Happy Friday, Deac families! We’ve been working on a project internally for some time, and it is finally ready for launch: we have updated our parents.wfu.edu website. Don’t worry – it still contains the same information, but we’ve made some upgrades that we hope will make the site easier to use, including on your mobile phone. A couple of notes:

You can access our content by clicking on the grey menu bar at the top of the website (if on your laptop or desktop PC) to see a list of subpages.

On a mobile phone, you will click the three bars at the top right of the screen, and it will pop out the navigation menu, as shown below.

The middle of the page has buttons for our most frequently accessed topics, as well as an announcements section for dates like Family Weekend and Commencement.

Most requested resources section of newly redesigned parents.wfu.edu page

We also redesigned our Who to Contact for… page by grouping like offices together, which we hope will make it a more useful directory for your family.

Who to Contact for... page screenshot

We hope you will take some time to look at the newly-designed page and browse its sections. Should you have any questions about the new page, you can reply to this Daily Deac for assistance. And just a note – as of July 1st, when we officially transition the next academic year, our P’25 families, who had been accustomed to visiting the First Year Families page all year, will transition to our Upperclassman page 🙂

A couple of items ran in our WFU Should Know student e-newsletter yesterday, and I thought families might be interested: “ESG@Wake is a new initiative that will give all Wake Forest students the opportunity to pitch their ideas for environmental, social, and governance related goals at the University. If you have an idea that could make a difference on campus, we want to hear from you! A total of $25,000 will be awarded across nine winning teams to implement submitted solutions. Visit esg.business.wfu.edu to submit your 100 second pitch before the March 25 deadline.   Also, don’t miss the chance to connect with industry leaders as they join us throughout ESG WEEK (March 28-April 1) to talk about the way ESG impacts their work and your future!  In-person and virtual sessions options are available, click here to register.

The other bit of noteworthy news is that Wake Forest will begin two campus-improvement projects immediately after the 2022 Commencement: a new centralized shuttle stop replacing Lot N and the extension of Wake Forest Road from the Reynolda Road entrance through Davis Field. Read more on Inside WFU.

When I was a student at Wake, the road from the main entrance (off Reynolda Road, driving past the Byrum Welcome Center) went straight up Davis field to the parking lot that is mid-Quad, so this change is really hitting me in all the feels, since this was the way I first knew Wake. Here are a couple of photos from the 1990 Howler yearbook. The first is an aerial shot of most of campus; the second photo is more of a close up where you can see the road coming up Davis Field (in the top left quadrant of the picture, near the white roof of Scales Fine Arts Center). It really does make for a nice drive onto campus to be able to go straight up the road towards the Quad. I’m very much looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

an aerial view of campus from the Howler
from the 1990 Howler - an aerial view of campus that focuses on the Davis field road in the top left quadrant

The Office of Residence Life and Housing sent this important message with final reminders to all current students (i.e., ’23-’25) who have a housing application for academic year 2022-23.

To close out the week, you can review Wake Forest in the News March 7-13 for brief highlights of Wake Forest faculty, staff and students who have recently been featured in the media.

Good luck to all our dancers doing Wake ‘N Shake this weekend – and hope you all have a great weekend!

— by Betsy Chapman, Ph.D. (’92, MA ’94)

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