PRESIDENT’S LETTER

2015 Issue 3December 7, 2015December 8, 2015

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

[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 one of our engaged and thoughtful student vets. Bryan Stascavage ’18 had publis…

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…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] My book Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters has received a gratifying amount of interest since its …

2014 Issue 2July 16, 2014

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[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 ar…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 28, 2014

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[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

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[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

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[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…