A MOOC for You
Our good friends at the ZSR Library are offering a MOOC just for WFU parents and alumni. What is a MOOC, you ask? It is a Massive Open Online Course. Wikipedia defines it this way: “A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online […]
WFU Master of Arts in Management
During the spring semester, it is natural for our seniors to be looking for their next step. Hopefully most of them are taking advantage of all the opportunities in the Office of Personal and Career Development to help them align their educational and career goals. Today we wanted […]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day to all our Wake Forest families! We wish you a day full of love and joy (and that your children remember to call/email/text you to tell you they love you!) In honor of the day, we thought we might talk about some of […]
Cupcakes for a Cause
The Volunteer Service Corps is getting in the Valentine’s Day spirit. They are working on a service project called “Cupcakes for a Cause” – detailed information below. If your student likes to cook and/or wants to exercise the creative and philanthropic parts of his/her mind, […]
Civil Rights Activist to Speak on Campus
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is hosting an event tomorrow evening that might be a very interesting one for our students. On February 13th at 7 pm in the ZSR Library Auditorium 404, Dr. Bob Zellner, a prominent Civil Rights activist, will be lecturing on […]
Soggy Monday
It is a gray and soggy Monday. Our thoughts are with the many Deac families in the NE who are digging out of 1-2 feet of snow. We’ve had a tremendous influx of students from the Boston area over the past few years, so we […]
Wake Forest Birthday Week
The post below was written by our Intern C (’13), who was taking on the task of describing Wake Forest’s birthday week. She worked hard and did a great job, as you will soon see. She finished it yesterday afternoon and we had it pre-scheduled […]
Students and Stress
It is likely not a surprise that students (like the rest of us) experience stress. There are a lot of real and perceived pressures in college – roommates and relationships, learning new materials and trying to discern the expectations of each faculty member, social life […]
Finding Your Passion
Leading up to Valentine’s Day, the Daily Deac is reflecting on some of the reasons we love Wake Forest. Today’s reason is: We help students discover their passions – sometimes ones they didn’t even know they had. This can happen in a lot of […]
Mentoring
January was National Mentoring Month. We’re coming a bit late to that party but it is a good time to remind Wake Forest families that one of the great benefits to attending a school of this size and scope is that your students will have […]