Turning Education Inside-Out
WWC Students and Incarcerated Students Share Courses at the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women
October 1, 2018
Free Tuition for North Carolina Students Brings Largest Freshman Class
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 […]
September 19, 2018
Warren Wilson College Service Day brings over 330 volunteers to 18 community partners
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] […]
August 29, 2018
Warren Wilson College Named First Official Gap Year College by the Gap Year Association
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 […]
August 2, 2018
Warren Wilson College One of Top 20 “Best Buy” Colleges Nationally
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 […]
July 26, 2018
WWC Students Create Garden to Research Climate Change Theories
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 […]
July 26, 2018
Hands in the Dirt: Students in the Field
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 […]
June 13, 2018
WWC Becomes County Leader to Increase Early Childhood Education Access
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 […]
June 8, 2018
2018 Commencement: Step out in Courage
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 […]
May 22, 2018
Tenth-Annual Capstone Carnival
Starting with senior music recitals on Monday and ending with student documentary films on Thursday, Warren Wilson College’s Capstone Carnival May 7 through May 10 will showcase culminating student scholarship on topics ranging from sociological studies of the criminal justice system to sustainable farm management plans. “Over the last decade, hundreds of students have looked […]
May 07, 2018 — May 10, 2018