Yesterday was Commencement, and it was a terrific one. There had been some reports of potentially bad weather a few days ago, and we may have even had a little rain late Sunday night/early Monday morning, but the day broke with beautiful purple […]
Finals are finished, and students can now – hopefully – relax. Faculty, on the other hand, are in the massive time crunch to grade all papers and projects and get the grades in before their deadline. Wake Forest is filled with terrific faculty members, true […]
Today is the last day of final exams, and if your student is still here and slogging through them, my hat is off to him or her. I have seen some students in the last few days and they look tired. The librarians are helping the […]
We’re closing out on the last full week of classes, and ending this week on a good note. After a couple of days of miserable rain and colder weather, today is going to be sunny, low 70s, and gorgeous. This morning as I was coming […]
There are a lot of great blogs and websites within the WFU community of which one should take note. President Hatch has a video message about Commencement and his plans for the summer. View it here. The Deacon Blog is written by my […]
It’s the home stretch of the semester – and most of our students have an enormous case of Spring Fever – so it might be a good time for a couple of reminders, to-do list style. Think about summer school – The online phase of […]
Wake Forest is hosting the “Rethinking Success” conference this week, examining the role of the liberal arts and higher education. I sat in on some of the conference sessions yesterday and found the speakers to be very engaging. The capstone to the conference was […]
Yesterday I was walking back from the center of campus from a meeting, and to my surprise and delight I saw David Robinson, former NBA player extraordinaire, and his family on a campus tour. If I read the situation correctly, he was there with his […]
Another weekend gone, another week closer to the end of the semester. It was stormy this weekend – on and off – and it was decidedly cooler yesterday. This week should be somewhere between the 60s and 70s, hopefully nice for your students. Over the […]
It’s hard to focus. Springtime is arguably the prettiest time on campus (remind me this when it’s fall and I say the same thing). But really, it is. We are flush with daffodils, flowering cherry trees, tulips, and all manner of plants in beds around […]
