There is an important event in the life of the University this afternoon at 4 pm in Wait Chapel. It is Founders’ Day Convocation. Convocations are defined as follows, according to Wikipedia: “A convocation (Latin, “calling together”, translating the Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is […]
Happy Valentine’s Day to all our Deac families and their students. I don’t know if love is in the air, but there was certainly plenty of snow and cold in the air. School is closed again today. I have not been to campus myself, as […]
Today’s Daily Deac is a guest post from Kline Harrison, Associate Provost of Global Affairs. Dr. Harrison is a wonderful person I’ve known for many years. When I first came to Wake Forest, he was a very talented and popular professor in the undergraduate […]
Registration for Spring Family Weekend (February 28-March 2) will go live at 10 am this morning. This is a wonderful opportunity to come and see your students, do some fun campus events (and of course treat your Deacs to a nice dinner or two and […]
The fall issue of the English department newsletter came out recently, and when I got my copy of it as an English major alumna, I was struck by this story below. It is written by Kevin Jordan, a member of the Class of […]
Game on! It’s Finals Week, and your Deacs are wrapping up the semester with final exams, or perhaps papers and projects. Finals Week is normally Stress Central, so here at the Daily Deac we wanted to give you a little something to help boost your […]
We just learned of this opportunity for first-year students and wanted to pass it along to our Deac families. Dr. Brower has an informational meeting set for Dec. 2 at 5-6 pm in Greene Hall Room 162. The final deadline is January 16 for all material to be turned […]
First of all, for our parents and families reading this morning and worrying about the weather and travel conditions: as of 7:45 this morning, it was cold and rainy but I did not experience any ice at all on the roads. There was a bit […]
Summertime on campus is really different – because obviously there are fewer students, that is the time for construction projects and summer camps and conferences and so on. One day during the summer, I was walking to Starbucks at the ZSR Library and I swore […]
Final exams will be held December 9-14 – so it’s less than a month from now. Many of you will get to see your students during Thanksgiving, and it will certainly be a time where they want to recharge their batteries as they push […]
