:Wake Forest University

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During the Baptist State Convention of 1833, at Cartledge Creek Baptist Church in Rockingham, North Carolina, establishment of Wake Forest Institute was ratified.{{cite web|url=http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?MarkerId=K-42|title=Marker: K-42|website=Ncmarkers.com|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140032/http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?MarkerId=K-42|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=live}} The school was founded after the North Carolina Baptist State Convention purchased a {{convert|615|acre|adj=on|lk=on}} plantation from Calvin Jones in an area north of Raleigh (Wake County) called the "Forest of Wake". The new school, designed to teach both Baptist ministers and laymen, opened on February 3, 1834, as the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute. Students and staff were required to spend half of each day doing manual labor on its plantation. Samuel Wait, a Baptist minister, was selected as the principal, later president, of the institute.{{cite web |url=http://www.wfu.edu/history/HST_WFU/perry.html |title=History of Wake Forest University |website=Wfu.edu |access-date=November 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214225258/http://www.wfu.edu/history/HST_WFU/perry.html |archive-date=December 14, 2013 |url-status=live }}

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In 1838, the school was renamed Wake Forest College, and the manual-labor system was abandoned. The town that grew up around the college came to be called the town of Wake Forest. In 1862, during the American Civil War, the school closed due to the loss of most students and some faculty to service in the Confederate States Army.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} The college re-opened in 1866 and prospered over the next four decades under the leadership of presidents Washington Manly Wingate, Thomas H. Pritchard, and Charles Taylor. In 1894, the School of Law was established, followed by the School of Medicine in 1902. In 1911, Louise Heims Beck became the university's first librarian, later going on to become a vaudeville performer and the recipient of a Tony Award.{{cite news|work= The New York Times|url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/03/17/110805260.html?pageNumber=33|title= Louise Heims Beck, Widow of the Producer And a Founder of American Theater Wing|author= Alfred E. Clark|date= March 17, 1978|page= 33|access-date= August 5, 2021|archive-date= October 3, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211003185830/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/03/17/110805260.html?pageNumber=33|url-status= live}}{{subscription required}}{{cite news|url=https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/86924|title=It Was Like Homecoming|last=Jones|first=Malcolm|via=University and N.C. Baptist Biographical Files Collection|date=May 28, 1973|work=Winston-Salem Journal|pages=1–2 |access-date=August 5, 2021|archive-date=August 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805032754/https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/86924|url-status=live}} The university held its first summer session in 1921. Lea Laboratory was built in 1887–1888, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

The leading college figure in the early 20th century was William L. Poteat, a biologist and the first layman to be elected president in the college's history.{{Cite web|url=https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/advocate-wake-forest-president-embraced-eugenics-movement/article_7f82bba2-8fea-11e2-aa34-0019bb30f31a.html|title=Advocate: Wake Forest president embraced eugenics movement|last=Railey|first=John|date=December 9, 2002|website=journalnow.com|publisher=Winston-Salem Journal|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128143151/https://journalnow.com/news/local/advocate-wake-forest-president-embraced-eugenics-movement/article_7f82bba2-8fea-11e2-aa34-0019bb30f31a.html|url-status=live}} "Dr. Billy" continued to promote growth, hired many outstanding professors, and expanded the science curriculum. He also stirred upheaval among North Carolina Baptists with his strong support of teaching the theory of evolution but eventually won formal support from the Baptist State Convention for academic freedom at the college.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

File:UpperQuad ACB.jpg overlooks the northwestern end of Hearn Plaza, also known as the Upper Quad.]]

The School of Medicine moved to Winston-Salem (then North Carolina's second-largest city) in 1941 under the supervision of Dean Coy Cornelius Carpenter, who guided the school through the transition from a two-year to a four-year program. The school then became the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The following year, 1942, Wake Forest admitted its first female undergraduate students, after World War II dramatically depleted the pool of male students.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}

In 1946, as a result of large gifts from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the entire college agreed to move to Winston-Salem,{{cite news|title=Through the Years: 1946-1968|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=April 3, 1997|page=D10}} a move that was completed for the beginning of the fall 1956 term, under the leadership of Harold W. Tribble. Charles and Mary Reynolds Babcock (daughter of R. J. Reynolds) donated to the college about {{convert|330|acre|km²|1}} of fields and woods at "Reynolda", their estate.{{cite news|title=Grand Place: Ceremony Inaugurates Expansion at Reynolda|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=April 15, 2003|page=E4}} A name change to Smith Reynolds University was considered, but dropped.{{cite news|url=https://journalnow.com/news/local/z-smith-reynolds-was-fatally-shot-91-years-ago-at-reynolda-house-new-exhibit-looks/article_18ad8a96-5326-11ee-8a53-fbe4487ac0e2.html#tracking-source=home-top-story|title=Z. Smith Reynolds was fatally shot 91 years ago at Reynolda House. New exhibit looks at his life, loves and death|last=Sexton|first=Scott|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=September 17, 2023}} From 1952 to 1956, fourteen new buildings were constructed on the new campus.The Undergraduate Schools: Bulletin of Wake Forest University 2007–2008 These buildings were constructed in Georgian style. The old campus in Wake Forest was sold to the Baptist State Convention to establish the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

On April 27, 1962, Wake Forest's board of trustees voted to accept Edward Reynolds, a native of Ghana, as the first black full-time undergraduate at the school. This made Wake Forest the first major private university in the South to desegregate.{{cite web|title=Faces of Courage|url=http://facesofcourage.wfu.edu/|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=August 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827194810/http://facesofcourage.wfu.edu/|archive-date=August 27, 2015|url-status=live}} Reynolds, a transfer student from Shaw University, became the first black graduate of the university in 1964, when he earned a bachelor's degree in history. He went on to earn master's degrees at Ohio University and Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in African history from the University of London in 1972.{{Cite web |title=History Faculty |url=https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/index.html |access-date=September 3, 2022 |website=history.ucsd.edu}} He became a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of several history books.{{cite news|last1=Brinson|first1=Linda Carter|title=Edward Reynolds: The Courage to Change a Campus|url=http://facesofcourage.wfu.edu/|access-date=August 29, 2015|work=Wake Forest Magazine|issue=2|publisher=Wake Forest University|date=Spring 2013|volume=60|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827194810/http://facesofcourage.wfu.edu/|archive-date=August 27, 2015|url-status=live}}{{Cite book |last=Reynolds |first=Edward |title=Stand the storm : a history of the Atlantic slave trade |date=1993 |publisher=I.R. Dee |isbn=1-56663-020-7 |location=Chicago |oclc=27069002}}

Other diversity milestones:

• Japanese student Konsukie Akiyama became the first Asian graduate in 1909.
• The first women undergraduates were admitted in 1942.
• James G. Jones became the first American Indian graduate in 1958. He was from the Lumbee nation.{{cite news|title=American Indian voices|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2012/11/30/american-indian-voices/|access-date=July 5, 2013|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=November 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711211358/http://news.wfu.edu/2012/11/30/american-indian-voices/|archive-date=July 11, 2013|url-status=live}}
• On February 23, 1960, ten Wake Forest students joined eleven students from Winston-Salem State Teachers College (present-day Winston-Salem State University) for a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Winston-Salem.{{cite news|title=Remembering the Winston-Salem sit-in; Wake Forest students joined with other students to help energize the civil rights movement – and change history|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2010/02/01/remembering-the-winston-salem-sit-in/|access-date=January 16, 2015|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=February 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115195140/http://news.wfu.edu/2010/02/01/remembering-the-winston-salem-sit-in/|archive-date=January 15, 2015|url-status=live}} The students' non-violent protest, along with other protests in Winston-Salem, led to the desegregation of the city's restaurants and lunch counters on May 23 of that year.
• Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest campus on October 11, 1962.{{cite news |title=New audio, transcript of MLK speech |url=http://news.wfu.edu/2011/02/09/new-audio-transcript-of-mlk-speech/ |first=Cheryl |last=Walker |work=Wake Forest News |publisher=Wake Forest University |date=February 9, 2011 |access-date=January 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115195145/http://news.wfu.edu/2011/02/09/new-audio-transcript-of-mlk-speech/ |archive-date=January 15, 2015 |url-status=live}}
• Herman Eure (biology) and Dolly McPherson (English) became the first black tenure-track professors in 1974.{{cite news|title=Weathering Wake: Parent recalls African-Americans' experiences|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2009/02/26/weathering-wake-parent-recalls-african-americans-experiences/|access-date=July 5, 2013|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=February 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127124632/http://news.wfu.edu/2009/02/26/weathering-wake-parent-recalls-african-americans-experiences/|archive-date=November 27, 2012|url-status=live}}
• The Office of Minority Affairs was formed in 1978 and later became the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Wake Forest also added an Office of Diversity & Inclusion, an LGBTQ Center,{{cite news|title=WFU establishes LGBTQ Center|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2011/09/01/wfu-establishes-lgbtq-center/|access-date=January 16, 2015|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=September 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115195201/http://news.wfu.edu/2011/09/01/wfu-establishes-lgbtq-center/|archive-date=January 15, 2015|url-status=live}} and a Women's Center.{{cite news|title=WFU launches new Women's Center|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2013/01/18/wfu-launches-new-womens-center/|access-date=July 5, 2013|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=January 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611205525/http://news.wfu.edu/2013/01/18/wfu-launches-new-womens-center/|archive-date=June 11, 2013|url-status=live}}
• In 1982, poet/actress/author Maya Angelou was hired as Reynolds Professor of American Studies.{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Edwin|title=The History of Wake Forest University, Vol. V, 1967–1983|year=2010|publisher=Wake Forest University|isbn=978-0-615-34254-2|pages=272–273}}
• In 2002, Wake Forest added a cultural diversity requirement{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Undergraduate Schools 2013–2014|year=2013|publisher=Wake Forest University|page=67|url=http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|access-date=July 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711205252/http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|archive-date=July 11, 2013|url-status=live}} to its curriculum, mandating all undergraduates take one of 74 courses to educate them on cultural diversity.
• Wake Forest appointed its first (part-time) Muslim chaplain in 2010.{{cite news|title=Muslim associate chaplain named|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2010/02/15/muslim-associate-chaplain-named/|access-date=July 5, 2013|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=February 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125233609/http://news.wfu.edu/2010/02/15/muslim-associate-chaplain-named/|archive-date=November 25, 2012|url-status=live}} In 2011, the first associate chaplain for Jewish Life was named.{{Cite web|url=https://inside.wfu.edu/2010/11/gisser-named-associate-chaplain-for-jewish-life/|title=Gisser named associate chaplain for Jewish Life|date=November 10, 2010|website=wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=November 8, 2020|archive-date=November 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109224655/https://inside.wfu.edu/2010/11/gisser-named-associate-chaplain-for-jewish-life/|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest's Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion Barbee Oakes was named one of the "25 Women Making a Difference" in 2012 Diverse Issues in Higher Education, recognizing her for commitment to initiatives that promote pluralism and foster community.{{cite news|title=Oakes receives Top 25 honor; Assistant Provost for Diversity and Inclusion recognized nationally among female leaders in higher education|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2012/03/01/oakes-receives-top-25-honor/|access-date=January 16, 2015|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=March 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115195219/http://news.wfu.edu/2012/03/01/oakes-receives-top-25-honor/|archive-date=January 15, 2015|url-status=live}} Wake Forest was among 40 schools across the country awarded the 2012 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award by Insight into Diversity magazine.{{cite web|title=2012 HEED Award Recipients – HEED Award – INSIGHT Into Diversity|url=http://www.insightintodiversity.com/heed-award/2012-heed-award-recipients|publisher=Insight Into Diversity|access-date=July 5, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814171220/http://www.insightintodiversity.com/heed-award/2012-heed-award-recipients|archive-date=August 14, 2013}}

On March 12, 2019, Wake Forest was one of eight colleges and universities involved in the Varsity Blues scandal.{{cite web|url=https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/crime/2019/03/15/giant-college-admissions-scandal-and-its-reach-into-nc-answers-to-some-common-questions/5705063007/|title=The giant college admissions scandal and its reach into NC: Answers to some common questions|last=Quillin|first=Martha|date=March 15, 2019|website=The Fayetteville Observer|access-date=February 28, 2025}} It was later revealed that former Wake Forest volleyball coach Bill Ferguson accepted a $50,000 bribe to help a future student be admitted into the university.{{cite web|url=https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/what-we-know-about-the-nationwide-college-admissions-cheating-scam-that-includes-wake-forest-university/83-fe8851f6-f56e-4824-9301-c8da0c188d8c|title=Operation Varsity Blues', Wake Forest Volleyball Coach Named In Nationwide Admissions Scam|last=McCarty|first=Alma|date=March 12, 2019|website=WFMYnews2.com|access-date=February 28, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1044510811/varsity-blues-conviction-college-admissions-scandal|title=2 parents are convicted in the 1st trial of the 'Varsity Blues' admission scandal|agency=Associated Press|date=October 8, 2021|website=NPR|access-date=February 28, 2025}}

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A graduate studies program was inaugurated in 1961, and in 1967 the school became the fully accredited Wake Forest University. The Babcock Graduate School of Management, now known as the School of Business, was established in 1969. The James R. Scales Fine Arts Center opened in 1979.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

In 1979, Wake Forest began a process to change its relationship with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, in order to obtain more academic freedom and choose non-Baptist trustees.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/09/14/wake-forest-u-moving-away-from-baptist-ties/c3625a41-8fd1-4f1f-9fcb-b222b15da794/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827123827/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/09/14/wake-forest-u-moving-away-from-baptist-ties/c3625a41-8fd1-4f1f-9fcb-b222b15da794/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 27, 2017|title=Wake Forest University moving away from Baptist Ties|last=Guillory|first=Ferrel|date=September 14, 1979|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 27, 2020}}

In 1986, the school gained autonomy from the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and established a fraternal relationship with it.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/12/us/north-carolina-baptists-sever-ties-to-wake-forest.html|title=North Carolina Baptists Sever Ties To Wake Forest|work=The New York Times|date=November 12, 1986|access-date=January 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160903134214/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/12/us/north-carolina-baptists-sever-ties-to-wake-forest.html|archive-date=September 3, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1999/111799h.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020621120543/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1999/111799h.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 21, 2002|date=November 17, 1999|title=Hearn says Wake Forest remains committed to its Baptist heritage}}

Middleton House and its surrounding {{convert|5|acre}} was deeded by gift to Wake Forest by Philip Hanes and his wife Charlotte in 1992.{{Cite web | author = Laura A. W. Phillips | title = Middleton House | work = National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory | date = May 2000 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/FY2658.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | access-date = November 1, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190508160639/https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/FY2658.pdf | archive-date = May 8, 2019 | url-status = live }} The donation was completed in 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/historic-home-is-donated-to-wake/article_41d1aa9a-eeae-5b9b-9772-09d4659bf9f3.html|title=Historic home is donated to Wake|first=RICHARD|last=CRAVER|website=Winston-Salem Journal|date=February 2011 |access-date=August 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804040332/https://www.journalnow.com/business/historic-home-is-donated-to-wake/article_41d1aa9a-eeae-5b9b-9772-09d4659bf9f3.html|archive-date=August 4, 2019|url-status=live}}

