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Ways to Engage

One of the things we urge students to do at the start of each year is to find meaningful engagement in campus activities. There is an opportunity for a select group of students to be involved with CLAC – the Campus Life Advisory Committee. Here’s […]


It’s Go Time!

We have made it to Move-In Week, so it’s go time! A loooooot of things going on right now in prep for our students’ arrival, so today will be brief. P’26s and transfer families: we sent out our final Weekly Update for Incoming Families today; […]


Friday Jambalaya

It’s the end of the week, and I am sharing a variety of odds and ends, jambalaya style. Move-in began today for new students participating in certain Pre-Orientation programs. Two items of note: first, a message went out to all Wilderness to Wake Pre-Orientation participants […]


Deep Breaths

Today’s Daily Deac is borrowing some terrific language from Adam Goldstein, Associate Vice President and Dean of Students, that he shared with members of his team a week or so ago. With his permission, I’ve adapted this a bit for the family perspective: We all […]


College Student vs Family Roles

Yesterday, a message went out to incoming students who are still not in compliance with our immunization requirements. Those students will not be allowed to come to campus, move in, or attend classes. If your student received that message (and I can’t tell you […]


Some Packing and Orientation Thoughts

I am a big fan of planning ahead, so today is all about thinking through contingencies of what your students might need to have on hand in their rooms this fall, and a clarification for our P’26s and transfer families about Orientation. First, Orientation. Some […]


Clarifying Some Items in the Move-In Guide

I hope that our P’26 and transfer families had a chance to look at our Move-In Guide, which we sent out this past Friday. A couple of questions have come up since then that I wanted to clear up here: For families moving in […]


Doing Their Best

Last minute addition coming in near our normal content deadline: the campus community received the following message about our approach to COVID-19 for the fall semester. We are sharing this important information with parents and families as well. I can tell that it is […]


Mailing Packages to Your Student

NOTE: corrections and additions to mailing information was added to this post on 8/4/22 Let’s start today off with some great news: Wake Forest is 45th on the list of Money.com’s “Best Colleges.” Go Deacs! And if you haven’t already done […]


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