I am on PTO this week, so the post below was pre-scheduled. However, need to make a brief mention of the tornado warning last night. First up, everything is fine – no tornado hit campus (and at my house – 3 miles from campus – it was […]
Many thanks to all the new Deac families who came to Campus Day for Accepted Students today. The weather was just as cantankerous as last week – yes, it rained again – but the families we met were so friendly, and excited, and were […]
I have been seeing this on my social media threads for several days now – people talking about #ThePollening. It’s that time of year where all our trees are becoming beautifully green – and so is everything else. A light dust of greenish-yellow is […]
A couple of weeks ago, I got a message from a Deac mom that was so powerful, I wanted to be able to share it. Said Deac mom gave her permission. Here goes: You probably realize this even more than I do, but there is […]
Yesterday I was part of a group of staff who got to do a tour of the bell tower of Wait Chapel and the tunnels underneath it. Wait Chapel, as you know from looking at it, is reallyreallyreally tall – 213 feet all the […]
Today has all kinds of big news to report! After completing a national search, Eric Maguire has been appointed the University’s Vice President for Enrollment, effective July 1. He currently serves as vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid at Franklin & Marshall College […]
Today is Campus Day for Accepted Students – where we welcome students and families who had been accepted into the Class of 2023. Some of those students were Early Decision, and they are coming back to see their school and maybe make connections with their […]
Editor’s note: this was a pre-post, because I am traveling today. But I just found out that we named the Commencement and Baccalaureate speakers. Our 2019 commencement speaker will be Fred Ryan, publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post. Our Baccalaureate speaker will be […]
After that wild and wacky snow we got yesterday, today is a great day – sunny and nearly 70. I saw this on my social media lastnight and it very accurately summed up North Carolina weather. I also saw this online lastnight, and […]
Many thanks to those in the Daily Deacdom who took yesterday’s April Fool’s joke in the spirit that it was intended. In case you missed it, yesterday’s post was an April Fool’s prank, saying that I was going to start a life-coaching service […]