The thirteenth president of Wake Forest was Nathan O. Hatch, former provost at the University of Notre Dame.{{Cite news|url=https://president.wfu.edu/bio/|title=Office of the president: Nathan O. Hatch|work=www.president.wfu.edu.|access-date=March 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402162759/https://president.wfu.edu/bio/|archive-date=April 2, 2019|url-status=live}} Hatch was officially announced as president on October 20, 2005. He assumed office on July 1, 2005, succeeding Thomas K. Hearn Jr., who had retired after 22 years in office (and for whom the Upper Quad is now named). In 2020, Hatch announced his retirement as president.{{Cite web|url=https://journalnow.com/news/local/education/wake-forest-university-president-nathan-hatch-to-retire-in-june-2021/article_c89fb68c-0d78-11eb-8019-efaaa9dbca8e.html|title=Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch to retire in June 2021|last=Young|first=Wesley|date=October 13, 2020|publisher=Winston-Salem Journal|access-date=January 30, 2021|archive-date=February 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208122610/https://journalnow.com/news/local/education/wake-forest-university-president-nathan-hatch-to-retire-in-june-2021/article_c89fb68c-0d78-11eb-8019-efaaa9dbca8e.html|url-status=live}} On January 29, 2021, the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees named Susan Rae Wente as Wake Forest's fourteenth president and first female president of the school.{{Cite web|url=https://news.wfu.edu/2021/01/29/susan-r-wente-selected-as-14th-president-of-wake-forest-university/|title=Susan R. Wente selected as 14th President of Wake Forest University|last=Walker|first=Cheryl|date=January 29, 2021|website=news.wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=January 31, 2021|archive-date=January 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131190329/https://news.wfu.edu/2021/01/29/susan-r-wente-selected-as-14th-president-of-wake-forest-university/|url-status=live}}

On September 16, 2015, Wake Forest announced plans to offer undergraduate classes downtown in Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem. On March 18, 2016, the school announced programs in biomedical sciences and engineering at its new Wake Downtown campus, opening in January 2017. Wake Downtown is in a former R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company plant, next to the second campus of the school of medicine which opened in July 2016.{{cite news|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/wfu-announces-plans-for-undergraduate-classes-in-wake-forest-innovation/article_1ee65817-787c-500d-ba96-fc3df139ce6b.html|title=WFU announces plans for undergraduate classes in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter|last=Hinton|first=John|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=September 16, 2015|access-date=March 18, 2016|archive-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427000745/https://journalnow.com/news/local/wfu-announces-plans-for-undergraduate-classes-in-wake-forest-innovation/article_1ee65817-787c-500d-ba96-fc3df139ce6b.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/wfu-to-offer-biomedical-sciences-and-engineering-programs-at-the/article_0c95d29f-544e-57e9-b2b1-3121398096fc.html|title=WFU to offer biomedical sciences and engineering programs at the Innovation Quarter|last=Daniel|first=Fran|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=March 18, 2016|access-date=March 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331193041/http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/wfu-to-offer-biomedical-sciences-and-engineering-programs-at-the/article_0c95d29f-544e-57e9-b2b1-3121398096fc.html|archive-date=March 31, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/million-investment-to-bring-wake-forest-baptist-s-educational-facilities/article_1537d04e-7eee-11e4-b966-b76909516f47.html|title=$100 million investment to bring Wake Forest Baptist's educational facilities downtown|last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=December 8, 2014|access-date=December 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111043653/https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/million-investment-to-bring-wake-forest-baptist-s-educational-facilities/article_1537d04e-7eee-11e4-b966-b76909516f47.html|archive-date=November 11, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://myfox8.com/2016/07/19/wake-forest-baptist-completes-new-medical-education-building/|title=Wake Forest Baptist completes new medical education building|last=Hennessey|first=Michael|work=WGHP|date=July 19, 2016|access-date=July 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720180257/http://myfox8.com/2016/07/19/wake-forest-baptist-completes-new-medical-education-building/|archive-date=July 20, 2016|url-status=live}}

On February 21, 2020, Wake Forest officially apologized for the institution's role in profiting and benefiting from enslaved people during slavery.{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/8d41a27378116b8474a0835c259bcb61|title=Wake Forest apologizes for slavery in university's past|last=Foreman|first=Tom Jr.|date=February 21, 2020|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=March 9, 2020|archive-date=February 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222060850/https://apnews.com/8d41a27378116b8474a0835c259bcb61|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Atrium Health announced a partnership in 2019 with the goal of a Charlotte, North Carolina, campus for the Wake Forest School of Medicine. More specific details were revealed in February 2021, including a seven-story tower, and on March 24, 2021, Atrium Health announced a 20-acre site at Baxter and McDowell Streets. Also, School of Medicine dean Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag said construction would start in 2022, with the first students attending in 2024. Hatch, who was leaving as president June 30, said Wake Forest would have a School of Professional Studies at the Charlotte location in 2022.{{cite news|url=https://journalnow.com/news/local/heres-where-wake-forest-medical-school-will-build-in-charlotte/article_2f6263aa-8ca0-11eb-9029-7fc0eeac7ec8.html|title=Here's where Wake Forest medical school will build in Charlotte|last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=March 24, 2021|access-date=March 25, 2021|archive-date=March 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324175242/https://journalnow.com/news/local/heres-where-wake-forest-medical-school-will-build-in-charlotte/article_2f6263aa-8ca0-11eb-9029-7fc0eeac7ec8.html|url-status=live}}

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On March 17, 1978, president Jimmy Carter made a major National Security address in Wait Chapel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-wake-forest-university-winston-salem-north-carolina|title=Address at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina | The American Presidency Project|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu|access-date=August 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804040343/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-wake-forest-university-winston-salem-north-carolina|archive-date=August 4, 2019|url-status=live}} The school has hosted presidential debates on two occasions. The first was between then-vice president George H. W. Bush and governor Michael Dukakis on September 25, 1988.{{cite web|url=https://news.wfu.edu/2018/12/01/wfu-remembers-president-george-h-w-bush/|title=WFU remembers George H.W. Bush|last=Shaw|first=Mike|date=December 1, 2018|website=news.wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=January 24, 2024}} The second match of then-governor George W. Bush against vice-president Al Gore on October 11, 2000. Both debates were hosted in Wait Chapel.{{cite web|url=https://news.wfu.edu/2000/09/14/commission-on-presidential-debates-debate-will-be-held-at-wake-forest-university/|title=Commission on Presidential Debates: Debate will be held at Wake Forest University|last=Cox|first=Kevin|date=September 14, 2000|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=January 24, 2024}} Bill Clinton campaigned at Wake Forest for his wife Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign.{{cite web|url=https://news.wfu.edu/2016/03/14/former-president-bill-clinton-visits-wfu/|title=Former President Bill Clinton visits WFU|date=March 16, 2016|website=news.wfu.edu|access-date=February 28, 2025}}

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The Reynolda Campus is the main campus for Wake Forest University, housing the undergraduate colleges, three of the four graduate schools, and half the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The core of Reynolda campus is the two interlinked quads, separated by the main administrative building and dining facility, Reynolda Hall, into North and South Campus.

North Campus consists of Hearn Plaza, better known as "the quad", which holds six upperclassmen residential buildings, Subway restaurant, a book/office supply store, a clothing/athletic store, and Wait Chapel. Wait Chapel serves multiple functions. Its auditorium serves as an area for prayer, ceremonies, concerts, and certain guest speakers. The classrooms at Wait Chapel house the offices and classrooms for the Divinity School and the Religion Department.{{cite web|url=https://rlh.wfu.edu/housing/halls/north-campus/|title=North Campus – Office of Residence Life and Housing|website=rlh.wfu.edu|access-date=January 28, 2024}}

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South Campus is the home of Manchester Quad,{{Cite news|url=https://parents.wfu.edu/2018/07/the-history-of-the-manchester-mag-quad/|title=The History of the Manchester (Mag) Quad|work=www.parents.wfu.edu|access-date=June 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190523162213/https://parents.wfu.edu/2018/07/the-history-of-the-manchester-mag-quad/|archive-date=May 23, 2019|url-status=live}} named for substantial donors Doug and Elizabeth Manchester.{{Cite web |title=Calloway Center - ZSR Library |url=https://zsr.wfu.edu/special/exhibit/wfu-buildings-and-roads/calloway-center/#:~:text=The%20name%20is%20derived%20from,Manchester%20Plaza%20in%20their%20honor. |access-date=October 29, 2023 |website=zsr.wfu.edu}} It holds freshman housing, most of the classroom buildings, the Benson Center, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is the centerpiece of the Reynolda Estate, from which the university's Reynolda Campus takes its name. The residence was constructed in 1917 by Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.{{cite web |url=http://www.reynoldahouse.org/discover/reynolda/historic.php |title=Historic House & Museum |website=Reynoldahouse.org |access-date=August 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623115347/http://reynoldahouse.org//discover/reynolda/historic.php |archive-date=June 23, 2013 }} It was converted to an art museum in 1967 and has been affiliated with Wake Forest University since 2002.{{cite web |url=http://www.reynoldahouse.org/footer_links/footer_links/press_detail.php?press-id=206363806 |title=Press Room |website=Reynoldahouse.org |date=January 15, 2002 |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512115435/http://www.reynoldahouse.org/footer_links/footer_links/press_detail.php?press-id=206363806 |archive-date=May 12, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Reynolda House displays American art ranging from the colonial period to the present, including well-known artists such as Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Gilbert Stuart.

Wake Forest students regularly get involved at Reynolda House through internships, volunteer opportunities, and academic research. In 2010, Reynolda House and Wake Forest partnered on a first-year student orientation project{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKaruAEyL8U |title=YouTube |publisher=YouTube |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421054956/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKaruAEyL8U |archive-date=April 21, 2014 |url-status=live }} that uses the museum's masterpiece by Frederic Church, The Andes of Ecuador, as the focal point of the summer academic experience. General admission to the museum is free to students and university employees.{{cite web |url=http://www.reynoldahouse.org/explore/general_information/general_information.php |title=General Information |website=Reynoldahouse.org |access-date=August 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730163644/http://www.reynoldahouse.org/explore/general_information/general_information.php |archive-date=July 30, 2013 }}

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The {{convert|129|acre|hectare|adj=on}} property that constitutes Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University was once at the center of Reynolda, the early 20th-century estate of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Reynolds, and included a lake, golf course, formal gardens, greenhouses, and woods. Although many changes have occurred to the landscape over the past century, this preserve serves as a learning center for topics related to horticulture, environmental sciences, and landscape history. Wake Forest students and faculty engage in research throughout the preserve. The public is invited to participate in a wide variety of learning experiences, including classes, workshops, summer camps, and special events.{{cite web|title=Home Page – Reynolda Gardens|url=http://reynoldagardens.org/|publisher=Reynolda Gardens|access-date=July 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626234634/http://reynoldagardens.org/|archive-date=June 26, 2013|url-status=live}}

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Adjacent to the Wake Forest campus, Reynolda Village is home to stores, restaurants, services and offices. Now owned and operated by Wake Forest University, the buildings were originally part of the {{convert|1067|acre|hectare|adj=on}} estate of the R. J. Reynolds family. These buildings were modeled after an English Village and included dairy barns, a cattle shed, school, post office, smokehouse, blacksmith shop, carriage house, central power and heating plant, as well as cottages to house the family's chauffeur and stenographer, the village's school master, and the farm's head dairyman and horticulturist. The present-day village has a wide range of shops specializing in home furnishings and designer fashions, as well as art galleries, fitness studios, and a full-service day spa. The Reynolda historical district, including Reynolda Village, serves as an educational, cultural, and community complex for the Winston-Salem community.{{cite web|title=Reynolda Village|url=http://www.reynoldavillage.com/|publisher=Reynolda Village|access-date=July 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620112018/http://www.reynoldavillage.com/|archive-date=June 20, 2013|url-status=live}}

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Wake Forest University owns and manages one of the premier meeting destinations in the southeast.{{cite web|title=Graylyn International Conference Center|url=http://www.graylyn.com/|publisher=Graylyn International Conference Center|access-date=October 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007130232/http://graylyn.com/|archive-date=October 7, 2014|url-status=live}} Graylyn was built as a private estate for Bowman Gray, Sr., and his family in 1932. The Gray family lived in the home until 1946 when it was donated to the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. In 1972, it was donated to Wake Forest University where it was used for many things over the years, including graduate student housing.{{Cite web|url=https://graylyn.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812142133/http://www.graylyn.com/the_estate/te_highlights.htm|url-status=dead|title=Home|archive-date=August 12, 2008|website=Graylyn}}

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Located in the Ardmore neighborhood near downtown Winston-Salem, the Bowman Gray Campus is home to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, which includes its teaching and research arm, Wake Forest School of Medicine, and its clinical enterprise, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health.{{cite web|url=https://www.wakehealth.edu/about-us|title=About Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital|website=wakehealth.edu|access-date=September 6, 2024}} With about 13,000 employees, the Medical Center is the largest employer in the Piedmont Triad Region, operating as an integrated health care system.{{cite web|title=Major Employers|url=http://www.piedmonttriadnc.com/pages/MajorEmployers.aspx?lid=SrX71TjoHtY=|publisher=Piedmont Triad Partnership|access-date=July 1, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030044120/http://www.piedmonttriadnc.com/pages/MajorEmployers.aspx?lid=SrX71TjoHtY=|archive-date=October 30, 2013}} Wake Downtown is located in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter.{{cite news|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/classes-start-at-wake-downtown-in-the-innovation-quarter/article_9092e678-03cb-50d7-a15c-d9e50049effa.html|title=Classes start at Wake Downtown in the Innovation Quarter|last=Daniel|first=Fran|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=January 10, 2017|access-date=January 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111161620/http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/classes-start-at-wake-downtown-in-the-innovation-quarter/article_9092e678-03cb-50d7-a15c-d9e50049effa.html|archive-date=January 11, 2017|url-status=live}} The Graduate School of Arts & Science has some programs located in the Historic Brookstown in downtown Winston-Salem.{{Cite web|url=https://graduate.wfu.edu/directions-to-the-brookstown-campus/|title=Directions to the Brookstown Campus}}

Wake Forest purchased the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum and 33 surrounding acres from the City of Winston-Salem on August 1, 2013.{{cite news|title=Wake Forest's purchase of Joel Coliseum officially completed|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_1ff013da-fafa-11e2-b267-001a4bcf6878.html|access-date=November 21, 2013|newspaper=Winston-Salem Journal|date=August 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827142310/https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_1ff013da-fafa-11e2-b267-001a4bcf6878.html|archive-date=August 27, 2018|url-status=live}} The Coliseum, which seats 14,407, has been the home of Wake Forest's men's and women's basketball teams since it opened in 1989.{{cite web|url=https://www.ljvm.com|title=LJVM Coliseum Homepage|website=ljvm.com|access-date=September 6, 2024}}

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The opening of Wake Forest Biotech Place in February 2012 marked a milestone in development of Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, based in downtown Winston-Salem and formerly known as Piedmont Triad Research Park.{{cite news|title=Wake Forest BioTech Place debuts in downtown Winston-Salem|url=http://www.journalnow.com/business/article_3efcc9f2-d3f7-52be-a565-e51fad10222d.html|access-date=July 1, 2013|newspaper=Winston-Salem Journal|date=February 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108234207/http://www.journalnow.com/business/article_3efcc9f2-d3f7-52be-a565-e51fad10222d.html|archive-date=November 8, 2012|url-status=live}} Operated by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Wake Forest Biotech Place is a {{convert|242000|ft2|m2|adj=on}} multipurpose biotechnology research and innovation center space that is the present-day home of several School of Medicine departments doing pioneering research, as well as private companies.{{cite web|title=Wake Forest Innovation Quarter {{!}} Work, Live, Learn, Play|url=http://www.WakeForestInnovationQuarter.com/|publisher=Wake Forest Innovation Quarter|access-date=July 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703061453/http://www.wakeforestinnovationquarter.com/|archive-date=July 3, 2013|url-status=live}}

In December 2012 the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center formally launched its new commercialization enterprise, Wake Forest Innovations.{{cite news|title=Wake Forest Baptist launches innovation division|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2012/12/12/wake-forest-baptist-launches-wake.html|access-date=July 1, 2013|newspaper=The Business Journal|date=December 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206181831/http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2012/12/12/wake-forest-baptist-launches-wake.html|archive-date=February 6, 2013|url-status=live}} Located in the Innovation Quarter, Wake Forest Innovations brings together technology asset management functions with resources to support scholarship, invest in the innovative potential of its academic and clinical communities and help translate ideas and discoveries into commercial products and services for both the Medical Center and Wake Forest University.{{cite web|title=The Commercialization Enterprise of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center|url=http://www.wakeforestinnovations.com/about/|publisher=Wake Forest Innovation Quarter|access-date=July 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727123938/http://www.wakeforestinnovations.com/about/|archive-date=July 27, 2013|url-status=dead}}

In January 2017, undergraduate programs began at Wake Downtown.

