Wake Network
I was at a dinner the other night with Wake Forest alumni and some current parents. It was a wide age range, spanning from graduating in the ’70s to the mid ’00s to having a senior on campus now. Though I did not know any […]
First hint of fall
I took a walk up on campus earlier today and saw my first true sign of fall. This is a lovely little tree outside Poteat Residence Hall. If you have not experienced a NC fall before, they can be pretty spectacular. Family Weekend is […]
Guest Blog: Supporting Your Students in Transition
Today’s Daily Deac is a guest blog from Allison McWilliams ’95, Assistant Vice President, Mentoring and Alumni Personal and Career Development College is an awesome, exciting, life-changing time of new experiences, new friends, new classes and interests. It’s also an overwhelming, challenging, and sometimes […]
Wake Washington
Today starts our Homecoming weekend, and it’s my 25th reunion (and I have lifelong friends coming) so this is a pre-post :) Don’t know if parents and families are aware of this yet, but we have a wonderful and new Wake Forest presence in Washington, […]
This week in pictures
Here are some pictures of events that have happened this week. Basketball great Chris Paul was on campus yesterday, doing talks for our student-athletes as well as the Leadership Project talk in Wait Chapel. If you want to watch a video of his conversation […]
On the horizon
After a couple of days of grey and rain, the sun is out again and campus is splendid today. It’s warm-ish but not too hot, sunny, beautiful skies. I’ve been jammed up in my office most of the day but here is a pic from […]
Hit the Bricks
On September 28th, one of the most beloved campus traditions will take place: Hit the Bricks. Teams of students (and some faculty and/or staff) run or walk laps on the Quad. The runner (or walker) has a baton with a barcode, and each time they […]
Final update on the hurricane
This morning we had our final Crisis Management Team meeting on Hurricane Irma, as its path had shifted well west of campus. We put one last message on our Hurricane Irma page, or you can read it at the end of this post. In […]
Continuing to think of our Deac families in Irma’s path
Quick Daily Deac today – and a bit of a mish mash of items – as we have been following Irma today and are quite busy with that. Re: Irma, I anticipate we will perhaps have one more email message going out to Wake parents and […]
Hurricane Irma
In early afternoon, we sent the following message about Hurricane Irma to all parents and families for whom we have an email address. I wanted to replicate it here, as sometimes our emails go to people’s spam folders (hint – search your junk/quarantine/spam folder for […]