the daily deac Archive

While normally Betsy is the voice you hear from in the Daily Deac, I am jumping in today to announce some happy news. I am Minta McNally (’74, P’02, ’06) and I head the Office of Family Engagement. Betsy and I have worked together for […]

We’re just a little over a week away from having our Deac families on campus for Family Weekend – which is always one of the best and happiest weekends of the year. We know you are looking forward to seeing your students (and they are […]

Happy Wednesday, Deac families! I have been steadily gathering a few more pictures for our Where In the World Are Wake Foresters? series. We’ll jump right in. Because we ran an item about the Berlin Wall on Monday, I got some great […]

I am in academic advising much of this week. My guess is that if I surveyed some of my fellow lower-division advisers about the kinds of things their students are expressing to them this week, there would be a mix of the following: concern about a […]

Happy Monday, Deac families! Your Deacs are too young to have ever experienced the Berlin Wall in real time, but this week on Manchester Plaza, there is a cool project related to it: “Walls Fall Down” on Manchester Plaza is a community art project to […]

Happy Friday, Deac families! It’s been a couple of absolutely gorgeous days. Fall is here and it is delightful to have cool mornings and the need for a sweater. Trying to catch up on announcements that piled up while I was out of the office. Here […]

Today was a big day. Dr. Hatch sent a message to the campus community to announce that we have reached the $1 billion mark in commitments to the Wake Will Lead campaign: “On this day in 1951, President Harry Truman helped Wake Forest College break […]

Your Deacs are back after Fall Break, and campus feels much more alive with them here. We’re just about at the midpoint of the semester – the second part of term classes will begin Wednesday – so our students will soon begin the long, slow, […]

Fall Break is definitely the chillest time on campus. Parking? Abundant. Lines in the Benson Food Court? None to speak of. It isn’t that there are no students here – I was out today and I could see some here and there: jogging, or walking […]

Last day before Fall Break. I got a message yesterday that there is a new link to a recording of From the Ground Up (some of you had noted that the livestream this past Saturday cut off before the end). I watched this […]