President’s Letter: Wesleyan’s History of Change

2022 Spring IssueJuly 11, 2022

President’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 university that is proud to “punch above its weight” by bringing the world to Wesle…

2022 Spring IssueJuly 11, 2022

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…

2022 Spring IssueJuly 11, 2022

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…

2022 Spring IssueJuly 11, 2022

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…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022January 18, 2022

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…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022January 20, 2022

Editor’s Note: The Value of Community

I have a confession to make: I missed Arrival Day this year. It’s always notable because of what it represents: new faces, new hope, a new start. This year, however, was more poignant than ever, as it wasn’t just fres…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022

Letter to the Editor: Experimenting with Computers and Art in the ’70s

It was with personal bemused interest and irony that I read the article Embracing Unpredictability in your latest issue. Because this was not the first time that someone at Wesleyan endeavored to apply computer code…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022

Letter to the Editor: Professor Christina Crosby’s Lasting Legacy

I read with both admiration and sadness Wesleyan magazine’s article on the life and recent death of Professor Christina Crosby, A Hard Life, Well Lived. For reasons I’ll explain, I had no idea she was at the school despi…

2021-2022 Winter IssueJanuary 18, 2022

Letter to the Editor: Moments of Inspiration

My family has broad roots at Wesleyan. My brother Brad was a Wesleyan athlete in the ’70s, I earned my MALS at Wesleyan when Wesleyan professors still elevated the landscape of that program, my youngest son graduat…

2021 Issue 1May 15, 2021January 17, 2022

President’s Letter: Intellectual Diversity Empowers Discernment in Students

It’s been a hard time for the partisans of progress. We’ve just seen how suddenly things we value about modern life—accomplishments of Progress with a capital “P”—can be swept away. It might just be a wet food market, a …