Our Mission

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ mission is to train and mentor future leaders in research, teaching and innovation for serving humanity. This embodies the Graduate School’s vital role as an engine of discovery that fuels the nation’s scholarly and creative enterprise. We seek to instill in our students a sense of professionalism, which includes the ethical behavior inherent in their professional role, as well as respect for their colleagues, their field, and for society as a whole. We want our students to be critical, independent thinkers and good citizens. They should be motivated to apply their scholastic efforts to enlighten and improve the wellbeing of society. Thus the Graduate School is a key link for collaboration between departments and schools and for achieving WFU’s goal of becoming a collegiate university and major academic medical center.

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Our Values

Critical thinking, service, diversity, discovery, mentoring, and ethics; these are the steadfast values that are integral to all our activities in the classroom, the laboratory and other research environments, as well as to the broader communities of which we are a part.

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Our Vision

The Graduate School’s vision is to be a diverse community of excellence. We achieve our vision and fulfill our mission through strategic activities that build pillars of excellence in:

• Student experience: to create an optimized learning and mentoring experience that prepares students to lead in any career path.
• Research: to provide high-quality research partnerships for promoting innovation, discovery and creation of value to the community.
• Faculty and staff support: to enable seamless, effective, aligned services for maximizing time and resources for instruction and research.
• Internal and external communication: to celebrate the prominence and value of the Graduate School and the University.

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Wake Forest University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate degrees. Wake Forest University may also offer credentials such as certificates and diplomas at approved degree levels. Questions about the accreditation of Wake Forest University may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4500, or by using information available on SACSCOC’s website (www.sacscoc.org).