The Wesleyan Student Association (WSA) Community Committee (CoCo) approved 37 new student groups during the 2023-24 school year, with 16 beginning in Fall 2023 and 21 to begin in Spring 2024. According to the Office of Student Involvement (OSI) website, the University has over 200 recognized student groups, which help individuals find peers with common interests, […]
The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) released the results of the winter 2023 at-large election in an all-campus email sent by WSA Chief of Staff Hazel Allison-Way ’24 on Friday, Dec. 9, 2023, announcing the election of 11 senators. The group included several returning members: Molly Connolly-Ungar ’25, Tanvi Navile ’25, Ava Petillo ’25, Ben Shifrel […]
After nearly three years of renovations, the Frank Center for Public Affairs is open to students and faculty, boasting around 68,500 square feet of offices, classrooms, and study space. The building, which includes the original 1927 construction plus a 20,500 square foot addition, will host much of the Government, Economics, History, and Sociology departments, as well […]
After a months-long, nationwide search, the University announced in December 2023 that Willette Burnham-Williams would be the University’s next Vice President of Equity and Inclusion. This appointment follows the departure of Allison Williams ’81, who left the position in October 2022. The Vice President of Equity and Inclusion reports directly to President Michael Roth ’78, […]
In a meeting with the University’s Finance Committee and the Student Employment Advisory Subcommittee (SEAC) of the Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) on Tuesday, Dec. 5, a representative from the Gordon Career Center said that University administrators will meet Friday, Dec. 8, to discuss the potential campus-wide implementation of the divisive online employee confirmation system E-Verify. E-Verify is a federally […]
The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) plans to vote on an amendment to increase the Student Activities Fee (SAF) upon its return to campus in January 2024. The amendment aims to tie the SAF, which has not been adjusted since 2015, to the inflation rate. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, which tracks inflation based on […]
The Office of International Student Affairs (OISA) selected Mishaa Vohra ’26, Anh Tran ’27, Nirvaan Mehta ’27, Tihitina Gebeyehu ’27, Mallika Srinivas ’25, Holiness Igiraneza ’27, Alexis Gerwe ’27, and Rania Ahmed ’26 to join the University’s International Student Advisory Board (ISAB), which is responsible for informing and advising OISA and other administrative departments on needs […]
The University has introduced a new major, minor, and college over the course of the fall 2022 through fall 2023 semesters: the Global South Asian Studies (GSAS) major, the Animal Studies minor, and the College of Design and Engineering Studies (CoDES). These programs were created in response to student interest and desire to highlight courses related to these […]
The Office of Residential Life (ResLife) has implemented a cloud-based residential community management platform for housing registration and selection for the spring semester. The new software, called StarRez, replaces the application in WesPortal that was previously used for students to submit housing preferences. The change allows students to play a more active role in the housing […]
The City of Middletown implemented its Save As You Throw (SAYT) Food Scrap Co-Collection Program in an effort to reduce waste on Nov. 1, 2023. Residents and businesses using the Middletown Sanitation District cart service must now use the new official green and orange trash bags as opposed to white, black, or other colored bags […]