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First-year student course registration

Incoming first-year students will do their course registration next week. First-year students have been getting a variety of emails all summer to help them prepare for registration (see archives here), but I also talked to my friends in the Office of Academic Advising to […]


A few thoughts on academics from an adviser

UPDATED JUNE 20TH: the Daily Deac below was written days ago, before we got the tragic news of the death of Zachary Zhang (see news release here). Please join me in offering your thoughts and prayers to Zachary’s family, friends, and loved ones.  Today […]


Happy Tuesday

We have Deac families all over the country (and the world). I saw this picture on Facebook from someone out in the frozen tundra that is the midwest and thought you might appreciate. Hopefully spring will decide to come to your hometown very soon […]


Wild and crazy Friday

It has been a wild and crazy Friday and I have not had much of a chance to get out and about, so today I bring you just a few impressions of campus and the mood: Sunny – the sun has been out and shining […]


Branford Marsalis!

Tonight is an incredible opportunity for your students – to hear from 3 time Grammy winner Branford Marsalis. He will be performing in Wait Chapel tonight as part of the Secrest Artists Series. This is a free event for students with their student […]


Registration information

It’s the academic advising period, so students should be meeting with their lower division adviser (for students who have not yet declared a major) or their major adviser. Thought it would be helpful to share a few things about registration: It is very important for […]


Reprising an oldie but goodie

Today’s Daily Deac is a rerun of something I did . Was good advice then and it’s still good now 🙂  I call it “The Agony of Choosing.” Over the past couple of weeks I have had an opportunity to talk with a good many […]


Catching up with lots of topics

EDITED 11:20 AM – Campus is closing at noon due to the snow. On-campus students were also alerted that they should keep their residence hall windows closed. Welcome back, Deac families! Though you are no doubt sad that your Deacs had to come back […]


The second of three Senior Orations

Today we continue our feature of Senior Orations. But before we do that, need to make mention of the fact that Spring Break is coming up, and as such there will be residence hall room inspections, as well as some general safety information for students. […]


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