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Remarks at Founders’ Day Convocation

Delivered in Wait Chapel on Feb. 17, 2022. Remarks as prepared. View Full Video Welcome to our 2022 Founders’ Day Convocation. This is my first Founders’ Day on campus, as it may be for many of you, and I’m delighted we can meet together […]

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Responding to the Weaver Fertilizer Plant Fire

Dear Wake Forest students, faculty and staff, I write to you today with my deepest gratitude for the cooperation, fortitude and care shown by our campus community as we have responded to the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire this week. To make sure all members of […]

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Response to fertilizer plant fire

This message is sent on behalf of President Susan R. Wente, Provost Rogan Kersh, Executive Vice President Hof Milam and Vice President for Campus Life Shea Kidd Brown. Dear faculty, staff and students, The Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire that began last night and continues today […]

Categories: Emails


Reflecting on Dr. King’s Legacy

Dear members of the campus community, Nearly sixty years ago, in October 1962, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit in Wait Chapel and delivered a speech to the audience of 2,200 Wake Forest students, faculty, and staff assembled. He spoke […]

Categories: Emails


Spring Semester Welcome Back

Dear Wake Forest faculty, staff and students, Welcome to 2022 and a new semester at Wake Forest. I hope you had an enjoyable winter break and are looking forward to all the new opportunities ahead.

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