For years, leaders in Wake Forest’s Office of Civic & Community Engagement (OCCE) have worked to engage students in the election process. Their efforts are paying off in a big way. In 2020, 78.2% of eligible Wake Forest students voted in the Presidential Election, […]
This fall, nine Wake Forest University faculty began a two-year fellowship to deepen their community-engaged work. Through the Office of Civic & Community Engagement’s Academic Community Engaged (ACE) Fellows program these faculty create projects and partnerships that connect their teaching and research […]
More than 130,000 meals have been prepared and served by 13,000 volunteers since Wake Forest University’s Campus Kitchen was founded. On Nov. 19, the organization will mark its 15th anniversary of combating hunger in the Winston-Salem community.
In a school year like no other, college students encountered numerous challenges. While living through a global pandemic and learning in a virtual environment, the vast majority of Wake Forest students were also faced with the opportunity to participate in their first presidential […]
With a student voting rate of 78.2% for 2020 Wake Forest outpaced the national average for voting engagement (66%), according to a recent study from the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education. WFU’s new voting rate also marks a 29.9% increase from 2016, […]
