As America turns 250, leaders of our colleges and universities have been wringing their hands, wondering how higher education ...

Renewing Democracy’s Promise begins with the conviction that we only guarantee America’s liberties by practicing them. That ...

In a piece for The New York Times, columnist Ezra Klein discussed this year’s Commencement speech at Wesleyan from Senator ...

Sarah Wellons, assistant professor of Astronomy and of Integrative Sciences, was named one of the 2026 Cottrell Scholars.

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A resident of New York, brooks returned to their home state as the 2025-2026 artist-in-residence at Wesleyan’s Center for the ...

Neither clouds nor rain nor fog could keep the hundreds of eager graduates from realizing the culmination of years of study: Wesleyan University’s 194 th Commencement on Sunday, May 24, 2026. Under ...

Karen Freedman ’75, P’05, Hon.’26, founder and president of Lawyers For Children, was named an Honorary Doctor of Laws at Wesleyan’s 194th Commencement Ceremony. In her speech to the Class of 2026, ...

At the end of every class Shakur Collins ’26 took, he pushed in all the chairs and organized the filing cabinet holding the work of his classmates at the Center for Prison Education’s program in ...

In remarks to fellow graduates at Wesleyan’s 194th Commencement Ceremony, Class of 2026 Commencement Speaker Thomas Lyons ’26 looked back on his and his peers’ undergraduate experiences, articulating ...

President Michael S. Roth ’78 appeared on CNN This Morning with Audie Cornish to discuss a new policy at Harvard that limits A grades for undergraduate students. “The real issue is: Are students ...

When the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organization, re-emerged in the early half of the 20th century, it significantly reshaped economic opportunity for local Black children in the short term, ...