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WOMEN
'Lemony Snicket' Out As Wesleyan Speaker Amid Reports Of Inappropriate Comments
By Doha Madani
Anita Hill will take the author's place at the commencement ceremony.
EDUCATION
Against Demonization: Intellectual Diversity And Liberal Education
By Michael S. Roth, Contributor
President, Wesleyan University
Faculty and administrators know that, in principle, if you are never asked to examine, let alone defend, your beliefs, your
POLITICS
We Must Not Turn The Clock Back On Sexual Assault
By Michael S. Roth, Contributor
President, Wesleyan University
The Trump administration has made no secret of its disdain for strict prohibitions on sexual assault and harassment.
POLITICS
Affirmative Action: Now More Than Ever
By Michael S. Roth, Contributor
President, Wesleyan University
Education provides people concrete opportunities to overcome real circumstances of poverty or oppression.
QUEER VOICES
College Athlete Stages Photo Shoot To Start Conversation About Gender And Identity
By Jim Buzinski, Outsports
A Wesleyan University student questions assumptions on gender and identity with project.
COLLEGE
Beyond The Prestige Race: Choosing Your College
By Michael S. Roth, Contributor
President, Wesleyan University
Size, of course, matters.
ENTERTAINMENT
'Manchester By The Sea' Director Defends Casey Affleck In College Paper
By Cavan Sieczkowski
The piece was published in the Wesleyan University newspaper after a student wrote an op-ed critical of Affleck and Lonergan.
COLLEGE
'Hamilton' and Liberal Education
By Michael S. Roth, Contributor
President, Wesleyan University
When Alexander Hamilton's generation considered higher education, many believed it was crucial that students not think they already knew at the beginning of their studies where they would end up when it was time for graduation.
COLLEGE
Three Things Every College Student Should Learn
By Michael S. Roth, Contributor
President, Wesleyan University
Graduation ceremonies are inspiring, and yesterday's was particularly so. As the seniors departed, I was hopeful that all our graduates, whatever their majors and plans for the future, learned three broad things while they were in college.
COLLEGE
Liberal Education in Tough Times
By Michael S. Roth, Contributor
President, Wesleyan University
In today's climate of renewed economic anxiety, many are prompted to jettison this tradition of pragmatic liberal education. In search of short cuts to vocational success, they undermine students' ability to respond to changes in the economy by preparing them only for what is valued right now.
COLLEGE
STEM vs. Liberal Education: A False Choice
By Michael S. Roth, Contributor
President, Wesleyan University
Fears of being crushed by debt or of falling off the economic ladder are pressuring students to conform, and we must find ways to counteract these pressures or we risk undermining our scientific productivity as well as our broad cultural creativity.
ARTS & CULTURE
Sexual Assault Survivor Stages Powerful S&M Photos At Frat Where She Was Raped
By Priscilla Frank
"I thought: I need to do something where I can reclaim this space and just exist," Karmenife Paulino explained.
COLLEGE
These Students Put Their All-Nighters On Display. Here's Why That's A Problem.
By Rachel Williams, Contributor
Wesleyan University student
For whatever reason, we believe that those who sleep the least are the smartest, the hardest-working - the ones who will go on to be immensely rich and successful. But why do we celebrate the students who can't effectively manage their time?
COLLEGE
The 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2016
By Greg Lukianoff, Contributor
President and CEO, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
This past year will be remembered as the year that freedom of speech (or the lack thereof) on U.S. campuses became international news.
COLLEGE
College Students, Stop Wasting Your Sleep
By Rachel Williams, Contributor
Wesleyan University student
It's a real shame that college students are wasting the best resource they have available to them: a good night's sleep.
COLLEGE
Pedagogies of Belonging
By Gina Athena Ulysse, Contributor
Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University
There is a conversation Black faculty often have with Black students that we rarely mention in public, let alone in mixed company. The tone of this exchange differs to some extent if the student are U.S. born or from the diaspora. It follows discussions that open their consciousness as they grapple with accepting an inescapable truth -- they are Black.
COLLEGE
'Dorm Room Chemist' Pleads Guilty In Wesleyan Drug Overdoses
He sold the drug from his dorm room and counseled students on how to take them.
COLLEGE
Ex-Student Pleads Guilty In Connection With Wesleyan Drug Overdoses
10 students overdosed when they took what they thought was Molly.
COLLEGE
Liberals Should Be Deeply Disturbed by Political Correctness Craze Sweeping College Campuses
By The Good Men Project, Contributor
The conversation no one else is having.
This trend of catastrophization is so dangerous -- instead of spreading awareness of racial, gender and economic inequality, it shifts the focus toward policing speech and shaming perceived transgressors. As liberals, we need to remember is that this behavior violates two fundamental assumptions of our ideology.
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