On Saturday, there was a very special Wake Forest event: a combination birthday party and campaign launch to name the Main Stage Theatre after Harold C. Tedford, former chair of the department. Dr. T, as he is affectionately known, came to Wake Forest in […]
Friday morning on campus is a time when some of us drink our morning coffee and read the Old Gold & Black, the WFU student newspaper. I was reading the OG&B online this morning, and stumbled across this editorial entitled Developing One’s Identity Is […]
I was walking on campus earlier this week to a meeting in the library. It was early – before 9 am – and as I was coming down the stairs from the Quad by Reynolda toward the Benson Center, I witnessed an unexpected moment of […]
For those of you who might have missed the Daily Deac’s mentions of ZSRx Parents and Families: Deacon Development 101, we have been hard at work all summer developing a free, online course – with LOTS of help from campus partners who are subject […]
Today at 3:30 is the Student Involvement Fair on the Manchester Plaza (aka Mag Quad on the south side of campus, nearest the first-year residence halls). This is a great event, because it brings out every student organization on campus to showcase what they do. […]
It’s a day of labor for your students and our faculty, but administrative offices are closed today. So for today’s Daily Deac, it’s some pictures of the new Magnolia and Dogwood residence halls, as well as some from the ribbon-cutting ceremony that took place last […]
It’s the first real Friday of the semester, with all the students here, not just the first-years. Students are going to be happy to have a short week of class. As much as they want to be here (or be back here), it takes a […]
Yesterday I was working on a special project that involved being in the Z Smith Reynolds Library. Even though it was just the second day of classes, students were already looking quite serious about finding a quiet place to study and do their work. While […]
Classes started yesterday, and students got their first taste of their Tuesday-Thursday schedules. Today is the first day of Monday-Weds-Fri classes. I hit the ZSR Starbucks just before 8 am expecting to see at least a little bit of a logjam with students caffeinating up […]
Thanks to our Deac families who responded to yesterday’s Daily Deac about the “I Was the Sun, the Kids Were My Planets” editorial. I have heard from several parents about another editorial, this time from the Washington Post, about saying goodbye to children headed to […]
