Protocol & Guidelines
Social Responsibility with Social Media
Social Media, like every part of our roles, requires a high level of responsibility for communicating with our campus community. We encourage all staff members responsible for social media to review and enforce university guidelines to ensure best practices across all university social media platforms.
Wake Forest University abides by the individual social media platform’s Terms of Service and asks you to do the same while commenting on our social media posts.
The Wake Forest University social media profiles are places where students, alumni, families and friends can learn about and enjoy some of the great things happening on campus.
We encourage people to join the discussion in this spirit, with respect for other users. We reserve the right to delete racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, sexist, profane, threatening, abusive, or off-topic comments and to ban users from posting to our profile and posts. We do not permit messages selling products or promoting commercial ventures.
Posted comments do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Wake Forest University.
If you have concerns about content posted on our social media accounts, please email social@wfu.edu. Your feedback is welcomed.
University Marketing and Communications, in coordination with University Police, will issue all official communications in the event of an emergency or crisis situation. To maintain the accuracy and integrity of information and avoid disseminating false, confusing, or misleading details, we ask that all Campus Life departments refrain from sharing messages beyond amplifying those issued by the university’s official communications channels.
As stated in Framing Our Future, Wake Forest University’s Strategic Framework, the University is defined, in part, by a commitment to teach and model the importance of the democratic process, civil discourse, and dialogue across differences. Wake Forest will become a catalyst for good in society by extending this commitment into our third century and becoming a recognized national model for graduating leaders with integrity and courage, across disciplines and professions, who embrace evidence-based debate, open dialogue and critical thinking.
The importance of dialogue and free expression to our academic environment is woven throughout this formal testament of who Wake Forest is and who we strive to become.