Today was the next major COVID update to students, faculty, staff, and parents/families. You can read the message here. A few big takeaways: The University will be offering additional refunds to undergraduate students for health, wellbeing, student activities and parking, where applicable. Both Summer […]
All, we have many tidbits of news to share today. Yesterday a message went out to the Class of 2020 about the Virtual Conferring of Degrees on Monday night at 7 pm; read it here. Yesterday was also the final installment of Chaplain Auman’s […]
Today’s Daily Deac is a look back through the academic year, month by month. There is obviously a lot more that happened than I can show here – but here are a few brief glimpses at what life was like this year. August 2019: move-in, […]
Normally at this time of year, I put out my annual list of recommendations for Commencement – things like be sure to wear sunscreen, don’t wear your best shoes because the Quad gets muddy with 10,000 people walking the same paths in the grass, etc. […]
I was so busy on Friday working on my senior salute that I completely whiffed on the fact that Sunday was Mother’s Day. So today I offer a belated Happy Mother’s Day to all the special women in the Wake Forest family. Whether you are […]
Before we get to the main content of the blog, wanted to point out that we have new resources for you about Move-Out: webinar from last night slide deck from last night enhanced FAQ And new hours for our Call Center next […]
Many thanks to all in the Daily Deacdom for your patience as we work on part II of our Move Out Webinar. A LOT of questions came in about the process and it has taken some time to cull those responses. There are also a […]
Today the internet giveth. In spectacular fashion. If you are a reader of a certain age, you remember Gloria Gaynor’s epic break up anthem, I Will Survive. Not only is the song being played on our carillon (thank you, carilloneur!), but we got a […]
Today is Reading Day, a day’s break between early finals and late finals – sort of a palate cleanser, or a moment to catch your breath. As is my custom, I wanted to share a few finals and/or quarantine funnies memes, because longtime readers know […]
Straight out of the gate this week, a couple of news items: 1) most of our resident students received a message today about scheduling appointments for move-out (or to indicate pack-and-st0re); and 2) I need to ask our P’20s for some help: we are looking […]