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Wesleyan in the News: February 2025

Editorial StaffFebruary 4, 202524min
By: Phuc Ngo ’26 President Michael S. Roth ’78 wrote a piece in Slate on recent decisions by other higher education institutions to take a position of neutrality on controversial issues. “We must not sacrifice academic freedom and a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance,” Roth said.  Following his piece in Slate, The Washington Post ran an opinion piece highlighting Roth’s efforts to speak out against threats to higher education. “Leaders in higher educational institutions should stand up for their values. Not to pick a fight with Donald Trump or JD Vance. We should stand up…
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Wesleyan Joins Middletown To Recognize Amistad Journey to Freedom Day

Amy AlbertOctober 20, 20228min
Wesleyan University faculty and students played an important role at Middletown’s 2022 Amistad Journey to Freedom Community Day Celebration in Harbor Park Saturday, October 8. Event planners coordinated with Discovering Amistad to offer age-appropriate tours of the replica vessel, which arrived in Middletown one week earlier.   Jesse Nasta ’07, assistant professor of the practice in African American Studies, who wrote his honors thesis on Middletown’s Beman Triangle, was already signed up to participate, leading the 4th Annual Middletown Middle Passage Ceremony. “The Middle Passage and the Middle Passage Ceremony are an origin story of the Beman Triangle and other…
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