It is a beautiful day here on campus. The highs were in the upper 70s, which made it feel a lot more like May than June. The hot temperatures will come soon enough, so we’ll enjoy it while we can. Many thanks to those of […]
Y’all, it’s that time of year when I come to you talking money. You know I try not to do that only once or twice a year, but we are still 364 parent/family donors short of our goal for the Parents’ Campaign of the Wake […]
This afternoon I was in a presentation with our Global Programs and Studies (GPS) office, who was showing us a demo of software that Wake uses to track our students studying abroad. Obviously when there is a situation abroad – be it a natural disaster […]
One of my best sources in the ZSR sent over this little tidbit today: Looking for summer reading recommendations?? ZSR has you covered! Check out our Goodreads page for thematic reading lists to suit bibliophiles of all tastes! Here are a few of the titles […]
One of my colleagues from our news service stopped in yesterday to share some factoids for the Daily Deac. He knows I am a nerdy wonk for data points, and he has a nose for tracking these kinds of details down for me. So here […]
This is really exciting, Deac families. A Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition, Living Modern, is coming to Reynolda House Museum of American Art, which is essentially right in Wake’s backyard. This is one of the items on the Wake smorgasbord that your Deacs should not miss. They […]
Hey there, Deac families! Did you miss me last week? I’m back in the office and happy to report that Class of ’27 is well on the road to recovery following removal of tonsils and adenoids. Felt strange to be a full week without blogging, […]
This article was making the rounds this morning on my Facebook feed and among some of my friends in higher education. It’s The Ethos of the Overinvolved Parent, from The Atlantic. It is an interesting read and one about which many reasonable people might […]
Today’s Daily Deac is a guest post from Rebecca Alexander, Professor of Chemistry, Director of Academic Programming for Wake Downtown, and F.M. Kirby Family Faculty Fellow. —————- We have just completed our first semester at Wake Downtown! Eighteen classes met each week, including History 366 “Historic Preservation,” Education […]
It feels very different on campus now that all the students are gone and no families are here. You can see what his happening on the Quad via the Quad Cam – as of lunchtime Tuesday, the 13,000 chairs are off the grass and […]