Dear Wake Forest students, faculty and staff, Happy New Year! Welcome to the beginning of 2020 and a new semester. As we begin this year, I offer all of us a single challenge: Be present. Even as you juggle the many demands on your time, […]
President Nathan O. Hatch Thursday, November 7, 2019 Good afternoon! Thank you for joining us in a conversation about the State of the University. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to work with so many of you here at Wake Forest. Theodore Roosevelt once […]
New Student Convocation Address President Nathan O. Hatch August 23, 2019 At some point during these next few days, almost all of you will feel lonely. Let me assure you, it is natural, and you will not be alone in that feeling. For some, that […]
State of the University Good afternoon. Thanks to all of you for joining us. I appreciate your engagement and interest in the state of our University. Thomas Edison, an inventor who held more than a thousand patents, once noted, “We often miss opportunity because it […]
Welcome Back Message emailed to students, faculty and staff on August 22, 2017 Dear students, faculty and staff, As I begin this letter of welcome, I want to reiterate the statement I made early last week about the hateful and violent incidents led by white […]
Presentation to the Board of Trustees, June 2017 This past weekend, we celebrated Father’s Day, and I thought about my father, a minister and psychologist, who was a man of few words. Despite having a rambunctious household with four sons, my dad rarely raised his […]
Reflections on the study of climate change and the environment on June 7, 2017. Today, Wake Forest University affirms our commitment to addressing the threats posed by our changing climate. From the Amazon to Appalachia, our faculty have been on the leading edge of climate […]
Commencement Address to the Class of 2017 In 1943, the Saturday Evening Post published in successive issues, four paintings by artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings drew from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech, depicting core democratic values in the face of Nazi tyranny: freedom […]
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