Today we are featuring the senior oration of Meenu Krishnan. Enjoy it! —————————— An Education, Or Something Like It I found myself in fairly improbable circumstances the first time I seriously considered the purpose of higher education. Slogging knee-deep in murky waters through Mumbai to […]
There are many people on campus who touch the lives of your students, and we like to feature profiles of our campus community members in a segment we call “Meet a Deac.” Our Intern C (’13) checked in with Dr. Paul Pauca (’94) […]
We continue to feature our top ten submissions in Senior Orations. Today we hear the thoughts of Meredith Browne. ———————– Service Done Right While attending a meeting to prepare for the Volunteer Service Corps trip to Kolkata, India, we discussed our own personal philosophy of […]
Founders’ Day Convocation was held yesterday afternoon, and a feature part of the ceremony is the reading of three senior orations. Seniors were invited to reflect on their Wake Forest experience in the form of an essay. Ten finalists were chosen, and three were read […]
Deac families, there is a wonderful opportunity coming up next week for your students to be involved in a conversation about the campus culture of Wake Forest. We want and need their voices represented, so I hope that if you think this would interest them, […]
Yesterday the big news on campus was the announcement of Dr. Penny Rue as the new Vice President for Campus Life, effective mid July. There was a press conference of sorts in the Green Room of Reynolda Hall, open to anyone who wished to attend. […]
Happy Valentine’s Day to all our Wake Forest families! We wish you a day full of love and joy (and that your children remember to call/email/text you to tell you they love you!) In honor of the day, we thought we might talk about some of […]
The Volunteer Service Corps is getting in the Valentine’s Day spirit. They are working on a service project called “Cupcakes for a Cause” – detailed information below. If your student likes to cook and/or wants to exercise the creative and philanthropic parts of his/her mind, […]
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is hosting an event tomorrow evening that might be a very interesting one for our students. On February 13th at 7 pm in the ZSR Library Auditorium 404, Dr. Bob Zellner, a prominent Civil Rights activist, will be lecturing on […]
It is a gray and soggy Monday. Our thoughts are with the many Deac families in the NE who are digging out of 1-2 feet of snow. We’ve had a tremendous influx of students from the Boston area over the past few years, so we […]
