International Education Week (IEW), which will feature workshops, chats, game nights, and meetings, will take place from Friday, Nov. 11 to Friday, Nov. 18. The week of events is sponsored by the IEW planning committee, composed of staff from the Fries Center for Global Studies and other departments. All programming was designed to celebrate cultures and academic exchange around the […]
New Horizons, a Community Health Center program that offers domestic violence services, held its eighth annual Walk to End Silence on Saturday, Oct. 8, prompting residents of Middletown and neighboring communities to walk down Main Street in support of the anti-domestic violence movement. New Horizons provides a 24-hour hotline, emergency shelter, court advocacy, and support groups […]
The University has discontinued the Hamilton Prize for Creativity, making Fall 2022 the first semester in five years without the full-ride scholarship. The University decided to discontinue the award because it did not reflect its ethos of only providing need-based financial aid and because it wants to prioritize artistic funding for current students. Inspired by […]
Starting in Fall 2022, incoming first-generation, low-income (FGLI) students have the opportunity to receive laptops from the University free of charge. These students will be able to keep the computers throughout their time at the University and beyond, as the program purchases the devices on behalf of the students. Vice President & Dean of Admission and Financial Aid […]
An anonymous group of students hung a banner outside of Usdan University Center in the early morning of Friday, Oct. 14, protesting the authoritarian regime of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The banner replicated two banners hung on an overpass in a rare act of political protest in Beijing, China on Thursday, Oct. 13. The original banners spurred a […]
The University has promoted September Johnson to Director of the Office of Health Education (WesWell) as of Tuesday, Nov. 1. Johnson started working at WesWell as the Alcohol and Other Drug Specialist in June 2020, she and took over as interim director in summer 2020 following the departure of former Director Patrick Gordon. Johnson has […]
The Fries Center for Global Studies introduced the Course-Embedded Study Away (CESA) program on Monday, Oct. 10 as part of a movement toward expanding study abroad opportunities for Wesleyan students. Each CESA course incorporates a semester-long on-campus class with faculty-led, course-related travel during spring break. Two courses are offered for the Spring 2023 semester: “REES321: Moscow/Berlin: […]
The Resource Center, in conjunction with the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) Equity and Inclusion Committee (EIC), hosted the Equity and Inclusion Town Hall on Thursday, Oct. 6, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the basement of Malcolm X House, the first time the event has been held since 2019. Over 20 students attended the […]
Staff dressed in gothic, ghoulish costumes led patrons through the stacks of Russell Library every Friday evening throughout the month of October, in an event entitled Secrets of Russell Library. This is the first year this event has been hosted, and it operated with four tours per night, running in intervals of 30 minutes from […]
The University and the Community Health Center in Middletown hosted an on-campus clinic for students to receive COVID-19 bivalent vaccinations on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Over 100 students received their bivalent booster shot at the clinic, while over 1,000 students booked appointments to receive flu vaccinations at University clinics during October. Vaccines from both Pfizer and […]