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A message from the University Ombuds

The following is a guest post from Jill Crainshaw, Wake Forest University faculty and staff ombuds. Here at Wake Forest, the ombuds helps faculty and staff to resolve workplace problems and gives general feedback to University administrators on observed trends and patterns related to overall workplace health.


Anti-Racist Pedagogy Faculty Panel to be held April 7

The Wake Forest University School of Divinity will host a virtual faculty panel on anti-racist pedagogies on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, from 11 a.m. to noon. The event offers faculty across the University the opportunity to think more deeply, dialogue more broadly and act more decisively in implementing anti-racist pedagogies in their courses. The interdisciplinary panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities of engaging anti-racist pedagogy in the classroom.


Provost Kersh announcement: Dean O’Day to step down

Provost Rogan Kersh emailed this announcement to Wake Forest faculty and staff on April 11:

Dear Wake Forest Faculty and Staff Colleagues,

Gail O’Day has announced that she will step down as Dean of the School of Divinity on June 30, 2018. Dean O’Day has been on research leave this academic year.


Faculty publications: January and February 2015 publications

Crainshaw, Jill Y. (Divinity). They Spin with Their Hands: Women’s Ordination Rites: Renewing God’s Story with God’s People. CreateSpace Independent Publishing. February 2015. Cunningham, Patricia M., & Richard L. Allington. (Education). Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write, 6th ed. Pearson. February 2015. […]


Proposals funded: Williams, Crainshaw

Congratulations to Richard T. Williams, Reynolds professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Research on Scintillator Materials and Mechanisms: LaBr3 with co-doping, and other topics to be determined” has been funded by the Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. Also, his proposal entitled “Physics of Scintillator Nonproportionality” […]


December 2012 faculty publications

The following faculty had writings published in December 2012: Bueno, Lourdes, John Gabriele, & Candyce Leonard, Eds. (Humanities). Acto seguido: el personaje del teatro español contemporáneo a escena. Estreno. May 2012. Carrasco, Jacqueline. (Music). Developing Virtuosity: A Supplemental Method for Teaching Strings, Violin – Books […]


Proposals funded: Crainshaw, King

Congratulations to Jill Crainshaw, academic dean and associate professor of ministry studies at the School of Divinity, whose proposal entitled “Christian Hospitality and Pastoral Practices in a Multifaith Society” has been funded by the Association of Theological Schools. Congratulations to Bruce King, professor […]


Provost search committee appointed

Wake Forest has named an interim provost and formed a search committee to seek a replacement for Provost Jill Tiefenthaler. Tiefenthaler was named president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs earlier this month. Her resignation as provost will be effective June 30. President Nathan O. […]


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