Family Weekend draws near, and I am hoping that all the rain is finished before you all arrive. Was driving down Reynolda Road on Tuesday and the leaves really are at their most beautiful right now. It is a glorious stretch of road in the […]
Today from 3-6 pm on the Quad is Project Pumpkin, one of the happiest days on campus: Project Pumpkin is a signature student-led event that was started at Wake Forest in 1988 to bring together the campus and Winston-Salem communities. Each year around 500 children […]
This week will be a series of very short Daily Deacs, as schedules are packed leading up to the big weekend. The weather forecast for this weekend is supposed to be nice. Rain scheduled for Thursday, and I hope it dries up in time. Keep […]
I have been in academic advising much of today, so a very short Daily Deac. Hope you all received the email to all families regarding the report of shots fired off campus. Read the full message here. Students had also received a general safety […]
While normally Betsy is the voice you hear from in the Daily Deac, I am jumping in today to announce some happy news. I am Minta McNally (’74, P’02, ’06) and I head the Office of Family Engagement. Betsy and I have worked together for […]
We’re just a little over a week away from having our Deac families on campus for Family Weekend – which is always one of the best and happiest weekends of the year. We know you are looking forward to seeing your students (and they are […]
Happy Wednesday, Deac families! I have been steadily gathering a few more pictures for our Where In the World Are Wake Foresters? series. We’ll jump right in. Because we ran an item about the Berlin Wall on Monday, I got some great […]
I am in academic advising much of this week. My guess is that if I surveyed some of my fellow lower-division advisers about the kinds of things their students are expressing to them this week, there would be a mix of the following: concern about a […]
Happy Monday, Deac families! Your Deacs are too young to have ever experienced the Berlin Wall in real time, but this week on Manchester Plaza, there is a cool project related to it: “Walls Fall Down” on Manchester Plaza is a community art project to […]
Happy Friday, Deac families! It’s been a couple of absolutely gorgeous days. Fall is here and it is delightful to have cool mornings and the need for a sweater. Trying to catch up on announcements that piled up while I was out of the office. Here […]
