It’s a Scorcher
In this Issue:
- Reminder to sign up for Workday Financials demonstrations
- Wake Forest hosts Freedom School students
- History professor comments on King Charles III’s portrait
- Meet the Internet’s Admissions Dad
It’s a brand new week, and if you have Deacs in Summer Session, unfortunately it will be an absolute scorcher of a week. Wednesday’s high is projected to be 97, and the coolest day will reach a mere 87.
For our P’28s who are new to the Daily Deac, please allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite weather memes below. We are officially at Hell’s Front Porch.
I know it’s hot all over the US right now. May you and yours stay cool! Today we have three fun stories – take your pick or read them all!
Reminder to sign up for Workday Financials demonstrations
As a reminder, as of July we will be moving student financials activities into Workday (including billing, financial aid disbursements and more). This means that families will no longer be going to the DEAC system to make payments, but to Workday.
To support parents and families during this change, there will be two virtual demonstrations of how to engage with your student’s financial information in Workday. We encourage families to register for one of the following Zoom events:
As a reminder for upperclass families (i.e., P’25s-P’27s), any access that your student granted you to pay bills in DEAC does NOT transfer over to Workday automatically. Your students will have to set you up in Workday as a Third Party and then grant you access to specific functions. (Note that those instructions can only be accessed by your student if they are logged in to their WFU account).
Wake Forest hosts Freedom School students
If you have Deacs here in summer school, you may notice a lot of younger students around campus. They are here for Freedom School:
“Nearly 70 children will embark on a six-week journey of literacy enrichment and college campus immersion at Wake Forest University’s Freedom School.
This year’s program runs from June 17 to July 26….It’s part of a national initiative developed by the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF). Wake Forest’s Freedom School aims to combat summer learning loss while fostering a deep love for reading….
The heart of the program lies in its servant leader interns (SLIs), comprising students from Wake Forest, Elon, UNCG and Wingate University. These mentors, in classrooms of 10 to 12 students, facilitate the integrated reading curriculum, featuring books that mirror the scholars’ experiences and identities.”
You can read the full article here. It’s a great example of our campus living out its Pro Humanitate values.
History professor comments on King Charles III’s portrait
Here’s one for those who are interested in matters of the British royals. I found this little gem on Inside WFU:
“Stephanie Koscak, associate professor of history, explores the history of royal portraiture in Britain and the symbolism of King Charles III’s new – and very red – official portrait by Jonathan Yeo.
Kosack explains that part of the reason why the portraits and personalities of British rulers are so well remembered today is because the monarchy, going back to at least the Tudors, has paid close attention to their visual representation and the circulation of their images.
‘With this portrait we might say that the king is entering his “red era” to borrow some Swiftie vocabulary,’ she writes.
Read her recent online essay for Broadsides, published by the North American Conference on British Studies.”
Meet the Internet’s Admissions Dad
One of the higher ed publications I read on the regular is The Chronicle of Higher Education. They recently ran an article about the “Internet’s Admissions Dad,” Prashant Sehgal. The Chronicle chatted with Sehgal recently via video to learn what prospective students are like these days, what crazy things they’re doing to try to get into highly ranked colleges, and how an engineer turned filmmaker ended up serving as an unpaid consultant to the college-yearning masses. You can read it here. (Note: subscription may apply).