| Family Connection: October 2024 |
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Kathryn Price ’28 and her father race up a bouldering wall at an Outing Club open house during Parents and Family Weekend.
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| Every week during the academic year, university photographers Shelby Hamelman and Kevin Remington capture the scene on campus through their lenses. In the most recent edition: Parents and families arrive and experience campus with their students, from sitting in on classes to attending university concerts to watching the Generals compete on the courts and fields. |
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| Save the Date: Parents and Family Weekend Oct. 24-26, 2025 |
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| W&L recently hosted students' families on campus for the 2024 Parents and Family Weekend, which featured informational and recreational activities, engagement opportunities with faculty members and numerous sports and social events. The university has announced the dates for next year's Parents and Family Weekend: Oct. 24-26, 2025. Registration and other information about the weekend will be shared well in advance of the event. We hope you can join us on campus! |
| Check out more photos from 2024 Parents and Family Weekend. |
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Inspiring Minds
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| George Bent, Sidney Gause Childress Professor in the Arts, has spent his career at W&L inspiring and being inspired by his students. |
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Opportunity to Thrive
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Adhip Adhikari ’27 spent much of his summer creating a library at a secondary school near his family's home in Katmandu, Nepal. |
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| Washington and Lee Athletics |
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| Much has happened over the last month in W&L Athletics, as teams continue to build up their resumes for postseason play. Women's soccer remains unbeaten and untied since their season opener and is now 10-1 and ranked 15th in the latest United Soccer Coaches poll. The men's soccer team has rebounded after a slow start and now sits at 8-3-2 overall and is back in the national poll at No. 20. Senior Weyimi Agbeyegbe has also made noise individually with two ODAC Player of the Week awards, and he is closing in on becoming the program's all-time leading scorer. |
 Field hockey is 8-4 overall, while volleyball has continued to impress with a 19-2 overall record and a No. 14 national ranking. The W&L men's cross country team has won its last two events and is ranked 23rd in the latest USTFCCCA poll, their highest in program history. The women's cross country team has topped their respective fields in two of their last three times out, and football has won its last two contests (35-0 over Averett and 28-26 over Hampden-Sydney). The W&L tennis teams recently completed their fall schedules. First-year Allie Murrell was one of the highlights, making it to the semifinals in both the doubles and singles brackets at the ITA Regional Championships in late September. |
| The W&L men's golf team, having most recently placed second at the Gate City Invite and winning the GolfWeek D3 Invitational outright, reached the No. 1 national rankings in the latest Clippd/NCAA rankings. Senior Elias Malakoff and sophomore Jonathan McEwen led the way at the GolfWeek D3 Invite, tying for the individual title with scores of 202 (-11). On the women's side, the Generals have continued to place in the Top 10 in each tournament so far this fall after a ninth place at the Tartan Invitational and coming in seventh at the GolfWeek D3 Invite. Finally, the W&L riding team has been led by junior Elisabeth Marek, who has earned high point rider honors twice in three shows. |
| W&L Athletics' winter season is also just around the corner, with teams beginning their first official practices within the last week. To keep up with the fall teams' push toward ODAC and NCAA tournament play, as well as the start of winter sports season, click here. |
| Stay connected with the Blue and White by visiting www.generalssports.com, signing up for Generals Sports emails and following social media channels at @WLUGenerals. |
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| Lifelong Learning for W&L Parents |
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Mystical India
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Mystical and spiritual, chaotic and confounding, India overflows with riches. Travel the classic Golden Triangle in northern India, visiting the bustling capital city of Delhi; Agra, home of the sublime Taj Mahal; and Jaipur, the historic home of the Rajput warrior caste. |
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‘W&L After Class’ Podcast Releases New Episode Featuring Melissa Kerin
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The professor of art history discusses how following her curiosity of the ways in which people tell stories opened her to opportunities to study remote Himalayan Buddhist shrines and examine how we live and die as the director of the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics. |
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Deadline for Spring Term Study Abroad |
Deadline for students to submit a student application via the off-campus portal (click the "start new application" button under each course listing). Oct. 21 is also the financial aid deadline. If students would like to be considered for a need-based grant for their program, they must have a complete need-based aid application for the current academic year on file with the Office of Financial Aid.
Read course offerings
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Registration for Winter Term 2025 |
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Registration for Winter Term classes begins Oct. 28 and runs through Nov. 5. |
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Law and Literature Weekend Seminar |
The beloved tradition, which brings together faculty and participants to study a single work of literature from legal, ethical and literary perspectives, will examine "Take My Hand," a novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
Register now
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Spring Term Abroad Acceptance |
Students are notified whether they've been accepted into a course. During Thanksgiving Break, the Office of Financial Aid will send notice of award to students via email.
Learn more about Spring Term Abroad
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Thanksgiving Holiday |
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There will be no classes Nov. 25-29 in observance of Thanksgiving. Classes resume Monday, Dec. 2. |
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Fall Term Final Examinations Begin |
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The final day of Fall Term classes is Dec. 6. Examinations start at 2 p.m. on Dec. 7 and end at noon on Dec. 13. |
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Greek Life Formal Recruitment Begins |
The Panhellenic Sorority (Panhel) and Interfraternity Council (IFC) formal recruitment processes will occur from Jan. 5-9. All students may move back to campus beginning Jan. 4, and those participating in IFC or Panhel recruitment are expected to return to campus no later than 12 p.m. (noon), Sunday, Jan. 5. The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) organizations hold Member Intake Processes at different times depending on interest and approval from their national headquarters. Students interested in joining an NPHC organization can contact Heidi Bustos, assistant director of inclusion and engagement, at hbustos@wlu.edu.
More details can be found on the Greek Life page
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| Follow @wlucareers on Instagram |
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The W&L Office of Career and Professional Development (CPD) supports and empowers students and alumni to discover, navigate and achieve their career and professional goals through hands-on advising and tailored resources, programs and events.
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| Additional Social Media Accounts to Follow |
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| Be sure to add families@wlu.edu to your address book or safe senders list so our emails get to your inbox. |
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