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Decisions, decisions

Major/minor declaration week is coming up February 4-8. Typically this is when our current sophomores (and the occasional first-year or junior) officially select a major. Once a major is declared, students get a faculty adviser in their major. Some students have a crystal clear image […]


Summer Immersion Program

NOTE: our Wake Parents and Families e-newsletters went out today with an error. Classes resume on January 14th, not January 17th. We apologize for the error. Sometime before the snowstorm hit, I wrote a post about career discernment for Wake students in regards to externship […]


Senior Survey

Since I am out on PTO this week, this is a pre-scheduled post. Our Office of Institutional Research does a lot of amazing work on campus – helping not only to conduct research and surveys that help us understand our WFU students better, but also […]


For our P’18s

We are getting closer and closer to Commencement, which means our P’18 families – and their Deacs – might be starting to get excited/wistful/nervous/you name it. For those senior parents and families in the Daily Deacdom, if you have not already discovered the Commencement […]


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 […]


Black and Gold Friday

Happy Black and Gold Friday – and a hot one here, high 70s. Definitely strangely warm weather for November. One of our faculty members, Professor Barry Trachtenberg of the History department, is going to testify before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary next week.  Committee Chair […]


Webinar of note

For the P’18s in the Daily Deacdom – and perhaps other parent years too – there is a webinar coming up that might be of interest to you: Support Their Five: Setting up Young Adults for Success after College In this 45 minute webinar […]


Guest Blog: Supporting Your Students in Transition

Today’s Daily Deac is a guest blog from Allison McWilliams ’95, Assistant Vice President, Mentoring and Alumni Personal and Career Development College is an awesome, exciting, life-changing time of new experiences, new friends, new classes and interests. It’s also an overwhelming, challenging, and sometimes […]


Wake Washington

Today starts our Homecoming weekend, and it’s my 25th reunion (and I have lifelong friends coming) so this is a pre-post 🙂 Don’t know if parents and families are aware of this yet, but we have a wonderful and new Wake Forest presence in Washington, […]


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