Built as the world headquarters for Reynolds Tobacco Company, RJR Nabisco donated the more than {{convert|500000|ft2|m2|adj=on}} building to Wake Forest University in 1987.{{cite news|title=Winston-Salem saddened by Reynolds shift|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/01/us/winston-salem-saddened-by-reynolds-shift.html|access-date=July 1, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 1, 1987|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421053310/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/01/us/winston-salem-saddened-by-reynolds-shift.html|archive-date=April 21, 2014|url-status=live}} Now known as the University Corporate Center, the building is located off Reynolds Boulevard, near campus, and houses the following University offices: Information Systems, Finance Systems, Procurement Services, and Financial and Accounting Services. Aon Consulting, BB&T, and Pepsi are also tenants.{{cite web|url=https://properties.wfu.edu/commercial-properties/ucc/|title=University Corporate Center|website=Wake Forest Properties|access-date=January 24, 2024}}

The School of Business established a satellite campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1995; in January 2001, it moved into a {{convert|30000|ft2|m2|adj=on}}, award-winning{{cite news|title=Charlotte Center wins design award|url=http://inside.wfu.edu/2012/09/charlotte-center-wins-design-award/|access-date=July 9, 2013|newspaper=Inside Wake Forest|date=September 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140612020445/http://inside.wfu.edu/2012/09/charlotte-center-wins-design-award/|archive-date=June 12, 2014|url-status=live}} facility on North College Street in Uptown.

The Charlotte Center offers two part-time MBA programs (Evening and Saturday), continuing legal education courses, continuing professional education courses, executive education, Lunch & Learn, and speaker events. Certificate programs offered at the Charlotte Center include business management for nonprofits, sustainability, financial planning and negotiations. The center also hosts corporate retreats and serves as an educational and gathering space for students and alumni in the greater Charlotte area.

The university began offering a small set of general summer school classes at the Charlotte campus in the summer of 2014.{{cite web|url=https://news.wfu.edu/2014/03/05/media-advisory-wake-forest-university-expands-summer-school-classes-to-charlotte/|title=Wake Forest University Expands summer school classes to Charlotte|last=Metz|first=Brooke|date=March 5, 2014|website=news.wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=September 8, 2024}}

The university's Washington, D.C. campus offers undergraduate classes during the spring and fall as well as law classes during the spring and summer semester sessions. The Wake Washington Center also alumni workshops, networking events, volunteer meetings and speaker events and panels.{{cite web|url=https://washington.wfu.edu/center/|title=What's in the Center – Wake Washington Center|website=washington.wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=January 24, 2024}}

The university owns international properties in Italy, Austria, England.[http://provost.wfu.edu/43.72.1/WFU_Abroad_Programs WFU Abroad Programs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100910183106/http://provost.wfu.edu/43.72.1/WFU_Abroad_Programs |date=September 10, 2010 }} Website of the Office of the Provost, Wake Forest University

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In 1974, Wake Forest purchased the building that formerly housed the American Consulate in Venice and named it Casa Artom in honor of Camillo Artom, a professor at the Baptist Medical Center until 1969. Casa Artom is a two-story building facing the Grand Canal. It is flanked by the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, which houses the Peggy Guggenheim art collection, and the 15th century home Ca'Dario. Each fall and spring semester, a group of Wake Forest students and a resident professor live and study together here.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wakeforestvenice.com/our-place-casa-artom/history/|title=History of Casa Artom|date=March 11, 2020|website=wakeforestvenice.com|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=March 11, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308133854/https://www.wakeforestvenice.com/our-place-casa-artom/history/|url-status=usurped}}

In 1998, Wake Forest purchased a three-story villa in Vienna. The acquisition was made possible through the donation of Vic and Roddy Flow of Winston-Salem, and the house was named in their honor. Built in 1898, the house was formerly the office of the U.S. Consulate. Flow House is situated in a northwest section of Vienna that is known for its embassies, diplomatic residences, and distinguished private homes. Each fall and spring semester, a group of Wake Forest students and a resident professor live and study together here.{{Cite web|url=https://apply.studyabroad.wfu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=1148|title=Discover Austria at the WFU Flow House|website=wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=November 8, 2020|archive-date=November 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114230108/https://apply.studyabroad.wfu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=1148|url-status=live}}

In 1977, Wake Forest acquired a large, brick home in Hampstead for its London program. The house, a gift from Eugene and Ann Worrell, was named in their honor. Formerly known as Morven House, the building served as the home and studio of landscape painter Charles Edward Johnson. Hampstead is primarily a residential neighborhood and home to Hampstead Heath, Regent's Park, Primrose Hill and the Keats House. Each fall and spring semester, a group of Wake Forest undergraduate students and a resident professor live and study together here. Wake Forest law students also spend a summer session here along with a resident law professor.{{cite web|url=http://studyabroad.law.wfu.edu/london/studying/|title=Studying in London - Study Abroad - Wake Forest School of Law|website=studyabroad.law.wfu.edu|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923010012/http://studyabroad.law.wfu.edu/london/studying/|archive-date=September 23, 2018|url-status=live}}

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Undergraduate admission to Wake Forest is rated as "most selective" by U.S. News & World Report.{{cite magazine |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/wake-forest-2978 |title=Wake Forest University |year=2015 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=November 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027055807/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/wake-forest-2978 |archive-date=October 27, 2015 |url-status=live }} For freshmen enrolling in the fall of 2023, the university received 17,479 applications and admitted 3,768, or 21.56 percent. 1,385 students enrolled, making the yield rate (percentage of accepted students who then enrolled) 36.75 percent. Approximately 55 percent of the class are women and 45 percent are men. Wake Forest University does not require applicants to submit a college entrance exam score; of the 26 percent of applicants who did submit SAT scores, the middle 50 percent for total scores were between 1410 and 1500. Of the 22 percent of applicants who did submit ACT scores, the middle 50 percent composite score was between 32 and 34. The median family income of Wake Forest University students is $221,500, with 71% of students coming from the top 20% highest-earning families.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/wake-forest-university|title=Economic diversity and student outcomes at Wake Forest University|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 31, 2025}} Over the past couple of years, Wake Forest has been consistently ranked as one of the most expensive institutions in the state of North Carolina, with its total undergraduate tuition for the 2024–25 academic year being $91,266.{{cite web|url=https://admissions.wfu.edu/affordability/|title=Affording a Wake Forest Education|website=admissions.wfu.edu|access-date=December 20, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/duke-wake-forest-davidson-among-ncs-most-expensive-colleges-universities/S44FPFISP5EDXHVRIGWL3ENS5E/|title=Duke, Wake Forest, Davidson among NC's most expensive colleges and universities|date=October 25, 2022|website=WSOCTV.com|access-date=January 5, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2023/10/31/wake-forest-hpu-elon-most-expensive-nc-colleges.html|title=Wake Forest most expensive school in NC; HPU and Elon make top 10|date=October 31, 2023|website=BizJournals.com|publisher=Triad Business Journal|access-date=January 5, 2024}}

In May 2008, Wake Forest made college entrance exams optional for undergraduate admissions,{{cite news|title=Wake Forest U. Joins the Ranks of Test-Optional Colleges|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Wake-Forest-U-Joins-the-Ranks/834|access-date=July 5, 2013|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=May 27, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421055310/http://chronicle.com/article/Wake-Forest-U-Joins-the-Ranks/834|archive-date=April 21, 2014|url-status=live}} becoming the first national university ranked in the top 30 by the U.S. News & World Report to adopt a test-optional policy.{{cite magazine|title=Wake Forest Makes Test Scores Optional for Applicants|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/05/27/wake-forest-makes-test-scores-optional-for-applicants|access-date=July 5, 2013|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|date=May 27, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421055651/http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/05/27/wake-forest-makes-test-scores-optional-for-applicants|archive-date=April 21, 2014|url-status=live}} Being test-optional means Wake Forest's admissions process does not require applicants to submit their SAT or ACT scores, and students can decide if they want their standardized test scores to be considered.{{Cite web |title=Test Optional {{!}} Undergraduate Admissions {{!}} Wake Forest University |url=https://admissions.wfu.edu/apply/test-optional/ |access-date=January 7, 2023 |website=Undergraduate Admissions |language=en}} Wake Forest University does not publish any explanation of how its admissions process compares applicants with submitted scores to those without.

File:WakeInsideReynolda.jpg overlooking the Magnolia Quad (formally known as Manchester Plaza)]]Wake Forest offers 49 undergraduate majors{{cite web|title=Majors and Minors {{!}} Academics {{!}} Wake Forest University|url=http://www.wfu.edu/academics/majors/|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=March 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130320172202/http://www.wfu.edu/academics/majors/|archive-date=March 20, 2013|url-status=live}} and 60 interdisciplinary minors across various fields of study. Students initially declare a major the second semester of their sophomore year.{{cite web|title=Majors/Minors Declarations – University Registrar|url=http://registrar.wfu.edu/academic/declarations/|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=September 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911202444/http://registrar.wfu.edu/academic/declarations/|archive-date=September 11, 2013|url-status=live}}

In order to graduate, a Wake Forest student must finish three requirements for 120 hours of credit: a core set of classes, a course of study related to a major, and electives. The core set of classes includes basic requirements (a first-year seminar, a writing seminar, health and PE classes, and foreign language literature) and divisional requirements (at least two classes in each of the humanities, social sciences and math/natural sciences and at least one in the fine arts and literatures).{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Undergraduate Schools 2013–2014|year=2013|publisher=Wake Forest University|pages=64–66|url=http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|access-date=July 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711205252/http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|archive-date=July 11, 2013|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest also offers an "Open Curriculum" option, in which a small number of students, approved by a committee, may design a course of study with an adviser that follows a liberal arts framework but does not necessarily fulfill all the core degree requirements.{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Undergraduate Schools 2013–2014|year=2013|publisher=Wake Forest University|page=59|url=http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|access-date=July 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711205252/http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|archive-date=July 11, 2013|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://college.wfu.edu/academics/opportunities/open-curriculum/|title=Open Curriculum – Undergraduate College – Wake Forest University|website=college.wfu.edu|access-date=March 1, 2025}}

In order to attend the School of Business, students must make a special application to its program, which offers an accountancy program whereby a student earns a BS and an MS in Accountancy and qualifies to sit for the CPA exam after five years of combined undergraduate and graduate study.{{cite web|title=Accountancy – WFU Schools of Business|url=http://business.wfu.edu/default.aspx?id=1320|publisher=Wake Forest School of Business|access-date=July 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118030459/http://business.wfu.edu/default.aspx?id=1320|archive-date=November 18, 2013|url-status=live}} The School of Business also offers undergraduate programs leading to degrees in business and enterprise management, finance and mathematical business.{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Undergraduate Schools 2013–2014|year=2013|publisher=Wake Forest University|page=64|url=http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|access-date=July 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711205252/http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|archive-date=July 11, 2013|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest supports a number of centers and institutes, which are designed to encourage interdisciplinary curriculum and programming. Currently, there are three institutes (Humanities, Pro Humanitate, and Eudaimonia) and eleven centers (including Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials; Enterprise Research and Education; Translational Science; Bioethics, Health and Society; BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Molecular Communication and Signaling; and Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts).{{cite web|title=Centers and Institutes – Office of the Provost|url=http://provost.wfu.edu/centers-and-institutes/|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=September 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905232013/http://provost.wfu.edu/centers-and-institutes/|archive-date=September 5, 2017|url-status=dead}}

Including the professional schools, the university has 1,996 faculty members, of whom 84.5 percent are full-time employees.{{cite book|title=Fact Book 2014-15|publisher=Wake Forest Office of Institutional Research|page=35|url=http://ir.wfu.edu//files/2014_2015_p35.pdf|access-date=November 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311204840/http://ir.wfu.edu//files/2014_2015_p35.pdf|archive-date=March 11, 2015|url-status=live}}

Ninety-three percent of undergraduate faculty have doctorates or other terminal degrees in their field.{{cite book|title=Fact Book 2014-15|publisher=Wake Forest Office of Institutional Research|page=38|url=http://ir.wfu.edu//files/2014_2015_p38.pdf|access-date=November 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311204847/http://ir.wfu.edu//files/2014_2015_p38.pdf|archive-date=March 11, 2015|url-status=live}} Wake Forest ranked tied for 10th best undergraduate teaching in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report in its 2016 report,{{cite magazine |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/wake-forest-university-199847/overall-rankings |title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings - Wake Forest University |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=November 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015333/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/wake-forest-university-199847/overall-rankings |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |url-status=live }} and the school maintains a faculty-to-student ratio of 1 to 11.{{cite book|title=Common Data Set 2014-2015|publisher=Wake Forest University Office of Institutional Research|page=22|url=http://ir.wfu.edu/files/CDS_2014-2015.pdf|access-date=November 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202181003/http://ir.wfu.edu/files/CDS_2014-2015.pdf|archive-date=December 2, 2015|url-status=live}}

Notable faculty include:

