One of my colleagues on the academic side of the house forwarded me this article from LinkedIn. It is entitled “Why liberal arts and the humanities are as important as engineering” and it is a terrific reminder of why we need students who are […]
Happy Monday, Deac families! Let’s make it a great week. I was in the Benson Center early this morning going to the Post Office and saw the lounge that sits between the Post Office and the Dean of Students suite, empty. During the school […]
Incoming first-year students will do their course registration next week. First-year students have been getting a variety of emails all summer to help them prepare for registration (see archives here), but I also talked to my friends in the Office of Academic Advising to […]
UPDATED JUNE 20TH: the Daily Deac below was written days ago, before we got the tragic news of the death of Zachary Zhang (see news release here). Please join me in offering your thoughts and prayers to Zachary’s family, friends, and loved ones. Today […]
I hope by now that many of our P’22s have discovered the New Students website – this is the place where all the critical information for incoming students is stored. Yesterday, your students received an email (read full version here). Part of it […]
We have Deac families all over the country (and the world). I saw this picture on Facebook from someone out in the frozen tundra that is the midwest and thought you might appreciate. Hopefully spring will decide to come to your hometown very soon […]
It has been a wild and crazy Friday and I have not had much of a chance to get out and about, so today I bring you just a few impressions of campus and the mood: Sunny – the sun has been out and shining […]
Tonight is an incredible opportunity for your students – to hear from 3 time Grammy winner Branford Marsalis. He will be performing in Wait Chapel tonight as part of the Secrest Artists Series. This is a free event for students with their student […]
It’s the academic advising period, so students should be meeting with their lower division adviser (for students who have not yet declared a major) or their major adviser. Thought it would be helpful to share a few things about registration: It is very important for […]
Today’s Daily Deac is a rerun of something I did . Was good advice then and it’s still good now 🙂 I call it “The Agony of Choosing.” Over the past couple of weeks I have had an opportunity to talk with a good many […]
