Coverage and Highlights
Photos
The Homecoming/Family Weekend 2007 photo gallery is now available!
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Stories
Speech and articles on President Roth’s Inauguration and Homecoming/Family Weekend.
- Inaugural Address, by Michael Roth
- Coming Home, by Michael Roth (Roth on Wesleyan)
- Roth Inauguration a Celebration of Ideas, Possibilities (The Wesleyan Connection)
- Inauguration Events Key Part of Homecoming/ Family Weekend (The Wesleyan Connection)
Streaming Video
Watch videos of President Roth’s Inauguration, WESeminars and other Homecoming/Family Weekend events. Check back soon for more content…
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The Inauguration of Michael S. Roth
Wesleyan’s 16th President. -
WESeminar 3:
Building Bridges Between University and Community
Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon and Janis Astor del Valle. -
WESeminar 4:
Pork Chop Hill: How Movies Prepare Us to Choose War
Professor Richard Slotkin. -
WESeminar 7:
Lessons From Guantanamo Bay
Stephen Oleskey ’64 and Anna Cayton-Holland ’00. -
WESeminar 19:
On Sacha Baron Cohen and Sarah Silverman: Third-Wave Jewish Satirists
Professor Bernard Timberg P’08. -
WESeminar 21:
Stories and Lessons From the Climate Wars
Professor Gary Yohe.
Streaming videos require Quicktime.
November 2–4
Dear Wesleyan Families,
Homecoming/Family Weekend offers members of our extended family a taste of the extraordinary vitality of this community. Students’ families attend regularly scheduled classes and meet faculty and administrators in both academic and social settings. Alumni visit old haunts and connect with each other at special seminars, performances and social gatherings. Everyone can join the festivities and help cheer our student-athletes as they engage Little Three rival Williams.
This year’s celebration will be my first as Wesleyan’s 16th president. In fact, I will be inaugurated as the weekend begins, on Friday, November 2, at 3 p.m. I have chosen “Liberal Education and Public Life” as the theme for this event because I believe so strongly that Wesleyan can build students’ capacity for leadership. The education I received here shaped my own life and work, and I want all our students to have a similarly transformative experience. I look forward to your partnership in this endeavor.
Thank you for being a part of Wesleyan’s past, present, and future. I hope you will take the opportunity to join us for Homecoming/Family Weekend.
With best wishes,
President Michael S. Roth ’78
WEScasts
Several Homecoming/Family Weekend and Inauguration events will be webcast live (“WEScast”), and made available as streaming video after the weekend. If you can’t make it to campus, please join us online! For a list of events being webcast and instructions on how to view them during or after Homecoming/Family Weekend, visit the WEScast home page.
Preliminary Schedule
The preliminary schedule outlines events that are open to all members of the Wesleyan family. Online registration will be available until October 18, 2007. Be sure to check for changes and additions here, and upon arrival on campus at Registration (Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 330 High Street).
Welcome to the Usdan University Center!
The new Suzanne Lemberg Usdan University Center provides a focal point of activity for the Wesleyan campus community. Comfortable lounges, cafes, terraces and a courtyard welcome students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visitors. Among the services and programming facilities in the Usdan Center are: the box office, the campus post office, the university store (an annex of Broad Street Books), the offices of the WSA and Student Activities and Leadership Development, an information desk, a variety of dining areas serviced by Bon Appetit, game rooms, meeting rooms, rehearsal spaces, and much more…