Wesleyan President Michael Roth '78, Joe Allbritton P'92, Barby Allbritton P'92, Elena Allbritton ’93 and Robert Allbritton ’92 take part in a Allbritton Center ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 2. (Photo by Bill Burkhart)
With a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 2, Wesleyan unveiled a facility that enables Wesleyan to focus resources, encourage curricular innovation, original research and scholarship, and foster greater public understanding and responsibility.
The new Allbritton Broadcast Center is located on the second floor.
The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, which occupies the renovated Davenport Campus Center, will emphasize its academic engagement with the public sphere. The center continues Wesleyan’s commitment to preparing students for lives as active citizens and for leadership. It seeks to support Wesleyan’s tradition of the scholar-teacher by encouraging faculty research in a manner that directly benefits and enhances student learning.
The Center reflects changes that have transpired across the social scientific disciplines. These include the creation of new multidisciplinary ventures, the growing number of studies employing multiple methodologies, (more…)
Posted in Snapshots on Apr. 29, 2009 by Olivia Bartlett Drake
All admitted students and their families, and the campus community, were invited to an all-campus barbeque and student activities fair April 17 on Andrus Field. The luncheon was held during WesFest, an annual three-day event, that allowed admitted students to experience life at Wesleyan first-hand.
Student bands provided musical entertainment.
Wesleyan President Michael Roth, at left, played keyboard with one of the bands.
Wesleyan students and admitted students mingled on Foss Hill.
Food and service at the picnic was provided by Bon Appetit. (Photos by Olivia Bartlett)
Posted in Snapshots on Feb. 13, 2009 by Olivia Bartlett Drake
Robert D. Bullard, a leading authority regarding environmental justice and the author of Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality, led the Celebration of the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. keynote address Jan. 27 in Memorial Chapel.
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Posted in Snapshots on Dec. 17, 2008 by Olivia Bartlett Drake
Wesleyan President Michael Roth plays piano while Gina Driscoll, associate director of development events; Nancy Meislahn, dean of admission and financial aid; guest Shanda Reynelli; Roth's wife Kari Weil, visiting professor of letters and faculty fellow; and Louise Brown, dean for academic advancement/dean for the Class of 2009, sing along. President Roth held a holiday party at his home for faculty and staff on Dec. 11.
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Posted in Snapshots on Dec. 2, 2008 by Olivia Bartlett Drake
Wesleyan's dining service Bon Appetit and the Usdan University Center sponsored a Thanksgiving Celebration Dinner for students Nov. 20. Students were served a traditional family-style dinner.
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Documentary photographer Wendy Ewald explained how photography relates to personal history during the "Eye of History: The Camera as Witness" presentation and panel Nov. 7.
“We can never really claim to have seen anything unless it has been photographed.” — Émile Zola, c. 1901, Minutes of the Camera Club of Paris
Documentary photographers, contemporary visual artists and historians grapple with issues of photographic meaning, evidence, and interpretation.
This fall, Wesleyan has hosted a series of exhibitions, talks and films that explore photography’s role in historiography, historical memory and public life. Organized by Associate Professor of History Jennifer Tucker, “Eye of History: The Camera as Witness” serves as a meeting point for people who share a common interest in photography, art and historical memory.
On Nov. 7, internationally-renowned documentary photographers Wendy Ewald, Eric Gottesman and Susan Meiselas joined acclaimed writer and critic David Levi Strauss in a panel discussion about photography’s role in the world today. (more…)
Posted in Snapshots on Nov. 11, 2008 by Olivia Bartlett Drake
Thirty-three members of the Wesleyan community were honored by President Michael Roth during a Service Recognition Lunch Oct. 22 in Beckham Hall. Honorees worked at Wesleyan 20 years or more.
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Wesleyan President Michael Roth is the author of a review essay on Richard Rorty, Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, published in Volume 4 of History and Theory in October 2008.
