If you’re working for a greener campus here at Wesleyan, register for the Second Annual Campus Sustainability Conference at ECSU to learn about initiatives at other universities, discuss your own projects, and meet collaborators from across the state. PCSE Seed Grant recipient Potlux will present on their work, alongside students, faculty, and staff from several other colleges.…
Conferences, Conferences, Conferences (updated 3/10)
There is rarely a dull moment at Wesleyan – especially inside the Allbritton Center – and with so much activity happening right here on campus, it’s easy to overlook opportunities to learn outside of the Wes bubble. Throughout the year and around the world, there are countless conferences, institutes, bootcamps, meetups, and startup weekends focused on social entrepreneurship,…
Student Spotlight: Alexandria Irace ’15 on the Health of Communities
Service-Learning courses can involve a wide range of activities that extend well beyond traditional volunteer service. For The Health of Communities with Professor Peggy Carey Best, this means conducting research with real-world applications, right here in Middletown. In addition to reading and discussing literature on public health, medicine, and ethics, students serve as research assistants…
Gary Lawson on the Decision of 1803
The second of four lectures in the Centralization and Decentralization series, hosted by the Allbritton Collaborative Course Cluster Initiative:
Volunteer Opportunity: Celebrating Diversity and Teaching Acceptance with Julia’s Star
The Julia‘s Star program brings Wesleyan students into contact with Middletown fifth graders, and through the interaction seeks to create a safe space for positive dialogue about identity, prejudice and stereotypes. Through the book Julia‘s Star and the discussion, we hope the students will understand the impact of stereotypes, both on a micro and a macro…
Hispanic/Latino Cultures and Sustainability
From Debra Row, Ph.D., President of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development: The Hispanic/Latino cultures will continue to grow in influence in the United States and have the potential to help build a more sustainable future. We at the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium, in collaboration with HACU — the Hispanic Association of Colleges…
Reblog: Banner Dropping the “T” Word
This article by Jacob Seltzer ’17 appeared on Wesleying, Wesleyan’s student life blog. Read the original here. A couple days ago, a series of banners were displayed in Usdan urging students to not to use the word “townie.” The banners are part of an effort by the Middletown Wesleyan Relations Committee (MWRC) to work towards their…
When Canada Goose Comes to Wesleyan: Exploring Class and Classism
An important event sponsored by Wesleyan Student Affairs and presented by Class Action: All of us are affected by classism. It permeates our societal structures – on individual, social, cultural and institutional levels. None of us escapes its effects. Yet, classism is invisible in many ways. Most of us have had few opportunities to examine classism in…
Including the Excluded: 35 Years of Trans Life
Including the Excluded – the final event in Ujamaa’s 2015 Black History Month series – will discuss the intersectionality of race, queerness, and displacement, and further conversation on #BLACKLIVESMATTER at Wesleyan. The discussion will take place on Thursday, February 26 at 7:15 PM in 41 Wyllys, room 112. Joining us from Justice 4 Jane: Al Riccio is a transgender…
(Re)Presenting Space: A Portrait of Coal River Valley
In the Summer of 2013, Rachel Lindy ’15, Rachie Weisberg ’15, and Isaac Silk ’14 spent six weeks living in the Coal River Valley of southern West Virginia—an area highly affected by mountaintop removal coal mining and teeming with activist resistance. During this time, we developed a multimedia project that explored the future of the region and…