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Q&A about textbooks

In this Issue: Only one more week before the first of our ’29 students begin moving in – which feels crazy to me. The summer has just sped by! Today I want to draw attention to a couple of key processes before everyone gets totally […]


Read everything

In this Issue: The importance of students reading the things they receive from WFU (emails, the syllabus for each class, etc.) This is a message I like to share with families every year so you can talk about this with your Deacs before the fall […]


Rainy Wednesday

In this Issue: It’s another day of rain and cool temps at Mother So Dear. Summer Session II is wrapping up as well, with final exams (in courses that have them) on August 8-9. And then it will be just a few days before our […]


Tuesday Notes

In this Issue: If someone would have told me at the start of the summer that we’d have a 2-day stretch in August where the high temperature was the upper 60s, I would have called them a liar. And yet here we are: […]


Web update notices

CORRECTION August 5: this post has been updated to show the correct move-in dates In this Issue: upcoming changes to parents.wfu.edu Happy August, Deac families! The good news is I got my ’27 moved into their off-campus residence near NC State. The bad news is […]


Prepare a Medicine Kit

In this Issue: today we talk about making a medicine kit for your Deac’s room I am out of the office today, so this is a pre-post I like to run this column every year as families get closer to making packing lists and prepping […]


Nearly August(!!!!!!!)

In this Issue: Today is the last day of July, and tomorrow is August. The reality of the fall semester is really hitting! I was in a meeting earlier today about move-in, housing, and orientation, so I wanted to share some key updates in today’s […]


Humpday News

In this Issue: It’s Humpday – the middle of the week, and it has been a very busy day for me, so we will jump right into the news. Important updates from Deacon Health: new forms required for allergy shots, and action needed from *all* […]


Clocks

In this Issue: It’s nearly the end of July, and if you are like me, your heart might be feeling a little pinched at the idea of your beloved child moving out of your house soon and heading off (or back) to college. It feels […]


4 Weeks Until FDOC (First Day of Classes)

In this Issue: Greetings from a very warm Winston-Salem! Our stretch of hot days continues – my car thermometer read 101 when I got in it around 2:15 p.m. today – but there is a tantalizingly cool forecast coming up later this week: […]


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