home and capable of carrying the load, along with the Kurdish Peshmerga and other regional states," said politics and international affairs professor Will Walldorf, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities.
September 28, 2025
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Trump is erasing America’s real history
"At the National Park Service site honoring Charles Pickney, who wrote a draft of the Declaration of Independence, references to the people enslaved at the location are being scrubbed. The administration has identified as problematic an exhibit about Benjamin Franklin’s scientific achievements because it also mentions Franklin’s ownership of enslaved people. History and tradition make us aware of who we are and what we are becoming," writes law professor Sidney Shapiro.
September 26, 2025
Mongabay
Brazil leads push for novel forest finance mechanism ahead of COP30 summit
"A proposed $125 billion fund to conserve tropical forests worldwide was developed by Brazil in 2023, and pushed forward in 2024 at the UN biodiversity summit in Colombia. Since then, momentum has built in support of this market-driven approach to conserving tropical forests," writes journalism professor Justin Catanoso, a regular contributor to Mongabay.
September 26, 2025