PRESIDENT’S LETTER

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

The question took me by surprise. I had just finished lecturing to about 75 undergraduates at Peking University on the virtues of American-style pragmatic liberal education. My book Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters had recently been translated into Chinese, and I was on a speakin…

2017 Issue 3December 12, 2017December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Across America, groups are enclosing themselves in bubbles that protect them from competing points of view, even from disturbing information. This has always happened to some extent; it’s easier to be with people who sha…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

We hear it all the time: The cultural and economic context into which our graduates enter is a global one. For many years, Wesleyan has energetically recruited students from across the United States because we …

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

President’s Letter

In March I received a carefully thought-out proposal for a resource center that would support students who feel themselves to be at risk because of their own experience on campus or who feel marginalized by long-term tre…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016November 13, 2017

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

When I arrived on campus in the fall of 1975, Wesleyan was well-known for its pioneering ways, its great research output from the sciences to the arts, its demanding and productive teachers, its creative, rambu…

2016 Issue 2August 1, 2016December 13, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

As I write this in the first days of July, I am overwhelmed by the generosity shown by the extended Wesleyan family during the course of our THIS IS WHY fundraising campaign. When we started discussing a fundraising camp…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

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[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] Over the past year I and others in higher education have been asked countless times about “political correctness” an…

2015 Issue 3December 7, 2015December 8, 2015

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[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] As we prepared to honor Middletown military veterans at Wesleyan University’s first home football game, I sought out…

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015

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[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] Early in my presidency, a Wesleyan faculty member described the difference between professors here and professors at…

2015 Issue 1May 6, 2015

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[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] This year my April Fools’ blog announced that Wesleyan was moving all of its classes online: “ALL MOOCS ALL THE TIME…