Author: Betsy Chapman Archive

For the past couple of days, we have woken up to a dense fog, which clears away by late morning or midday. I feel like we are channeling one of my favorite US cities, San Francisco :) I should have grabbed a shot of the […]

Lots of quick hit news to bring to you today, so let’s get right to it. Got a few calls in the Call Center over the weekend and wanted to share those points: With an increase in COVID cases on campus, there is more contact […]

As we move into the weekend in our new Orange status, we have a video from Dr. Chris Ohl, our amazing infectious disease specialist, who has been working with us through the pandemic. He lays things out in very understandable terms and has some […]

As you can see at Our Way Forward (and in the email sent to parents and families), we have raised our operating status to Orange, which means Modified Campus Operations. Lots to unpack here. The goal of moving to Orange Status is to […]

I’ve been in meetings a lot of today so this will be a short(ish) blog today. As I mentioned yesterday, the dashboard shows our cases are trending upward, but we are still controlled, and our asymptomatic positive tests are still quite low. It’s a […]

Next week is Fall Fest, which leads up to Halloween. There are lots of opportunities for your students to do some fun, seasonal stuff like pumpkin painting, graveyard yoga, haunted trails, and something new called Fall Friendlies: Fall Friendlies is a brand new Fall […]

It’s a new week, Daily Deacdom. Let’s meet it with a smile! A message went out to undergraduate students (and later to parents and families) about end-of-semester updates and information about the spring semester; read it here. There is a lot to digest in […]

Happy Friday, Daily Deacdom! Students got their issue of Your Corona Chronicle yesterday, and the top story was that North Carolina reported 2,532 new cases of COVID-19 on October 15— the highest single-day total since the pandemic began. That news was repeated in the October […]

Midterms (and the stress of impending midterm grades) are a time when students tend to feel anxious. Maybe they make some not-so-great choices about food, or don’t get enough sleep, which doesn’t help your Deac’s mood, or how they feel. All of this, I might […]

This morning a message went out to campus from Gerald Roach, our alumnus and former parent who chairs our Board of Trustees. The message was about the presidential search process and said, in part: The Board of Trustees and the Presidential Search Committee are committed […]