Between 1933 and 1957, Black Mountain College offered students an experimental education that “resemble[d] no other college in the U. S.,” according to a 1939 Time magazine article. At the same time, Warren Wilson College grew from a farm school to a junior college and inched closer to becoming a… Read More
October 25, 2016
Yale forestry alumni plan reunion at Warren Wilson College From its founding as the Asheville Farm School in 1894 with a Cornell University-educated superintendent to a Harvard University graduate currently serving as president, Warren Wilson College’s history is brimming with Ivy League influence. Countless current and… Read More
October 13, 2016
Public “Dig Days” planned for Berry site in September, October Warren Wilson College professor David Moore, center, Tulane University professor Christopher Rodning, second from left, and Michael Thorpe ’17, second from right, a member of Warren Wilson’s Archaeology Crew, survey the Berry site as fellow crewmember Amanda Bates ’17,… Read More
August 23, 2016
A number of new Warren Wilson College first-year and transfer students spent Service Day working at Verner Experiential Gardens, a partnership between the College, Verner Early Learning Center, The Roots Foundation and North Carolina Outward Bound School. Photo: Jason Faulds/Warren Wilson College Three days before classes began, … Read More
August 22, 2016
Foodscaper and entrepreneur Jeremy Lekich is the founder of Nashville Foodscapes. Nashville Foodscapes connects people with their food source by growing food where people live. They achieve this by offering creative food solutions through landscaping, creating custom designs of their clients’ yards, homes, and living spaces, allowing food to… Read More
August 1, 2016
Ayla Rand, a senior from Newton, North Carolina, was recently elected to the Warren Wilson College Board of Trustees. Photo by Reggie Tidwell/Warren Wilson College. Shortly after the North Carolina primaries wrapped and before nominees or even presumptive presidential nominees were crowned, Warren Wilson College was entering a different… Read More
July 26, 2016
Senior Gabe Whitlock finished the 2016 Boston Marathon in a little less than three and a half hours. Photo by Kyle McCurry. With roughly 500,000 people cheering him on for 26.2 grueling miles, Warren Wilson College senior Gabriel Whitlock entered the City of Boston for the first time… Read More
April 28, 2016
For students at Warren Wilson College, self-organizing around issues is easy to do. Surprisingly, the campus, ranked No. 6 in the country on the Princeton Review’s list of colleges with the “most liberal students,” did not have a chapter of the College Democrats of North… Read More
April 27, 2016
Christian Diaz ’12 is the executive director of Chicago Votes Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) organization focused on “volunteer-driven democracy.” His efforts have caught the attention of NBC News, which featured him in the story “Humanizing America: Young & Latino.” The news organization says his “goal is… Read More
March 31, 2016
India Orman ’16 is spending the semester at the Université Catholique d’el Oeste in France. Photo courtesy of India Orman. Warren Wilson College students Vladyslav Ladchuk ’18, India Orman ’16, Jada Sheeler ’17 and Pearl-Lynnae Smith ’17 are spending the spring 2016 semester overseas thanks to the prestigious … Read More
February 10, 2016