Board of Trustees announces officers and members
The members of the Board of Trustees of Wake Forest University are pleased to announce its next class of Trustees and Officers, for the term beginning July 1, 2024.
Officers for the 2024-25 term
Chair: Jeanne Whitman Bobbitt (‘79, MBA ‘87) (Dallas, Texas) is a management consultant/principal of Jeanne P. Whitman Consulting, which works with nonprofits, businesses and schools focused on strategy, leadership transition and resource identification. She served as vice president for development and external affairs at Southern Methodist University and head of the Hockaday School in Dallas before launching her consulting practice.
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Faculty and staff books published
Congratulations to Wake Forest University faculty from the Reynolda Campus who reported the following books were published.
Neil DeVotta, Ed. (Politics & International Affairs). An Introduction to South Asian Politics, Routledge. 2nd ed. 2024.
Mark Hall, Mary Anne Bobinkski, David Orentlicher, et al. (Law). Health Care Law and Ethics, 10th ed. Aspen Publishing. 2024.
Ronald B. Neal. (Study of Religions). Beyond Death and Jail: Anti-Blackness, Black Masculinity, and the Demonic Imagination. Roman & Littlefield. 2024.
Elizabeth Orr (Office of the Chaplain). “The Unfiltered Enneagram: A Witty & Wise Guide to Self-Compassion.” Convergent Books. April 2024.
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Wake Forest faculty & staff anniversaries, July 2024
Happy Wake-versary to the 589 faculty and staff colleagues celebrating another year at Wake Forest University this month.
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Chris Donald appointed University Chaplain
Following a national search, Reverend Chris Donald has been named University Chaplain effective August 12. Donald comes to Wake Forest from Vanderbilt University, where he served as the university chaplain for the last five years, leading a multi-faith approach to serving the needs of students, faculty and staff. Having also worked at Millsaps College and the University of Virginia, Donald brings nearly 25 years of service to caring for communities and helping individuals explore their place in the world.
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Ennea-what? An introduction to Enneagram (and yourself)
A guest post by Associate University Chaplain for Spiritual Formation Liz Orr on behalf of WFU’s Professional Development Center. Orr is the author of “The Unfiltered Enneagram: A Witty and Wise Guide to Self-Compassion.”
“The Ennea-what?” is the most common response I get from well-meaning strangers when, upon learning that I’ve written a book, they earnestly ask me what the book is about. While it’s enjoying some new-found fame on social media, the Enneagram is still somewhat modest in its fanbase, compared to similar frameworks like the Myers Briggs, Strengthsfinder, and even astrology. While the Enneagram is, in one sense, a personality typing system, in another, it’s so much more than that – but with formal training on the Enneagram being enormously expensive and time-consuming, most people are left to sift through the Wild West of the internet, whiplashed between dense, inaccessible content written by self-serious and self-appointed “experts,” and fluffy, entertaining but unstructured and ultimately unhelpful listicles about what Enneagram Type your favorite character from Gilmore Girls is.
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