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The Princeton Review released rankings Tuesday of best college BY JULIA HAINES News Editor hainjm15@wfu.edu
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The Wake Forest University class of 2020 has begun their semester on campus, engaging in many orientation events in order to get settled at their new home during the New Deac Week.
Wake Forest evolves with new class ͶͶ ơ the most diverse student body in university history BY SHELBY DEVINE Online Managing Editor devisn14@wfu.edu As the school year begins, Wake Forest welcomes not only a new freshman class to campus but also the most diverse student body the university has ever seen. The class of 2020 is composed of students from 45 states and 24 countries, according to a Wake Forest News article by Kim McGrath and Cheryl Walker, as the university continues to work towards building a global community. Faculty, staff and students around Wake Forest find this encouraging and believe
it will help foster a more collaborative environment, leading to positive effects around campus both in and out of the classroom. “Meet new people; share your thoughts; consider others’ perspectives,” said President Nathan O. Hatch in an email earlier this week. “And just as we share knowledge and chase after ideas in the classroom, let us apply that same interest to one another. Engage in hard conversations with kindness and respect.” In addition to coming to Wake Forest from areas around the globe, the diversity of the freshman class — including cultural, political, racial and social — corresponds with the university’s intentions to encourage students to engage with different types of people and to strengthen
the community as a whole. Leaders and members of university organizations such as the Intercultural Center and the LGBTQ Center believe the increased diversity of the freshman class reflects a forward-looking student body that echoes the social climate of the country. “The diversity of this class shows the direction Wake Forest is going in creating global citizens, which is accompanied by the services offered for students to learn about cultures different from their own,” said Jonathan A. McElderry, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the Intercultural Center. Since the class of 2020 has stepped foot
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The Princeton Review released college rankings Tuesday, which revealed that Wake Forest’s student newspaper, the Old Gold & Black, ranked 15th of 300 contenders for Best College Newspaper. The ranking is based on how students answered the survey question, “How do you rate your campus newspaper?” The five answer choices to the survey question varied between “Poor” and “Excellent.” Results of the survey are based on the results of 143,000 surveys distributed to students at 381 schools. The question about the campus newspaper was included in a survey which also had questions on campus culture and climate, as well as academics. All of the survey results are based on the opinions of the students who participated in the annual study. The results include 62 different categories. Columbia University was ranked first in the list, followed by University of Virginia and Brown University. Also on the list were Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Yale University. This is the first time that the campus newspaper has taken a top 20 spot in at least the past three years. Twelve of the universities on the top 20 list this year were on the top 20 list last year, and five of the top 20 have been in the top for the past four years, showing that many college newspapers which are highly ranked tend to hold their title. The staff of the Old Gold & Black hopes to be listed next year and credits this year’s recognition to their ability to print both investigative and conventional stories relevant to the student body, whose support was also critical to earning a high ranking by the Princeton Review. Among other categories of the Princeton Review’s college rankings, Wake Forest was ranked third in Best Career Services, and eighth in Most Accessible Professors.