Item Details

contributor

Griffith, Ross

Zanish-Belcher, Tanya

coverage

Winston-Salem (N.C.)

date

2013-12-05T19:23:20Z

2013-12-05T19:23:20Z

2013-06-28

2013-12-05 (issued)

description

Ross Griffith graduated with a B.A. (1965) from Wake Forest University, attended Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School in Mathematics and Psychology and eventually received a Master's degree in Education from UNCG. He began administrative work at Wake Forest in 1966 that included the positions of Admissions Counselor, Assistant and Associate Director of Admissions, Director of Equal Opportunity (1977-1984), Assistant Vice President for Administration and Planning, and Director of Institutional Research and Academic Administration (1993-2013). He served on the Program Planning Committee that developed the Wake Forest strategic plan and served as the Accreditation Liaison for Wake Forest.He is a past president of the North Carolina Association for Institutional Research (NCAIR) and formerly the Southeast representative and board member of the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). This oral history covers Griffith's family background and arrival at Wake Forest as an undergraduate, where he discusses academics and social activities, and the impact of the football team on integration. He also describes his employment in Admissions and Institutional Research, and the changes he witnessed, such as increasing enrollments, Wake Forest becoming a national university, and the growing role of accreditation and assessment.

format

audio/mp4

oral histories

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39091

language

English

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subject

Student Life

1960s

Admissions

Mathematics

Liberal arts

Higher education administration

Athletics

Integration

Diversity

Affirmative action

Facilities planning

Institutional research

Accreditation

title

Griffith, Ross (Audio interview)

type

Sound