Bio
Associate Dean Ashley Hairston returned to his alma mater in 2019, after receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English and Politics from Wake Forest in 1992. He received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia as well as a law degree at the University of North Carolina. He served two terms on the Board of Visitors for the Wake Forest College and Graduate School, from 2001-2008. Hairston was most recently an Associate Professor of English and of Law & Humanities at Elon University. As Associate Dean, Hairston leads the Office of Academic Advising and represents the Dean’s Office on the Committee on Orientation and Lower Division Advising, the First-Year Seminar Committee, the Committee on Academic Affairs, the Admissions Committee, and the Faculty Athletic Committee.
Contact the Associate Dean for Academic Advising for information on the following:
- Administrator of the OAA Staff: Asst. Dean, SACs, ACs, Dir. or Orientation, support staff
- Lower Division Academic Advising
- General Advising for the College
- Academic Complaints
- FYS, FYE
- FL, FYS Equivalency, FL Exemption
- Grade Changes
- Orientation
- Designee for:
- Committee on Academic Affairs
- Committee on Admissions
- Committee on First-Year Seminars
- Committee on Orientation
- Committee on Advising
- Faculty Athletic Committee
- College Academic Commons
- Health Professions Committee
- Task Forces
- Retention
- Subcommittees
- CAC subcommittee on Advising, Deans Office, Scholarships