Tuesday newsday
For our P’25s, your students received three emails since the start of the week: one was about the Sustainability Leadership Group for first-year students, one was about Project Wake, and one was about the second round of Registration. Those can be seen on this page, along with the archive of past messages they have received during their matriculation into Wake.
In case you missed it, there was a Tweet yesterday by @ESPNCitizenship worth mentioning:
Congratulations to @WakeBaseball Coach Tom Walter & Kevin Jordan for being named an honoree of the Stuart Scott #ENSPIRE Award sponsored by @bmsnews at tonight’s #SportsHumanitarian Awards! They launched @gitg4change to empower youth to build a diverse & equitable society.
If you aren’t familiar with the special story of Coach Walter and Kevin Jordan, do yourself a favor and read this article from the Wake Forest Magazine. You might get a little dust in your eye, so have a tissue at the ready :). This is one of the all-time best Wake Forest stories.
As long as you have a tissue at the ready, here is another feel-good story about Freedom School, a free, six-week, literacy-based summer program for rising third through eighth-graders. Scholars are taught by students from Wake Forest, Winston-Salem State, Bennett College, N.C. A&T, N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill. Mackenzie Jackson, a sophomore English and politics major from Charlotte and a Freedom School teacher, says this of the program:
“It brings me genuine joy to see scholars not only enthusiastic about reading the books, but comprehending the material and learning as well. I can’t tell you how many scholars have told me they want to go to college because Freedom School is fun.”
Wonderful to see all the ways Pro Humanitate plays out in the lives of our Wake Foresters.