Today’s Daily Deac is devoted to a question we occasionally receive from families: My student has a professor who has a foreign accent that is difficult to understand. He/she does not want to get a bad grade in the class. What is the best course […]
I am en route to a New Student Reception today, so I am passing along an article from the Washington Post that a colleague sent me earlier in the week. This is a good and worthy read, Deac families. One of the issues of […]
Our incoming first year students will be getting ready for Round I of course registration next week. This is where they will register themselves for up to 10 hours of classes. New students should be playing close attention to the Academics and Advising sections of […]
(The Daily Deac is on vacation and will return Tuesday, June 21. The following covers a frequently discussed topic.) For those upperclassmen parent Daily Deacers, this is a repost, but one I hope is worthy of it. Particularly for parents of first-year students and sophomores, […]
Over the long weekend, our Diamond Deacs got some great news – we are headed to the NCAA Baseball Tournament! You can watch a video with Coach Tom Walter and the team’s reaction here. Their game will be this Friday at 4 pm, […]
I was so busy at my office yesterday that 4 pm rolled around and I realized I’d missed the Daily Deac deadline. Oops! (and sorry). Here’s a little bit about what I observed on campus yesterday. It was lovely weather – low 80s and sunny […]
My colleagues and I sometimes joke that it’s a small Wake Forest world – meaning, you might be on vacation somewhere and see someone in a WFU hat, or find out in casual conversation that you and a friend have a connection to some other Wake […]
This appeared in my Facebook feed via the Washington Post: “The 7 things new college students don’t know that drive professors crazy.” Written by a former high school teacher turned college professor, this outlines some of the DON’Ts of interacting with college professors, at […]
It’s Day 1 of Final Exams, and the logical place for the Daily Deac to focus on is the ZSR Library. Here’s an impressionistic field report (and some pics) from some well-placed sources at the ZSR. “Thursday, Reading Day, started slow, with students taking advantage […]
Today is Reading Day – the one day break between LDOC (Last Day of Classes) and final exams starting. The idea, I suppose, is to give you a day to prepare for finals. Here’s a Reading Day meme for your viewing pleasure. Depending on […]
