Before my first-ever college class in August, I locked my dorm door and zipped my simple black backpack. As soon as I arrived, however, I noticed the backpacks… or rather, the lack thereof. Backpacks,...

What happened to taking it slow during the first week of classes? Before I stepped onto Wake Forest's campus for my very first semester of college this past fall, I heard exciting rumors about the first...

I still remember the night before class registration, my freshman spring. Someone showed me the website Rate My Professors, just to check whether the professor for my discrete mathematics class was worth...

 In 2008, Maya Angelou published “Letters to My Daughter”, a collection of wisdom gathered from her extraordinary life. One chapter recounts how she came to teach at Wake Forest University. In it,...

When Wake Forest announced last week that admitted undergraduates from North Carolina families making under $200,000 will attend tuition-free, the news spread fast — and for good reason.  At a time...

A statue of the beloved Wake Forest mascot the “Demon Deacon”, a name coined in the 1920s after Wake Forest beat the Trinity Blue Devils.  In winter 1984, the small town of Chestnut Hill, Mass....

I recognize that being a Wake Forest football fan hasn’t always been the easiest. I grew up a fan with parents who deeply cared about the team — and who imparted that love onto me. One of the six songs...

For the past six Thursdays, University Marketing and Communications has included artificial intelligence-generated cartoons in their “WFU Should Know” emails.  These messages are broadcast to all...

Last week, when my physics lab ended early, I checked the clock and realized I could make it to the gym just on time for the 4 p.m. BODYPUMP class. I did exactly that, rushing over to the gym and arriving...

“No government-regardless of which party is in power-should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry we can pursue.”   On...

There was a quiet intensity in the room and a universal understanding about how influential the man with the easy smile across the table was. At the center sat Mark Birkhead, a Wake Forest alumnus visiting...

If I see one more LinkedIn post beginning with the words “I’m excited to announce that this summer […],” I’m going to start sending my therapy bill to their headquarters.  Generation Z is...