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Going Strong
StrongPoints®, our signature advising and personal coaching program, is designed to help every Meredith student make the most of college.
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Discovering the Right Career Path
Through multiple internships, leadership opportunities, and challenging academics, Broyhill Fellow Machaela Murrell, ’24, combined her interests in music and finance to identify a career path that was right for her. https://www.meredith.edu/accounting
Through a wide range of leadership roles, faculty support, and internships, international studies and political science major Danika Ray, ’24, gained confidence and skills that will set her up for success in her studies at Campbell Law School.
Olivia Roy, ’25, has combined two of her passions, dance and psychology, to positively impact others with dance therapy. Meredith has provided her with opportunities to reach her career aspirations.
A recommendation from her community college art professor led graphic design major Josefina Mercedes Puello, ’24, to Meredith, where she’s gaining the skills to turn her passion for design into a career.
Meredith News
Anita Thomas has been selected to serve as the next provost of Meredith College. She will begin in this role on April 7, 2025.
Meredith College will celebrate the inauguration of President Aimee Sapp on Friday, April 4, 2025. This special event in Meredith’s history will be held at 10 a.m. in Jones Auditorium.
Meredith alumnae Cinda (Bodford) Alexander, ’83, and Elizabeth (Alexander) Green, ’12, visited a hospitality management class on Wednesday, February 26, to share their wisdom and experience as owners of Lux Lineage, a boutique floral design business based in the Winston-Salem area.
Fifty-two Meredith College students participated in the two-day 2025 Entrepreneurial Challenge, hosted by the School of Business.
In the 2024-25 Faculty Distinguished Lecture, Professor of Music Kent Lyman shared vignettes that explore the life and work of musicians from the past. In the lecture-recital, held on February 27, 2025, Dr. Lyman showed the power of music to connect people across time.
Assistant Professor of Psychology Jenna McChesney has been awarded the 2025 Rains Wallace Dissertation Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for her research on how job applicants disclosing anxiety and depression on LinkedIn are evaluated.
Meredith College raised $1,582,557 in 24 hours during the College’s 10th annual Make It Count for Meredith Giving Day, held on February 25, 2025. The fundraising event exceeded its $1.2 million fundraising goal by more than $300,000, and a total of 2,522 donors contributed to the campaign.
Meredith College’s This Is Meredith video was featured on ESPN+ during the broadcast of the 2025 Winter World University Games from Torino, Italy. Meredith’s in-house video team produced the ad.
A Meredith Poll conducted in early February gauged North Carolina voters’ opinions on policy ideas advanced by President Donald Trump, political issues in North Carolina, and voter approval of elected officials. The new poll was in the field from February 3-10, 2025.
