Leading the Charge: 50 Years after Title IX
Four generations of Wesleyan women look back on the advent of federally mandated gender equity in education and the oppo…
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GAME ON: 2021-22 Top Scholar-Athletes
The winners of the 2021-22 Ahrens and Hoagland Awards, honoring the top senior male and female student-athlete at Wesleyan, are Sam Peek ’22 of the men’s basketball team and Julia Meehan ’22 of women’s soccer.
Sa…
Online Exclusives
View AllRecommended Reading: Books by Kamp ’00, Casey ’91, and Others
John Kamp ’00 and James Rojas
Dream Play Build: Hands-On Community Engagement for Enduring Spaces and Places (Island Press, 2022)
Dream Play Build offers a new method for community engagement and rethinks how public meetings can be turned more interactive to generate enduring change within communities. John Kamp ’00 and part…
What Is . . . Title IX?
On June 23, 1972, Title IX was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Richard Nixon. Fifty years later and many still ask: What IS Title IX?
Most people think Tit…
Letters
View AllPresident’s Letter: Wesleyan’s History of Change
During my 15 years as president, I have found it fascinating to consider Wesleyan’s trajectory over its almost two centuries—from small, parochial school that aimed to train ministers to a first-rate, small uni…
Editor’s Note: On Changemakers Leading the Charge
“Young women were not admitted into many colleges and universities, athletic scholarships for women were rare, and math and science was a realm reserved for boys. . . . Girls could become teachers and nurses, but not doc…
Letters to the Editor: Remembering Christina Crosby
Dear Editor,
The Class of ’86 recently celebrated our 35th year reunion. That means I have been reading the printed copy of the magazine cover to cover for 36 years! I grab my glasses and open to the Class Notes, in t…
Letter to the Editor: The Film Center’s Early Years
“Lights Up On The Future of Filmmaking,” from the 2021–2022 Winter Issue reminded me of the first years of film at Wesleyan, before there was a Film Center and there was only one lecturer, Jeanine Basinger, and a few eag…
President’s Letter: Thinking Beyond the Pandemic
I write this column as we approach the last week of fall semester classes. What a term it has been! We arrived in Middletown in late summer as the Delta variant was surging in different parts of the country, and although we had our vaccinations and testing, we were fearful that our lives would once again be turned upside down by…