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A Short Break for the Daily Deac

Many thanks to all our faithful readers of the Daily Deac.  It’s our pleasure to bring you a glimpse of life on campus each weekday. Our colleagues who work on the technical side of all the WFU websites have been doing server migrations on various […]


A Somber Monday

Your students are home now, we hope safely and happily tucked into their beds and sleeping off the residual stress from finals.  The first day without them on campus for an extended period of time always feels a bit strange, but today it seems even […]


Hey Girl, Big Finish

As Finals Week is wrapping up, we are seeing more and more students hauling out suitcases and duffle bags and leaving campus.  They look tired, and are dressed more in sweats and workout clothes than their normal (read cutest) clothes.  Campus always begins to feel […]


On the Subject of Luck

Only three more days of exams left and then your students can look forward to a lengthy Winter Break.  Our good friends at the ZSR Library are doing their part to help students by hosting the ever popular Wake the Library – which offers free […]


Finals Continue

To quote the old holiday song, “Baby, it’s cold outside.”  This week has been gray and cold and that seems really fitting given the fact that students are immersed in the joy that is final exams.  Once they get all their finals finished, it […]


A Short Break for the Daily Deac

Many thanks to all our faithful readers of the Daily Deac.  It’s our pleasure to bring you a glimpse of life on campus each weekday. Our colleagues who work on the technical side of all the WFU websites have been doing server migrations on various […]


Finals Day 2

It’s the second day of finals, and Starbucks at 8:30 am was already reasonably populated with students who were caffeineing-up for the morning.  Some of my colleagues in the ZSR Library have said that the stress level is palpable there.  The first couple of days […]


And So It Begins

Finals Week is here.  This week will be especially hard for our first-year students just because they have not taken college level finals before and don’t really know what to expect.  Once they’ve gone through one set of finals, though, they will have a point […]


Classes End. Now What?

Today is the last day of classes.  Which means our students are kicking it into high gear to get ready for final exams and for departing for the Winter break.  What are some things they should be thinking about and doing? – Turning in all […]


Crisis Management: Necessary but Daunting

Your students might have noticed a larger-than-usual number of police cars and EMT-type vehicles on campus yesterday.  That’s because from 8am-1 pm, the campus’ Crisis Management Team was running a simulation drill to help practice what we would do in the event of a campus […]


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