Fri-YAY

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

In this Issue:

  • You may have received a message about the LiveSafe app
  • Reception for students who returned from fall 2023 abroad
  • Faces of Resistance: Women of the Holocaust
  • For P’25s: senior housing intent for your students
  • Fire Safety and AEDs
  • Reminder: Cozy Fest at ZSR tonight

It’s the end of the first full week of class, and I bet your Deacs are eager to have a couple days break. (I am teaching a class this semester and I have a new appreciation for students’ schedules, now that I am seeing it from a faculty perspective – so today is definitely Fri-YAY for me). As we close out the week, here’s a handful of things to consider.

You may have received a message about the LiveSafe app

If you are a parent or family member of a sophomore-senior, you may have gotten a message like this yesterday:

“WFU is no longer using Live Safe. The University is now using Wake Safe (https://police.wfu.edu/safety/wake-safe-app/). Search for Wake Safe in the app store of your Apple or Android device and install it. Wake Safe allows for two-way conversation with UPD. Emergency and safety messages are also shared through Wake Safe. Be sure to activate notifications. Questions? Contact police@wfu.edu.”

At the start of this academic year, we stopped using Live Safe and switched over to Wake Safe. So if you had downloaded Life Safe in the past, you can go ahead and delete it in favor of Wake Safe. As a reminder, Wake Safe is the only way to receive campus safety alerts, so please download the Wake Safe app and enable notifications (instructions here).

Reception for students who returned from fall 2023 abroad

I got word today of an event coming up Monday for students who had been studying abroad in the fall of 2023 and are now back for the spring semester. If your Deac is one of those students, please encourage them to consider attending this welcome back reception. Here are the details in the email your students were sent:

“As you settle in from your time away, we are excited to share a special invitation to the Study Abroad Welcome Back Reception on Monday, January 29. Please join the staff from the Center for Global Programs and Studies and Dr. Shea as you continue to reacclimate to Mother So Dear. We hope to see you there!

Study Abroad Welcome Back Reception
Monday, January 29 | 5 – 6 pm (drop-in)
Magnolia Room Lobby, Reynolda Hall (second floor)”

We ask that your students respond to the invitation here so that we can plan accordingly.

Faces of Resistance: Women of the Holocaust 

There is a new poster display in the Benson 3rd floor rotunda, which went up yesterday and will run until Jan. 31 in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day:

“The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.  January 27 was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.”

I hope our students will take a moment to read these women’s stories and reflect on their lives.

For P’25s: senior housing intent for your students

The Office of Residence Life and Housing sent this message to the Class of 2025 (i.e., current juniors/rising seniors) about their housing intent for senior year. If you have a ’25 student who will be a senior in the 2024-25 academic year, please encourage them to read this message carefully. There are a few critical points to note:

  • Students who have fulfilled the residency requirement wishing to live on-campus MUST declare their intention by February 12. 
  • Students who have fulfilled the residency requirement but do not express an interest to live on campus by the February 12 deadline, will be assigned an off-campus application. 
  • Once a student selects on-campus housing, their housing agreement cannot be canceled. The housing agreement is a legally binding contract once a student signs it (in the same way a lease would be off-campus). Students may not cancel their on-campus housing selection once they select a room. 

That last bullet is really important. Students can’t select a room on campus and then decide they want to live off campus and ask to be released; it’s a binding agreement same as if they signed a lease with an off-campus house or apartment. So students can’t select a room on campus “just in case” while they are waiting to see if they get an off-campus place they like.

Fire Safety and AEDs

The Office of Residence Life and Housing sent this message to resident students about fire safety and AED devices (automatic external defibrillators).

Reminder: Cozy Fest at ZSR tonight

It’s the end of the week, and it’s been grey and/or raining for the last few days. So your Deacs might especially be needing a sense of coziness and self-care tonight. ZSR is hosting Cozy Fest from 7-9 tonight, and that might be the cure for all this bad weather. Encourage your Deacs to check it out and enjoy tea, a smores bar, crafts, and more.

Closing thoughts: because its Friday, this afternoon/early evening is a great time to call your students. If you don’t remember why, check it out here.

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