This might be the biggest Commencement speaker news Wake Forest has seen since we announced then Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Today at 10 am, we announced that the 2015 Commencement speaker will be comedian Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report. I wish I could have […]
As you no doubt heard from your students, we got snow last Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning, our intrepid and award-winning photographer, Ken Bennett, ventured out in the snow to take some pictures of campus. They are in a terrific web site, Snow in the […]
The Daily Deac is continuing to feature the finalists for Senior Orations. Today we will see Am I Enough? An Addendum to Wake Forest’s Motto by Elizabeth Carlson ’15 But before we get there, you’ll note that today is a snow day here on campus. […]
The Daily Deac continues to showcase the finalists for Senior Orations. And with whispers of possible more snow to come this afternoon or tomorrow, we’re preposting Thursday’s Daily Deac just in case. There is a basketball game scheduled for tonight (WFU vs UVA at 7 […]
If you were watching the Oscars last night, you saw the golden moment of Wake Forest’s own Kelly FitzGerald (’17), whose short film was chosen as one of six winners in a Team Oscar contest. You can see Kelly at the Oscars here, and there is […]
In the coming weeks, the Daily Deac will feature the finalists for Senior Orations. Three students were chosen to read their Senior Oration during Founders’ Day Convocation. But all of the top ten orations are worth sharing, and we’ll publish one at a time. Today’s […]
Wake Forest students are very entrepreneurial in their thinking and their activities. A few years ago, they started TEDx events on campus – these are local versions of the TED Talks you might have seen on YouTube. The organizers of this year’s event wanted parents […]
It’s Friday, and as always, I hope you’re making it a Black and Gold Friday wherever you are. Wear WFU colors and show your school pride! Correction from yesterday: the Kissing Kanines booth is in the Benson Center 3rd floor. Hope your students get […]
This weekend is Valentine’s Day, which can be a really tricky time in college. Students might be in a relationship, or they might be in some sort of ambiguous place where they don’t want to push too hard to DTR (Define the Relationship) and scare […]
The Daily Deac blog post that you will see below the dotted line was written a couple of days ago at the request of students who wanted to get some publicity for upcoming efforts. Occasionally I pre-write posts and schedule them to go live if […]
