Today the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. The ruling is expected to have wide-ranging effects on admission and financial aid at colleges and universities, including private institutions like Warren Wilson College. My fear is that this decision will reduce opportunity, undervalue potential, and slow progress toward the country we aspire to be. The […]
This year Warren Wilson College started a new tradition — Lavender Graduation. This special event honored lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students, acknowledged their achievements and contributions to the College, and celebrated queer joy and queer excellence.
Warren Wilson College is hosting the 2023 National Girls Club Rugby Championships Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20. The top 12 high school girls club rugby teams in the country will be on campus.
Patagonia has captured Warren Wilson student Monte Cosby’s story in a new documentary, "Monte: Can’t stop. Won’t stop." The film premiere to take place at Warren Wilson College on Saturday, April 29.
Dr. Mariah Parker will give the keynote address at Warren Wilson College’s Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 13. Parker (they/them) is a community organizer with the Union of Southern Service Workers, a rapper (under the stage name Linqua Franqa), a linguistics scholar, and a 2013 alum of Warren Wilson College.
Tommye Blount, a 2013 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, has been selected as a 2023 Whiting Award winner. The foundation gives $50,000 each to 10 exceptional emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Blount was recognized for his poetry collection, “Fantasia for the Man in Blue,” which “plunges […]
