PUTTING LIBERAL EDUCATION TO WORK
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Author: Bill Holder
William Holder ¹75 is editor of Wesleyan magazine.
CAREER ADVICE FROM A TOP RECRUITER
Don’t you wish that someone with absolutely tons of experience in analyzing successful careers as well as career mistake…
EDITOR’S NOTE: THE LONG VIEW
Universities often take the long view. The physical structure of the campus endures over generations and lifetimes, faculty carry out research programs that stretch over decades, and the impact of administrative initiati…
LAUNCH OF A NEW FILM FESTIVAL
[caption id="attachment_6493" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Lloyd Komesar ’74 created a new film festival for first-…
EDITOR’S NOTE: TWENTY YEARS AND LOOKING AHEAD
I’ve recently completed my 20th year as editor of this magazine. I’ll always be grateful for this opportunity and for Wesleyan’s willingness to entrust me with the assignment when I had never previously edited any magazi…
WEIL LEADS WORKSHOPS IN CHILE ON TRENDS IN AMERICAN ANIMAL STUDIES
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[caption id="attachment_5676" align="alignleft" width="300"] Kari Weil, University Professor of Lett…
EDITOR’S NOTE: FORMATIVE YEARS
My 40th Wes reunion is fast approaching as of this writing. Perhaps because I work in South College, Wesleyan exists more in the present for me, though I certainly have fond memories of my undergraduate years. But lately…
FOSS HILL TRADITIONS
I came to Wesleyan’s campus as a first-year student in the fall of 1971, when memories of 1970’s big event were still fresh.
Alumni who recall that time will quickly catch the ambiguity in those words. As Wesleyan Arc…
LIBERAL EDUCATION?
The broad contextual education that Wesleyan and peer institutions offer is frequently critiqued, sometimes even excoria…
RIDING HIGH WITH RYE: SIVAN COTEL ’05
Down a steep drop on an unimproved road in rural Vermont lies a picturesque 500-acre farm where Sivan Cotel ’05 is toiling with a small group of business partners to build a brand for a beverage most associated with the …