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
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
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
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
It is not every week that a college receives notification of a $2 million gift, but within one week in April, Warren Wilson College received two separate notifications of $2 million gifts: one a $2 million grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation to support undergraduate and graduate craft programs and the other a $2 million […]
April 25, 2018
You might expect to see Doc and Dan – Warren Wilson College’s two Belgian draft horses – plowing a garden field for the next kale planting or dragging whole trees out of the college forest in a selective thinning, but you probably wouldn’t guess the most recent student collaboration with these incredibly strong horses: crafting […]
April 25, 2018
Asheville, NC – April 23, 2018 – Warren Wilson College announced last week that Joni Williamson has accepted a position as the Director of Athletics and Adventure Sports. Williamson is excited to implement a new vision for athletics at the college that will expand athletic programing by increasing student athlete enrollment. Warren Wilson College’s athletic […]
April 23, 2018
Applications to Warren Wilson College from North Carolina residents have increased significantly this year, especially from the western part of the state. Warren Wilson’s new North Carolina Free Tuition Plan, which guarantees a tuition-free college education to every incoming North Carolina undergraduate student who is eligible for federal or state need-based aid, has piqued local interest.
April 20, 2018
Join the Warren Wilson College theatre department for a performance of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a widely-performed comedy portraying the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. It includes the adventures of four young Athenian lovers who are controlled […]
Apr 20, 2018 — Apr 22, 2018
Each year incoming freshmen at Warren Wilson College participate in First Year Seminars, compelling courses designed to introduce new students to the academic richness of the college. Warren Wilson’s First Year Seminar experience is distinctive; in addition to scholarly study, each seminar integrates community engagement by partnering with a local non-profit organization, allowing students to […]
April 14, 2018