Fall 2019
University News
![Students in class at Wingate]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1560524170/wingateedu/ryf8xdwwnraba7qrnuc6/Enrollmentcropped.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1560524170/wingateedu/ryf8xdwwnraba7qrnuc6/Enrollmentcropped.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1560524170/wingateedu/ryf8xdwwnraba7qrnuc6/Enrollmentcropped.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1560524170/wingateedu/ryf8xdwwnraba7qrnuc6/Enrollmentcropped.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1560524170/wingateedu/ryf8xdwwnraba7qrnuc6/Enrollmentcropped.jpg","width":1300}])
Wingate's enrollment boom continues, with 1,007 new undergraduate students last fall. That took the University's enrollment to 3,689, including graduate students.
![Wingate President Rhett Brown at the grand opening of the bypass]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1560523786/wingateedu/gt7zu3apespln2reaq1f/MonroeBypass18_1.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1560523786/wingateedu/gt7zu3apespln2reaq1f/MonroeBypass18_1.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1560523786/wingateedu/gt7zu3apespln2reaq1f/MonroeBypass18_1.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1560523786/wingateedu/gt7zu3apespln2reaq1f/MonroeBypass18_1.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1560523786/wingateedu/gt7zu3apespln2reaq1f/MonroeBypass18_1.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1560523786/wingateedu/gt7zu3apespln2reaq1f/MonroeBypass18_1.jpg","width":2200}])
Years in the planning, the Monroe Expressway finally opened last fall, shaving 15 minutes off a trip from Wingate to Charlotte. The roadway opens up easier access to a variety of internship, retail and entertainment opportunities for Wingate students.
![Kerrin Sheldon and his wife, Elaine McMillion Sheldon, at the Emmys]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1560521748/wingateedu/q81sdst0biy17gmonin3/KerrinSheldoncropped.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1560521748/wingateedu/q81sdst0biy17gmonin3/KerrinSheldoncropped.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1560521748/wingateedu/q81sdst0biy17gmonin3/KerrinSheldoncropped.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1560521748/wingateedu/q81sdst0biy17gmonin3/KerrinSheldoncropped.jpg","width":801}])
After cutting his teeth making three-minute videos, Kerrin Sheldon '08 has found his feet in the world of longer-form documentary filmmaking. Sheldon and his wife won an Emmy and were nominated for an Oscar last year for their film "Heroin(e)."