Several parents have emailed the Parent Programs office at parents@wfu.edu with questions about the Thanksgiving and Winter breaks and how to schedule flights home for their students. Here’s a few things to consider as you make your student’s travel plans: 1. Check the
The Inside WFU web page features profiles of faculty or staff. For parents of English majors, one of the people you might not meet personally (but will have a profound effect on your students) is Connie Green, administrative assistant in the English department. You can […]
Homecoming was this past weekend, and there are a number of great photo albums online so you can see the events of the weekend. Wake Forest alumni are very loyal and they come back for a great weekend of reunion class events (for all […]
There’s a new article online entitled “Thoughtful About Food,” which is about how we are trying to take food waste and recycle it for other purposes. Here’s a brief excerpt: “Wake Forest’s Office of Sustainability is experimenting with ways to reduce food waste […]
Wake TV is the student-run cable channel on campus. They research and create their own stories and film a news segment and other programming. The October 4 news program is about 16 minutes long and is available online. The program covers campus events like […]
Allison McWilliams (’95) is the Director of the Mentoring Resource Center on campus. She spoke to the Parents’ Council during their fall meeting on October 1st about mentoring activities at Wake Forest. The Parent Programs office asked her if she’d share her thoughts on mentoring […]
Project Pumpkin, an event sponsored by the Volunteer Service Corps, is an annual service event at Wake Forest University that was started in 1988 to bring together the campus and Winston-Salem communities. Each year more than 1,000 children from local agencies are […]
It’s Homecoming Weekend at Wake Forest and there is plenty of school spirit in the air. Student Union has had a week of extensive activities and programming for students. Their theme this year is “There’s No Place Like Wake” and the Homecoming poster they created […]
In speaking to a colleague in the Admissions office recently, I discovered that there is a new effort between the Medical School and the Reynolda Campus for an ‘early assurance program’ for highly qualified students. This is something that might be of great interest to […]
Last night Deloitte Consulting was on campus to judge a case competition with junior Wake Forest business students. Interested students formed teams of four people and were given a hypothetical case on how to help create a new federal agency following an event of domestic […]
