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Expanded hours for onCall shuttle service

Quick post today – still advising my students.  An announcement went out today that we are expanding the hours of the onCall on-demand shuttle service.  As we approach turning the clocks back and it gets darker earlier in the evening, this will hopefully be a […]


Registration information

As an lower division adviser (one who advises first-year students and sophomores before they declare their major), I get a lot of great information from the Office of Academic Advising and the Registrar’s Office about course registration.  As registration is about to begin next week, I […]


MSBA

As we continue a busy week with academic advising, wanted to pass along some info that might be especially interesting and useful to our P’17 senior parents and families.  This is about the MSBA, or Master of Science in Business Analytics.  This is a graduate […]


One more about Downtown and Innovation Quarter

Am still out on PTO (working on a midterm, so for those of you who are inclined to send good vibes to the universe, I will gladly take all of them you have. Multivariate stats are not my friend!), so this is a prepost. We […]


We’re Talking About Summer School in October? YES

I got the information below yesterday from Dr. Christa Colyer, Associate Dean of Academic Planning, Professor of Chemistry, and Robert & Debra Lee Faculty Fellow.  It’s about Summer School. I know, I know.  It is *October* and this seems crazy, but bear with me.  There are a […]


Test Anxiety Workshop this Wednesday

One of the things that most students face at some point or another is test anxiety. That could come because it is a subject with which the student is not comfortable, or because he/she fears that the professor will be a ‘hard tester’, etc. For […]


First Week Wrap Up

Happy Black and Gold Friday, Deac families!  Hope that wherever you live, you’ll join me in wearing black and gold each Friday to show your WFU spirit. As one of my friends proudly proclaimed on Facebook after lastnight’s football win over Tulane: “UNDEFEATED!”  We are […]


Diplomatic Student-Faculty Relations

Today’s Daily Deac is devoted to a question we occasionally receive from families: My student has a professor who has a foreign accent that is difficult to understand.  He/she does not want to get a bad grade in the class.  What is the best course […]


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