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Phoebe C. Boyer ’89, P’19, ’23 Named Next Chair of the Board
The Wesleyan Board of Trustees voted to appoint Phoebe C. Boyer ’89, P’19, ’23 as the University’s next chair of the board at a meeting on Nov. 18. Boyer will be elevated from her current position as vice chair of the Board and will serve a two-year term beginning on July 1, 2024.
December 6, 2023
Dyson to Offer Keynote Address At February Democracy in Action Convening
Author and academic Michael Eric Dyson will offer the keynote address at Wesleyan University’s Democracy in Action Convening, an exploration of topics that lie at the intersection of higher education and democratic life: the power of the media, civic education, and art as activism. The event will be held February 16-17, 2024.
December 6, 2023
Midge Bowen Bennet, Wesleyan’s Former First Lady, Dies
Midge Bowen Bennet, Wesleyan’s former first lady whose contributions to the University were wide-ranging and impactful, died on Dec. 3.
December 6, 2023
Autry Named Director of the Center for the Study of Public Life
December 05, 2023
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MSNBC
Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth ’78 appeared on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” on Dec. 5 to discuss the campus conversation around the Israel-Hamas War. “On our campus, we have seen that people have the ability to sit together in the same room and listen to lectures about the history of the conflict, listen to reports on what is happening now, to ask tough questions, to sometimes get into charged conversations, sometimes just to grieve because of all the suffering that they see,” Roth said.
Los Angeles Times
Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Emerita, Jeanine D. Basinger was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times piece on director John Waters, after his work "Pink Flamingos" was catalogued in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Basinger helped to bring Waters’ film artifact collection to Wesleyan’s Ogden and Mary Louise Reid Cinema Archives and wrote the exhibit catalog description.
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