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IS Fellow Isabella Ryan helps improve juvenile detention practices in Tennessee

The following is a guest post from Wake Forest Information Systems (IS) Communications. Isabella Ryan, 2020-21 Wake Forest Fellow for IS, wrote and submitted a bill to limit the use of solitary confinement for children in juvenile detention centers in Tennessee. Ryan’s bill has passed the State Senate and House, and it is headed to the Governor to be signed into law. 


Melanie Harris and Austin Rivera join Wake Divinity faculty

The Wake Forest University School of Divinity will welcome two new faculty-scholars on July 1. Melanie L. Harris will join as professor of Religion, Black Feminist Studies and Womanist Theology and director of the Food, Health and Ecological Well-Being Program. She is jointly appointed with the Wake Forest University African American Studies program. Charles “Austin” Rivera will join as assistant professor of Church History.


College faculty retirees, 2020

This is the final post in a five-part series honoring College faculty who have retired in
2021 and 2020. Wake Forest University and the Undergraduate College honor these incredible teacher-scholars who retired in 2020 and their lasting legacies: John Friedenberg, Brian Gorelick, Judy Kem, G.E. “Rick” Matthews, Tom Phillips, Catherine “Cathy” Seta, Kathy Smith and Alan Williams.


A message from President Hatch

On May 26, President Hatch announced the pausing of the implementation of the renaming of Wingate Hall to become May 7, 1860 Hall. He also announced that Trustee Donna Edwards (’80) and Vice President José Villalba agreed to chair an advisory team focused on […]


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