• Anthony Atala, the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is considered a national pioneer in organ growth. His work has been lauded as the No. 1 Science Story of the Year by Discover Magazine in 2007 and the fifth-biggest breakthrough in medicine for 2011 by Time.{{cite web|title=Curiosity Expert: Anthony Atala, M.D.|url=http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/anthony-atala.htm|publisher=Discovery Channel|access-date=September 13, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907020027/http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/anthony-atala.htm|archive-date=September 7, 2013}}
• David Carroll, professor of physics and director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, is known for his research in nanoengineered cancer therapies, green technology,{{cite web|title=Pokeberries Provide Boost for Solar Cells|url=http://energy.gov/articles/pokeberries-provide-boost-solar-cells|publisher=U.S. Department of Energy|access-date=September 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421060215/http://energy.gov/articles/pokeberries-provide-boost-solar-cells|archive-date=April 21, 2014|url-status=live}} photovoltaics and lighting innovations.{{cite news|title=Plastic bulb development promises better quality light|first=Matt|last=McGrath|work=BBC News |date=December 3, 2012 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553143|access-date=September 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929022721/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553143|archive-date=September 29, 2013|url-status=live}}
• Melissa Harris-Perry, Presidential Endowed Professor of Politics and International Affairs, former host of the eponymous MSNBC current affairs and political commentary television program and current host of The Takeaway and Editor-at-Large of ELLE.com.{{cite web|url=http://www.elle.com/author/15879/melissa-harris-perry/|title=Melissa Harris-Perry|website=ELLE|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923052205/https://www.elle.com/author/15879/melissa-harris-perry/|archive-date=September 23, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://college.wfu.edu/politics/faculty-and-staff/melissa-harris-perry/|title=Melissa Harris-Perry - Politics and International Affairs|website=college.wfu.edu|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923005943/http://college.wfu.edu/politics/faculty-and-staff/melissa-harris-perry/|archive-date=September 23, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Former President Nathan O. Hatch is a nationally known religious historian. His book, The Democratization of American Christianity, was named one of the "Five Best: Books on Religion in Politics" by the Wall Street Journal.{{cite news|title=Five Best: Books on Religion and Politics|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303830204577448783675638366|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|access-date=September 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321054850/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303830204577448783675638366|archive-date=March 21, 2015|url-status=live}} He also served as the chair of the NCAA Division I Board.{{cite web|title=Division I Board of Directors|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/committees/committees_roster.jsp?CommitteeName=BOARD|publisher=NCAA|access-date=September 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620140429/http://web1.ncaa.org/committees/committees_roster.jsp?CommitteeName=BOARD|archive-date=June 20, 2013|url-status=live}}
• David Faber, professor of art and printmaking, is a nationally recognized printmaker whose works are housed permanently at five of the country's leading museums.{{cite web|url=https://art.wfu.edu/people/david-faber/|title=David Faber – Professor of Art – Wake Forest University|website=art.wfu.edu|access-date=March 1, 2025}}
• Author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies, taught at the university from 1982 until her death in 2014. Among her many awards, she was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010.{{cite web|title=President Obama Names Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/17/president-obama-names-presidential-medal-freedom-recipients|access-date=September 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126074451/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/17/president-obama-names-presidential-medal-freedom-recipients|archive-date=January 26, 2017|via=National Archives|work=whitehouse.gov|date=November 17, 2010 |url-status=live}}
• Psychologist Linda Nielsen, researcher on the effects of shared parenting and on father–daughter relationships.{{cite web|url=https://education.wfu.edu/staff-member/dr-linda-nielsen/|title=Dr. Linda Nielsen – Wake Forest University Department of Education|website=education.wfu.edu|access-date=March 1, 2025}}

Wake Forest offers more than 400 semester-, summer- and year-long study abroad programs in 200 cities in more than 70 countries worldwide through Wake Forest-sponsored programs and through Affiliate programs (approved non-Wake Forest programs).

Wake Forest program options include:

• University-owned houses: Each semester or summer session, a resident professor leads a group of students to one of three University-owned study abroad houses and offers two courses in his or her respective disciplines. Resident professors are chosen from a wide variety of academic departments. The university houses are: Casa Artom in Venice, Italy; Flow House in Vienna, Austria; and Worrell House in London, England.
• Other University-sponsored semester study abroad programs take place in Santiago, Chile; Dijon, France; Cambridge, England; Salamanca, Spain; and Hirakata, Japan.{{Cite web|url=https://ealc.wfu.edu/study-abroad-japan|title=Study Abroad in Japan|website=ealc.wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=March 13, 2020|archive-date=March 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323170757/https://ealc.wfu.edu/study-abroad-japan|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://frenchstudies.wfu.edu/study-abroad/|title=Study Abroad in France|publisher=Wake Forest University Department of French Studies|access-date=September 8, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://spanish.wfu.edu/semester-in-chile/|title=Semester in Chile|publisher=Wake Forest University Department of Spanish|access-date=September 8, 2024}}

In addition to the Undergraduate College, Wake Forest University is home to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and four professional schools.{{cite web | url=http://www.wfu.edu/visitors/quickfacts.html | title=Visitors' Center: Quick Facts | access-date=September 3, 2008 | publisher=Wake Forest University | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812152102/http://www.wfu.edu/visitors/quickfacts.html | archive-date=August 12, 2008 | url-status=live }}

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers 25 programs of graduate-level study as well as 11 certificates. Degree programs include eleven areas of Ph.D. study in the sciences, as well as 24 master's degrees in the arts and sciences. The school also offers nine joint degree programs in conjunction with the other professional schools and the undergraduate college.{{cite web|url = http://graduate.wfu.edu/admissions/programs.html|title = Master Programs & Tracks of Study|access-date = July 3, 2013|publisher = Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130702021550/http://graduate.wfu.edu/admissions/programs.html|archive-date = July 2, 2013|url-status = live}}

{{Main|Wake Forest University School of Business}}

The Wake Forest School of Business was founded in 1969 as the Babcock School of Management, and the school now houses both graduate and undergraduate programs in the new Farrell Hall facility on the main Wake Forest campus. The school also maintains a campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, which houses an MBA program for working professionals.{{cite web|title=Programs|url=http://www.uptownmba.com/about-us/programs/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604095900/http://www.uptownmba.com/about-us/programs/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 4, 2012|publisher=Wake Forest School of Business|access-date=July 9, 2013}}

The School of Business offers seven Master programs and four joint-degree programs, including full-time and part-time Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Accountancy, Master of Science in Business Analytics, and Master of Science in management.{{cite web|title=Graduate Programs & Admissions|url=http://business.wfu.edu/prospectivestudents/graduate|publisher=Wake Forest School of Business|access-date=July 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601080249/http://business.wfu.edu/prospectivestudents/graduate|archive-date=June 1, 2013|url-status=live}} The school offers a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree program for undergraduates. This is a four-year degree with majors in accountancy, business and enterprise management, finance, and mathematical business.{{cite web|title=Undergraduate Programs|url=http://business.wfu.edu/programs-undergraduate|publisher=Wake Forest School of Business|access-date=July 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701064723/http://business.wfu.edu/programs-undergraduate|archive-date=July 1, 2013|url-status=live}}

{{Main|Wake Forest University School of Divinity}}

The School of Divinity, accredited by the Association of Theological Schools, offers a Master of Divinity degree as well as dual-degree programs in bioethics, counseling and law.{{cite web|url=http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/master-of-divinity/|title=Master of Divinity|work=Wake Forest University School of Divinity|access-date=March 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311202702/http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/master-of-divinity/|archive-date=March 11, 2013|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/master-of-divinity-master-of-arts-in-bioethics/|title=Master of Divinity / Master of Arts in Bioethics|work=Wake Forest University School of Divinity|access-date=March 8, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310050850/http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/master-of-divinity-master-of-arts-in-bioethics/|archive-date=March 10, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/master-of-divinity-master-of-counseling-dual-degree/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910184900/http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/master-of-divinity-master-of-counseling-dual-degree/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 10, 2011|title=Master of Divinity / Master of Counseling Dual Degree|work=Wake Forest University School of Divinity|access-date=March 8, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/law-master-of-divinity-dual-degree/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910184909/http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/law-master-of-divinity-dual-degree/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 10, 2011|title=Law / Master of Divinity Dual Degree|work=Wake Forest University School of Divinity|access-date=March 8, 2013}} The school also offers a certificate in Spirituality and Health in association with the Wake Forest School of Medicine.{{cite web|url=http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/certificate-of-spirituality-and-health/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910184905/http://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/degrees-and-certificates/certificate-of-spirituality-and-health/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 10, 2011|title=Certificate of Spirituality and Health|work=Wake Forest University School of Divinity|access-date=March 8, 2013}}

Gail O'Day was appointed in 2010 as dean of the school and professor of New Testament and preaching.{{cite web|title=New divinity school dean named|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2010/04/29/new-divinity-school-dean-named/|access-date=March 8, 2013|publisher=Wake Forest University Office of Communications and External Relations|date=April 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127164752/http://news.wfu.edu/2010/04/29/new-divinity-school-dean-named/|archive-date=November 27, 2012|url-status=live}} The school has 18 faculty members, five adjunct faculty and 12 associated faculty from other university departments.{{cite web|url=http://divinity.wfu.edu/faculty/faculty-listings/|title=Faculty Listings – Wake Forest School of Divinity|work=Wake Forest University School of Divinity|access-date=March 8, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311203643/http://divinity.wfu.edu/faculty/faculty-listings/|archive-date=March 11, 2013}} According to its mission statement, the school is "Christian by tradition, Baptist in heritage, and ecumenical in outlook."{{cite web|title=Mission & Values|url=http://divinity.wfu.edu/about/mission-and-principles/|work=Wake Forest University School of Divinity|access-date=March 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310050750/http://divinity.wfu.edu/about/mission-and-principles/|archive-date=March 10, 2013|url-status=dead}} In April 2019, Jonathan L. Walton was appointed as the new dean of the divinity school.{{Cite web|url=https://news.wfu.edu/2019/04/28/jonathan-l-walton-named-dean-of-wfu-school-of-divinity/|title=Jonathan L. Walton named new Dean of WFU School of Divinity|last=Walker|first=Cheryl|date=April 28, 2019|website=wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=January 4, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101030405/https://news.wfu.edu/2019/04/28/jonathan-l-walton-named-dean-of-wfu-school-of-divinity/|url-status=live}}

Planning for the school began in April 1989.{{cite web | url=http://divinity.wfu.edu/about.html | title=About the School of Divinity | access-date=September 3, 2008 | publisher=Wake Forest University | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909052537/http://divinity.wfu.edu/about.html | archive-date=September 9, 2008 }} In May 1996, Bill J. Leonard was appointed the school's first dean,{{cite web | url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1996/052196l.htm | title=Leonard Named Dean of New Divinity School | author=Kevin Cox | date=May 21, 1996 | publisher=Wake Forest University News Service | access-date=September 3, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813003350/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1996/052196l.htm | archive-date=August 13, 2008 }} and in March 1998, the school selected its 14-member board of visitors.{{cite web | url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1998/033198d.htm | title=WFU Names First Members to New Divinity School Board | author=Wayne Thompson | date=March 31, 1998 | publisher=Wake Forest University News Service | access-date=September 3, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813010846/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1998/033198d.htm | archive-date=August 13, 2008 }} The first faculty members were named in April 1998, and additional faculty were hired that October.{{cite web | url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1998/042898d.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020621120649/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1998/042898d.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 21, 2002 | title=WFU Announces First Faculty of Divinity School | author=Wayne Thompson | date=April 28, 1998 | publisher=Wake Forest University News Service | access-date=September 3, 2008 }}{{cite web | url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1998/101498w.htm | title=Wake Forest Divinity School Expands First Faculty | author=Kevin Cox | date=October 14, 1998 | publisher=Wake Forest University News Service | access-date=September 3, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813010712/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1998/101498w.htm | archive-date=August 13, 2008 }} In August 1999, the first 24 students enrolled in the program.{{cite web | url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1999/081899d.htm | title=Divinity school's first students playing a part in university's history | author=Julie Leonard | date=August 18, 1999 | publisher=Wake Forest University News Service | access-date=September 3, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813004418/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/1999/081899d.htm | archive-date=August 13, 2008 }} The university's first Master of Divinity degrees were conferred May 20, 2002.{{cite web | url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/2002/052002g.html | title=WFU comes full circle as Divinity School celebrates first graduates | author=Vanessa Urruela Willis | date=May 20, 2002 | publisher=Wake Forest University News Service | access-date=September 3, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813005557/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/2002/052002g.html | archive-date=August 13, 2008 }}

In 2012, the school established the Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative to equip religious leaders with the knowledge, skills, and pastoral habits necessary to guide congregations and other faith-based organizations around food issues.{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Cheryl|title=Connecting food and faith|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2012/10/24/connecting-food-and-faith/|access-date=March 8, 2013|publisher=Wake Forest University News Service|date=October 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311210728/http://news.wfu.edu/2012/10/24/connecting-food-and-faith/|archive-date=March 11, 2013|url-status=live}}

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The Wake Forest University School of Law is a private American Bar Association-accredited law school and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The school was established in 1894. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the school among the top 50 law schools in the nation.{{cite web |title=Wake Forest University Law School Overview |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/wake-forest-university-03120 |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=June 15, 2023}} The current dean is Andrew Klein.{{cite web|url=https://law.wfu.edu/news/2023/andrew-klein-named-dean-of-wake-forest-university-school-of-law/|title=Andrew Klein named dean of Wake Forest University School of Law|work=wfu.edu|date=May 24, 2023|access-date=February 3, 2024}} Wake Forest University School of Law has a faculty of 52 Resident Faculty Members and 40 Extended Faculty Members.{{cite web |url=http://law.wfu.edu/faculty/profile/ |title=Faculty Profiles | Faculty | Wake Forest School of Law |website=Law.wfu.edu |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825051512/http://law.wfu.edu/faculty/profile/ |archive-date=August 25, 2013 |url-status=live }}

Wake Forest Law offers the following degrees: the JD, the JD/M.Div., the JD/MA in Religion, the JD/MA in bioethics, the Master of Studies in Law, the Master of Laws in American Law, the SJD and the JD/MBA in conjunction with the university's Schools of Business. Class sizes are limited to sections of 40 in the first year, with legal writing classes limited to sections of 20.{{cite web |url=http://admissions.law.wfu.edu/about/fast-facts/ |title=Fast Facts | Admissions | Wake Forest School of Law |website=Admissions.law.wfu.edu |date=September 19, 2010 |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901155236/http://admissions.law.wfu.edu/about/fast-facts/ |archive-date=September 1, 2013 |url-status=live }}

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The Wake Forest School of Medicine has one campus on the Bowman Gray Campus in the Ardmore neighborhood of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a second campus downtown which opened in July 2016. Founded in 1902, the School of Medicine directs the education of about 1,800 students and fellows, including physicians, basic scientists and allied clinical professionals each year.{{cite web|title=Programs at Wake Forest School of Medicine|url=http://www.wakehealth.edu/School/Programs.htm|publisher=Wake Forest School of Medicine|access-date=July 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828012056/http://www.wakehealth.edu/School/Programs.htm|archive-date=August 28, 2013|url-status=live}} It is clinically affiliated with Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest Community Physicians and, with its research program, forms the integrated academic medical center, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

In addition to MD, PhD and MS degrees (including an MS for physician assistants), the School of Medicine has five joint-degree programs, nurse anesthesia and medical technology teaching programs, and is the clinical site for 10 Forsyth Technical Community College programs.

In its 2016 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked it tied for 52nd best in research and tied for 74th in primary care.{{cite magazine |url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/wake-forest-university-199847/overall-rankings |title=U.S. News Best Grad School Rankings - Wake Forest University |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=September 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915123612/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/wake-forest-university-199847/overall-rankings |archive-date=September 15, 2016 |url-status=live }} The nurse anesthesia program is ranked 10th nationally.

