"Ross Griffith" Archive

Provost's office spring grants

The Provost’s Office awarded the following grants for spring 2015:

Provost’s Fund for a Vibrant Campus:

  • Amanda Gengler and David Yamane, Health Inequalities: Social Foundations and Social Consequences, $3,360.00
  • Ulrike Wiethaus, Margaret Bender, Ross Griffith, A Cherokee Celebration and Commemoration: President James Ralph Scales and the Cherokee Heritage of Wake Forest University, $5,000.

Provost’s Fund for Academic Excellence:

  • Angela Mazaris, Wake Forest LGBTQ Alumni Conference, $10,000.

Provost’s Fund for Academic Innovation:

  • John Pickel, Art Department Trip to Washington, DC, $6,403.
  • Neil Walls, Muslim-Christian Dialogues: An Egyptian Pilgrimage, $12,000.
  • Kyle Denlinger, ZSRx WakeHistory: A Massive Online Learning Event for Connecting with and Contributing to our Institution’s Story, $20,000.

For more information, please visit http://provost.wfu.edu/current-faculty/faculty-resources/grants-and-funding/

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Receptions will be held for Griffith, Mills

Ross Griffith

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Bob Mills

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Two long-time Wake Forest employees — Ross Griffith (’65) and Bob Mills (’71, MBA ’90) — will be honored with receptions in Reynolda Hall.

The reception for Griffith, who was the director of Institutional Research, will be Friday, May 17, from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Green Room of Reynolda Hall.

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See photos from other retirement receptions:

“All who have the privilege of knowing and working with Ross experience his kindness, professionalism, intellect and passion for Wake Forest,” said Provost Rogan Kersh. “With 46 years of continuous service, he is among the longest-serving full-time staff members in our university’s modern history. His dedication to Wake Forest is genuinely remarkable, and his impact on our community is profound and enduring. I am deeply grateful for Ross’s varied and extraordinary contributions to Wake Forest.”

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The reception for Mills, who was an associate vice president in University Advancement, will be Monday, June 3, from 3-5 p.m. in the Green Room of Reynolda Hall. RSVP to Marsha Wall at wallmc@wfu.edu or 758.5224. Mills worked in Advancement for more than 40 years.

“Few people have influenced University Advancement, alumni relations, and fund raising at Wake Forest as much as Bob Mills,” said Bob Baker, the associate vice president for University Development. “He is leaving an impressive legacy of relationships, successful capital campaigns and transformational gifts. Bob’s commitment to doing things the right way and representing Wake Forest the right way has paid handsome dividends for this institution for decades.”

For both receptions, remarks will be made at 4 p.m., and refreshments will be served.

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Congratulations to retiring faculty, staff

The following is a message from President Nathan Hatch: 

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While commencement season always brings about a sense of new beginnings and opportunities, it’s also a time to say thank you and bid farewell to many of our friends, colleagues and mentors who have called Wake Forest University home.

Please join me in congratulating and commemorating a marvelous class of Reynolda Campus faculty and staff retiring from Wake Forest this year. We are grateful for the many contributions from this remarkable group of individuals, who together have more than 800 years of service to the University: Read more

Griffith, Higgins co-present at conference

Update from Institutional Research:

Ross A. Griffith, director, is a co-author of the chapter, “Administrative Aspects of Accreditation and Assessment” in the 2013 published book, Organization and Administration in Higher Education. 

Ixavier Higgins

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Ross Griffith

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Ross A. Griffith and Ixavier A. Higgins, graduate student assistant, co-presented “What Drives Student Satisfaction?” at the conference of the North and South Carolina Associations for Institutional Research (NCAIR and SCAIR) in Charleston, S.C., on March 3.

The presentation can be accessed at: http://www.wfu.edu/ir/docs/ncair2013.pptx.

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Griffith to retire after 46 years

A message from Provost Rogan Kersh:

To our Wake Forest colleagues and friends,

Ross GriffithAfter 46 years of passionate and dedicated service, Ross Griffith will begin phased retirement from his position as director of Institutional Research on Jan. 1, 2013. Ross has served Wake Forest with untiring creativity, good humor, compassion and leadership through a variety of positions in his long tenure.

Ross received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest in 1965 and soon thereafter began working as an admissions counselor in undergraduate admissions. He worked his way to assistant director and associate director over the next 11 years. He served as WFU’s director of equal opportunity from 1977-84, supervising expanded recruitment and hiring of minority and women faculty and staff at both the Reynolda and Bowman Gray campuses, and working to expand accessibility for disabled members of our community and visitors to campus.

As assistant vice president for administration and planning, Ross directed facilities planning, including the design and construction of Worrell Professional Center for Law and Management and Benson University Center, while also serving as the Southeast Regional Representative of the Society of College and University Planning Board of Directors.

Since 1993, Ross has provided timely, accurate and essential data to university leadership as the director of Institutional Research, building that office into one of the most respected among colleges and universities in the region — as affirmed by the numerous awards won by his Institutional Research team. Even in this demanding role, Ross has maintained a close connection with students, as academic adviser to freshmen and sophomores; indeed, he received the 2010 “Excellence in Advising” award at Convocation. Read more

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