Anyone who has lived or worked in a college or university community knows how precious a campus can be. The academic buildings, classrooms, and library; residence halls and dining spaces; beautifully landscaped quads and towering spires. Campus places and spaces become dear to us as […]
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Dear members of the campus community, As a learned society, and especially here in our academic community, we are driven by a desire to acquire and share knowledge. When he was a graduate student, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. immersed himself in the […]
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Dear Wake Forest students, faculty and staff, Today as we launch this new semester, I share my warmest welcome to all who are returning or arriving for the first time to our campuses — whether in Winston-Salem; Charlotte; Washington, D.C; London; Venice; Vienna or elsewhere. […]
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Universities are inquisitive communities, always asking questions and seeking answers. We also acknowledge that definitive answers are not based on one dialogue, or one experiment, or one creative work. Consensus comes from rigorous debate by a community of experts, a consensus that is informed by […]
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Dear Wake Foresters, As the holiday weekend approaches and we take a collective deep breath before the conclusion of the semester, I write to express my profound gratitude for our Wake Forest community. In my annual address last week, I shared that we have much […]
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Good afternoon! Thank you Professor Banks for that kind introduction and for your leadership as President of the Faculty Senate. And my appreciation also to the Faculty Senate for co-hosting this event, and the Demon Divas for your welcoming performance. Finally, my thanks to all of you for joining me on this Thursday before Thanksgiving. We have much to reflect upon and much to be thankful for.
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We write with an update on the University’s first campus climate survey focused solely on sexual misconduct and related issues, as well as the University’s other efforts surrounding the campus climate during the past year.
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The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, once said, “great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.” As a scientist, I’ve seen this assertion play out many times — and in real time — both in my own career and those […]
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A message to the WFU community from President Susan R. Wente and Provost Michele Gillespie. Dear members of the Wake Forest community, We are pleased to announce that Corey D.B. Walker, Ph.D., M.Div., M.T.S., director of Wake Forest’s African American Studies Program and scholar of […]
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Dear members of the Wake Forest community: We write to share the news that on January 1, 2023, Dean Jonathan Lee Walton will assume the presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. Dean Walton, a social ethicist whose scholarship focuses on evangelical Christianity and its relationship to […]
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