The School of Medicine ranks among the top third of American medical schools in total funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).{{cite web|title=NIH Awards by Location and Organization|url=http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm|publisher=National Institutes of Health|access-date=July 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728133345/http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm|archive-date=July 28, 2014|url-status=live}} In the 2012 fiscal year, the school was awarded nearly $185 million in research funding from federal and state agencies, industry and other sources.{{cite web|title=Fact Book 2013|url=http://www.wakehealth.edu/uploadedFiles/User_Content/AboutUs/News_and_Media/WFBMC_Fact_Book_2013.pdf|publisher=Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center|access-date=July 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515085607/http://www.wakehealth.edu/uploadedFiles/User_Content/AboutUs/News_and_Media/WFBMC_Fact_Book_2013.pdf|archive-date=May 15, 2013|url-status=dead}} In November 2023, the School of Medicine pledged $100 million to help fund research.{{cite web|url= https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2023/11/01/wfusom-launches-100m-campaign-research-funding.html|title=Wake Forest University School of Medicine launches $100 million campaign to fund research|last=Johnson|first=Lillian|date=November 1, 2023|website=Triad Business Journal|access-date=September 11, 2024}}

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| THE_WSJ = 64

| Wamo_NU = 71

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| THES_W = 401–500

| Forbes = 88

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In the 2023 U.S. News & World Report America's Best Colleges report, Wake Forest ranked tied for 31st for "Best Undergraduate Teaching", 64th for "Best Value", and tied for 47th overall among national universities in the U.S.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities |title=Best National University Rankings |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=September 19, 2023 }} Forbes ranked Wake Forest as 33rd in Research Universities and 46th in Private Colleges.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/wake-forest-university/#5e903b387631|title=Forbes – Wake Forest University|work=Forbes|access-date=March 13, 2020|archive-date=April 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402231122/https://www.forbes.com/colleges/wake-forest-university/#5e903b387631|url-status=live}} In 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked Wake Forest 3rd among best national universities in North Carolina behind Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/nc|title=Best Colleges in North Carolina|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=October 3, 2020|archive-date=October 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003085257/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/nc|url-status=live}}

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Wake Forest University Press was established in 1976 by Irish scholar Dillon Johnston with the support of provost Edwin Wilson and president James Ralph Scales. It has a strong focus on Irish poetry with published poets including Ciaran Carson, Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, John Montague, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, and Irish language poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.{{Cite news|url=https://wfupress.wfu.edu/about/|title=About us – Wake Forest University Press|work=www.wfupress.wfu.edu|access-date=September 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930174154/https://wfupress.wfu.edu/about/|archive-date=September 30, 2019|url-status=live}}

There are over 225 chartered student organizations of all sorts. Student sports organizations are highly visible on campus. Special interest organizations range from the academic, such the Model United Nations team, to the artistic, such as the handbell choir. In spring of 2006, the Mock Trial team was notable in qualifying for the national tournament while only in its 2nd year in operation. Religious organizations are also numerous. Both the College Republicans and College Democrats have active chapters at the university. Historic student organizations such as the Philomathesians, an artistic literary magazine, are also present. Students are entertained by numerous performing groups, including The Lilting Banshees Comedy Troupe, The Living Parables Christian Drama Troupe, and The Anthony Aston Players.

The Office of Student Engagement, oversees all student organizations and fraternities and sororities. Student Engagement also organizes leadership oriented student activities such as CHARGE (Formerly called LEAD), a semester long course in campus leadership.{{Cite web|url=https://studentengagement.wfu.edu/leadership/charge-emerging-leaders-program/#:~:text=CHARGE%20is%20Wake%20Forest's%20flagship,sharpbd%40wfu.edu).|title=Charge Emerging Leaders Program|website=studentengagement.wfu.edu|access-date=October 27, 2020|archive-date=October 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031233717/https://studentengagement.wfu.edu/leadership/charge-emerging-leaders-program/#:~:text=CHARGE%20is%20Wake%20Forest's%20flagship,sharpbd%40wfu.edu).|url-status=live}}

The event-planning arm of Wake Forest is an undergraduate student-run organization known as Student Union. Student Union events include Homecoming, Family Weekend, Special Lectures, Concerts, the Coffeehouse music series and other weekly events such as movie screenings and Tuesday Trivia nights. Its signature event is the annual "Shag on the Mag" where a big tent covers Manchester Quad (formerly the Magnolia Quad) during Springfest and students shag dance to a live band. It started in 2005 under then Springfest chairman Joseph Bumgarner.{{Cite web|url=https://su.wfu.edu/|title=Home – Student Union|website=Wake Forest University Student Union|access-date=November 7, 2020|archive-date=October 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023142259/https://su.wfu.edu/|url-status=live}}

Founded in 1923, Wake Forest Student Government (known as SG) works under a semi-Presidential system. Four executive officers (Student Body President, Speaker of the House, Secretary and Treasurer) are elected each spring. The President appoints a Chief of Staff. The Executive Officers coordinate with the Cabinet, formed by the Co-Chairs of the seven standing committees. The seven committees are Academic, Campus Life, Diversity & Inclusion, Judiciary, Public Relations, Physical Planning, and The Student Organizations Council (SOC). The executive committee and Cabinet work with members of the Senate to pass legislation and advocate on behalf of students.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://sg.wfu.edu/history/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410000136/http://sg.wfu.edu/history/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 10, 2013|work=Wake Forest University Student Government|access-date=March 8, 2013}}

The Senate, which acts as a student legislature, is made up of about 60 senators, chosen in fall and spring elections each year. The legislators are assigned to one of seven committees focused on an area of student needs. The student trustee is an ex-officio member of Student Government and acts as a liaison between the board of trustees and Student Government.

• WAKE Radio was founded by a student group in 1985 after WFDD terminated a long-standing position of student broadcast assistants.{{cite web |url=http://wakeforestradio.com/ |title=Wake Forest Radio History |website=WakeForestRadio.com |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625085048/http://wakeforestradio.com/ |archive-date=June 25, 2013 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://oldgoldandblack.com/?p=21469 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003200303/http://oldgoldandblack.com/?p=21469 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 3, 2012 |title=A look back at WFDD's storied history | Old Gold & Black |website=Oldgoldandblack.com |date=September 13, 2012 |access-date=August 25, 2013 }} The organization currently maintains an Internet radio station that broadcasts shows ranging from political and sports talk to indie music.
• The Student was founded in 2004 and is a website created and run by students to help integrate the student body with academic activities and social events around campus and the Winston-Salem area.
• The Old Gold & Black (OGB) is Wake Forest University's school newspaper, publishing bi-weekly in print and daily on its website. The paper takes its name from the university's official colors. It was established in 1916 and has been produced by a group of student editors, reporters and photographers every year since then. Notable alumni include Al Hunt, current managing editor for Bloomberg News in Washington DC, W. J. Cash who authored The Mind of the South, and Wayne King who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of The 12th Street Riot in Detroit in 1967.{{Cite web|url=https://wfuogb.com/|title=Old Gold & Black – "Covers the Campus like the magnolias"|website=wfuogb.com|access-date=November 10, 2020|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112142131/https://wfuogb.com/|url-status=live}}
• Wake Forest Review is an independent student newspaper providing news and commentary "from a libertarian and conservative perspective."{{Cite news|url=http://wakeforestreview.com/about-us/|title=About - Wake Forest Review|work=Wake Forest Review|access-date=February 15, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202213332/http://wakeforestreview.com/about-us/|archive-date=February 2, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Wake TV is the university television channel. It features weekly television content like Wake TV News and Entertainment Wakely. Past students have also collaborated with ESPNU to create media packages featuring Wake Forest athletes.{{cite web|url=https://news.wfu.edu/2010/03/01/wake-tv-goes-national/|title=Wake TV goes national|last=McGrath|first=Kim|date=March 1, 2010|website=news.wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=September 8, 2024}}
• Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law was founded in 2001 and is a student-run law journal.{{cite web|url=https://jbipl.pubpub.org/about|title=About JBIPL|website=Wake Forest Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law|access-date=March 14, 2025}}
• Wake Forest Law Review founded in 1965, it is a law journal edited and published by Wake Forest School of Law students.{{cite web|url=https://www.wakeforestlawreview.com|title=About Wake Forest Law Review – Our Publications|website=Wake Forest Law Review|access-date=March 14, 2025}}
• The Howler is the annual yearbook.
• 3 to 4 Ounces is the official literary magazine on campus, publishing a collection of student prose, poetry and art through a blind application process each semester. It is also the longest-running media outlet on campus, as it began in 1882 as The Student when the school was still known as Wake Forest College.{{cite web |url=http://wakestudent.com/about/ |title=The Student at Wake Forest University |access-date=April 10, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717214508/http://wakestudent.com/about/ |archive-date=July 17, 2007 }}

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WFDD is an NPR-affiliate which was founded in 1946.{{cite web |url=http://wfdd.org/about-wfdd#history |title=About |publisher=WFDD |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904093555/http://wfdd.org/about-wfdd#history |archive-date=September 4, 2013 |url-status=live }} The station has a signal strength of 36,000 watts and broadcasts to 32 counties in North Carolina and Virginia.{{cite web |url=http://www.wfdd.org/about-wfdd#coverage |title=About |publisher=WFDD |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904093555/http://wfdd.org/about-wfdd#coverage |archive-date=September 4, 2013 |url-status=live }} The station has been broadcast on 88.5 FM since 1967.

The Wake Forest Debate team has won the National Debate Tournament in 1997{{cite web|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Results/NDT%20results%201997-2005%20(51-59).pdf|title=National Debate Tournament Preliminary Results – 1997–2005|access-date=January 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906062221/http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Results/NDT%20results%201997-2005%20(51-59).pdf|archive-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=live}} and 2008,{{cite web|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Results/NDT08_ElimResults_Names.pdf|title=National Debate Tournament, California State University at Fullerton, March 28–31, 2008 – Results|access-date=January 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232855/http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Results/NDT08_ElimResults_Names.pdf|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live}} made the finals in 2006{{cite web|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Photos/2006NDT/Bracket2006.htm|title=2006 National Debate Tournament Results|access-date=January 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035335/http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Photos/2006NDT/Bracket2006.htm|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}} and 2009{{cite web|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Photos/NDT2009/ElimResults_2009NDT_WithJudges.pdf|title=National Debate Tournament, University of Texas, March 27–31, 2009 – Results|access-date=January 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105074550/http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Photos/NDT2009/ElimResults_2009NDT_WithJudges.pdf|archive-date=January 5, 2015|url-status=live}} and has had six semifinal teams: 1955,{{cite web|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Results/NDT%20results%201947-1956%20(1-10).pdf|title=National Debate Tournament Preliminary Results – 1947–56|access-date=January 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022222308/http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Results/NDT%20results%201947-1956%20(1-10).pdf|archive-date=October 22, 2014|url-status=live}} 1993, 1994, 1995, 2017 and 2019.{{cite web|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Results/NDT%20results%201987-1996%20(41-50).pdf|title=National Debate Tournament Preliminary Results – 1987–96|access-date=January 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234110/http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Results/NDT%20results%201987-1996%20(41-50).pdf|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live}} Wake Forest has had two winners of the "National Coach of the Year" award: Ross Smith (1997) and Al Louden (1988). The award is named for Smith.{{cite web|title=Dedicated to those teachers who advance the forensic art|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/HistoricalLists/CoachoftheYearAward.htm|access-date=July 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506191453/http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/HistoricalLists/CoachoftheYearAward.htm|archive-date=May 6, 2013|url-status=live}}

Notable Debate alumni include: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Larry Penley, the former president of Colorado State University; John Graham, the former regulatory czar for George W. Bush; and Franklin Shirley and Martha Swain Wood, both former mayors of Winston-Salem.

In 2010, Wake Forest became the first top-tier debate team in the country to go "open source" and share all its evidence and arguments online through a wiki accessible to other debaters.{{cite news|title=Paperless Debate; Debate team goes digital and 'open source'|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2010/11/01/paperless-debate/|access-date=January 16, 2015|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=November 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115195118/http://news.wfu.edu/2010/11/01/paperless-debate/|archive-date=January 15, 2015|url-status=live}}

The Volunteer Service Corps (VSC) is one of the most popular student organizations. It coordinates volunteering in both the local and international/national setting via service projects and trips. The organization has annual service trips to Russia, Vietnam, and Latin America. In light of the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina, VSC sent 30 Wake Students on a Wake Alternative Spring Break in the Spring of 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://vsc.groups.wfu.edu/about-us/|title=History – WFU Volunteer Service Corps|website=Wake Forest University Volunteer Service Corps|access-date=October 27, 2020|archive-date=October 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031034147/https://vsc.groups.wfu.edu/about-us/|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest University offers an Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AROTC) program. In 2006, the AROTC program was awarded the MacArthur Award by the United States Army for having the best medium-sized ROTC battalion in the nation. There are about sixty cadets in the program, and about half of each military science class finishes Leadership Development Advanced Camp (LDAC) as a "Distinguished Military Graduate", the top 20 percent of ROTC graduates.

The minimum service commitment of a contracted cadet who graduates from ROTC is four years active duty and four years of inactive reserve duty after that. Alternatively, a cadet can choose to forgo active duty service and serve eight straight years in the active Reserve or National Guard. Other alternative service plans are available for those who intend to be an army doctor, lawyer, or chaplain with source of commissioning via ROTC.{{Cite web|title=Homepage {{!}} Wake Forest University Army ROTC|url=https://rotc.wfu.edu|access-date=December 22, 2024|website=rotc.wfu.edu}}

At Wake Forest contracted ROTC cadets are given full scholarship, a monthly stipend, and book money by the US Army. The university extends the scholarship with free room and board.{{Cite news|url=https://financialaid.wfu.edu/merit/army-rotc-scholarships/|title=Army ROTC Scholarships|work=www.fiancialaid.wfu.edu|access-date=June 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606023652/https://financialaid.wfu.edu/merit/army-rotc-scholarships/|archive-date=June 6, 2019|url-status=live}}

The program also serves students from Winston-Salem State University and Salem College.

With 24 chapters, fraternity and sorority membership consists of around 45 percent of the undergraduate student population.{{cite web |url=http://parents.wfu.edu/faq/#greeklife |title=Questions & Answers | Parents | Wake Forest University |website=Parents.wfu.edu |date=May 21, 2013 |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829214814/http://parents.wfu.edu/faq/#greeklife |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |url-status=live }} Wake Forest requires that all new members of fraternities and sororities complete at least one semester of full-time studies, so the primary recruiting time is during the spring semester.

Most fraternities and sororities have lounges in campus residence halls, with surrounding rooms being reserved for the chapter. One fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, has a residence off campus.{{cite web |url=http://ada-nc.com/portfolio/wake-forest-university-dke-house/ |title=Wake Forest University DKE House | Architectural Design Associates |website=Ada-nc.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421053040/http://ada-nc.com/portfolio/wake-forest-university-dke-house/ |archive-date=April 21, 2014 |url-status=live }}

All fraternities and sororities at Wake Forest belong to one of three councils – the Interfraternity Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Panhellenic Council.{{cite web |url=http://fraternitysorority.campuslife.wfu.edu/councils/ |title=Councils | Fraternity & Sorority Life | Wake Forest University |website=Fraternitysorority.campuslife.wfu.edu |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824021632/http://fraternitysorority.campuslife.wfu.edu/councils/ |archive-date=August 24, 2013 |url-status=live }} Each of these councils has an executive board that provides resources and programming to its member organizations.

