With Thanksgiving just a few weeks away (HOW DID THAT HAPPEN???), many people’s thoughts are turning to gratitude. My division of Wake, University Advancement, created a calendar of suggested activities for our staff, which encourages gratitude and kindness , and I modified slightly to share […]
For the P’18s in the Daily Deacdom – and perhaps other parent years too – there is a webinar coming up that might be of interest to you: Support Their Five: Setting up Young Adults for Success after College In this 45 minute webinar […]
Family Weekend is concluded, and the staff of the Dean of Students office did a terrific job with all the events of the weekend. (And it did not rain during the football game! Which after the last couple of years is a big win!) Today […]
Happy Family Weekend to all! Short message today, because I hope to see as many of you on campus as I can! Wear your P pins with pride! They will be at Family Weekend Registration in Benson today and tomorrow morning (while supplies […]
And it is one of my very favorite weekends of the year! Can’t wait to see all the families on campus and watching your pride as you discover how much your Deacs have been blossoming since last you saw them. Because it is a […]
Today is Project Pumpkin, one of the best days of the year. Student volunteers have planned and organized a ton of carnival games, they are decorating the Quad as I type, and will be welcoming a ton of kids (1,000 is not uncommon in past […]
Today is an all-day crisis management training class for me, so this Daily Deac will be brief. A Deac parent sent me a link to this article – and the even better video – about the adjustment to college and making new friends, and […]
It is a gray and rainy day. Neither cool nor hot. But a fairly steady rain that is small drops and a misty feel. When the wind gusts, it blows some of the leaves out of the trees, so in moments of bluster it is […]
So today I took one for the Daily Deacdom by road testing one of the services our Thrive office offers: massages. This is a relatively new service, and I am not sure all our Deacs know about it, which is why I wanted to try […]
A Daily Deac for the art fans today. Secrest Artists Series is offering Noche Flamenca tonight, a flamenco dance touring company. I have a relative who worked on one of their productions and said they are incredible. There was a write up in […]
