We had a monster rainstorm lastnight – which was very much needed, as we have been sunny and hot for days on end. Here are a few, quick impressions of campus today: Weather: hot, muggy, humid, sweaty Activity on campus: furniture being unloaded near Babcock […]
Family Weekend is always a time of great fun – you get to see your students at Wake Forest, with their friends and with the college student perspective. Well, my friend and colleague from the Wake Forest Magazine, Kerry King (’85), found this hilarious tidbit […]
Today’s Daily Deac is an important reminder – tuition is due on August 1st. Financial and Accounting Services has provided some handy Q&A and links to help you through the process if you need it. How are families notified when tuition is due?
Today’s Daily Deac is devoted to a question we occasionally receive from families: My student has a professor who has a foreign accent that is difficult to understand. He/she does not want to get a bad grade in the class. What is the best course […]
Deac families – today is a somber day in WFU history. In 2007, on this day, our head basketball coach and much beloved Skip Prosser passed away from a heart attack following a jog on campus. There have been few people quite as beloved […]
Happy Monday, Deac families. I am back in the office after having been out nearly all of last week for New Student Receptions. So let’s play catch up with a couple of announcements. Late last week, President Hatch emailed the campus community (students, faculty, and […]
I am en route to a New Student Reception today, so I am passing along an article from the Washington Post that a colleague sent me earlier in the week. This is a good and worthy read, Deac families. One of the issues of […]
Three things to cover today in the Daily Deac. While this tidbit may be of more interest to our P’20s, this is a program that is open to others too. New students were sent information about the Wake Ware laptop program last week. A copy of […]
As I continue pre-posting some Daily Deacs while I travel, let’s take a look at the new residence hall being built next to Collins. This is coming along nicely, as you can see. Target date for opening to student occupants is spring semester 2017. While this […]
One of the most difficult parts of having a student in college is when they have a problem and you aren’t there. When you live with your student at home and he/she has a problem, you at least get to see how he looks – you […]
