Air Deacon Tower
Not to be forgotten in this week of “aerial Wake Forest” – here is a shot of the sun setting against Deacon Tower, at BB&T field. Just a few more weeks until football season, and I for one cannot wait. Go Deacs! — by Betsy […]
Throwback Thursday
This is an oldie but goodie. The history of the Quad trees is fraught with occasional despair, and in a couple of much-lamented episodes, the trees have had to be thinned (as happened a few years ago) or taken down altogether (as was the case […]
Aerial Play on Words
As we continue our week of aerial views of Wake, this aerial is from the inside of the Benson University Center. This is an installation of red solo cups – the ubiquitous party cup of choice for college kids everywhere. This time, my clever colleagues […]
View from the Top of the ZSR
We continue our ‘last break before the semester begins,’ featuring aerial images of campus. Today’s shot comes to us from the cupola of the ZSR Library. Your Deacs see these buildings on our skyline every day. Now they (and you) can see what Wait Chapel […]
Aerial Wake Forest
It’s the week before Move-In, and officially the last chance for many of us to take a vacation, so the Daily Deac is out this week 🙂 Just to keep you thinking about Mother So Dear, this week will feature some pictures of campus, all […]
Move-In Best Practices for New Families
Ready or not, here we come! While some of our ’19s will be arriving early for Pre-Orientation programs, the full Class of 2019 will be moving in on Friday, August 21st. We can’t wait to meet all of our new Deacs and their parents and family […]
Handshake is Here!
The Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) has a fantastic new personal and career development tool for students to use: Handshake. Handshake grants students access to jobs and internship opportunities tailored to their career interests. Students also can register for career education and networking […]
Which Character Trait Is Most Predictive of Wellbeing?
Hopefully our upperclassmen parents have already heard about Thrive, our campus efforts to promost holistic wellbeing (for all the freshmen parents, you can see the Thrive website and the 8 dimensions of wellbeing). I saw a very interesting article on wellbeing over […]
5 Things to Know
As students nationwide get ready for the start of college, we’re beginning to see all sorts of lists about advice for college, things your student should know, etc. Here’s one from the Washington Post that has some general advice. We have some advice for incoming […]
The ‘Dynamic Decade’ of President Hatch
In the Sunday edition of the Winston-Salem Journal, there was a wonderful feature story on President Nathan O. Hatch and his ten years of service at Wake Forest. The article is “Dynamic Decade: Hatch Reshapes University with Eye Toward Future” and it is […]
