Today I felt drawn, as if by magic, to Scales Fine Arts Center. Like there was some weird gravitational pull nudging me in that direction. Scales is one of my favorite places on campus. I have been thinking of Scales a lot and have wanted […]
I had a meeting this morning in Campus Grounds, which is a student-run coffeeshop in Taylor Hall. While the Starbucks on campus always feel like a Starbucks, Campus Grounds has a more intimate, arty feel to it. The walls are all brightly painted and […]
The Daily Deac blog post that you will see below the dotted line was written a couple of days ago at the request of students who wanted to get some publicity for upcoming efforts. Occasionally I pre-write posts and schedule them to go live if […]
Though February is a short month, it can seem like it lasts forever if you are sick of winter and cold and jackets and the risk of snow. So if you are in the throes of the Winter Blahs, take a deep breath and look […]
Today’s Daily Deac comes to us from Kyle Denlinger, e-learning Librarian at the ZSR and mastermind of online courses. Some of you may remember Kyle from ZSRx Parents an Families: Deacon Development 101, our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) about college student development. (If you didn’t […]
How many of your students are inclined to want to solve big problems? Work in nonprofits? Use entrepreneurial thinking to kickstart work on a cause that matters to them? There is a speaker on campus tomorrow night that they should go hear. Nancy Lublin, the […]
The LJVM Coliseum was the place to be on Saturday afternoon, when our Deacs took on VA Tech. Happily, a good number of students put down their books and came out to support the team. No matter how well VA Tech is playing, their fans […]
This has been a busy week in our office and another one to follow, so today’s Daily Deac will be a short one. I was combing through our photo archive to see what kinds of shots might be in there from our great Ken Bennett, […]
From early morning to midday I was in a variety of meetings around campus. Here are a few glimpses of things observed during that time. – It’s cold. Not 3′ of snow in Boston cold, but cold for Winston. It feels like the high 30s, […]
For those of you stuck in frigid and snowfilled places, I wish you speedy melting and resumption to life as usual. There’s no snow predicted for us (*knock wood*) in the near future. It has been pretty cold for here, in the high 30s/low 40s. […]
