Yesterday at our departmental staff meeting we had two terrific faculty members, Rebecca Alexander of Chemistry and Shannon Mihalko (’92) of Health and Exercise Science, come to talk to us about the work that they do with URECA. URECA is an acronym […]
Winter break is wrapping up for the young lady Deacs who will be involved in the sorority recruitment process, which starts with activities most of the day of January 9th. For the sorority sisters returning, the next days will be a flurry of preparing for […]
Yesterday the Daily Deac shared an article from the New York times about how parents and students adjust over the winter break. We solicited comments from Deac families about your own winter break experiences and best advice. We received this very thoughtful response from […]
A colleague of mine sent a very interesting article from the New York Times entitled “The Return of the Natives,” which talks about how students (particularly first year students) and parents have to readjust over Winter Break. It covers the holiday transition from a […]
The doors to campus reopened officially this morning at 8:30 after a nice break for the Christmas holiday. In the life cycle of a university, it isn’t just the students who are feeling burned out at the end of finals, it’s equally our faculty (who […]