Fraternities on campus: Alpha Epsilon Pi,[http://jewishlife.wfu.edu/includes/updaters/Newsletter%20Sept%20Oct%202012.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010195720/http://jewishlife.wfu.edu/includes/updaters/Newsletter%20Sept%20Oct%202012.pdf|date=October 10, 2012}} Alpha Phi Alpha,{{cite web |url=http://www.alphapilambda.org/ |title=Alpha Pi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated |website=Alphapilambda.org |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524182657/http://alphapilambda.org/ |archive-date=May 24, 2013 |url-status=live }} Alpha Sigma Phi,{{cite web |url=http://wfu.alphasigmaphi.org/ |title=AirSet |website=Wfu.alphasigmaphi.org |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014245/http://wfu.alphasigmaphi.org/ |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |url-status=live }} Chi Psi,{{cite web |url=http://www.chipsiwakeforest.com/ |title=Chi Psi Wake Forest University | Winston Salem, NC 27109 |website=Chipsiwakeforest.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826002756/http://www.chipsiwakeforest.com/ |archive-date=August 26, 2013 |url-status=live }} Kappa Alpha Order,{{Cite web |title=Tau Chapter |url=https://www.kappaalphaorder.org/chapters/tau-chapter/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Kappa Alpha Order |language=en-US}} Kappa Alpha Psi,{{cite web |url=https://www.angelfire.com/poetry/osnupes/ |title=Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. – Omicron Sigma Chapter – Wake Forest University |website=Angelfire.com |date=January 25, 2004 |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202232709/http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/osnupes/ |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |url-status=live }} Lambda Chi Alpha,{{cite web |url=http://www.theta-tau.org/ |title=Lambda Chi Alpha | Theta Tau Chapter | Wake Forest University |website=Theta-tau.org |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720103542/http://theta-tau.org/ |archive-date=July 20, 2013 |url-status=live }} Omega Psi Phi,{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lambda-Eta-Chapter-of-Omega-Psi-Phi-Fraternity-Inc/110789902307497 |title=Lambda Eta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. |publisher=Facebook |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411204318/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lambda-Eta-Chapter-of-Omega-Psi-Phi-Fraternity-Inc/110789902307497 |archive-date=April 11, 2016 |url-status=live }} Pi Kappa Alpha,{{cite web |url=http://websites.omegafi.com/omegaws/pikappaalphawakeforest/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630015715/http://websites.omegafi.com/omegaws/pikappaalphawakeforest/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |title=Gamma Phi – Wake Forest University |website=Websites.omegafi.com |date=August 8, 2013 |access-date=August 24, 2013 }} Sigma Alpha Epsilon,{{cite web |url=http://www.saewfu.com/home |title=SAE NC Chi | Wake Forest University |website=Saewfu.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730175329/http://www.saewfu.com/home |archive-date=July 30, 2013 |url-status=live }} Sigma Chi,{{cite web |url=http://www.sigmachideltanu.com/ |title=Delta Nu Chapter | Sigma Chi Fraternity |website=Sigmachideltanu.com |access-date=August 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024053319/http://www.sigmachideltanu.com/|archive-date=October 24, 2013}} Sigma Pi,{{cite web|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/sigmapi/ |title=Sigma Pi Alpha Nu |website=Groups.wfu.edu |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615180011/http://groups.wfu.edu/sigmapi/ |archive-date=June 15, 2013 |url-status=dead }} and Theta Chi.{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/a/wfu.edu/wfu-theta-chi/ |title=Theta Chi – Wake Forest |website=Sites.google.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729064313/https://sites.google.com/a/wfu.edu/wfu-theta-chi/ |archive-date=July 29, 2013 |url-status=live }}

Sororities on campus: Alpha Delta Pi,{{cite web |url=http://www.adpiwfu.com/ |title=Alpha Delta Pi at Wake Forest University |website=Adpiwfu.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730181102/http://www.adpiwfu.com/ |archive-date=July 30, 2013 }} Alpha Kappa Alpha,{{cite web |url=http://groups.wfu.edu/PiBetaAKA/ |title=Pi Beta Home Page |website=Groups.wfu.edu |date=March 13, 2013 |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718055701/http://groups.wfu.edu/PiBetaAKA/ |archive-date=July 18, 2013 |url-status=live }} Chi Omega,{{cite web |url=http://chaptersites.chiomega.com/default.aspx?site=214 |title=Chapter Site |website=Chaptersites.chiomega.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20130826094910/http://chaptersites.chiomega.com/default.aspx?site=214 |archive-date=August 26, 2013 }} Delta Delta Delta,{{cite web |url=http://wfutridelta.weebly.com/about.html |title=About – Tri Delta Wake Forest |website=Wfutridelta.weebly.com |date=February 3, 1989 |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425022416/http://wfutridelta.weebly.com/about.html |archive-date=April 25, 2013 |url-status=live }} Delta Sigma Theta,{{cite web |url=http://www.kwfalumnae-dst.org/ |title=Knightdate-Wake Forest Alumnae of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc |website=Kwfalumnae-dst.org |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606172136/http://kwfalumnae-dst.org/ |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |url-status=live }} Delta Xi Phi,{{cite web |url=http://wamsdxp.wix.com/wfu |title=Wix.com wfu3 created by deltaxiphhi based on wfu1 | Wix.com |website=Wamsdxp.wix.com |date=April 20, 1994 |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803025507/http://wamsdxp.wix.com/wfu |archive-date=August 3, 2013 |url-status=live }} Delta Zeta,{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/Delta-Zeta-at-Wake-Forest-University/131800570329625 |title=Delta Zeta at Wake Forest University – Winston-Salem – Organisatie |publisher=Facebook |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-date=April 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427000745/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Delta-Zeta-at-Wake-Forest-University/131800570329625 |url-status=live }} Kappa Alpha Theta,{{cite web |url=http://thetawfu.blogspot.com/ |title=Kappa Alpha Theta at Wake Forest University |website=Thetawfu.blogspot.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517122310/http://thetawfu.blogspot.com/ |archive-date=May 17, 2014 |url-status=live }} Kappa Beta Gamma,{{cite web|title=Kappa Beta Gamma|url=http://www.kappabetagamma.com/#!chapters/c5o2|access-date=May 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519010559/http://www.kappabetagamma.com/#!chapters/c5o2|archive-date=May 19, 2014|url-status=live}} Kappa Delta,{{cite web |url=http://wfu.kappadelta.org/ |title=Welcome-Wake Forest University Kappa Delta |website=Wfu.kappadelta.org |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029064605/http://wfu.kappadelta.org/ |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |url-status=live }} and Kappa Kappa Gamma.{{cite web |url=http://chapters.kappakappagamma.org/zetapsi/ |title=Wake Forest University Zeta Psi Chapter |website=Chapters.kappakappagamma.org |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029064606/http://chapters.kappakappagamma.org/zetapsi/ |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Professional or Academic Fraternities and Sororities on campus: Alpha Kappa Psi,{{cite web |url=http://wakeakpsi.com/ |title=Wake Forest AKPsi – Home |website=Wakeakpsi.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707102858/http://wakeakpsi.com/ |archive-date=July 7, 2013 }} Alpha Phi Omega,{{cite web |url=http://campuslifeleadership18642.orgsync.com/org/alphaphiomega21155/ |title=OrgSync Organization Template |website=Campuslifeleadership18642.orgsync.com |access-date=August 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011222921/http://campuslifeleadership18642.orgsync.com/org/alphaphiomega21155/ |archive-date=October 11, 2013 |url-status=dead }} and Kappa Kappa Psi.{{Cite web|url=http://wfbands.wfu.edu/about/kappa-kappa-psi/|title=Wake Forest University Athletic Bands {{!}} Kappa Kappa Psi|website=Wfbands.wfu.edu|language=en|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216034630/http://wfbands.wfu.edu/about/kappa-kappa-psi/|archive-date=December 16, 2017|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest is also home to the Sigma Delta chapter of Order of Omega, an honor society for members of Greek organizations. Members are selected from the top three percent of Greeks on campus based on high standards in the areas of scholarship, leadership, and involvement within their respective organization and within the fraternity/sorority, campus and local communities.{{cite web |url=http://www.wfu.edu/housing/greek/omega.html |title=Order of OMEGA: Sigma Delta Chapter |access-date=July 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902000306/http://www.wfu.edu/housing/greek/omega.html |archive-date=September 2, 2006 }}

In the mid-2010s, fraternities at Wake Forest began to come under more public scrutiny for claims of sexual assault, racism, and violence.{{Cite web|title = White frat party is latest wound to students of color at Wake Forest| date=October 8, 2014 |url = http://triad-city-beat.com/white-frat-party-is-latest-wound-to-students-of-color-at-wake-forest/|access-date = September 6, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150904001649/http://triad-city-beat.com/white-frat-party-is-latest-wound-to-students-of-color-at-wake-forest/|archive-date = September 4, 2015|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|title = Reports of Hazing Increase at Wake Forest University, Kappa Sigma Fraternity Loses Charter|url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-old-gold-black/reports-of-hazing-increas_b_4399154.html|website = The Huffington Post| date=December 6, 2013 |access-date = September 6, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150821042930/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-old-gold-black/reports-of-hazing-increas_b_4399154.html|archive-date = August 21, 2015|url-status = live}}{{Cite news |title = Wake Forest sexual assault: infrequent or under reported? |newspaper = Old Gold & Black |url = http://oldgoldandblack.com/?p=42203 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141015192017/http://oldgoldandblack.com/?p=42203 |url-status = dead |archive-date = October 15, 2014 |date = October 10, 2014 |access-date = September 6, 2015 }}

Wake Forest offers classes in yoga, Pilates, High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), Zumba, BodyPump, and indoor cycling.{{cite web|url=http://campusrec.studentlife.wfu.edu/fitness/group-fitness-classes/|title=Campus Rec Home - Campus Rec|website=Campus Rec|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714201428/http://campusrec.studentlife.wfu.edu/fitness/group-fitness-classes/|archive-date=July 14, 2017|url-status=live}} Wake Forest students field 36 club sport teams that compete against other colleges and universities at the regional and national level.{{cite web|url=http://campusrec.studentlife.wfu.edu/club/|title=Campus Rec Home - Campus Rec|website=Campus Rec|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628024349/http://campusrec.studentlife.wfu.edu/club/|archive-date=June 28, 2017|url-status=live}} Over half of the student body participates in 18 different intramural sports.{{cite web|url=http://campusrec.studentlife.wfu.edu/intramural/fall/|title=Campus Rec Home - Campus Rec|website=Campus Rec|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518192827/http://campusrec.studentlife.wfu.edu/intramural/fall/|archive-date=May 18, 2017|url-status=live}} The university's fitness and recreation center, Reynolds Gym, is the oldest gym in the ACC. It was renovated in March 2018 and renamed the Wake Forest Wellbeing Center.{{cite web|url=https://news.wfu.edu/2018/03/29/wake-forest-celebrates-transformation-of-reynolds-gym-into-wellbeing-center/|title=Wake Forest celebrates transformation of Reynolds Gym into Wellbeing Center|date=March 29, 2018|website=News.wfu.edu|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920144536/https://news.wfu.edu/2018/03/29/wake-forest-celebrates-transformation-of-reynolds-gym-into-wellbeing-center/|archive-date=September 20, 2018|url-status=live}} The project includes the addition of the Sutton Center which opened in January 2016.{{cite web|url=http://campusrec.studentlife.wfu.edu/facilities/|title=Campus Rec Home - Campus Rec|website=Campus Rec|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518213850/http://campusrec.studentlife.wfu.edu/facilities/|archive-date=May 18, 2017|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest undergraduate students living on campus are required to sign up for a meal plan in coordination with the Office of Residence Life and Housing and Aramark.{{cite web |url=http://rlh.wfu.edu/current-students/you-choose/meal-plans/ |title=Meal Plans – Wake Forest Residence Life & Housing |website=Rlh.wfu.edu |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711203718/http://rlh.wfu.edu/current-students/you-choose/meal-plans/ |archive-date=July 11, 2013 |url-status=live }} Several dining rooms, a food court, bar and grill, Starbucks, and convenience stores are available.{{cite web |last=Whitehead |first=Lloyd |url=http://parents.wfu.edu/2010/08/the-pit/ |title=The Pit | Parents | Wake Forest University |website=Parents.wfu.edu |date=August 26, 2010 |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718055022/http://parents.wfu.edu/2010/08/the-pit/ |archive-date=July 18, 2013 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.campusdish.com/en-US/CSSE/WakeForest/Locations/TheFreshFoodCompany.htm |title=Welcome to CampusDish at Wake Forest University! |website=Campusdish.com |access-date=August 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811202249/http://www.campusdish.com/en-US/CSSE/WakeForest/Locations/TheFreshFoodCompany.htm |archive-date=August 11, 2013 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.campusdish.com/NR/exeres/761E8C94-1CE7-4B70-8006-F5594B8ECE1B.htm |title=Welcome to CampusDish at Wake Forest University! |website=Campusdish.com |access-date=August 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140406185508/http://www.campusdish.com/NR/exeres/761E8C94-1CE7-4B70-8006-F5594B8ECE1B.htm |archive-date=April 6, 2014 }}{{Cite web|url=https://wakedowntown.wfu.edu/360-tours/15-under/15-under-the-full-stories-3-3-2/|title=15 & Under the Full Story: Camino Bakery|website=Wakedowntown.wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=November 9, 2020|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116082959/https://wakedowntown.wfu.edu/360-tours/15-under/15-under-the-full-stories-3-3-2/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://dining.wfu.edu/locations/|title=Wake Forest Dining – Locations|website=Wake Forest Dining|access-date=November 9, 2020|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116220021/https://dining.wfu.edu/locations/|url-status=live}}

The Wake Forest University Police Department (WFUPD) consists mostly of properly trained police officers, security officers, communication officers, and their support staff.{{cite web|url=https://police.wfu.edu|title=University Police – Providing a Safe Campus Community|website=Wake Forest University Division of Campus Life|access-date=March 14, 2025}}

Students are guaranteed housing for four years. As of 2010, students were required to live on campus for their first three years as full-time enrolled students.{{cite web|title=Room Assignments – Wake Forest Residence Life & Housing|url=http://rlh.wfu.edu/prospective-students/room-assignments/|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=July 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711203318/http://rlh.wfu.edu/prospective-students/room-assignments/|archive-date=July 11, 2013|url-status=dead}}

The three main community areas for the 2013–2014 academic year are:{{cite web|title=Residences – Wake Forest Residence Life & Housing|url=http://rlh.wfu.edu/residences/|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=July 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619175327/http://rlh.wfu.edu/residences/|archive-date=June 19, 2013|url-status=dead}}

• South Campus (First Year Student Housing): Babcock Hall, Bostwick Hall, Johnson Hall, Luter Hall, Collins Hall, South Hall, Angelou Hall{{Cite web|url=https://rlh.wfu.edu/housing/halls/south-campus/south-residence-hall/|title=South Residence Hall|website=wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University Office of Residence Life and Housing|access-date=November 15, 2016|archive-date=November 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106034230/http://rlh.wfu.edu/housing/halls/south-campus/south-residence-hall/|url-status=live}}
• Quad Area (Upperclass Student Housing): Kitchin Hall, Davis Hall, Poteat/Huffman Halls, Taylor/Efird Halls{{cite web|url=https://rlh.wfu.edu/housing/halls/quad-area/|title=Quad Area Overview|website=Wake Forest University Office of Residence Life and Housing|access-date=January 4, 2024}}
• North Area (Upperclass Student Housing): Magnolia Hall, Dogwood Hall, Polo Hall, Martin Hall, Palmer Hall, Piccolo Hall, North Campus Apartments, Student Apartments, Polo Road houses area.

