In this Issue: Campus feels quiet and empty without our students. The vast majority of our student body checked out yesterday by 2 p.m., which definitely changes the vibe. For the students that left yesterday, it was brutally, brutally cold and very windy. Like low […]
In this Issue: Email to students about the Duke’s Mayo Bowl I am out of the office today, so today’s Daily Deac is a pre-post. Yesterday, students received a message about student events at the Duke’s Mayo Bowl from Shea Kidd Brown, Vice President […]
In this Issue: If your Deacs are still on campus taking finals, they should be starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel: the last final exams will be held on Saturday, Dec. 13 and then all residential communities close on Sunday, […]
In this Issue: Today is a busy day for me so we will jump right in! Increased presence of emergency vehicles on campus: December 10 & December 11 I got word this afternoon that: “There will be an increased presence of emergency vehicles on the […]
In this Issue: Today is cold – a projected high of only 36 – but no rain, sleet or snow in the forecast and the rest of the week will be in the mid-40s to mid-50s, so hopefully no more weather drama until after our […]
In this Issue: UPDATE 2:30 p.m. – A Wake Alert was just issued suspending campus operations after 5 p.m.; read the full message here. Final exams began this morning. For me at least, the anticipation of finals was generally worse than the actual finals, […]
In this Issue: Today was supposed to be LDOC (Last Day of Classes). But given the precarious weather forecast, we all woke up around 5:30 a.m. to a Wake Alert voicemail telling us that campus is closed today. At my house at least, I do […]
In this Issue: We’re almost to the end of the last week of classes. Hard to believe that the semester is nearly finished. And we are all keeping an eye on the weather, as there is a chance we get snow tomorrow (at least this […]
In this Issue: we talk about some ways you can help your Deac think about returning home for an extended period Before we get to the meat of today’s blog, I do want to share the schedule for something really fun that happens in the […]
In this Issue: Depending on which weather forecast you looked at yesterday, you may have thought today might bring some snow, or just very cold rain. Turns out it is just very cold rain. A gloomy Tuesday (in my head I am singing Goodbye […]