Don Fels, Wesleyan ’68, and father of Benjamin Fels ’06,was an American Studies major at Wes, one of the first two to graduate. He put together his major from English, History and Art. Half a century later, he still is very much involved with all three disciplines. A visual artist and writer, he is based…
My name’s Samantha Meagher. I’m from New Jersey. I’m a rising senior with a double major in Sociology and HISP. I wrote this poem because Wesleyan is a place that has allowed me to form deep connections and learn so much more about myself. It feels awful to be torn away from it so abruptly…
Katie Murray I’m from the class of 2019, my majors were Government and Hispanic Literature and Culture and I received an English Teaching Assistantship to the Canary Islands. It sounds like I’m exaggerating, but my experience was better than I had ever imagined. The best part for me was getting to know a…
My name is Sophie, I’m a sophomore at Wesleyan, a freshly declared Italian Studies major, and a student employee for the Fries Center for Global Studies and the Office of Study Abroad. Over the spring semester I, along with my peers and coworkers, have been preparing for next fall abroad. My peers and I have…
by Konstance Krueger, OSA Graduate Assistant It’s been a challenging last few weeks for students who planned, prepared, and saved to study abroad this spring. In difficult times like these, it’s important that we treat ourselves kindly, find community, and recognize that we are not alone. The Office of Study Abroad, WesWell, and the Office of…
Written by Kennedy Odede ’12 The Covid-19 crisis will move our problems from a health pandemic to class warfare. For most of my life, I lived in Kibra — before a series of chance encounters brought me to attain my university education in the United States. My life in Kibra was shared, intimate, inextricable. At…
Professor H. M. FazaleHaq, a linguist who arrived at Wesleyan a year ago, will be offering a timely new course in the fall: “Language and Politics: Making and Unmaking of Nations” (CGST212). Here is the course description: This course explores the key topics at the intersection of language and politics, including language choice, linguistic correctness,…
Written by Lexi Cummings A recent article published in the Harvard Business Review heralds the psychological benefits of studying abroad. In order to explore this claim, researchers examined the concept of “self-concept clarity,” referring to “the extent to which someone’s understanding of him or herself is ‘clearly and confidently defined, internally consistent, and temporally stable.’”…
“The Truman Foundation is the nation’s official living memorial to our thirty-third president and The Presidential Memorial to Public Service. Created by Congress in 1975, the Foundation was President Truman’s idea. President Truman did not want a bricks and mortar monument. Instead, he encouraged a living memorial that would give life to the values of…
Written by Inayah Bashir ’20 The Barry Goldwater Scholarship is awarded to sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming leading researchers in STEM fields and are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. It provides $7,500 per year to help cover undergraduate academic expenses. Wesleyan students have won the Goldwater multiple times, and we encourage…