In 2009, President Nathan Hatch outlined in his strategic plan a campus culture in which personal and career development would become an integral component of the undergraduate student experience.{{cite web|title=The Collegiate University: The Liberal Arts and The Professions|url=http://strategicplan.wfu.edu/whitepaper3.html|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=October 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012020209/http://strategicplan.wfu.edu/whitepaper3.html|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=live}} Later that year, he created a cabinet-level position and appointed Andy Chan as the vice president for personal and career development.{{cite news|title=Finished College. Now What?|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Finished-College-Now-What-/65552/|access-date=October 11, 2013|newspaper=Chronicle of Higher Education|date=May 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012063300/http://chronicle.com/article/Finished-College-Now-What-/65552/|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=live}}

Chan's work has included hosting a national conference in 2012 ("Rethinking Success: From the Liberal Arts to Careers in the 21st Century"){{cite news|title=The Liberal Arts and Careers|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/12/conference-considers-connection-between-liberal-arts-and-careers|access-date=October 11, 2013|newspaper=Inside Higher Ed|date=April 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012045527/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/12/conference-considers-connection-between-liberal-arts-and-careers|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=live}} featuring Condoleezza Rice,{{cite news|title=Rice: U.S. higher education is world's gold standard|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_c9f7d739-a63e-5b0b-a7c8-006a4c63761b.html|access-date=October 11, 2013|newspaper=Winston-Salem Journal|date=April 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111133607/https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_c9f7d739-a63e-5b0b-a7c8-006a4c63761b.html|archive-date=November 11, 2018|url-status=live}} and issuing "A Roadmap for Transforming the College-To-Career Experience" in 2013.{{cite news|title=Career Services Must Die|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/15/career-services-it-now-exists-must-die-new-report-argues|access-date=October 11, 2013|newspaper=Inside Higher Ed|date=May 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012021136/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/15/career-services-it-now-exists-must-die-new-report-argues|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=live}} Wake Forest quadrupled the size of the staff,{{cite news|title=As grads seek jobs, universities cut career services|url=http://hechingerreport.org/content/as-grads-seek-jobs-universities-cut-career-services_10932/|access-date=October 11, 2013|newspaper=The Hechinger Report|date=January 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012051716/http://hechingerreport.org/content/as-grads-seek-jobs-universities-cut-career-services_10932/|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=live}} integrated personal and career development into freshman orientation, and added "College to Career" courses.{{cite news|title=How to Get a Job With a Philosophy Degree|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/how-to-get-a-job-with-a-philosophy-degree.html|access-date=October 11, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011215535/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/how-to-get-a-job-with-a-philosophy-degree.html|archive-date=October 11, 2013|url-status=live}}

Every student takes at least one course in the arts (art history, studio art, theatre, dance, music performance and music in liberal arts) before graduating.{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Undergraduate Schools 2013–2014|year=2013|publisher=Wake Forest University|page=66|url=http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|access-date=July 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711205252/http://static.wfu.edu/files/pdf/academics/ugb2013-2014.pdf|archive-date=July 11, 2013|url-status=live}} In 2011–2012, more than 500 Wake Forest students were directly involved in performances on campus, and 110 public exhibitions in theatre, music dance and visual arts held in Scales Fine Arts Center in 2012–2013.{{cite news|title=Arts & Humanities highlights|url=http://news.wfu.edu/2013/06/14/arts-humanities-highlights/|access-date=July 24, 2013|newspaper=Wake Forest News Center|date=June 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711210648/http://news.wfu.edu/2013/06/14/arts-humanities-highlights/|archive-date=July 11, 2013|url-status=live}} The university's home, Winston-Salem, calls itself the "City of Arts & Innovation".{{cite web|title=Winston-Salem Celebrates 100 Years As a City Of Arts, Innovation – NC Arts Everyday|url=http://ncartseveryday.org/2013/05/winston-salem-celebrates-100-years-as-a-city-of-arts-innovation/|publisher=North Carolina Arts Council|access-date=July 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723154054/http://ncartseveryday.org/2013/05/winston-salem-celebrates-100-years-as-a-city-of-arts-innovation/|archive-date=July 23, 2013|url-status=dead}}

Students also can take advantage of a number of other art-related opportunities:

• The WFU Art Collections consist of nine independent collections with more than 1,600 works located in 35 on- and off-campus locations.{{cite web|title=UAC – Our Story|url=http://www.wfu.edu/uac/our_story.html|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=July 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140130215003/http://www.wfu.edu/uac/our_story.html|archive-date=January 30, 2014|url-status=dead}} Every four years, selected students make an art-buying trip to New York City to add to the collections.{{cite news|title=Choosing the right piece: Wake Forest students spend spring break purchasing art|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_4a8d9c26-936b-11e2-88d6-0019bb30f31a.html|access-date=October 11, 2013|newspaper=Winston-Salem Journal|date=March 22, 2013|archive-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427000820/https://journalnow.com/news/local/article_4a8d9c26-936b-11e2-88d6-0019bb30f31a.html|url-status=live}}
• Students are within walking distance of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, the Wake Forest Museum of Anthropology, the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery and START, the student art gallery.
• The Theatre Department, which allows students to participate from their first year, supports interdisciplinary exploration of its plays through the Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe), which connects the performing arts and other academic departments.{{cite web|title=IPLACe – Department of Theatre and Dance|url=http://college.wfu.edu/theatre/performance/iplace|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=July 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811205717/http://college.wfu.edu/theatre/performance/iplace|archive-date=August 11, 2013|url-status=live}}
• The student-run Reynolda Film Festival is a free weeklong series of film screenings and workshops featuring a keynote address by a well-known and respected representative of the film industry.{{cite news|title=Reynolda Film Festival Celebrates 6th Year|url=http://wfdd.org/post/reynolda-film-festival-celebrates-6th-year|access-date=October 11, 2013|publisher=WFDD|date=April 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012045623/http://wfdd.org/post/reynolda-film-festival-celebrates-6th-year|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=live}}
• The Secrest Artists Series offers the Wake Forest community several free opportunities each year to hear world-class concerts.{{cite news|title=Editorial: Marion Secrest's generous gift will live on|url=http://www.journalnow.com/opinion/editorials/article_71fc1336-2610-11e3-b18b-001a4bcf6878.html|access-date=October 11, 2013|newspaper=Winston-Salem Journal|date=September 25, 2013|archive-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427000824/https://journalnow.com/opinion/editorials/article_71fc1336-2610-11e3-b18b-001a4bcf6878.html|url-status=live}}

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• Arnold Palmer Day: Each year Wake Forest University and it's students celebrate PGA legend Arnold Palmer who attended Wake Forest in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
• Bell Tower/Tunnel Tours: Each year during the spring, Wake Forest seniors get an opportunity to tour and explore the tunnels of the Wait Chapel and often sign their signatures on the chapel's woodwork.
• Deacon Dash/First Year Field Run: Every year during the first Wake Forest Football game, first-year students rush the field.
• D.E.S.K: this long-standing campus tradition brings together local elementary students each spring to campus to create inspiring and colorful study spaces.
• CP3 Day: Every year Wake Forest and its students celebrate former Wake Forest basketball alum and NBA player and Winston-Salem native Chris Paul on Manchester Plaza where students are offered Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
• Hit the Bricks: Started in 2003, this campus-wide tradition which is particularly a philanthropic event that benefits and supports the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund as well as the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. Every fall semester, everyone from current students and alumni meet at Hearn Plaza and take turns running and walking around the Quad to support the fight against cancer.
• Lighting the Quad: Each year, the Wake Forest community celebrates the holiday season at Hearn Plaza.
• Lovefeast: Originally started 1965 by Moravian student Jane Sherrill Stroupe ('67), this longtime tradition has become the largest Moravian style-lovefest in the nation.
• Pitsgiving: Each fall, Pitsgiving is an annual Wake Forest tradition styled Thanksgiving holiday dinner.{{cite web|url=https://parents.wfu.edu/2024/11/the-holiday-season-officially-starts-at-pitsgiving/|title=The Holiday Season officially starts at Pitsgiving|last=Chapman|first=Betsy|date=November 8, 2024|website=parents.wfu.edu|publisher=Wake Forest University Parents & Families|access-date=March 31, 2025}}
• President's Ball: Each year, the university, students, staff and faculty celebrates the university president.
• Pro Humanitate Days: This annual Wake Forest tradition is where alumni, students, faculty and staff from around the world join and volunteer to give back or help the local community.
• Project Pumpkin: Started in 1988, this is normally a student-led project and community building event to bring together the campus as well as the Winston-Salem communities. This event also brings local children to the Reynolda campus that turns into a fall festival, which includes educational activities and trick-or-treating entertainment for the local children.{{cite web|url= https://communityengagement.wfu.edu/students/educational-outreach/projectpumpkin/|title=Project Pumpkin – Wake Forest University|publisher=Wake Forest University Office of Civic & Community Engagement|access-date=March 31, 2025}}
• Rolling The Quad: Started in the 1950s, each year wake forest students celebrate wake forest athletic team's win's by rolling and spreading Toilet Paper all over the quad and trees, especially if those victory's are against other teams in the Tobacco Road rivalry.{{cite web|url=https://journalnow.com/news/local/ask-sam-why-do-students-at-wake-forest-university-roll-the-quad-after-victories/article_811ff958-4642-11ec-878e-a355a77d1163.html|title=Ask SAM: Why do students at Wake Forest University roll the quad after victories?|last=Hall|first=Melissa|date=November 15, 2021|website=Winston-Salem Journal|access-date=March 31, 2025}}
• Wake 'N Shake: Every spring wake forest students will often stay awake and on their feet for 12 hours straight to participate in the Wake 'N Shake Marathon to raise awareness of cancer. In 2022, wake forest students exceeded $3 million in fundraising for Wake 'N Shake.{{cite web|url=https://communityengagement.wfu.edu/students/brian-piccolo-cancer-fund/wakenshake/|title=About Wake 'N Shake Tradition|publisher=Wake Forest University Office of Civic & Community Engagement|access-date=March 31, 2025}}

Notable among the songs commonly played and sung at events such as commencement, convocation, alumni reunions and athletic games is the alma mater, "Dear Old Wake Forest", and the fight song "O Here's To Wake Forest".{{cite web|url=https://godeacs.com/sports/2018/8/2/some-of-our-favorite-songs?id=3896|title=Some of Our Favorite Songs – Wake Forest University|publisher=Wake Forest Demon Deacons|access-date=December 23, 2024}}

Student attendance of Wake Forest Football and Basketball games is high, in part due to the program known as "Screamin' Demons". At the beginning of each respective athletic season students on the Reynolda Campus can sign up for the program whereby they pay $40 for each year; in addition to the best seats at the games, this gets students a football shirt in the fall and a tie-dye T-shirt in the spring along with a card that serves as an automatic pass to the sporting events. They lose this privilege if they miss two of the games. Through the planning of Sports Marketing and the Screamin' Demons program, basketball game seats in the students section are difficult to attain without participating in the Screamin' Demons program. The arena can seat only 2,250 of the 4,500 undergraduate students at Wake Forest. At least 150 seats are always set aside for non-Screamin Demons, who sit behind the 2,100 member group.{{Cite news|url=https://godeacs.com/sports/2018/7/27/screamindemons.aspx|title=Screamin' Deacons – Wake Forest University|work=www.godeacs.com|access-date=June 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606025217/https://godeacs.com/sports/2018/7/27/screamindemons.aspx|archive-date=June 6, 2019|url-status=live}}

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Originally, Wake Forest's athletic teams were known as The Old Gold and Black or the Baptists, due to its association with the Baptist Convention (from which it later separated itself). However, in 1923, after a particularly impressive win against nearby rival the Duke Blue Devils, a newspaper reporter wrote that the Deacons "fought like Demons", giving rise to the current team name, the "Demon Deacons".{{Cite web|url=https://godeacs.com/sports/2018/7/27/sports-c-cheer-deacon-mascot-html.aspx|title=The Demon Deacon|website=godeacs.com|publisher=Wake Forest Athletics|access-date=January 4, 2021|archive-date=January 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104234141/https://godeacs.com/sports/2018/7/27/sports-c-cheer-deacon-mascot-html.aspx|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest's Athletic teams have won a total of ten NCAA team national championships in five different sports. The women's field hockey team has won three (2002, 2003, 2004), the men's golf team has won three (1974, 1975, 1986), the men's soccer team (2007), the baseball team (1955), and men's tennis (2018), women's golf (2023) have won one each. Wake Forest has a 96% student athlete graduation rate. Wake Forest is sometimes referred to as being a part of "Tobacco Road" or "The Big Four", terms that refer to the four North Carolina schools that compete heatedly against each other within the ACC; these include Duke, North Carolina, and North Carolina State, as well as Wake Forest.{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2009/2/11/3666226.aspx|title=Featherson: What is Tobacco Road?|last=Featherson|first=Al|date=February 11, 2009|publisher=Duke University|access-date=January 26, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bloggersodear.com/2014/4/23/5643194/wake-forest-basketball-rivals-duke-north-carolina-nc-state-boston-college-acc|title=Wake Forest's Basketball Rivals|last=Kurz|first=Griff|date=April 23, 2014|website=Blogger So Dear|access-date=January 26, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.wralsportsfan.com/dickie-hemric-and-a-broken-chair-how-ncsu-wake-forest-became-a-tobacco-road-rivalry/17264402/|title=Dickie Hemric and a broken chair: How State vs Wake became a Tobacco Road rivalry|last=Bradsher|first=Bethany|date=July 13, 2018|website=WRALsportsfan.com|access-date=January 26, 2024}}

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons participate in the NCAA's Division I (in the Bowl Subdivision for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, and track & field; women's sports include basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, soccer, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.{{Cite news|url=https://godeacs.com|title=Wake Forest University Athletics - Official Website|work=www.godeacs.com|access-date=May 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506132716/https://godeacs.com/|archive-date=May 6, 2019|url-status=live}}

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Wake Forest plays its home football games at Allegacy Federal Credit Union Stadium. The Demon Deacons have won two ACC Football Championships. The program also have had four players named as ACC Player of the Year, three consensus All-Americans, including 15 bowl appearances.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/wake-forest/index.html|title=Wake Forest Demon Deacons Football Record|website=sports–reference.com|access-date=December 9, 2018|archive-date=April 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415220200/https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/wake-forest/index.html|url-status=live}}

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Wake Forest is generally regarded as a competitive program in men's basketball, having won four ACC tournament titles and frequently qualifying for the NCAA tournament (23 times in the school's history). They reached the Final Four once, in 1962.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/wake-forest/|title=Wake Forest Demon Deacons School History|website=sports-reference.Com|access-date=October 27, 2020|archive-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024152408/https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/wake-forest/|url-status=live}}

