Wake Forest Index 2008 w/ Sources

***Please Note Two Important Corrections Below***

Ratio of Wake Forest students favoring Barack Obama to Hilary Clinton for president, according to a Feb poll: 6 to 1
(The Student)

Ratio of students favoring Barack Obama to John McCain: 2 to 1
(The Student)

Year of racial integration at Wake Forest: 1962
(The Old Gold & Black)

Home of that first “African-American” student: Ghana, Africa
(The Old Gold & Black)

Year that trustees approved female student enrollment at Wake Forest: 1942
(Ed Hendricks’ Wake Forest History Website)

Year that females were officially allowed to wear “slacks” on campus: 1969
(The Old Gold & Black)

Description of Wake Forest boys, recorded from a 1966 survey of female students: “[they are] rude, crude, unacceptable…retarded mashers”
(The Old Gold & Black)

Date of the oldest book in the Z. Smith Reynolds library: circa late 14th century
(ZSR Rare Books Division)

Estimated number of Styrofoam containers used each day for to-go trips to the PIT: 300-500
(Veronica Cruishank, former Aramark Manager)

Number of tickets issued by parking management in year 2006-7: 17,178
(WFU Police Annual Report)

Number of “indecent exposure” incidents on campus in the same period: 3
(WFU Police Annual Report)

Occupation and salary of the highest paid worker (excluding athletics) at Wake Forest in 2000: Neurosurgeon, $708,687
(Chronicle of Higher Education)

***CORRECTION: This was Dr. Hatch’s salary in 2005; the Chronicle’s report is from the calendar year 2006-7***Salary of President Nathan O. Hatch in 2005: $708,493
(Chronicle of Higher Education)

Estimated dollar value of the most expensive piece of art in the Wake Forest Student Union collection: $500,000
(Dr. Robert Knott)

Wake Forest endowment market value in 1985: $145,633,000 (29,588 per student)
("Wake Forest Financial Report 2005-6," pg. 26)

Wake Forest endowment market value in 2006: $1,248,695,000 (157,439 per student)
(www.wfu.edu/fas/reports/05-06finreport.pdf)

Estimated cost for student expenses (tuition, books, room, and board) for one year in 1967: $2,000
(Page 304, Digital History of Wake Forest at http://zsr.wfu.edu/collections/digital/HST_WFU/wf_history.pdf)

In 1996: $23,350
("Class of 2000 Undergraduate Plan": www.wfu.edu/new/publications/faculty-staff/ugp2000.pdf)

In 2008: $47,550
(Wake Forest Admissions Department)

Average in dollars of financial aid received by students in 2007-8: $22,450
(http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2007-2008/pdf/p44.pdf)

Year that the term “Demon Deacons” was coined: 1922
(Ed Hendricks’ Wake Forest History Website)

Number of new buildings, according to new master plan, that could potentially be added to existing campus property: 20
(Wake Forest Master Plan)

Number of Wake Forest students who left school to enlist for WWII in 1941 and 1942: 800 out of 1150 total
(Old Gold & Black)

Number of wooden crosses that students placed throughout campus in 1970 to honor North Carolinians who died in the Vietnam War: 1,200
(Former Provost Ed Wilson)

Number of students that marched later in 1970 from Wait Chapel to President Scales’ home for peace in Vietnam:  600
(Old Gold & Black)

Percentage of Wake Forest students in 2007-8 who are Roman Catholic: 24.1%
(http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2007-2008/pdf/p19.pdf)

Percentage who are Baptist: 11%
(http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2007-2008/pdf/p19.pdf)

First year that fraternities were racially integrated: 1967 (2 members in Alpha Sigma Phi)
(Old Gold & Black)

Number of full-time African-American faculty members: 14 (3.5% of total)
(http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2007-2008/pdf/p36.pdf)

Number of non-white full-time faculty members: 48
(http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2007-2008/pdf/p36.pdf)

Average SAT of 2007 freshmen class: 1316
(http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2007-2008/pdf/p12.pdf)

***CORRECTION: The next three statistics are about the SENIOR CLASS OF 2007 only***
Three most popular Wake Forest majors in order for graduating class of 2007: Business (97 students), Political Science (91), Communication (81)
Five least popular majors in order for class of ‘07: Music History (2), Latin (2), Greek (2), Chinese (0), Russian (0)
Most popular double major for class of ‘07: Spanish (20)
(http://www.wfu.edu/ir/factbook-2007-2008/pdf/p27.pdf)

(Compiled by Andrew Britt)