Magnolia Scholars

Magnolia Scholars Program Receives 6.5M Gift

tingleas — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:54:19 +0000

Dr. Steve and Mrs. Becky Scott

Dr. Steven and Becky Scott have committed $6.5 million to further the education of first generation college students through Wake Forest’s Magnolia Scholars program. Click here to read the full story

Weaving education, entertainment

tingleas — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:50:08 +0000

The first showing is always the most difficult. Last April, when Wake Forest senior Jawad Wahabzada (’14) premiered his documentary “Children of Kabul” at RiverRun Film Festival, it was to a packed crowd filled with so many faces, he felt a little intimidated. Click here to read more

Preparing for your path

tingleas — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:57:02 +0000

When Corynn Kolberg arrived at Wake Forest last August, she was surprised to see a session with the Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) on her orientation schedule. After all, she was just a first-year student. Click here to read the full article

‘Children of Kabul’ Documentary by Jawad Wahabzada

tingleas — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:58:33 +0000

Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior and Magnolia Scholar, Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan making Persian rugs in a factory. Though he now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, his heart is not far from the children of Kabul. Click here to read the entire article

Chakayla Taylor, Fashionista

tingleas — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:27:51 +0000

Flash back to September 2008: I was a senior high school student attending Prospective Student Day in the Wake Forest University Schools of Business. I was captivated with the idea of applying to the business school. Though English was a passion of mine, I was ready to trade in that dream for power suits and leather briefcases. Click here to read more

First-Generation Students Spread Their Roots in College Pursuits

tingleas — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:31:49 +0000

Making the transition from high school to college is daunting for every student, but even more so for first-generation college students.

Almost 10 percent of the undergraduate population at Wake Forest is comprised of first-generation students, and the university is dedicated to continuing the tradition of affording competitive educations to students from all walks of life through the Magnolia Scholarship program. Click here to read the article

Gerson Lanza uses dance as a form of expression

tingleas — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:52:11 +0000

Single-handedly responsible for breathing new life into the Wake Forest tap dancing community, junior Gerson Lanza is a student worth knowing. Coming to campus from Harlem, N.Y., by way of Honduras, Lanza is a History and Spanish major with a passion for tapping. Though many students may not even know of its existence, there is a Tap Club at the university led by Lanza, its president. He says the tap community here is not as vibrant as he would like, but he is seizing the opportunity to bring attention to the art form and leave his mark on campus. Click here to read more

Meet the Magnolia Scholars

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:09:12 +0000

The 2013 class of Magnolia Scholars

The Magnolia Scholars Program has recruited some wonderfully talented students. The inaugural Class of 2013 Magnolia Scholars typifies the eclectic nature of the program, which draws students from all walks of life who can be enriched by and themselves can enrich the Wake Forest campus. The first Scholars include White, African-American, Vietnamese, Native American and Hispanic students, Afghani refugees, a Ghanaian national, and a Serbian; religious backgrounds including Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Eastern Orthodoxy, Muslim and Mormon. First generation students come for all backgrounds. Read a brief bio section on each. Click here to read about the Magnolia Class of 2013…

It Starts With Me…

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:06:08 +0000

The Magnolia Scholars program carries the legacy of “Old Wake Forest. ” When Wake Forest opened, it was an Eastern North Carolina, white, male, Baptist college. Virtually all of the students were from farms and small towns, many were first generation college students. They left Wake Forest with grand ambitions to serve the larger state, regional, and national community, building our institutional reputation with their deeds. Though we are now a nationally ranked university with a richly diverse population, we are still that same small school at heart. The first generation students that built Wake Forest will always be a special population here.