For the Parent Programs office, most of the summer is a maelstrom of New Student Receptions. We host around 30-35 of them each summer, and most of them take place within an 8 week timeframe, so it is a mess of invitations, RSVPs, computer updates, […]
Wake Forest lost one of its elder statesmen on the 4th of July: Dr. James Dunn, retired professor of Christianity and public policy at the Divinity School. I didn’t know Dr. Dunn well at all (mostly by sight and through association with other colleagues), […]
Who else out there is still reveling in the Women’s World Cup victory? I spent the evening with a couple of other WFU alumni/staff families and we were having a rollicking good time watching the US team and their amazing performance over Japan. Way to […]
Wake Forest is closed today in observance of the 4th of July holiday. On behalf of the Office of Parent Programs, we hope you and your family are enjoying a day off and happy times with friends and family. Hope you get a chance to […]
As the first session of summer school closes down, there is a program that you may not know about that bears highlighting. It’s our Summer Management Program (affectionately referred to for years as ‘business boot camp for non-business majors’). It is a program for students […]
Happy New Year, Deac families! What’s that, you say? New Year’s in July? That’s right, we count today as the New Year because it is the first official day of the 2015-16 academic year (which coincides with the new fiscal year for our budget). So […]
Today I am in a meeting in the Benson Center. This piece of art is hanging right outside the meeting room door. It’s a Keith Haring, a well known name in the American art world. Bonus that it is close to our […]
With the 4th of July just around the corner, many of you probably have vacation on your minds. Vacations are on our minds too. But there’s another reason we are thinking about vacationing. With the new Class of 2019, we are receiving lots of
This week’s unseemly heat has been broken by an impressive rain shower, happening right now (3:45 pm). This is the kind of rain where the drops are just enormous. It has been so hot and dry of late, and the flowers on campus have been a bit […]
There’s been some chatter about a new book that was written by a former dean of freshmen at Stanford University. She has written a book called “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success,” and it […]
