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Next Week at Wake Forest

The Provost’s Office does a terrific job each week in emailing faculty and administrators about the many and varied events that will be taking place on campus.  I wanted to share one such email with our Deac families, just so you can see the breadth […]


Summer Session – Why Your Student Might Want to Consider It

As your students come toward the end of Spring Break, they will have access to their midterm grades, and once they get back to campus they will begin the process of meeting with their academic advisers to plan their Fall 2012 coursework. Putting on […]


South Korea on Spring Break

Happy Spring Break, Deac families.  Hope that wherever your students are, they are having a wonderful time. We have two students who have embarked on a real Spring Break adventure.  David Inczauskis (’14) and Mehedi Hassan (’14) are traveling to Korea over Spring Break and they […]


Procrastination Blockers

Last week, my colleagues from the Office of Academic Advising and the Learning Assistance Center sent this information to the Parent Programs office.  I think it is a truth universally acknowledged that between students’ cell phones, laptops, and iPads, they literally have the entire planet […]


TEDx Is Almost Here

There is a great event coming up this weekend – the TEDx Conference.  For those unfamiliar with the TED concept, here’s a quote from the TEDx at Wake Forest web site: “TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a […]


Words Awake!

I was at a meeting this past week with one of my favorite Wake Forest faculty members, Tom Phillips (read his “Meet a Deac” profile).  He is working on a fantastic new initiative on campus, Words Awake!, a conference celebrating Wake Forest […]


TEDx at Wake Forest

For the past two months, student organizers have been working alongside faculty members and community partners to host an inspiring day of talks from a variety of national experts.  TEDxWakeForestU occurs on Saturday, February 25th, 2012 in Wait Chapel.  The focus of […]


Welcome Back

Students are back, which brings a life and vibrancy to our campus that I have to say I missed over the winter break.  It feels much emptier without your kids here!  They are getting back to their routines – classes, Starbucks, jogging and other active […]


College-to-Career Courses

My 20th WFU reunion is looming this fall, and as I look back on my time as a student and compare it to what I see now as an administrator, I see a lot of tremendously good additions.  I wish I had the opportunity to […]


Almost, Maine and the Freshmen Class

The Office of Parent Programs is a huge supporter of the arts at Wake Forest, and there is a special place in my heart for the WFU Theatre.  It is a wonderful community of very talented young people, who are paired with the great minds […]


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