Power of Place For 125 years, we’ve educated generations to lead lives of utility, meaning, service, and beauty – lives that matter. The Power of Place is a series of events celebrating Warren Wilson College’s history with a focus on what it means to be located physically, ecologically, and culturally within the overlapping communities and […]
College enrollment numbers have dwindled nationally since 2011, but one small college in North Carolina’s mountains has found a way to reverse that trend in a big way. Warren Wilson College’s new North Carolina Free Tuition Plan guarantees a tuition-free college education to every eligible incoming North Carolina undergraduate student. The plan helped bring in […]
As part of the new student orientation for Warren Wilson College last week, over 330 volunteers from the college served at 18 Buncombe County nonprofit organizations. Service Day introduces new students to their ongoing Community Engagement Commitment, a requirement for graduation that requires years of sustained community service work. “I think [the Community Engagement Commitment] […]
Telling college-bound students that it’s okay to wait to go to college seems counterintuitive. But Warren Wilson College not only embraces the practice, they offer gap year students specialized support and aid. That’s why Warren Wilson College has been named the very first “Official Gap Year College” by the Gap Year Association. The Gap Year […]
Warren Wilson College was named one of the top 20 “Best Buy” colleges nationally in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2019. Warren Wilson was one of only 10 private colleges to make the list. “Under the school’s new North Carolina Free Tuition plan, all North Carolina residents who qualify for federal or state need-based financial […]
Recent national news about climate change involves terms like “bomb tornado” and images of palm trees covered in snow. But a group of Warren Wilson College students and their professors believe the most interesting climate change conversations are less about weather and more about plants. “We theorize that as the climate gets warmer and conditions […]
When alumnus Lewis Foote ’02 became an agriculture teacher at Buncombe County Community High School (CHS) in 2010, he was happy to learn that he would be working with Warren Wilson College and WD Williams first-graders as part of professor Mallory McDuff’s Community Based Environmental Education class. As part of the curriculum, students from all […]
Warren Wilson College received a $121,000 grant from the Buncombe County Government yesterday to spearhead an initiative that will prepare highly-qualified early childhood educators with a bachelor’s degree and hands-on experience to lead classrooms in early childhood centers. The initiative, called the Partnership for Excellence in Early Childhood Education, will expand access to quality early […]
A commencement is a beginning. But as Senior Class Speaker and creative writing major Rachel J. Klein reminded the audience, “We forget that beginnings are daunting and that their trajectory is frightening. And as students, we again and again get branded as people who are just beginning rather than people who are just continuing.” Keynote […]
