Daily Deac

A Day Off

Today is a day off for faculty, staff, and students.  Whether your Deac makes it home for a three-day weekend or stays on campus, we hope that he/she has a wonderful weekend. If your student is staying on campus, here’s a few suggestions for how […]


Pro Humanitate at Work – Volunteer Service Corps

There are many ways that our students give back to the campus community and the greater world at large.  We just saw a fine example this past weekend with Wake ‘N Shake, which raised over $125K for cancer research.  Congratulations to all our Deacs who […]


BusinessWeek Rankings

Our office received an email this weekend from Mercy Eyadiel, Executive Director, Employer Relations, about the most recent BusinessWeek rankings for undergraduate business schools. There is much to be happy about here.  Wake Forest came in at #18 (one spot up from the last two years) […]


Art Buying Trip

While many Wake Forest students went home for Spring Break or found themselves at the beach, there was a group who took a very special trip to purchase art for the campus.  This is a long-held tradition at Wake Forest, and over the weekend the […]


Watch Wake ‘N Shake

This weekend is Wake ‘N Shake and the co-chairs have let me know that they are going to try and broadcast the event live via the web.  Here’s the official word: “Wake ‘N Shake is trying something new this year and broadcasting our dance […]


Jobs, Value and Affirmative Action: A Survey of Parents About College

While the average college has slashed its career office budget by 16% (source: NACE), Wake Forest’s Office of Personal and Career Development is bucking the trend – and it’s paying off. Of WFU’s Class of 2012, 95% of survey respondents were employed or in graduate […]


International Service Trips

Many of your students are profoundly civic- and service-minded, and that is a wonderful quality to have in this generation.  They want to help others who are less fortunate, and for many of them they find that in giving to others, they get back tenfold. […]


Family Weekend Date – October 4-6, 2013

This is hot off the presses, Deac families:  Family Weekend 2013 will be held the weekend of October 4-6.  Student Union is the office on campus that organizes the schedule and sponsors the event; normally they release the full schedule and open up for registration […]


Resume Books in the Office of Personal and Career Development

We are glad to have your students back on campus following Spring Break!  We hope they had fun, but it sure felt empty here without them. Andy Chan, Vice President for Personal and Career Development, posted a new blog entry on his Heart of […]


Celebration of Latino Heritage Next Week

Today is the last day of Spring Break, and we hope it’s been a great one for your students!  While they have been gone, a couple of notable things have happened on campus:  the new residence halls on the north side of campus have had […]


Subscribe

Receive the Daily Deac in your inbox.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Archives