As is often my practice, let’s begin by talking about the weather. It has been a warm week – mid to high 80s – and sunny. We are starting to see leaves turn brown and fall off the trees, so the sidewalks are starting to […]
This morning I was at a meeting with lots of staff from various areas of Campus Life, and wanted to give you a recap of some of the many, many opportunities that your students have in the coming days and weeks. Tomorrow Sept 22nd is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
