Summer 2026

"I held the papers up and just stared at (my dad) and he just started crying."

"I hope that in 20 years, I'm meeting many more Wake grads in small towns."

"It wasn't a windfall. It was hard-earned money. But I got it at a different time than I expected to. So, this was math of the heart."

"I have some pretty deep country roots and just sort of a fascination with what the South is, what North Carolina is..."

"I wanted to be helping people, and what better way to help people than to focus on the bedrock of our society, which is family?"

Forty years later, Karen Richardson Dunn ('86, MDIV '11) felt the presence of then-Provost Ed Wilson ('43, P '91, '93) as she visited W.B. Yeats's grave and other sites in Ireland. She writes about that journey in our summer issue.

Eric Maguire, who leads the office of enrollment, explains how the initiative was launched and where it could go from here. 

When Wake Forest opened the gate, these students were off and running.

A scholarship made an undergraduate degree attainable for Wake Forest’s first woman president, driving her commitment to increase financial aid and its transparency.

The North Carolina Gateway to Wake Forest extends a longstanding tradition of financial support for worthy students.

Highlights from across Wake Forest from the spring semester.