To those affected by this September’s and October’s hurricanes, Please know that we are hoping for the safety and wellbeing of you, your family, and your community. We understand that, right now, you are thinking primarily about life’s essentials, but we also want to recognize how […]
Categories: Application for Admission, General, WFU29
With only a few days remaining in this calendar year, we write with some important information: In the spirit of the holiday season, we would like to offer our gratitude to you: as an applicant, a college counselor or advisor, a teacher, a parent – […]
Categories: Application for Admission, General
Introducing the Engaged Liberal Arts! You might not have heard this phrase before, but you’ll soon appreciate what it really means. Wake Forest University’s model of participatory learning liberates you from the couch and zaps you through the screen. It takes you from the […]
Categories: Academics, Campus Tours, General, Information Sessions, Research
With only a few days remaining in this calendar year, we write with some important information – but, first, a word of thanks: for all the time you’ve spent this year learning about our campus and student community; for the opportunities we’ve had to meet […]
Categories: Application for Admission, General, WFU27
Hello, everyone! My name is Cesar Grisales, and I’m an Assistant Dean of Admissions here in our Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Just wanted to pop in to introduce myself as we all gear up for another year of meeting and enrolling amazing students. I started […]
As fall break nears, we write to provide an update with regard to vaccine requirements for students, faculty, and staff. The University continues to shift out of emergency operations and into embedded policies and practices that support campus health. Given this context, we are adjusting […]
Categories: General
How’d you like to have an economist, a linguist, a biophysicist, and a choreographer visit your residence hall weekly? That’s what Wake Forest University’s Faculty Fellows program provides. So that you may be enlightened even when outside the classroom, Faculty Fellows gives you regular access […]
Categories: Academics, Campus Tours, General
Studying abroad is a dream, and Wake Forest will help you to make it a reality. Most Wake Forest students choose to study abroad/away. In fact, 80% of our undergraduates have an academic study-abroad experience. This number is among the highest in the nation and […]
Just a few months after Wake Forest College admitted its first Black student, the college invited the first Black speaker to campus – The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. The year was 1962. But it wasn’t for another 30 years that a recording of […]
Categories: General, Uncategorized
February 23, 1960: eleven Black students from Winston-Salem State Teachers College are joined by ten white students from Wake Forest University to protest segregation at lunch counters in North Carolina. Police arrest them that day and take them to jail. This is part of the beginning of […]
Categories: General