Author: Betsy Chapman Archive

Happy Monday, Deac families! Our students are back – yay! – and it is FDOC (First Day of Class). So the semester is about to start rockin. For our P’23s, the first edition of Letters So Dear for the spring semester can be found

Happy Friday, Daily Deacdom! For our longtime readers, you will recall that Provost Rogan Kersh (’86) does an annual “Best Of” list with his recommendations on the best books, articles, movies, music, and restaurants from that year. Rogan’s Best Of has become a much-anticipated […]

It’s still relatively quiet on campus since the bulk of the students won’t start moving back in until the weekend. The days of plentiful parking at all hours of the day are coming to an end. Your students will maybe notice some changes when they […]

It is nice to see students back on campus. So far it is just our young women involved in sorority recruitment, but we’ll get the rest of the student body back this weekend. Want to acknowledge that because we had so many pre-posted blogs over […]

One more pre-post, and then we should be back to live Daily Deacs tomorrow. As we start the new semester, thought it might be fun to look at it via the old ABCs. These suggestions are for you, Deac families. Always ask yourself “What is […]

Happy New Year, Deac families! I am back in the office, but in a training class the next two days, so this is a pre-post. Sorority recruitment is about to begin. Current sorority sisters (already in the group) arrive back today to prepare, and then […]

Before the semester begins, I want to urge parents and families to help us reinforce a message we want students to hear, and that is: read everything. Read the syllabus for class. All the pages. All the details. Read every email you get from a […]

Happy New Year, Deac families! We look forward to having your students back for the spring semester. But before they are back, and in the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, I challenge them to think about a few things they could do differently in the […]

Yesterday we took a look at campus blanketed in snow – a more serious look at Wake covered in white. Since tonight is New Year’s Eve and it’s a time of revelry, today we’ll see some students playing in the snow. Honestly, one of my […]

We continue our pre-posted Daily Deacs with a look back at last December. We have not had any snow this year, but last December we got 8-10 inches during finals, which caused a heck of a lot of issues: academic, transportation, and more. Still, even […]