One quick news item to start us off today: Residence Life and Housing sent this message to continuing students (’22s-’24s) about the housing selection process. There is a great video in the message that should help your Deacs understand the mechanics of housing […]
Friends, it looks like we are starting to enter that part of Southern summer where there is a chance of rain every afternoon. Check out the weather forecast for this week. Last night we had a brief but really soaking storm, which was great for […]
Editor’s Note: following the publication of this Meet A Deac, the Learning Assistance Center was renamed the Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (CLASS) Finals are over, and we’ve concluded the academic year, but today I am introducing you to someone who was very […]
I am out of the office, so today’s Daily Deac is a guest post by Dr. Betsy Hoppe, Executive Director, Undergraduate Business Program, and is tailored to families whose students are interested in the business school. Wake Forest students apply to the business school in […]
From time to time, I like to add a short survey here in the Daily Deac. These help us understand how families and students are experiencing Wake Forest, trends in behavior, etc. Today we have a very short survey on family-student communications in 2020-21 […]
Campus feels a lot emptier with the majority of our students home for the summer. But it does open up some great opportunities to get pictures of campus where you can really see the buildings and other architectural elements. Here are some shots that Ken […]
How is it possible that it is already June? And yet here we are. Summer Session I started on May 24th, so we do have some Deacs here for summer school, as well as others taking classes online at home. For those living on campus, […]
We’re at the start of a 3-day weekend, Deac families (the university will be closed on Monday in observance of Memorial Day, though I have pre-scheduled our Monday Meet A Deac). For much of my early life, Memorial Day was sort of an abstract concept. […]
Each day, I put the Daily Deac content to bed around 4-5 pm Eastern. After our publication deadline yesterday, a message went out to students and families about our decision to pause the implementation of our plan to rename Wingate Hall as May 7, […]
I have been thinking a lot about going back to normal times on campus. One of the things I love most during a normal academic year is walking across our beautiful campus and stumbling on the unexpected. Sometimes in my wanderings, I would find something […]