Lots of News Today
It’s a brand new week and a great deal to cover today – let’s get right to it.
Parking registration is coming up soon for students who wish to bring cars to campus. You can find information specific to your student’s year on the Transportation and Parking Services website. It would be helpful for your student to look up their details now so they have any upfront registration tasks completed before their registration opens. Students will want to log on promptly on their day and time. And a note to students living off campus: commuter permits that allow students to park on campus are typically limited in number, so your off-campus Deac may need to buy a permit to park in one of our other lots.
Some incoming students got a message late Friday about students being out of compliance with immunization requirements. For any of those students who uploaded their documentation over the weekend, please know it can take up to 3 business days to review that documentation. Please do not call or email Student Health (or other campus offices) asking if we got your documentation (every time someone calls/emails, it takes time away from reviewing the documentation in the queue). So if your Deac submitted over the weekend, they should follow the instructions in the email about how to check their status starting this Wednesday evening.
Note that there were a few current students (’23-’25s) who got a message on July 19th about compliance; please urge your upperclass Deacs to be sure they check their WFU email (and junk/spam/quarantine just in case.
Our P’26 and transfer families got a couple of emails today: one was our normal Weekly Update, and one was an invitation from Dr. Wente to attend Flourish in the Forest on August 17th in Wait Chapel. In the invitation to Flourish in the Forest, incoming families can submit questions in advance, and we will do our best to answer the most frequently-asked questions, so submit any questions promptly. Note that this program takes place while new students are in a required residence hall meeting, so they would not attend Flourish in the Forest.
Housing assignments went out this afternoon for new students. A couple of gentle reminders, as this can be a high emotion time for new students. Help your students: 1) trust the process. You were matched based on your answers to the Housing and Dining application, which speak to presumptive compatibility; 2) understand that your roommate may be different from you in some way – and that’s OK! You don’t have to be best friends, you just have to peaceably share the same space; 3) don’t put too much weight on their social media – we all have things on our social media accounts that might not be representative. Spend your energy getting to know your new roommate instead; and 4) understand that your assignment will not change (either to a new hall or a new roommate), so please do not ask Residence Life and Housing for changes.
Finally, we had a campuswide message (and a version to families too) about the fact that we are naming campus roads in honor of four trailblazing professors. Three of these professors ones I knew of during my student days, and while I had not taken their classes (which I regret now), I had the good fortune to get to know some of them a little better once I started working here. Each made a tremendous impact on Wake Forest, and I look forward to seeing their names on our campus roads. there is a terrific short video to introduce you to these wonderful Wake Foresters.
— by Betsy Chapman, Ph.D. (’92, MA ’94)