Today’s Daily Deac is an invitation for New York City Wake Forest parents and families. One of my colleagues in Employer Relations is sponsoring an event in NYC and wants all area Deac families to know they are welcome – encouraged, even! – to attend. […]
We’re caught in a bit of a slow news cycle, Deac families. Commencement is still a week away, and our students are either home for the summer or (more likely) are at Beach Week, that glorious refuge of sun and fun when exams are done. […]
Today’s Daily Deac has been guest written by the Office of Sustainability. This is a great message for our senior families! ————————— Many members of the Class of 2013 will leave Reynolda campus behind this spring, but all Demon Deacons carry Wake Forest values with […]
If your student is not graduating, you will hopefully have him (or her) home for the summer. If having deep conversations is part of your normal parent-child dynamic, the summer might be a great time for you to ask some questions that might help your […]
For parents and families of graduating seniors, we like to offer you a few thoughts and suggestions on the happiest day of the year on campus: Commencement. Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to begin saying prayers and sending […]
I was at the ZSR Library early yesterday – well, early for students, 8:30 am – and when I walked in to Starbucks it was already well-saturated with studying students. They have moved into ‘finals fashion’ – old t-shirts, exercise pants, etc. It’s not just […]
Finals continue, and today your poor students have miserable, cold, and rainy weather to accompany their studying and tests. We wish them the best as they wrap up the semester and finish their time on campus. As promised, we are going to continue our look […]
It’s Friday and final exams begin. While your students are busy studying, taking exams and/or packing their belongings in their residence hall, we thought we’d give you a look back at the 2012-13 academic year in pictures. Special thanks to our remarkable University Photographer, Ken […]
It’s Reading Day on campus. That is the one day break between classes ending and final exams beginning. The day is grey and overcast. It is neither cold nor hot. Somehow that seems appropriate. Looming finals always felt ominous to me as a student, and […]
It’s May Day, and the last day of classes before finals. Depending on how you look at it, this May Day could be one of several things: – Mayday as a distress call. Wikipedia defines it this way: “Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress […]
