Scam emails targeting University students, faculty, and staff are continuing to circulate this semester, according to Information Technology Services (ITS) and Public Safety (PSafe). Scam emails are nothing new, and many are reported to PSafe and ITS every semester. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, scam emails and phishing attacks are on the rise. While […]
The First-Generation, Low Income (FGLI) Advisory Board, guided by Board Director Gabriela Harris ’23, is continuing to provide resources for the University’s FGLI community this year while expanding to work more directly with the University. This year, the Board is instituting a number of policies, including a new stipend program to pay off expenses for […]
Several coyote sightings around Junior Village (HiRise and LoRise) have been reported by students and Public Safety (PSafe) Officers since the start of the fall semester. No one at the University has reported being attacked or bitten by a coyote, which is unsurprising as coyotes rarely attack humans. It is unclear whether there are multiple coyotes in the Junior […]
A Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) resolution to institutionalize the Equity and Inclusion Committee (EIC) as a standing committee was passed unanimously by the WSA with zero abstaining votes on Sunday, Sep. 20. The EIC will be chaired by the resolution’s primary sponsor, WSA senator Ariana Baez ’22 and will consist of four other senators: Anthony […]
First Things First (FTF), the orientation program organized by the Resource Center for first-year, First-Generation Low-Income (FGLI) students, ran from Monday, July 20 to Friday, Aug. 28. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s FTF program was conducted online, featuring a number of synchronous and asynchronous programs rather than previous years’ in-person, two-and-a-half-day […]
Ten new senators were elected to represent the class of 2024 in the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) General Assembly (GA). WSA Chief of Staff Pauline Jaffe ’21 announced the newly elected first-year senators in a campus-wide email on Saturday, Sept. 12. The ten senators are: Daëlle Coriolan, Sarah Asiedu, Anthony Lulgjuraj, Elena Brennan, Michael Quinteros, […]
Fifteen percent of all undergraduate students enrolled in the University for the fall semester are studying remotely, according to University Registrar Anna C.G. van der Burg. Of the University’s 2,845 enrolled undergraduate students, 427 are remote students, with the remaining 2,418 studying either on campus or, for some international students, studying abroad from their home […]
The Fries Center for Global Studies (FCGS) has launched the Internationalizing the Curriculum Initiative, a program comprised of four two-hour seminars that gives faculty across all curriculum divisions an opportunity to incorporate global perspectives into their courses. Director of Study Abroad Emily Gorlewski created the initiative after study abroad programs were canceled for the fall […]
As of Monday, Sept. 14, Late Night will operate out of Summerfields for the rest of the academic year, instead of its usual location in Usdan Marketplace. Late Night hours will be from 8:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. daily, and orders must be placed through Zingle for pickup only. “Over the years the students have […]
The College of Integrative Sciences (CIS) announced the winners of this year’s Scientific Imaging Contest: Osama Elgabori ’22, Carol Dalgarno ’21, and Jolie Villegas ’21, who came in first, second, and third place respectively on Thursday, July 30. The announcement came at the penultimate meeting of the CIS Summer Research Fellowship Research program, which was […]