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Wake Forest University is a private university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known for its programs in the liberal arts.
The Wake Forest University campus is located north of downtown Winston-Salem, roughly at the juncture of Polo Road to the north and University Parkway to the east.
Bachelors, master's, doctoral and professional degrees are offered through the Babcock Graduate School of Management, the Divinity School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, School of Medicine, and the Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy.
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History
The university first opened February 3, 1834 by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina as the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute; it was located in its namesake town of Wake Forest. In 1838, it was renamed to Wake Forest College. In 1894, the School of Law was established, followed by the School of Medicine in 1902. The university held its first summer session in 1921.
The School of Medicine moved to Winston-Salem in 1941 and became the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The following year, 1942, Wake Forest admitted its first women undergraduate students. In 1956, as a result of large endowments from the Z Smith Reynolds Foundation, the rest of the college also moved to Winston-Salem. 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 was established in 1969. In 1986, the University became independent of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. In 1995, the business school was renamed to the Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy, while in 1997 the medical school was renamed to the Wake Forest School of Medicine. The Wake Forest Divinity School opened its doors in 1999.
The thirteenth president of Wake Forest is Dr. Nathan Hatch, former provost at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Hatch was officially installed as president on October 20, 2005. He assumed office on July 1, 2005, succeeding Dr. Thomas K. Hearn, Jr., who retired after twenty-two years in office.
Rankings
Wake Forest is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the United States. In the 2006 U.S. News America's Best Colleges report, Wake Forest was ranked 27th in the country which puts it on par with universities such as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tufts University, and Georgetown University.
Athletics
Originally the Wake Forest team was known as the Deacons, due to its association with the Baptist Convention (from which it later separated itself). However, in 1941, after a particularly good win against the Duke Blue Devils, a newspaper reporter wrote that the Deacons "fought like Demons," giving rise to the current team name, the "Demon Deacons."
The Demon Deacons participate in the NCAA's Division I (I-A for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Of all schools that play Division I-A football, only Rice and Tulsa have smaller undergraduate enrollments. Wake Forest has won a total of seven national championships in three different sports. Recent athletic honors include three consecutive NCAA Field Hockey national championships in 2002, 2003, and 2004 under Head Coach Jennifer Averill.
Wake Forest is generally regarded as a competitive basketball team, one that often qualifies for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship (20 times in the school's history). The men's basketball team has made 15 straight postseason appearances, the longest such streak in the ACC. They reached the Final Four once, in 1962. 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 "Muggsy" Bogues, one of the shortest players ever to play in the NBA, and current NBA superstar, two-time league MVP and three-time Finals MVP Tim Duncan.
Wake Forest has had several successful golf teams, winning national championships in 1972, 1973 and 1986. Several well-known players include Arnold Palmer, Lanny Wadkins, Jay Haas, Curtis Strange and Scott Hoch.
Wake Forest won the national championship in baseball in 1955.
Both the current head basketball coach, Skip Prosser, formerly of Xavier, and football coach, Jim Grobe, were signed to ten-year contracts in 2003. The Athletics Director is Ron Wellman.
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.
Technology
Wake Forest has received some praise for its efforts in the field of technology. In 2003, The Princeton Review listed it as the number two "Most Connected Campus" in the United States. University technology programs include providing laptop computers to all undergraduate students, as well as high-speed Internet access in all dorms and most classrooms. Wireless Internet access is now provided in all dorms and classrooms as well as administration buildings and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
The University is a founding member of WinstonNet, a non-profit organization of educational and municipal institutions in Winston Salem, NC that among other things provides a gigabit ethernet based regional point of presence (or, rPOP) for the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN).
In addition to high performance networks, Wake Forest University engages in high performance computing efforts locally with its WFU DEAC cluster and statewide with its participation in the NC Grid Computing Initiative. The statewide efforts are coordinated through the non-profit organization MCNC
Bowman Gray Campus
Known as the Bowman Gray Campus, a large hospital and medical center are located away from the Reynolda Campus in downtown Winston-Salem. Once known as the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, this combined facility is now known as the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, and is currently the largest employer in Forsyth County.
Bowman Gray Technical Center
In 2003, the Bowman Gray Technical Center (BGTC), a third, smaller, campus opened near the main campus. This campus is the administrative base for the Wake Forest University Center for Structural Biology, and the physical location for seven of the sixteen faculty members comprising the Center.
Foreign Study Programs
The university offers a number of foreign study programs for its undergraduates and, in the summers, for its law school students. In Italy, the students live and study in Casa Artom, the former U.S. Consulate on the banks of the Grand Canal of Venice, which the university purchased in 1974. Casa Artom is often visible in postcard photos of the Grand Canal and the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute.
In London, students live and study at Worrell House, a three story home purchased by the university in Hampstead.
In Vienna, Austria, students live and study at Flow House, a three story villa built in 1898 that used to serve as the office of the U.S. Consulate. The villa was purchased by the university in 1998.
Wake Forest University also offers semester abroad programs in Beijing, China, Moscow, Russia, Dijon, France, Hiratsuka, Japan, and Salamanca, Spain. Intensive Summer abroad programs are offered in Cotonou, Benin, Havana, Cuba, and Queretaro, Mexico.
Notable Alumni
- Philip E. Berger
- Marc Blucas
- Muggsy Bogues
- Richard Burr
- Tim Duncan
- Mary Easley, First Lady of North Carolina
- Robert L. Ehrlich
- John Engel
- Gen. Pat Foote
- James Forrester
- Jesse Helms
- Maria Henson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Josh Howard
- Al Hunt
- Lee Norris
- Billy Packer
- Arnold Palmer
- Chris Paul
- Brian Piccolo
- Ricky Proehl
- Eric Miller Reeves
- Emory M. Sneeden
- Darius Songaila
- Curtis Strange
- Eddie Timanus
- Lanny Wadkins
- George L. Wainwright, Jr.
- Paul H. Stockamore
External links
- Official school website
- Old Gold & Black student newspaper
- Official athletics website
- Google map
- The Student (online magazine)
References
- Wake Forest Student Handbook, Fall 2003/Spring 2004
- Wake Forest University Bulletin, The Undergraduate Schools, 2005-2006
- Wake Forest University Factbook 2004-2005
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