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SUSAN WENTE
Organization: Wake Forest University
Title: President
What makes her a Power Player: It's been a busy first 15 months at Wake Forest for Wente, who took over as the school’s 14th president and first woman president in July 2021. Wente has named a new provost (Michele Gillespie) and hired new deans for the schools of medicine (Dr. Ebony Boulware) and business (Annette Ranft) and will soon be naming a new law school dean. Those are three of WFU's most prominent programs — its part-time MBA program ranked 19th (it also added a hybird MBA program), its law school ranked 37th and its med school ranked 47th (research category) in the U.S. News's 2023 rankings. In the undergraduate rankings, Wake tied with UNC as the 29th best national university. WFU, which employs about 2,900, was also ranked the best employer in N.C. by Forbes magazine.
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