Wes in the News

In a recent piece for The Huffington Post, Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth shares a heartfelt story about the vote on Maine’s gay marriage initiative.

Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth has a piece in The Huffington Post on the 100th anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s only visit to the U.S. Freud came to New England 100 years ago this fall to deliver a series of lectures.

In a piece in The Huffington Post, Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth recounts the strong ties Senator Edward Kennedy H’83 had with Wesleyan, and how the late Senator had the “courage to believe in the possibilities for positive change.”

In a new piece for The Huffinton Post, Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth discusses a recent New York Times opinion piece by Mark C. Taylor ‘68.

A piece in The New York Times discusses how applications for the Class of 2013 remained strong at the nation’s most competitive colleges, despite the economy’s recent economic recession. Mentioned in the article was Wesleyan which, unlike several liberal arts colleges, saw an increase in applications this year. In fact, Wesleyan’s dramatic increase set a record: 10,065 applications, which is up 22% over last year’s admissions cycle (which was also a record). The Times had previously written about Wesleyan’s increase in applications during the November early decision application period, which was also up a record 40% over the previous year. President Michael Roth has also written a piece for The Huffington Post on the economy’s impact on the Class of 2013 both nationally and here at Wesleyan.

This year, Wesleyan has gone to a web-based notification system for admissions. In addition to the traditional notification letters, mailed March 26, applicants received an e-mail from the university with a link to a website. The online site was created in part to give admitted students rapid access to their admissions status, and to provide them with more time to schedule a visit to the University in April.

Once at the online site, applicants were able to log in to see their admission status. The long-awaited online letters  went “live” on the afternoon of Friday, March 27. The response was brisk. Within the first two hours, the site received more than 3,000 visitors. During one point the rate was over 250  visitors per minute and more than 5,600 unique log-ins the first weekend. In addition, as of Monday, March 30, 521 accepted students had joined Wesleyan’s frosh Facebook group.

Approximately 22 % of this year’s applicants have been admitted to Wesleyan, including some 350 students who were admitted during the early  decision period. The class of 2013 is expected to comprise approximately 745  students.

In his most recent essay for The Huffington Post, Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth ‘78 reflects on President Obama’s ‘brilliant, deeply felt Inaugural Address’ and echos on President Obama’s call to “choose our better history.” Roth discusses this and how we need to we actively start “rejecting the policies of recent years that undermined our constitution and our community.”

On the eve of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth has written a new blog entry on the Huffington Post that addresses the call to service Mr. Obama championed while on campus in May, during the latter parts of his campaign, and more recently as he worked through his transition from candidate to president. President Roth echoes these thoughts in his latest posting to his own blog as well.

Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth wrote a blog entry for The Huffington Post that discusses, among other things, how a liberal arts education could be an effective and ideal undergraduate experience for this century.

President Michael S. Roth talks about the connections established by candidate Barack Obama’s appearance on campus in May and the student response to his election as President of the United States in November.

Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth discusses participation as a form of eduction in his latest blog entry on The Huffington Post.