Sarah Parke

Jun 25, 2024 | newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Sarah Parke

The midday sun beamed through barred windows into a high-ceilinged auditorium at Cheshire Correctional Institution as Andrew “Duke” Dickson ’24 donned a red gown and took to a centerstage pulpit. He was moments from receiving the college degrees he’d earned through Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education in front of an audience that included his mother, son, professors, other incarcerated individuals, and, seated stage right, President Biden’s education secretary.

Jun 25, 2024 | newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Sarah Parke |Jeff Harder

By Sarah ParkeThe votes for the 2024 alumni-elected trustee election are in, and the University will add three new members to its Board of Trustees as three current members complete their terms. Joining Wesleyan’s Board of Trustees for a three-year term, effective July 1, are Livia Wong McCarthy ’81, Jayvan (“Jay”) Mitchell ’11, and Aaron Veerasuntharam ’14.  Each year, Wesleyan alumni, including graduates from the senior class, elect three of their peers to serve on the Board.

Jun 22, 2024 | newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Sarah Parke |Mike Mavredakis

President Michael S. Roth ’78 sent the following message to the Wesleyan campus community on June 22, 2024:I am saddened to report the death of President Emeritus Colin G. Campbell, MA ’71, Hon. ’89 on Friday at the age of 88. Colin guided Wesleyan through an exceedingly challenging time with great skill and fortitude.

Jun 11, 2024 | newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Mike Mavredakis |Sarah Parke

Wesleyan’s chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted 87 members — 15 from the Fall 2023 semester and 72 from Spring 2024 — into the organization in recognition of their academic excellence and good moral character during Reunion and Commencement Weekend 2024.The inductees join the ranks of more than 50,000 living members of the prestigious organization.

Jun 5, 2024 | newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Sarah Parke |Jeff Harder

Wesleyan University’s alumni have made worldly contributions near and far. Whether government officials, physicians, attorneys, schoolteachers, musicians — any career imaginable — the former students who crossed Denison Terrace have made an impact somewhere, somehow. From May 25 to 27, many of them returned to Wesleyan — a place they described as having a transformative effect on their lives — for Reunion. This year, classes of the ’4s and ’9s flocked to Middletown to meet friends old and new.