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Wake Washington – and a survey

Many thanks to the Deac parents/family members who came to our event at the Wake Washington Center yesterday. This was my first trip the Wake Washington Center, and it was wonderful! For those of you who are not familiar, we have a ‘semester abroad […]


Commencement Day Advice

I’m still traveling, but wanted to reprise an oldie-but-goodie, my annual advice for Commencement. This is explicitly for parents and families of graduating seniors (P’19s), but our younger classes might want to read as well for future reference. This will be my 18th Commencement, so […]


Registration tips

Many thanks to all the lovely families who came out in the rain last night in Phili for our parent/family reception. It is always great to meet folks in the Daily Deacdom! Registration begins the week of April 1st. Students will select up to 8 […]


Wake N Shake pics

I’m on the road – looking forward to meeting Philadelphia area parents and families tonight, and DC area families on Wednesday. Wake N Shake was this weekend – and we have some great pictures from Ken Bennett to prove it. Enjoy them! Also, an email […]


Wake N Shake

It’s the end of the week, and the big event of the weekend is Wake N Shake, the 12-hour dance marathon that raises money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund. Tons of students are involved, and they have been busy fundraising and also […]


Spring

Campus is finally seeing the beauty of spring begin. There are about a billion daffodils on campus – especially in the drive up the main entrance by the Byrum Welcome Center. And as you walk around campus, you might see crocus (crocii?), or creeping phlox, […]


Summer Shipping and Storage

One clarification from yesterday’s Daily Deac: the info I provided about class registration and housing registration refers to currently enrolled students only – folks who are here taking classes now as current first-years, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Incoming first-years in the Class of 2023 will […]


My least popular piece of advice

Academic advising is happening this week and next, so there will be a lot of students looking at their schedules and hoping to get in this class or that. Housing selection for residence halls will happen in the coming weeks too, with jockeying for residence […]


We’re back!

We are happy to have all our students back on campus following Spring Break. It is definitely much quieter here without them. Dr. Hatch sent a message to the campus community yesterday in regard to the Christchurch, NZ shooting; read it here. Today, he […]


Update on campus news

During my last Daily Deac before spring break, I ended with this: “We’ll take the week off from the Daily Deac next week, since your students are gone, unless there is some sort of Big News that can’t wait.” As if on cue, there was […]


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