Several Goodies to Share Today
In this Issue:
- Women’s Golf team at the White House
- Weekly message to new and transfer students and families
- Value of liberal arts majors over time
I was out for a couple of days to get my Wolfpack ’27 graduated from high school and to celebrate. I’m back now and catching up on everything I missed. Let’s get right to it!
Women’s Golf team at the White House
As if it was not already a cool-as-heck week with our baseball team advancing to the College World Series, yesterday our NCAA Championship Women’s Golf Team was at the White House! President Wente and Director of Athletics John Currie (’93) were there with our championship team. Dr. Wente shared this on her official Facebook account (give it a follow if you haven’t already):
“It was an honor to be present at The White House today as our champion Wake Forest Women’s Golf team was honored on College Athlete Day. An experience I will never forget. #GoDeacs!”
You can see more pictures at the Women’s Golf Team Twitter account (also worth a follow!)
Weekly message to new and transfer students and families
The following message was sent to our incoming students yesterday. Please note that all incoming student messages are archived here.
Similarly, our weekly message went out to new families today, and you can read it here. One really important thing to note in this message is that we have many new students who are not filling out their immunization documentation in the Student Health Portal correctly.
Students cannot simply upload a PDF of their immunization documentation and satisfy the immunization requirement. Every new student needs to input the dates of each immunization in the Immunization History form so that the immunizations can be added to their medical record and seen by healthcare providers during office visits. Please be sure your student has done this correctly; see the message for full details.
Value of liberal arts majors over time
I read an article the other day in Inside Higher Ed that said this:
“In 2019, David J. Deming, an economist at Harvard’s Kennedy School, published an essay in The New York Times with the revealing title ‘In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint but English Majors Endure.’ As he points out, the advantage for engineering majors ‘fades steadily after their first jobs, and by age 40 the earnings of people who majored in fields like social science or history have caught up.’ It turns out that liberal arts majors are especially likely to end up in management and leadership occupations or in professions like law, where the midcareer salaries are highest.”
Perhaps I am sensitive here because I was an English major and I bristle at the notion that you can’t earn a good living if you choose my major 🙂 But this article did reinforce my long-held belief that students should major in what they love, and that all majors have the potential to lead them into rewarding careers (and salaries). One hill I am willing to die on is that you will be a more attractive job candidate with a 3.7 GPA in a major you love than a 2.1 GPA in a major you think businesses would want you to have. (Also, no shade intended to engineering majors – we definitely need them in the world!)