One of the jewels in Wake Forest’s crown is Casa Artom, our residential study abroad house in Venice. It is a former consulate and is located on the Grand Canal right next to the Guggenheim museum. Decades of Wake Forest students have spent the […]
Last night, one of my friends on Facebook who is a WFU alumna posted a link to an editorial in the Sunday Review of the New York Times entitled “The Decline and Fall of the English Major.” We were English majors at Wake Forest together, […]
High school graduations are finishing and that means the Parent Programs office is going on its annual summer roadshow – the New Student Receptions. These receptions are held in cities across the country for new students and their families to meet and network prior to […]
Last week I got a chance to go on a hardhat tour of the two new upperclass residence halls on the north side of campus. The structure is completed, but they are doing all the internal work – wiring, tiling, drywall, electrical. The residence hall […]
Deac families, yesterday was our Wake 500 challenge, and what a day it was. A Wake Forester had agreed to match gifts to the Wake Forest Fund up to $100,000 if we could earn that in 24 hours. Additionally, this donor said that if we […]
Deac families, you know that most of the time we try to stick strictly to campus life and news in the Daily Deac, but today I am sending out a plea for help with a very special opportunity. Part of the work we do in […]
For those of you following along on Facebook or the Parents’ Page this past Thursday, we had a heck of a storm come through campus. It was not a tornado, and no one was injured, but it has caused a mess for the city of […]
For a lot of our first-year families (and students), one of the big anticipatory moments is which residence hall will their students be assigned to live in this fall. All of our first-year students live on the south side of campus, and there are deliberate […]
Now that summer is really and truly here, if you are on campus (whether in summer school or just visiting), you owe it to yourself to visit one of the treasures of the campus: Reynolda Gardens. Tucked away in a lovely spot just a […]
We have so many buildings and so many interesting places on campus. Most of the time when we are seeing something, we see only the public part of the space. Wait Chapel is a great example. At the front of the chapel is a stage […]
