There is a service opportunity coming up this weekend that may be of interest to your students. This would be a great way for any students who are looking for meaningful ways to connect with new friends, while serving our “Pro Humanitate” motto. Please encourage […]
Residence halls opened yesterday for students, and hopefully yours returned then because the weather yesterday was glorious: mid 60s and sunny and much more like spring than winter. The next few days are not quite so nice; it will be rainy today but close […]
Tonight is Pref Night in the sorority recruitment process. That means that some young women will find out they have 2, 1, or 0 options still available to them to join a sorority. This is always a hard night. Bids will go out tomorrow, and […]
It’s the final days before students can return to campus from Winter Break. Those who are here now are either RAs or part of the sorority recruitment process. Here’s the breakdown on recruitment today: Day 3 – Women are invited back to a maximum of […]
Well, the first (and very long) day of sorority recruitment is over. Here’s a procedural recap of what took place yesterday and will take place today. At the end of Day 1 (yesterday), sororities choose which women they would like to invite back for Day […]
Deac families, you are going to want to mark your calendars for noon today, because that’s when Spring Family Weekend Registration will go live. Just as they did in the fall, Student Union has crafted a wonderful schedule of events for parents and family members […]
Yesterday at our departmental staff meeting we had two terrific faculty members, Rebecca Alexander of Chemistry and Shannon Mihalko (’92) of Health and Exercise Science, come to talk to us about the work that they do with URECA. URECA is an acronym […]
Winter break is wrapping up for the young lady Deacs who will be involved in the sorority recruitment process, which starts with activities most of the day of January 9th. For the sorority sisters returning, the next days will be a flurry of preparing for […]
Yesterday the Daily Deac shared an article from the New York times about how parents and students adjust over the winter break. We solicited comments from Deac families about your own winter break experiences and best advice. We received this very thoughtful response from […]
A colleague of mine sent a very interesting article from the New York Times entitled “The Return of the Natives,” which talks about how students (particularly first year students) and parents have to readjust over Winter Break. It covers the holiday transition from a […]