Happy Tuesday, Deac families! It may be intermittently gray and rainy this week, but we are still riding that post-Hit the Bricks/Family Weekend/undefeated football team high! There is a terrific Hit the Bricks photostory you might enjoy. And speaking of Family Weekend, some of […]
Happy Monday, Deac families. Hope you all had a blast at Family Weekend! Mondays are Meet A Deac days, and I am happy to be introducing you to one of my colleagues from the Office of Personal and Career Development, Dana Hutchens. To get […]
At long last, Family Weekend is here! Wishing everyone a very warm welcome to campus and a great weekend! For those who want to see some of the glory that was Hit the Bricks, our intrepid Ken Bennett has put together a wonderful collection of […]
Hit the Bricks is today! And it is one of the most fun days of the fall. It’s a day for the whole community to rally behind a common cause – supporting cancer research. There are very few of us, sadly, who have not been […]
The Major/Minor Fair is today. Sophomores have been getting messages all week about this, including one today, as major/minor declaration is typically open only to sophomores (and some juniors who had not declared previously). The formal declaration period typically happens at the end of […]
It always seems like we have a lot going on on Mondays, so today I am catching you up on some news. For P’25s and transfer families – your students got their issue of Letters So Dear yesterday. For any of you who have […]
Once again, we are in Meet A Deac Monday! Before we begin, an important program note: Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day and the Office of Civic and Community Engagement will be in the Tribble Courtyard from 12-5 p.m. tomorrow. Does your Deac need […]
Before we get to our Family Weekend update, I got late word of an event this coming Monday that your Deacs may wish to participate in: “On Monday, Sept. 27, from 4–5 p.m., Dr. Yusef Salaam will join Professor Kami Chavis, Vice Provost and the Director of […]
Today’s message is about the important – and challenging, and amazing – work of parenting college students. I saw this on one of my social media feeds the other day, and it resonated with me as I think of my own Class of ’27 Deac […]
Today is the first day of fall, and slowly but surely we are starting to see signs of fall emerging in Winston-Salem. Probably the first sign is that we are seeing much lower (and in my opinion, much nicer) temperatures: mostly in the mid- to […]
