Warren Wilson College has finished the fall semester with no positive on-campus cases of COVID-19. Warren Wilson was the only college in Western North Carolina to have no positive cases within its residential community this semester. “The fact that we were able to have zero cases this semester is mind-blowing,” said Justin Gildner, director of […]
November 24, 2020
The Jazz Past - Jazz Future Scholarship Fund will help Warren Wilson’s Music Program provide recognition and financial assistance to outstanding student musicians enrolled at the College and studying music.
November 6, 2020
The Intentional Endowments Network (IEN) has issued a new report using Warren Wilson College as a case study to demonstrate that endowments of all sizes can successfully implement strategy to align their investments with institutional mission.
October 23, 2020
Mariah Parker ’13 is an elected politician, a hip hop artist, and a Ph.D. candidate in Language and Literacy Education. As protesters mobilized across the country this summer in response to the murder of George Floyd by an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, Parker led thousands who were calling for change in Athens, Georgia.
October 7, 2020
In her role as Diplomat and Journalist-in-Residence, Elizabeth O. Colton, Ph.D. will serve as a professor, scholar, diplomat and communications expert to teach, lecture and mentor students and to promote Warren Wilson College locally, nationally and globally.
September 2, 2020
Warren Wilson College recently welcomed new chair Lach Zemp and seven new members to its Board of Trustees.
August 25, 2020
Normally we hold in-person convocation on the first day of school. The ceremony is an annual tradition that gathers together students, faculty, staff, and administrators to formally begin a new academic year. As we are unable to gather in person today, we offer this address of welcome to our students from Dr. Jeff Keith, Prof. […]
August 17, 2020
Warren Wilson College has earned a STARS Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). With more than 900 participants in 40 countries, AASHE’s STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) program is the most widely recognized framework in the world for publicly reporting comprehensive information related to a college or university’s sustainability performance.
August 13, 2020
Beneath the popular folk song, “Swannanoa Tunnel,” and beneath the railroad tracks that run through Western North Carolina, is a story of blood, greed, and obfuscation. This story was told by two Warren Wilson College professors who spent the last eight years researching it.
August 6, 2020
“Best Buy” schools are colleges and universities that, in the judgment of the editors, offer “outstanding educational value as determined by academic quality in relation to the net cost of attendance.
July 20, 2020