PRESIDENT’S LETTER

2014 Issue 2July 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] “Is c”—that’s all I have to type before the search engine jumps to “Is college worth it?” I hit return, and there are more articles on this question than even I want to read. Pundit after pundit (…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 28, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="205"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] I met Henry Timms, interim chief operating officer of the 92nd Street Y, through Stuart Ellman ’88, the president of t…

2013 Issue 2October 7, 2013February 26, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="205"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] Since assuming the presidency I have often returned to the themes of inclusion and diversity on campus. This year we a…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013February 26, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="205"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] At this year’s winter meeting of the Board of Trustees we officially announced the launch of our THIS IS WHY fundr…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012February 26, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Early in the fall semester, Coursera announced that Wesleyan University is joining its partnership of schools offering MOOCs—massive, open, online classes that often enroll tens of thousands of people. MOOCs are not unco…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012February 26, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Education depends fundamentally on our ability to generate optimism and find reasonable (defensible) ways to sustain it. When our faith in the future is shaken, whether it be by technologies we don’t understand, economic…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

I am spending a good part of the summer off campus, doing research for a book on why liberal education matters. Recently I’ve been reading Thomas Jefferson and also some of his contemporaries. The political importance of…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

A current debate about higher education seems actually to be an old one: practical science training vs. general education in the liberal arts. The contrast persists in the public mind even though the sciences are part of…

2010 Issue 3September 15, 2010April 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

A current debate about higher education seems actually to be an old one: practical science training vs. general education in the liberal arts. The contrast persists in the public mind even though the sciences are part of…

2010 Issue 2June 15, 2010April 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Like many students, when I began my college education, I had little idea of what course of study would best respond to my interests and hopes. I chose some history classes that sounded familiar themes, looked to the scie…