A series of talks pertaining to the Middletown Mutual Aid Collective (MMAC) began this past Sunday, Feb. 21, over Zoom. Sunday’s event commenced with a guest lecture from MMAC member and Middletown resident Kirk Hart, who began by discussing the nature of mutual aid. After Hart’s lecture, there was a community discussion regarding Wesleyan’s role in […]
SeeClickFix, an app designed to help local governments respond quickly to constituent concerns, launched last November. The application allows Middletown residents to take pictures of and report problems, either online or via the app, to the city government. SeeClickFix is a Hartford-based business whose platform is used by more than 350 municipalities to handle reports. […]
Co-architect of the Green New Deal Rhiana Gunn-Wright led a virtual interactive discussion about political organizing and the formation of the progressive climate proposal on Monday, Feb. 15. Gunn-Wright currently serves as the Roosevelt Institute’s Director of Climate Change Policy. Previously, she served as the Policy Director for the think tank New Consensus, where she […]
The First Annual Diversity Summit took place from Thursday, Feb. 4 to Monday, Feb. 8. Sponsored by the Office of Equity and Inclusion, the virtual summit aimed to promote, communicate, and advance the Equity and Inclusion initiatives that the University is adopting this semester. The Office of Equity and Inclusion launched the Diversity Summit to […]
The faculty voted on Dec. 7 to approve a syllabus requirement and guidance, which passed with nearly 90% approval and went into effect for the start of the spring 2021 semester. The policy was devised over the course of the fall semester, prompted by the difficulties created by the pandemic, however, the idea of a requirement […]
The University announced a revised set of guidelines for the second week of campus-wide quarantine in an all-campus email sent by Dean Rick Culliton on Monday, Feb. 15. The email said that the decision came after careful consideration of current COVID-19 rates on campus, which numbered a total of six students and three staff as […]
The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Commemoration was held virtually over Zoom. This event was co-sponsored by the Resource Center, Office for Equity and Inclusion, Department of African-American Studies and the Center for African-American Studies, Fries Center for Global Studies, Shapiro Writing Center, and the University Library. The event featured keynote speaker Ruby Sales, […]
Following Dean for the Class of 2022 Renee Johnson-Thornton’s departure from the University in late November, the search committee has narrowed down the candidates for the class dean position to three finalists. As the committee deliberates, Dean for the Class of 2024 David Phillips has taken on the interim coverage for students with last names […]
The Sustainability Office released their official Antiracism & Intersectionality Commitment on Monday, Feb. 8, outlining the ways in which the office hopes to bring anti-racism and intersectionality into their projects. The document outlines four areas of commitment: 1) uplifting and prioritizing voices of marginalized groups in the sustainability movement; 2) acknowledging and collaborating with the […]
The University has suspended the Gamma Phi chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) for a minimum of two years, according to Dean of Students and Associate Vice President Rick Culliton. The ruling resulted from the Community Standards Board’s December 2020 decision to charge the fraternity with violating the COVID-19 student agreement and the University’s hazing […]