A Few Laughs
If you went to college yourself, you know that college is a tremendous amount of hard work. But it can also be a lot of fun! Today I took a peek into our photo archive and thought I would show you a few laughs and […]
Student Health Insurance and Davis Field Road
I’ve got three main topics for you today, Daily Deacers: the Student Health Insurance requirement, construction of the Davis Field road, and this week’s emails to P’26s and ’26s. First things first: I got a message from my friends in the Student Health Service last […]
The Worry Letter
Today I am sharing The Worry Letter, an oldie-but-goodie from the archives. If you knew me in real life, you’d know I am a weapons-grade worrier myself (it’s part of my genetic makeup; I come from a long line of women who worried). I was […]
Registration Updates
For P’26s whose students were registering for classes yesterday, the Office of Academic Advising had a few registration updates to share: Please remind your student to complete and submit the Guided Preregistration Survey (GPS) they received on 5/27 by 11:59 P.M. EDT on Wednesday, July […]
Sharing Some Things
Happy Wednesday, Deac families! I thought today might be good for sharing some things that have hit my inbox or social media of late. For those who like to see where Wake Foresters are appearing in the news, we have the most recent edition of […]
Short Week
It’s a short week due to the holiday, so we will get right to business. On July 1, Michele Gillespie began her new role as University Provost, and Annette Ranft became Dean of the School of Business. We welcome them to these new roles and […]
Student Health Insurance Requirement
Happy New Year! Wake Forest’s new fiscal and academic year begins on July 1st, so we are officially in the 2022-2023 year now. And one of the very important tasks each year is for families to take care of the Student Health Insurance requirement. EVERY […]
Last Day of our Fiscal Year
Today is the last day of our fiscal year. If you have not made a gift to the Parents’ Campaign of the Wake Forest Fund this fiscal year (July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022) we hope you will consider making one today. All gifts, no […]
New Faculty of Note
There are two new faculty members of note that I just learned of this week: “Grammy award-winning producer and Winston-Salem native Patrick “9th Wonder” Douthit and renowned poet Brenda Marie Osbey will join the Wake Forest University African American Studies Program as professors for the 2022-2023 academic […]
Pick a Strategy
College students have a lot to manage: they have an email inbox with a constant stream of incoming information, and once school begins they will have a course syllabus for each class that lists out due dates, deadlines, the schedule for tests/papers due, etc. Students […]