College students have a lot to manage: they have an email inbox with a constant stream of incoming information, and once school begins they will have a course syllabus for each class that lists out due dates, deadlines, the schedule for tests/papers due, etc. Students […]
Happy Monday, Deac families! I am happy to report that I am back to work and feeling much better. Thank you for all your kind wishes. I’m digging out of my inbox, so today will be brief. This morning, our P’26 and transfer families received […]
Today is, I hope, the last day of my sick leave (I finally started feeling a little better yesterday). For any of our Deac families who miss this view and want a glimpse of campus on a calm and sunny morning, I offer you this […]
I am still not back to my normal self, so today will be very brief. Today I offer some food for thought. I saw this image online the other day, and it made me think of our students. They are all so high-achieving, and a […]
I am still under the weather, so I am bringing you an item from the archives today. Today is a homework assignment, Deac families: to write a letter to your students and mail it the day before they move in for the fall semester. I […]
We want to remind you that Family Weekend football tickets go on sale tomorrow, June 22, via the Athletics department. NOTE: students can get a free ticket to sit in the student section with their WFU ID. If your student wants to sit with […]
I am wrapping up my week plus of PTO, so this is another prepost – a refreshing of something from the archives. I have been working in parent and family relations for almost 23 years, and among my counterparts at other schools, there has been […]
As I continue my PTO, wanted to share some of the images I have shared with students in years past. Sometimes I would pull one of these out for one of my advisees if they were going through a tough time. Other images I had […]
In May, I was a panelist for a program geared towards families of high school seniors about to launch for college. During the course of that presentation, one of thing things we talked about was what family members should do when they get that frantic […]
Because I am out on PTO this week, I thought I’d dip into the archive and resurrect a Daily Deac from years past. I have a short-but-sweet piece of advice for your Deacs for the upcoming school year. As with all my advice, it is […]