Coverage and Highlights
More than 5000 people came to campus on October 17-19 to celebrate Homecoming/Family Weekend 2008.
Feedback
If you came to campus for Homecoming/Family Weekend 2008 please send us feedback!
Photos and Stories
The Wesleyan Magazine and Alumni web site photo galleries are now available! President Roth posted a blog entry about Homecoming/ Family Weekend. The Wesleyan Connection covers the weekend’s events.
Videos
Streaming videos require Quicktime.
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Presidential Campaign 2008: Policy Rhetoric Meets Policy Substance
Douglas C. Foyle, Elvin T. Lim, and Melanye Price
Download Douglas Foyle’s presentation slides (.PPT file) -
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
Wendell Wallach ’68 -
Meltdown on Wall Street
Vanessa Burgess ’77, Timothy Clew ’93, Seth Bergstein ’78 and Professor Richard Miller -
Where On Earth Are We Going: The Many Psychologies of Global Warming Given The Hard Realities We Face
William Blakemore ’65 -
On Writing Thrillers: Michael Palmer and Lee Child
Lee Child, a.k.a. James Grant P ’02, Michael Palmer ’64, P ’88, MD -
Stone and Stone
Adam Stone ’05 and Todd Stone ’05 -
Going Back To Cuba: An Anthropologist Reflects On The Meaning Of Home
Ruth Behar ’77
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Dear Wesleyan Families,
Come Home!
Homecoming/Family Weekend offers you the opportunity to experience Wesleyan University's extraordinary vitality. Students’ families attend regularly scheduled classes. Parents meet professors and administrators in both academic and social settings. Alumni visit old haunts and connect with each other at seminars, performances, and social gatherings. Everyone is invited to join the festivities and cheer our student-athletes as they engage Little Three rival Amherst in the latest installment of our exciting and unbroken 98-year rivalry.
I chose Come Home! as the theme for this event because I believe that Wesleyan is a family that grows stronger by engagement at regular gatherings such as Homecoming/Family Weekend. Many things in our lives change year to year, but we can always come back to Wesleyan and feel we belong. You will find new buildings on campus and a student culture oriented to the future, but you will also recognize an old friend—an institution that remains constant by staying committed to innovation.
Students and faculty look forward to greeting our returning alumni and visiting families. By engaging our extended worldwide community during this autumn weekend, we expand their horizons. My fellow staff members and I especially enjoy the opportunity to exchange ideas about ways to ensure that students successfully mine the deep veins of possibility in their Wesleyan education. The education I received here shaped my own life and work, and I want all of our students to have a similarly transformative experience. I look forward to your partnership in this.
Thank you for being a part of Wesleyan's past, present, and future. I hope you will Come Home! to Homecoming/Family Weekend 2008.
With best wishes,
President Michael S. Roth ’78