Reading Day
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 […]
Deadwood Seminar
Today’s Daily Deac takes a look at an innovative class. Mary Dalton, Professor of Communication and Media and Film Studies, taught a seminar this semester on Deadwood and the Western. Mary is a member of the Class of 1983 and her teaching interests within the […]
Go Deacs!
After the high of Campus Day and seeing all those smiling faces of new Deacs and new P’20s (parents/families of the new Class of 2020), we had some additional awesome this weekend. First, the men’s tennis team took the ACC Championship! It’s our first […]
Wednesday Witticisms
Classes end in 7 days, and students are feeling it. So for today’s Daily Deac, a few memes about college, replete with some pop culture references. You can hang onto these and bit by bit send them to your students if you think they need […]
For Those Sweating Major Choice
A common theme that I have heard from some of the freshmen I meet is “I have no idea what I want to major in and I am freaking out about it.” They feel pressure that they should know (but don’t), they are dreading you […]
Senior Orations – Buck Hinman (’16)
It’s the end of a glorious week on campus. It’s been in the 70s and 80s all week, but to my dismay we’re about to hit a cold and possibly rainy stretch this weekend and early next week. Big, breaking news of the day: there […]
Plugging a Few Events
The snow has melted away for the most part, and life goes back to normal at Wake Forest. There are a couple of events coming up in the near term that merit a mention to you (in hope that your Deacs may take advantage). Tonight […]
Major/Minor Declaration
If you have a sophomore, this is the week for him/her to declare a major (and a minor, if desired). The Registrar’s office has info on the mechanics of declaring. I want to provide a few thoughts on what I hear from students […]
New MS Unveiled for Business Analytics and ‘Big Data’
There is news coming from the Business School that might be of interest to your Deacs, and I share it with great enthusiasm. We just issued a news release on a new Master of Science in Business Analytics, which is a 10-month MS program that […]
Misc Monday
What a glorious, glorious weekend we just had. Yesterday was about 60-65 degrees and sunny – so wonderful after the snow. There is still some snow lingering, by the way, mostly on the side of the roads where it had been piled up by snow […]