A Zoom of One’s Own
Wesleyan students and faculty offer personal accounts of the pains and perseverance that characterized the academic experience during a global pandemic.
Wesleyan’s transition to online classes in mid…
Socially Distant, Deeply Committed
The distance-learning transition has highlighted the importance of the behind-the-scenes work staff do to support students and faculty at Wesleyan.
Information Technology Services (ITS), for instance, was instrumen…
Supporting Student Action in Civic Life
Mitchell Motlagh ’20, a recent College of Social Studies major, spent his winter break in Berlin, N.H., where he helped …
United in Action
Since its fall launch, nearly 300 colleges and universities nationwide have signed on to the principles of Wesle…
What a Difference a Year Makes: The Most Important Problems Facing the U.S. Today
In Fall 2019, students in Professor of Government Erika Franklin Fowler’s GOVT372 Political Communication in a Polarized…
Cardinal Candidates in 2020
In addition to Bill Murphy '60, two other Wesleyan alumni also joined the race for president in 2019, each running campaigns to be the Democratic party’s nominee: Sen. Michael Bennet ’87, Hon. ’12, (D-Colo.), and John Hi…
No Place Like Home
Through archival photographs, maps, portraits, and drawings, a new book traces four centuries of Middletown history, foc…
Recommended Reading: Books by Barot ’92, Sokol ’93, Schneider ’97, and Others
Rick Barot ’92
The Galleons: Poems (Milkweed, 2020)
In his fourth collection of poetry, for which he won the 2020 Poet…
Letter to the Editor: A Richmond Reckoning
A day after my classmates and I graduated remotely from Wes, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd on camera. This horrific act caused the country and the world to take to the streets to fight fo…
Letter to the Editor: Virtual Commencement a Chance to Reflect
In the days preceding Commencement in 2018, I kept a strict schedule—hosting my parents on campus tours, engaging with my professors and mentors, celebrating with friends and classmates. In the midst of all that activity…