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Opportunities

A couple of opportunities came into my inbox today, and thought I would share. One is for the Global Living Learning Community. This is for globally-minded students, who will reside together for a full academic year and commit to collaboratively explore two global themes: Global […]


Upcoming Events

Last week I was sent a number of flyers of upcoming events from our Office of Wellbeing. We do take seriously our efforts to help students attend to all the areas of wellbeing – so encourage your Deacs to make time for self-care. Click on […]


Signs of Stress week

Happy Black and Gold Friday, Deac families! It was a beautiful morning on campus – a lovely pink sunrise. There is a series of events next week geared to help your Deacs with stress; details are on the Signs of Stress website. But […]


Top 3 This Tuesday

Today is a brief Daily Deac – has been a busy day and trying to make sure I get this up by deadline. So here are your Top 3 This Tuesday: 1) Our short-lived snow is nearly all gone now. This morning we had a […]


Spotlight on mental health

I know that students are trickling back on to campus. How, you ask? As I drove off campus last night, I saw a handful of young people jogging. Normally when school is in session, there are a ton of students jogging on campus and on […]


Senior Fifth

A few years ago, we had an art installation with red solo cups (the ubiquitous party cup), arranged to spell out the words BINGE THINKING, part of a campaign to talk to students about thinking about alcohol differently. Today’s Daily Deac is a heavy one, […]


Hello, gorgeous!

It is a picture-perfect day on campus today. Temps in the mid 70s, sunny, a light breeze that wafts some of the leaves out of the trees. Really couldn’t be nicer. Pics to prove it below 🙂 A few items of business: We need […]


Today I took one for the team

So today I took one for the Daily Deacdom by road testing one of the services our Thrive office offers: massages.  This is a relatively new service, and I am not sure all our Deacs know about it, which is why I wanted to try […]


Opportunities

This morning I was at a meeting with lots of staff from various areas of Campus Life, and wanted to give you a recap of some of the many, many opportunities that your students have in the coming days and weeks. Tomorrow Sept 22nd is […]


Whole lotta stuff today

Today’s Daily Deac is going to be like a good jambalaya – lots of stuff in it all blending together. First up: the Move-in Parking Pass for incoming first-year families is now available online. Please print one out and bring it with you on […]


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