Wake Forest is committed to graduating leaders with integrity and courage, across disciplines and professions, who embrace evidence-driven debate, open dialogue and critical thinking. Universities play an essential role in cultivating civic engagement. Our goal is to prepare students to address the most difficult and controversial questions of our time, while remaining grounded in respect for one another and recognition of our shared humanity.
- Susan Wente
Activation Plan
Below is an overview of some campus activities:
- Wake Forest is facilitating Deacon Dialogues: Let’s Talk, a new initiative for students through the Office of Civic & Community Engagement. Dialogues, which include student facilitators, will be held on a variety of topics related to identity, politics, and current issues to help broaden perspectives, express paradox and ambiguity, listen to understand, and find places of agreement.
- The Principled Pluralism Fellowship provides students with the opportunity to develop the knowledge, research skills, and civic capacities needed to engage difference with empathy, integrity, and purpose. The Fellowship supports up to six students per summer who pursue research on principled pluralism and organize a campus event to promote meaningful dialogue across difference.
- The Civic Scholars program recognizes, connects, and develops civic-minded students whose work in the community is both deep and broad. Scholars are leaders on campus and in the community, participate in workshops, and complete work across three key areas: academics, direct service, and leadership development.
Susan Wente
President, Wake Forest University
Join the growing consoritum of campus leaders urgently committed to collectively restoring higher education’s role in democracy.
Susan Wente
President, Wake Forest University
Below is an overview of some campus activities:
- Wake Forest is facilitating Deacon Dialogues: Let’s Talk, a new initiative for students through the Office of Civic & Community Engagement. Dialogues, which include student facilitators, will be held on a variety of topics related to identity, politics, and current issues to help broaden perspectives, express paradox and ambiguity, listen to understand, and find places of agreement.
- The Principled Pluralism Fellowship provides students with the opportunity to develop the knowledge, research skills, and civic capacities needed to engage difference with empathy, integrity, and purpose. The Fellowship supports up to six students per summer who pursue research on principled pluralism and organize a campus event to promote meaningful dialogue across difference.
- The Civic Scholars program recognizes, connects, and develops civic-minded students whose work in the community is both deep and broad. Scholars are leaders on campus and in the community, participate in workshops, and complete work across three key areas: academics, direct service, and leadership development.
Wake Forest is committed to graduating leaders with integrity and courage, across disciplines and professions, who embrace evidence-driven debate, open dialogue and critical thinking. Universities play an essential role in cultivating civic engagement. Our goal is to prepare students to address the most difficult and controversial questions of our time, while remaining grounded in respect for one another and recognition of our shared humanity.
- Susan Wente