Author: Betsy Chapman Archive

In this Issue: TGIF! We’ve made it to the end of the week. Our final home football game is tomorrow (full disclosure: my ’27 clarinet player will be here with NC State’s pep band and I am thrilled to see him). Some of my friends […]

In this Issue: I know I talk about the weather a lot, but I like to give you a sense of what your students are feeling. After all my talk of fall, we are warm again this week. Today’s high is 77 and it is […]

In this Issue: Class registration is this week, and students can feel a certain amount of stress as they make their class choices. In case you hear from your student that they ‘can’t get the classes they need,’ encourage them to 1) consider classes at […]

In this Issue: Today is a ton of meetings for me, so I will be brief 🙂 Email about Thanksgiving break and room inspections The Office of Residence Life and Housing sent this message to resident students about preparation for the Thanksgiving break, including […]

In this Issue: Happy Monday, Deac families! It’s a new week – let’s all have a great one. Some of my content is lengthy today, so we’ll get right to it. First up: fall is beautiful! Fall in the Forest video We’ve had a really […]

In this Issue: As we approach the last home football game of the year, it’s time to talk about Senior Fifth. I invited Peter Rives, Associate Director of Wellbeing, for a Q&A to help explain this phenomenon, and where we invite parents and families to […]

In this Issue: Bystander intervention trainings A colleague shared this information about free trainings for our campus community: “During the month of November, the Office of Wellbeing, in collaboration with the Office of the Chaplain, will be hosting a series of bystander intervention trainings presented […]

In this Issue: Beautiful cool weather continues. I went walking this morning and it was quite cold. Not sure how many of you have early-rising Deacs (or not-so-happy to rise early but they have 8 am classes Deacs), but mornings now are chilly. I was […]

In this Issue: Second Summer had its last hurrah yesterday. We woke up to Actual Fall: around 40 degrees and drizzly, with a freeze warning for tonight, which is a bummer for any little kids (or our Deacs!) who planned to trick or treat tonight […]

In this Issue: today we talk about operational processes and how we can’t all be first I have a series of posts I share each year about typical college processes. Most of those blog posts (I hope) are well received. There are a few topics […]