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As you can see at Our Way Forward (and in the email sent to parents and families), we have raised our operating status to Orange, which means Modified Campus Operations. Lots to unpack here. The goal of moving to Orange Status is to […]

I’ve been in meetings a lot of today so this will be a short(ish) blog today. As I mentioned yesterday, the dashboard shows our cases are trending upward, but we are still controlled, and our asymptomatic positive tests are still quite low. It’s a […]

Next week is Fall Fest, which leads up to Halloween. There are lots of opportunities for your students to do some fun, seasonal stuff like pumpkin painting, graveyard yoga, haunted trails, and something new called Fall Friendlies: Fall Friendlies is a brand new Fall […]

It’s a new week, Daily Deacdom. Let’s meet it with a smile! A message went out to undergraduate students (and later to parents and families) about end-of-semester updates and information about the spring semester; read it here. There is a lot to digest in […]

Happy Friday, Daily Deacdom! Students got their issue of Your Corona Chronicle yesterday, and the top story was that North Carolina reported 2,532 new cases of COVID-19 on October 15— the highest single-day total since the pandemic began. That news was repeated in the October […]

Midterms (and the stress of impending midterm grades) are a time when students tend to feel anxious. Maybe they make some not-so-great choices about food, or don’t get enough sleep, which doesn’t help your Deac’s mood, or how they feel. All of this, I might […]

This morning a message went out to campus from Gerald Roach, our alumnus and former parent who chairs our Board of Trustees. The message was about the presidential search process and said, in part: The Board of Trustees and the Presidential Search Committee are committed […]

This afternoon, a major announcement was made: President Hatch will retire at the end of this academic year (June 30, 2021): Fifteen years ago, Julie and I accepted the call to join the special educational community of Wake Forest University. These years have been the […]

It was a rainy weekend here in W-S, but here’s hoping for better weather this week. I did my normal weekend routine and drove down Reynolda Road near Reynolda Village to see if the trees have exploded in fall colors. The answer is not yet […]

As we close out the week, there is a new campus health update on the dashboard (all good news!). Also, your students got their issue of Your Corona Chronicles last night. Today I want to make you aware of some opportunities for you […]