Today is Reading Day, a day’s break between early finals and late finals – sort of a palate cleanser, or a moment to catch your breath. As is my custom, I wanted to share a few finals and/or quarantine funnies memes, because longtime readers know […]
Straight out of the gate this week, a couple of news items: 1) most of our resident students received a message today about scheduling appointments for move-out (or to indicate pack-and-st0re); and 2) I need to ask our P’20s for some help: we are looking […]
It’s May 1st today, and so begins what I think of as the Janus month in college administrators’ lives. If my memory serves from my Classics classes, Janus was the Roman god of beginnings and endings. He is shown with two faces: one looking behind, […]
Today a major University update went out to students, faculty, staff, and parents/families from President Hatch. You can read it here. Lots to digest, so I want to give what context I can. We have announced a highly-structured and controlled self-move-out process so students […]
Yesterday, Dr. Penny Rue, Vice President for Campus Life, sent out a message to families of the Class of 2020 discouraging them to return to Winston-Salem for in-person social connections; read it here (a similar message went out to families of students still […]
In a normal semester, as we approach LDOC (Last Day of Class), we know students start to feel the pinch of impending finals. Add the anxiety that remote learning and COVID-19 brings, and those feelings might be exacerbated. This is where YOU come in, Daily […]
Breaking news. I learned today that the University announced the deadline has been extended for students to elect a COVID-19 Pass/Fail or to return to letter-grade mode in a class that they had previously elected as a COVID-19 Pass/Fail. The deadline for these changes for the College […]
Since COVID-19 began and we’ve been all working from home, every day kinda feels like Blursday to me (all days run together in a blur). Because of Blursday, it’s hard to feel the ebb and flow of different days of the week when your scenery never […]
Several items to hit today: Some families have asked for updates about their students’ belongings and how they will be reunited with them. We are working feverishly on plans for that, and we will provide an update with what we know on belongings (and several […]
There have been many articles written lately about the struggle for students and families alike to suddenly have their college-aged students home again. This requires all sorts of adjustments: students – who had previously been making all their own decisions and living independently – may […]