One of the most important things your Deacs can do at the start of the school year is go to the Fall Involvement Fair. This will take place on Tuesday, August 30th from 3:30-6 p.m. on Poteat Field. Students can browse the 200+ student […]
Y’all, I have been derelict in my duty to our P’26s: we have started up with our Weekly Messages for First-Year Families, and I completely forgot to link to it from the Daily Deac. My apologies – you can see the first two messages
It’s Tuesday Newsday, where I bring you some of the new and noteworthy things that cross my inbox. Since yesterday was FDOC (First Day of Class), I thought it might be nice to share a snippet from an interview with physics professor Oana Jurchescu, who […]
It’s officially the fall semester, so we are resurrecting our Meet A Deac feature for this academic year. But first, a couple of quick news items for our P’26 families: New students received their Letters So Dear message from the Office of Academic Advising, […]
For our P’26 families, we do have recordings of our two largest family Orientation programs online now: you can view the Flourish in the Forest program (from 8/17) and the What to Know Before You Go program (from 8/18). Today’s Daily Deac is an amalgamation of many […]
Since today is still a superbusy one with new student and family Orientation, this is a pre-post. Today I want to talk about two things: the drop/add process for classes, and my top 5 tips for new families. But a quick note: some of you […]
Today is the day! It’s New Student Move-In, and I could not be more excited. The two happiest days in a college’s year are always move-in and Commencement. They feel different – one is a beginning, the other an ending – but they share the […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]