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20th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Keynote Address on Monday

Your students have a great opportunity this coming Monday to hear the 20th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Keynote Address. It will be given by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. Dr. Kendi has a very impressive bio: He is a New York Times bestselling author and the […]


The Million Dollar Question

It’s been a whirlwind of a day here, so today’s Daily Deac will be a quick one. “When is Family Weekend?” is the million dollar question. And right now, we do not know. The short answer is that hope to have a date in early February […]


Be present

At the start of each semester, President Hatch sends a message to the campus community. He began with what feels like a really wonderful goal: be present. “As we begin this year, I offer all of us a single challenge: Be present. Even as you […]


Thoughts as we start the semester

Every spring, there is a little bit of an earthquake that happens with students. The familiar rhythm they had in the fall – when my classes were, who I ate my meals with, what I have to do to meet my faculty members’ expectations – […]


Welcome back, Deacs!

Happy Monday, Deac families! Our students are back – yay! – and it is FDOC (First Day of Class). So the semester is about to start rockin. For our P’23s, the first edition of Letters So Dear for the spring semester can be found


The Best of 2019 list

Happy Friday, Daily Deacdom! For our longtime readers, you will recall that Provost Rogan Kersh (’86) does an annual “Best Of” list with his recommendations on the best books, articles, movies, music, and restaurants from that year. Rogan’s Best Of has become a much-anticipated […]


Throwback Thursday

It’s still relatively quiet on campus since the bulk of the students won’t start moving back in until the weekend. The days of plentiful parking at all hours of the day are coming to an end. Your students will maybe notice some changes when they […]


An attitude of gratitude

It is nice to see students back on campus. So far it is just our young women involved in sorority recruitment, but we’ll get the rest of the student body back this weekend. Want to acknowledge that because we had so many pre-posted blogs over […]


ABCs of the new semester

One more pre-post, and then we should be back to live Daily Deacs tomorrow. As we start the new semester, thought it might be fun to look at it via the old ABCs. These suggestions are for you, Deac families. Always ask yourself “What is […]


Couple of start-of-semester thoughts

Happy New Year, Deac families! I am back in the office, but in a training class the next two days, so this is a pre-post. Sorority recruitment is about to begin. Current sorority sisters (already in the group) arrive back today to prepare, and then […]


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