Olivia DrakeWesleyan President Michael S. Roth is featured in Hartford Magazine's "50 Most Influential People" list for 2012. His biography, published in the magazine's cover story, reads: Michael S. Roth, historian, curator, author and president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, remembers the flexibility the school showed him when he wanted to explore “how people make sense of the past.” He designed his own cross-discipline major at Wesleyan, earning a degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1978. He received a Ph.D. in history from Princeton in 1984. Roth curated a celebrated exhibit on Freud at the Library of Congress.…
Lauren RubensteinPresident Michael Roth hopes Wesleyan's new online courses will shed light on how people learn
Roth made the case for a liberal arts education, and discussed Wesleyan's new business model
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David PesciIn a Sept. 5 op-ed for The New York Times, Wesleyan President Michael Roth discusses the recent calls to further specialize education and narrow what we teach students from K-12 and on to college at the exclusion of the liberal arts, especially the humanities. Roth says this drive to turn students into “human capital” is not a new. In fact, the esteemed 19th century educational philosopher John Dewey argued against the very same calls, saying, in part, “that learning in the process of living is the deepest form of freedom.”
While not for everyone, the 3-year option will save students money while providing the same academic rigor
President Michael S. Roth’s remarks: Members of the board of trustees, members of the faculty and staff, distinguished guests, new recipients of graduate degrees and the mighty Class of 2012, I am honored to present some brief remarks on the occasion of this commencement. When most of you began your Wesleyan education in the fall of 2008, the world was in a precarious state. It was an odd time to be investing in the future. But that’s what education is, as Kennedy said: a hopeful investment in the future. When you began here, America was waging two distant wars, the…
In an interview with popular Berkshire radio host Alan Chartock on the NPR affiliate WAMC, Wesleyan President Michael Roth discussed topics ranging from his time at Wesleyan to Freud and the creation of the College of the Environment.
He urged the graduates to use innovation and judgement to become "shapers of our economy and culture"
Wesleyan President discusses all things Wesleyan with this popular talk show host
On April 21, Wesleyan President Michael Roth spoke at the inauguration of Anna M. Wasescha as Middlesex Community College's sixth president. Roth joined Senator Richard Blumenthal, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman, Middletown Mayor Dan Drew and many others to welcome the new president. In his speech, Roth said: “Middlesex Community College and Wesleyan have common ground … literally. Last September members of our institutions stood together on Main Street Middletown to celebrate Moving Planet Day, and to join in the commitment to reduce fossil fuel use. Supporting that celebration was Wesleyan’s College of the Environment, which we have begun in the…
Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth reviews a new memoir by renowned filmmaker Claude Lanzmann