Opportunities to ponder

In this Issue:

• Bystander intervention trainings
• Walk with Wente: meet Erin Henslee, Assistant Professor of Engineering
• How to spend your free hour
• Reminder about spring 2024 housing requests

Bystander intervention trainings

A colleague shared this information about free trainings for our campus community:

“During the month of November, the Office of Wellbeing, in collaboration with the Office of the Chaplain, will be hosting a series of bystander intervention trainings presented by Right to Be. These sessions will focus on addressing Antisemitic, Islamophobic, and Xenophobic harassment through a lens of bystander intervention. All faculty, staff and students are welcome. No sign-up or RSVP is required. Details below:

• Stop Islamophobic and Xenophobic Harassment
  • November 1 – 5:30-7 p.m.
  • November 17 – 1:30-3 p.m.
• Stop Antisemitic Harassment
  • November 2 – 7-8:30 p.m.
  • November 14 – 7-8:30 p.m.”

I attended the webinar last night (from my house) and found it very informative. I look forward to the one tonight. Your students got information on these webinars in their WFU Should Know student enewsletter today.

Walk with Wente: meet Erin Henslee, Assistant Professor of Engineering

President Wente has invited faculty members to share their contributions and insights with the Wake Forest community by joining her on a “Walk with Wente,” our new video series.

In episode four, she walks and talks with Erin Henslee, Assistant Professor of Engineering, about Henslee’s cell research and her collaborations across departments and schools. They discuss the importance of the “liberal arts engineer” at Wake Forest and Henslee’s belief in both the philosophy of yes and the fearless pursuit of knowledge.

Hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

How to spend your free hour

This coming Sunday we will “fall back” and turn the clocks back one hour.  Which is sort of like getting a free hour, right?

How will your Deacs spend that time?

• Will they take a walk on our beautiful campus? Alone? Or with friends?
• Will they get an extra hour of sleep? Or an extra hour of studying for that upcoming test or working on that paper?
• Will they do something fun for themselves that they ordinarily would feel they don’t have time for? See a movie? Bake some cookies?
• Will that hour be filled with service? Solitude? Serenity? Silliness?
• Will they call their loved ones? (I hope so!)
• Other?

And how we will, as parents and families, spend our free hour?

• Will we take a walk or get some exercise?
• Will we take care of a household chore or do the grocery shopping?
• Will we check in on someone we know or love who is going through a hard time?
• Will we spend time with our spouse or partner for a mini-date?
• Will we do something special for our children? Write a card, Venmo a little bonus $, bake and freeze their favorite cookies for when they are home at Thanksgiving?
• Other?

Think about all the things we don’t have time for in our busy lives.  There’s a free hour coming up where each of us could do something that would normally fall off the priority list.

May we all choose wisely.

Reminder about spring 2024 housing requests

This message was sent to on-campus students from the Office of Residence Life and Housing, reminding them of upcoming deadlines for spring 2024 housing requests. A similar message was sent to students currently abroad.