The school's famous basketball alumni include Billy Packer, a guard on the 1962 Final Four team who became far more famous as a basketball broadcaster; Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues, the shortest player ever to play in the NBA; Randolph Childress, MVP of the 1995 ACC tournament;{{cite web|url=https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/article241039406.html|title=Randolph Childress set the ACC on fire 25 years ago and his shoulder is still sore|last=Carter|first=Andrew|date=March 10, 2020|website=The Charlotte Observer|access-date=January 26, 2024}} 2006 NBA Rookie of the Year Award and 12-time NBA All-star Chris Paul; two-time league MVP, five-time NBA champion, and three-time NBA Finals MVP Tim Duncan,{{cite web|url=https://www.bloggersodear.com/2014/6/16/5813818/tim-duncan-the-greatest-wake-forest-player-of-all-time-NBA-Spurs|title=Tim Duncan: The Greatest Wake Forest Player of All Time|last=Johnston|first=Bart|date=June 16, 2014|website=Blogger So Dear|access-date=January 26, 2024}} John Collins of the Utah Jazz,{{cite web|url=https://www.nba.com/news/despite-impressive-stats-wake-forest-john-collins-deserves-more-attention|title=Armed with impressive stats, John Collins could be Wake Forest's next stellar big man in NBA|last=Dortch|first=Chris|date=May 26, 2017|website=NBA.com|access-date=January 26, 2024}} and 2015 NBA all-star Jeff Teague.{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=wake|title=NBA & ABA players who attended Wake Forest|publisher=Pro-Basketball Reference.Com|access-date=February 26, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308214310/https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=wake|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest Demon Deacons women's basketball team also boosts a competitive program. In 2012, Jen Hoover took over as coach from Mike Petersen, the program's all-time winningest coach.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story?id=7909805&_slug_=wake-forest-demon-deacons-hire-ex-player-jen-hoover-coach|title=Wake Forest hires Jen Hoover|date=May 9, 2012|website=ESPN.com|publisher=ESPN|access-date=March 9, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308193403/https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story?id=7909805&_slug_=wake-forest-demon-deacons-hire-ex-player-jen-hoover-coach|url-status=live}} Hoover (then Jenny Mitchell) is the program's all-time leading scorer and rebounder, was a three-time All-ACC selection and was a member of the ACC's 50th Anniversary Team in 2002. Hoover was part of the program's only NCAA tournament appearance in 1988, when Wake Forest beat Villanova and lost to Tennessee. Wake Forest has appeared in the Women's NIT four times, all under Petersen. In 2015, Dearica Hamby was drafted 6th overall in the WNBA draft by the San Antonio Stars (now Las Vegas Aces).{{Cite web|url=https://godeacs.com/news/2020/4/16/womens-basketball-this-date-in-deac-history-dearica-hamby-drafted.aspx|title=This Date in Deac History: Dearica Hamby Drafted|date=April 16, 2020|website=godeacs.com|publisher=Wake Forest Athletics|access-date=June 28, 2020|archive-date=April 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416220026/https://godeacs.com/news/2020/4/16/womens-basketball-this-date-in-deac-history-dearica-hamby-drafted.aspx|url-status=live}} Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum is the home venue for the Demon Deacons basketball teams.

Recent athletic honors include three consecutive NCAA Field Hockey national championships in 2002, 2003, and 2004 under Head Coach Jennifer Averill. In 2005, the Deacs were defeated in the semifinal round by Duke University, and in the 2006 championship game by the University of Maryland.{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.com/history/fieldhockey/d1|title=Dl Field Hockey Championship History|website=NCAA.com|access-date=January 26, 2024}}

Wake Forest has had several successful golf teams, winning national championships in 1974, 1975, and 1986. Several well-known players include Jay Haas, Billy Andrade, Gary Hallberg, Robert Wrenn, Scott Hoch, Bill Haas, Will Zalatoris, Cameron Young and majors champions Arnold Palmer, Lanny Wadkins, Darren Clarke, Curtis Strange, and Webb Simpson.{{Cite web|url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2246825-ranking-the-10-colleges-that-have-produced-the-best-pga-tour-alumni|title=Ranking the 10 Colleges That Have Produced the Best PGA Tour Alumni|last=Dudurich|first=Mike|date=October 28, 2014|publisher=Bleacher Report|access-date=February 22, 2021|archive-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427000746/https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2246825-ranking-the-10-colleges-that-have-produced-the-best-pga-tour-alumni.amp.html|url-status=live}}

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Wake Forest is a consistent national title contender in men's soccer. In recent years several players from the program have played professionally in Major League Soccer, including Brian Carroll, Will Hesmer, Justin Moose, Michael Parkhurst, Pat Phelan, James Riley, Scott Sealy, Matt Taylor, and Wells Thompson. In 2006 the team advanced to the final four of the NCAA tournament where they were defeated in a penalty kick shootout by UC Santa Barbara. They captured the 2007 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship defeating Ohio State 2–1, with the winning goal scored by Zack Schilawski.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/sports/soccer/17soccer.html|title=Wake Forest Gets Title Satisfaction While Ohio State Can't Find Any|last=Bernstein|first=Val|date=December 17, 2007|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 7, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116192503/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/sports/soccer/17soccer.html|url-status=live}} The Demon Deacons returned to the final four of the 2009 Division I Men's College Cup, losing to Virginia 2–1 in overtime in the semifinals. The Demon Deacons reached the NCAA Championship game again in 2016, losing to Stanford in the College Cup Championship.

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Wake Forest won the 1955 College World Series in baseball.

In 2009, the team began playing at David F. Couch Ballpark, in Winston-Salem, NC, moving to this field from their former home at Gene Hooks Stadium on campus. In 2017, eight players were selected in the 2017 MLB Draft, the most in the Wake Forest Baseball history.{{Cite web|url=https://godeacs.com/news/2017/6/14/Program_Record_Eight_Deacs_Picked_in_MLB_Draft|title=Program-Record Eight Deacs Picked in MLB Draft|website=godeacs.com|publisher=Wake Forest Athletics|access-date=June 14, 2017|archive-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427000811/https://godeacs.com/news/2017/6/14/Program_Record_Eight_Deacs_Picked_in_MLB_Draft|url-status=live}}

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Noah Rubin played for Wake Forest; he had won the 2014 boys singles championship at Wimbledon, and the US 2014 boys' national championships in singles and doubles. In 2014–2015 for Wake Forest he was an All-American and the runner-up in the 2015 NCAA singles championship.

On May 22, 2018, the Wake Forest Men's Tennis team won its first ever NCAA National Championship. This feat was accomplished on their home courts, as they defeated the Ohio State Men's Tennis team 4–2.

Wake Forest had been ranked as the number one team for most of the season leading up to the tournament.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloggersodear.com/2018/5/23/17383690/mens-tennis-wake-forest-wins-first-ncaa-national-championship|title=Men's Tennis: Wake Forest Wins First NCAA National Championship|last=Johnston|first=Riley|date=May 23, 2018|website=Blogger So Dear|publisher=SB Nation|access-date=September 8, 2024}}

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Wake Forest has over 82,000 living alumni, with 39% living in North Carolina and others residing in 97 foreign countries.{{cite web|url=https://about.wfu.edu/|title=About Wake Forest|publisher=www.about.wfu.edu|access-date=October 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003142328/https://about.wfu.edu/|archive-date=October 3, 2019|url-status=live}} Alumni include 18 Rhodes Scholars, including 13 since 1986, five Marshall Scholars, 15 Truman Scholars and 62 Fulbright recipients since 1993.

Notable alumni in the sporting arena include, NBA player Muggsy Bogues (B.A. 1987),{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/muggsy-bogues-1.html|title=Muggsy Bogues|website=Sports Reference|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312154553/https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/muggsy-bogues-1.html|archive-date=March 12, 2018|url-status=live}} Tim Duncan (B.A. 1997), Five-time NBA Champion, Two-time NBA MVP, member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame,{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/tim-duncan-1.html|title=Tim Duncan|website=Sports Reference|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309204311/https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/tim-duncan-1.html|archive-date=March 9, 2018|url-status=live}} Legendary PGA golfer Arnold Palmer (B.A. 1951), NBA all-stars Josh Howard (B.A. 2003) and Jeff Teague, twelve-time NBA all-star Chris Paul,{{Cite web|url=https://journalnow.com/news/local/hardly-home-but-always-reppin-nbas-chris-paul-gives-2-5m-to-wake-forest-basketball/article_8896de8e-b85f-5001-b0d6-63e46edf1393.html|title='Hardly home but always reppin": NBA's Chris Paul gives $2.5M to Wake Forest Basketball|last=O'NEILL|first=Conor|date=August 7, 2018|publisher=Winston-Salem Journal|access-date=August 7, 2018|archive-date=January 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101171751/https://journalnow.com/news/local/hardly-home-but-always-reppin-nbas-chris-paul-gives-2-5m-to-wake-forest-basketball/article_8896de8e-b85f-5001-b0d6-63e46edf1393.html|url-status=live}} and NFL players Norm Snead,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/sports/football/norm-snead-dead.html|title=Norm Snead, Skillful Loser as an N.F.L. Quarterback, Is Dead at 84|last=Traub|first=Alex|date=January 15, 2024|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 3, 2025}} Billy Ray Barnes, Bill George and Brian Piccolo{{cite web |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/brian-piccolo-1.html |title=Brian Piccolo |publisher=Sports-Reference.com}} {{free access}}

Alumni in the world of politics and government include Richard Burr (B.A. 1982), United States Senator,{{Cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/campaign-2008/articles/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-richard-burr|title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Richard Burr|date=May 22, 2010|work=US News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119190442/http://www.usnews.com/news/campaign-2008/articles/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-richard-burr|archive-date=January 19, 2011|url-status=dead}} Ted Budd (M.B.A. 2007), junior United States Senator of North Carolina,{{cite web|url= https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001305|title=Ted Budd Biography|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=September 15, 2024}}Bob Ehrlich (J.D. 1982) former governor of Maryland, Donna Edwards former U.S. House Representative of Maryland,{{cite web|url=https://leadershipandcharacter.wfu.edu/who-we-are-2/lc-council/donna-edwards/|title=Donna Edwards – The Program For Leadership and Character|publisher=Wake Forest University Program of Leadership & Character|access-date=September 15, 2024}} U.S. diplomats David Funderburk{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/f000426|title=David Funderburk Biography|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=September 15, 2024}} and Robert S. Gilchrist, Kay Hagan (J.D. 1978), former US Senator, D-NC (a graduate of Wake Forest Law School),{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/hagan.htm|title=Senator Kay R. Hagan|website=United States Senate|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626021525/https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/hagan.htm|archive-date=June 26, 2009|url-status=live}} Jennifer M. Harris (B.A.), economics advisor to the Biden Administration,{{Cite news |last=Stockman |first=Farah |date=2024-06-17 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Queen Bee of Bidenomics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/jennifer-harris-bidenomics.html |access-date=2024-06-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} and Robert Wilkie, former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs{{Cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/robert-wilkie-sworn-veterans-affairs-secretary/story?id=56924300|title=Robert Wilkie sworn in as new Veterans Affairs secretary|date=July 30, 2018|website=Abcnews.go.com|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804182740/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/robert-wilkie-sworn-veterans-affairs-secretary/story?id=56924300|archive-date=August 4, 2018|url-status=live}}

Wake Forest alumni in the entertainment and media field include actor Marc Blucas (B.A. 1994),{{cite news|title = Blucas a Rising Star|newspaper = The Indiana Gazette|page = 10|last = Kologie|first = Carl|date = March 19, 2002|access-date = November 14, 2017|via = Newspapers.com|url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15101760/blucas_a_rising_star/|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171114093026/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15101760/blucas_a_rising_star/|archive-date = November 14, 2017|url-status = live}} {{free access}} Cheslie Kryst (J.D., M.B.A. 2017), (Wake Forest Law School graduate), Miss USA 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/entertainment/miss-usa-chelsie-kryst-north-carolina-trnd/index.html|title=Cheslie Kryst wins Miss USA 2019|date=May 3, 2019 |publisher=CNN|access-date=November 7, 2019|archive-date=May 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503134017/https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/entertainment/miss-usa-chelsie-kryst-north-carolina-trnd/index.html|url-status=live}} Melissa Harris-Perry (B.A. 1994),{{Cite news|url=http://college.wfu.edu/politics/faculty-and-staff/melissa-harris-perry/|title=Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University|work=Wake Forest University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927150549/http://college.wfu.edu/politics/faculty-and-staff/melissa-harris-perry/|archive-date=September 27, 2016|url-status=live}} and Al Hunt (B.A. 1965) of Bloomberg News,{{cite web|url=https://inside.wfu.edu/2011/04/the-real-inside-couple-of-dc/|title=The real inside couple of DC|date=April 14, 2011|website=Inside WFU|publisher=Wake Forest University|access-date=September 13, 2024}} and Dagen McDowell of Fox News.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/person/m/dagen-mcdowell#|title=Dagen McDowell Biography|publisher=Fox News|access-date=September 13, 2024}}

Business alumni such as Charlie Ergen (M.B.A. 1976), co-founder and chairman of EchoStar and Dish Network,{{Cite web|url=http://about.dish.com/Charlie-Ergen|title=Charlie Ergen – Dish Network|publisher=Dish Network|access-date=February 27, 2020|archive-date=January 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104133836/http://about.dish.com/Charlie-Ergen|url-status=live}} David Farr (B.S. 1977) CEO of Emerson Electric Company and board director of IBM, Joseph W. Luter III of Smithfield Foods, G. Kennedy Thompson of Wachovia, and Eric C. Wiseman of VF Corporation.

Many Wake Forest alumni such as James Archibald Campbell, Spright Dowell, Michael Maxey (B.A., M.A.),{{cite web|url=https://www.roanoke.edu/about/administration/president_maxeys_biography|title=President Maxey's Biography - Roanoke College|website=Roanoke.edu|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731153717/https://www.roanoke.edu/about/administration/president_maxeys_biography|archive-date=July 31, 2018|url-status=live}} and George M. Modlin have gone on to become presidents of numerous colleges and institutions.

File:Richard Burr official portrait.jpg|Former United States Senator from North Carolina Richard Burr (B.A. 1978)

File:Senator Ted Budd official portrait (cropped).jpg|United States Senator from North Carolina Ted Budd (M.B.A. 2007)

File:Tim duncan vs wizards 2009 cropped.jpg|5x NBA champion, 2x NBA MVP, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member Tim Duncan (B.A. 1997)

File:Bob Ehrlich 2024.jpg|60th Governor of Maryland Bob Ehrlich (J.D. 1982)

File:David N Farr.jpg|Former Chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric David Farr (B.S. 1977)

File:Dfunderburk.jpg|Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Ambassador to Romania David Funderburk (B.A., M.A. 1967)

File:Melissa Harris-Perry by Gage Skidmore.jpg|Author & Professor Melissa Harris-Perry (B.A. 1994)

File:Kay Hagan official photo.jpg|Former United States Senator of North Carolina Kay Hagan (J.D. 1978)

File:Allison Jones Rushing (cropped).jpg|United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Allison Jones Rushing (summa cum laude B.A. 2004)

File:Thomas Marshburn, official portrait (2021) half.jpg|Astronaut Thomas Marshburn (M.D. 1989)

File:YN3ArnoldPalmer.jpg|PGA golfer Arnold Palmer (B.A. 1951)

File:Chris Paul (2022 All-Star Weekend) (cropped).jpg|12x NBA All-Star and member of NBA 75th Anniversary Team Chris Paul (2003–2005)

File:Robert Wilkie official portrait.jpg|Former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie (B.A.)

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