Wake Forest’s Board of Trustees has approved plans to establish a School of Professional Studies in Charlotte. Pending completion of a full market analysis and business plan, the proposed school will house innovative degree and non-degree programs, including certificates and other credentials, for working professionals.
You can read the full story here. As Dean Iacovou describes it, “the future of professional education can benefit from a combination of traditional and novel, flexible offerings that advance relevant knowledge and prepare professionals to lead impactful change in their professions and industry.” As one who has gone back to school as an adult myself, I think this is going to be a wonderful opportunity. We have a lot of Wake alumni (and parents and families too!) who have embraced the role of lifelong learners. Programs that allow people to learn new skills or deepen existing knowledge can lead to wonderful ‘second act’ careers and more. I know Dean Iacovou will be terrific in this new role and there will be wonderful things to come, and the School of Business retains exceptional leadership in Interim Dean Michelle Roehm.
In other news, for families whose daughters will be going through Panhellenic (sorority) recruitment, they were emailed a letter yesterday from the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life; read it here. It has a lot of detail about the process and also has links to sign up for their sorority recruitment webinars. You can also refresh your memory of the Weekly Message for First Year Families on recruitment if interested.
Some of you messaged yesterday about the CDC’s new guidelines on quarantine and what that means for Wake Forest. While I have not been in the center of that discussion, my colleagues who work closely with COVID, healthcare, and policy are certainly digging into that. As always, any time we have new information, it is shared on ourwayforward.wfu.edu and I will reference here in the Daily Deac as well.
We’ve been having some trouble with the Daily Deac sending out between 5-7 pm. Thank you for your patience with the technical glitches. As a reminder, any time our third-party push service doesn’t send the email by 7, I will post the Daily Deac on our official Facebook page so you can access it there as we wait for the gremlins to stop chewing on the internet wires 🙂
