Author: Betsy Chapman Archive

So it was a drizzly day, and it wasn’t the ending we wanted for the Wake-Clemson game, but we still made it the best weekend we could. Hope you got a chance to watch College GameDay on Saturday. Class of ’27 and I drove by […]

There is a new Campus Health Update on the dashboard page: “During consultations with public health experts before the start of the semester, they predicted that we could see an increase in positive cases of COVID-19 two to four weeks after the start of […]

Our random testing is taking place this week, and we expect to test around 500 students weekly, as mentioned on our dashboard. With random testing, we may find students who test positive for COVID. In those cases, the Student Health Service will provide guidance […]

Happy Wednesday, Deac families. Starting today off with some good news: to support students looking for a quiet place to study or sit in on an online class, the College has opened up a pool of smaller, lightly scheduled or unscheduled classrooms for student use […]

Big news came out at the end of the week, and that is for the first time ever, ESPN’s College Gameday will be broadcasting from Truist Field, but without a crowd (because in accordance with NC Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Phase […]

Want to acknowledge there have been some hiccups in the send-out time of the Daily Deac. Our third-party push service is supposed to send it each weekday between 5-7 pm. Twice this week, it has not gone out on time and has only gone out […]

As you know from yesterday, our state is moving to a Phase 2.5 status, which brings with it some good news: beginning Tuesday, we will gradually open our wellbeing center and gym facilities for lower-risk activities (outdoor recreational activities will still remain available). In addition, […]

Lots of news you can use today. Let’s get started. In academic news, we named a new University Registrar. Ken Gilson of Biola University will become our University Registrar and Assistant Provost on October 1st. Welcome, Dr. Gilson! We also got some athletics news […]

It’s overcast today, and cooler than it has been. Right now my Weather Channel app says it is about 75 degrees, which is surprisingly cool for this time of year. A look ahead shows that it is going to warm up back to the 90s, […]

Happy Monday, Deac families! Several COVID-related items to talk about today. We have a new electronic newsletter that is being sent to undergraduate students each week called Your Corona Chronicle. It is a quick-hit, bite-sized dose of news you can use. Our weekly