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What We Did This Summer

The Parent Programs office is at the apex of its busy season right now.  Ours is the office that organizes the New Student Receptions program for our incoming students and their families.  These receptions are held in areas where there is a strong concentration of […]


It Seems Really Fitting

We’re about a month away from school starting up again – and we’ll welcome the newest Deacs of the Class of 2016 all the way up through the seniors in the Class of 2013.  And as we look toward this year and a time of […]


New Students and Parents

This blog post has been minimally edited to reflect 2017  information. There’s lots of activity over the summer for incoming students and their parents.  Roommate assignments will soon be sent out, and students have registered for the first 12.0 hours of their schedules.  They’ll now […]


Dance at Wake Forest

The staff of the Daily Deac is on the road this week, so today we’re bringing you some pictures of dance at Wake Forest.  Whether it is in class, for Shag on the Mag, or for a cultural festival, there are some great moments of […]


Young Alumni Event in NYC (Current Students Welcome, Too!)

One way parents can help Wake Forest is to encourage your students to stay in touch with the University and be involved in its programs in the years after graduation.  We have a wonderful, robust Alumni Office and they host programs and events all over […]


Things Live On

This morning I was taking a look at some of the campus photo archives, and came across this picture of the new uptown Schools of Business facility in Charlotte.  In the background of this picture, you can see a Deacon statue. Back in 2001, […]


Hometown Boy Does Good

If you are a golf fan, you will have seen that Wake Forest’s own Webb Simpson (’08) won the US Open yesterday.  Wake Forest has a rich tradition of being a golf powerhouse (Arnold Palmer, anyone?) – so in a sense it is not surprising […]


And on to the Weekend

It’s Friday on campus, Deac families, and for the second day in a row it has been unseasonably cool in the mornings.  There is virtually no humidity – rare for this point in June – and this morning as I came into the building the […]


Pro Humanitate, The Peace Corps, and A Good Man

Today’s Daily Deac was written by Jennifer Richwine (’93), Assistant Vice President of University Events Last fall, Mark Shriver came to Wake Forest to speak about the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, to celebrate the organization his father (Sargent Shriver) founded, and to […]


Bits and Pieces

It’s a rainy Wednesday on campus, Deac families.  Today is only supposed to get to 68 degrees, which is practically unheard of for June.  For our students in summer school, I predict trips to Starbucks today to try and de-gloom. Here’s a few nuggets of […]


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