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Pro Humanitate is our University motto. It means ‘for humanity,’ and the spirit of the motto is that we ought to be taking the skills and knowledge and talent we develop at Wake Forest and put it to work for the greater good. Our Wake […]
Summer!
We hope you enjoyed a long Memorial Day weekend. The 3-day break ends and the first session of Summer Session begins. From this afternoon until July 3rd, we will have a small cohort of summer students here working on things like Organic Chemistry or Accounting […]
Quiet
We are three days post-Commencement, and in my building at least you can feel it. There is so much upfront work and the devil is in countless details, that when it is over a lot of the folks here take a few days off to […]
Commencement Wrap Up
Yesterday was Commencement, and it was an absolutely picture perfect day on campus. The weather was ideal – cool in the am, warming up to low 70s and sunny. The mood was jubilant. The campus was beyond gorgeous. And what a joy it was to […]
It’s Almost Here!
Welcome, Wake Forest graduates and families! Commencement weekend is here, and we know this is a weekend y’all have been thinking and dreaming about for a long time (maybe even from the time your students started filling out their college admissions applications!) Four years […]
This Is a Week to Watch
My late father was the kind of guy who loved to watch any kind of neighborhood construction project, major tree trimming, etc. And if you are one of those kindred spirits, this week is the week to watch the WFU webcam. This is the […]
Did You Know? WFU Style
As I look around campus today, I see a lot of the same stuff that’s been going on all week. Students heading to their finals (with pinched, purposeful faces) or the library (with big backpacks). Students moving out with bags and boxes and their worldly […]
The View from Benson
Finals continue here at Wake. We’re about halfway through them, and every day you see the parking lots a little more empty as students finish up and head for home. I spent some time in the Food Court of the Benson University Center yesterday, waiting […]
Finals Week – The Best of the Internet
And so it begins. Finals week. My inside sources at the ZSR report that this is what they are seeing: “Students are congregating around all the tables in ZSR, with ThinkPads, textbooks and water bottles at the ready. Heads are down and they are […]
Reading Day
Today is Reading Day, which is the day after classes have ended and before final exams begin. Typically this is a day where you see not a ton of foot traffic on campus – none of the usual crowds of people during times when […]
