Calling today Funday Monday because it is an exceptionally nice day on campus. Cooler than normal – a mild and delightful 82 degrees and sunny. Warm enough not to need a jacket, cool enough not to sweat too much if you are outside walking around […]
Y’all, it’s that time of year when I come to you talking money. You know I try not to do that only once or twice a year, but we are still 364 parent/family donors short of our goal for the Parents’ Campaign of the Wake […]
One of my colleagues from our news service stopped in yesterday to share some factoids for the Daily Deac. He knows I am a nerdy wonk for data points, and he has a nose for tracking these kinds of details down for me. So here […]
This is really exciting, Deac families. A Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition, Living Modern, is coming to Reynolda House Museum of American Art, which is essentially right in Wake’s backyard. This is one of the items on the Wake smorgasbord that your Deacs should not miss. They […]
It feels very different on campus now that all the students are gone and no families are here. You can see what his happening on the Quad via the Quad Cam – as of lunchtime Tuesday, the 13,000 chairs are off the grass and […]
Tentasaurus Rex is going up on the Quad, as of today. Check out the transformation of the Quad in the coming days by visiting the Quad Cam. If you take a peek now, you can see how the grass has been mowed to perfection, […]
Today is Last Day of Finals – and a collective sigh of relief (or maybe a groan?) can be heard from campus. Now all eyes are truly turned towards Commencement, so it feels like the right time to give you my unofficial best advice […]
Today is Campus Day for Accepted Students, so this morning my Office of Family Engagement colleagues and I had the good fortune to see and visit with many families. As in past years, some of them were kicking the tires between Wake and their other […]
Yesterday my friends and colleagues from Thrive had the Thrive tent set up right outside the entrance to the Pit on the Magnolia Patio. April 5th was National Alcohol Screening Day and students, faculty, and staff could take a brief online alcohol screening and then […]
For those of us who were loving the warm weather, it is gone today. Highs only in the mid 50s today, but supposedly we are going to be closer to 70 tomorrow and Saturday. So today I’m doing just a few quick hits. Starting with […]
