I heard a presentation yesterday from a faculty member I very much admire, and one of the things they said was that it takes a full year to adjust to college. Sometimes even more. So it is not unusual to have first-year students (or even […]
It’s back to work after the Super Bowl. And there is a really interesting upcoming event taking place this Wednesday at 7:30 in Wait Chapel called The Defamation Experience: The Wake Forest University community is invited to an evening of theatre, engagement, and dialogue […]
Happy Friday, Deac families! Have a smorgasbord of things to share today: First of all, it SNOWED today. Starting around 1:30, we had big, chunky, wet snow. The ground is not cold enough for it to stick, so it melted pretty much on contact […]
There was a really important article in today’s Old Gold and Black. One of our Divinity students has written a very moving letter about his own journey of recovery and sobriety; read it here. I am so grateful he was brave enough to share […]
This one is for our P’20s, our senior families. Just found out today that the Commencement 2020 website has gone live. The speakers have not yet been announced, but you can explore the site, look at the schedule, and get a sense of what […]
Resilience is a critical skill for all of us to have. We all will suffer losses, failures, disappointments. In college, those can come in many flavors: bad test/paper grade, roommate conflict, loss of a romantic relationship, didn’t get into the Greek org/student org/internship they wanted, […]
We’re starting Week 3 of the semester. Probably still too early for a lot of tests/papers/projects, but it may be dawning on your Deacs (as they look ahead on their syllabi) that busier times are coming. Couple of program notes. The first is from the […]
The date for Family Weekend was announced at 9:18 am this morning (we had a tech glitch that kept it from going right at 9). Family Weekend will be Friday, October 9th through Saturday, October 11th. We hope you will plan to join us. I […]
Thank you for your patience as the small army of event planning folks have been trying to do all the reconnaissance on potential event dates. The process is nearly at an end and we expect to release the Family Weekend date at 9 am tomorrow. […]
As many of you have seen, the ACC football schedule was released today. A lot of you are asking my office (and other offices on campus) When is Family Weekend? And much as I’d love to give you a date right this second, I don’t […]
