Move-In is just a few days away, and it is time for my annual cautionary tale. As our new first-year students go through New Deac Week, our upperclass students will also be returning to campus. That means our new students will start hearing about parties […]
With the start of classes being a few weeks away now, it’s a good time to share some etiquette on how students can put the best foot forward with faculty. A few years ago, a faculty friend of mine emailed me this article, U […]
It is hot, hot, HOT here this week. A quick look at the 5-day forecast shows that our students here for summer session II will probably want to be utilizing the pool over in Reynolds Gym/the Wellbeing Center, or at least staying indoors. […]
July 1 officially marks the first day of our new year in my office. We go by the fiscal year calendar, which for us runs July 1-June 30. It always feels like a bit of a celebration. Many thanks to all the families who made […]
Today’s Daily Deac is brought to you by the WFU Family Weekend Committee. Families and friends of Demon Deacons are cordially invited to Family Weekend 2019, happening November 1-3! Featuring WFU football versus NC State, the schedule will be filled with workshops, entertainment, and […]
So there is a new kind of ‘roll the Quad’ happening right now: they are rolling giant wheels of sod out onto the Quad so we get our grass back. Yay! As of yesterday morning, they had just started rolling the side of […]
An intrepid Daily Deac-er emailed me yesterday to ask what is going on with the Quad. Intrepid parent said they had been looking at the Quad Cam and wondered why the Quad grass was gone. My excellent colleague Ken Bennett, our university photographer extraordinaire, […]
Summer is a lighter news time for us, so our Daily Deacs are likely to be shorter, with more practical, tactical information. This one is just for the P’23s – the New Deac Week (aka Orientation) schedule is out! Kudos to my colleagues in the […]
Happy end to the short week, Deac families! We’ve got an abbreviated Daily Deac today. I have gotten a few questions from families with students here in summer school re: which food venues are open this summer. There is a website called Deacondining.com that is […]
The Secrest Artist Series is one of the great perks of being a Wake Forest student. The series brings world-class artists to campus, and our students can see them for the mere cost of flashing their WFU ID. The 2019-20 season has been […]
