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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 […]


Read everything

Before the semester begins, I want to urge parents and families to help us reinforce a message we want students to hear, and that is: read everything. Read the syllabus for class. All the pages. All the details. Read every email you get from a […]


Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Deac families! We look forward to having your students back for the spring semester. But before they are back, and in the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, I challenge them to think about a few things they could do differently in the […]


New Year’s Eve

Yesterday we took a look at campus blanketed in snow – a more serious look at Wake covered in white. Since tonight is New Year’s Eve and it’s a time of revelry, today we’ll see some students playing in the snow. Honestly, one of my […]


Winter white

We continue our pre-posted Daily Deacs with a look back at last December. We have not had any snow this year, but last December we got 8-10 inches during finals, which caused a heck of a lot of issues: academic, transportation, and more. Still, even […]


Fraternity Recruitment

For parents/families of sons, I am frequently asked about what fraternity recruitment looks like for them. There is a huge difference in the men’s and women’s processes – the short version is that sorority recruitment is highly structured and men’s is not. As I did […]


One extra gift for you

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, Daily Deacdom! As I was looking at coverage of the Lovefeast in photographer Ken Bennett’s archive, I stumbled across this picture. And I loved it so much, I had to share it. There is so much beauty in the […]


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