The Washington Post has just published an article on how college presidents will try “nearly everything to bond with undergraduates.” They even have pictures.
They mention everything from Facebook to pie-eating contests to canceling class because a snowball fight victory. But don’t worry, Wes has a mention in there too:
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth played piano [...]
Ben Somberg ‘05 sends in video proof of President Roth getting crunk at Saturday’s tent party. I guess this is incentive to come to your five-year Wes reunion?
Happy Birthday!
Our distinguished president, professor, and alumnus may be turning 53 today, but he doesn’t look a day past 30:
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Here’s a brief collection of links pertinent to the study and celebration of all things Roth:
Roth on Wesleyan: Roth’s blog on his experiences as Wes president; [...]
February 17, 2010 – 7:33 PM
[ February 18, 2010; 7:00 PM; ] Come support your musically gifted classmates in Musical Madness, an inter-class musical competition:
Prizes for Best in Class, Best in Show, and Judges’ Choice
acoustic, electric or a cappella
ensemble or solo
original or cover
any genre
GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER & FEEL THE LOVE
Here’s MRoth, some deans and other faculty members performing at least year’s show. Don’t think they were [...]
January 15, 2010 – 8:32 AM
Re: the Thomas Kannam lawsuit. In a campus-wide email and on his blog, President Roth briefly lays out the case against Kannam and says he’s got this.
Key details in boldface:
Many of you are aware that Wesleyan has commenced litigation against former Vice President and Chief Investment Officer Thomas Kannam. For those of you hearing about [...]
January 5, 2010 – 4:19 PM
Cue populist rage!!
Unless you’re a particularly keen watchdog of the administration, you probably paid little attention to the departure of former Vice President of Investments and Chief Investment Officer Thomas Kannam back in October, via a vaguely worded all-campus email stating that he had “left Wesleyan University to pursue other opportunities.”
As it turns out, Kannam [...]
November 17, 2009 – 10:13 AM
[ November 18, 2009; 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM. ]
A conversation between writer Jay Cantor and President Michael Roth, Wesleyan University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, Jay Cantor is the author of two previous novels, The Death of Che Guevara and Krazy Kat, and two books of essays, The Space Between: Literature and Politics and On Giving Birth to One’s Own Mother.
Date: Nov. 18
Time: [...]
November 4, 2009 – 12:44 AM
Ezra Silk ‘10 was inspired by our earlier post about Michael Roth’s salary to do a little digging through other people’s tax returns and provide us with some interesting research on faculty compensation. Thanks Ezra. Check out his article in the Blargus. Highlights include:
Thomas Kannam, VP & Chief Investment Officer: $460, 610
Barbara Jan Wilson, VP President for [...]
October 12, 2009 – 12:10 AM
[ October 16, 2009; 1:00 PM; ] From Camara Awkward-Rich ‘11:
On Friday October 16th, there will be an anti-violence symposium to address varying issues of violence in relation to the Wesleyan community. It will include workshops, speakers, and a reception that deal with practical responses to, and systemic conceptions of, violence and healing. Please come, and invite your friends!
1 pm – [...]
President Michael Roth was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday. Among the things he talked about: his own experience as a new Wes grad in 1978, current successful Wesleyan alums and the potential upside to entering the job market during a recession.
You can find the transcript or listen to Roth himself on NPR’s website. [...]
The Wall Street Journal asked some university presidents to write essays answering one of the admission application questions for their schools.
Our own Michael Roth was among them, answering the question “Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence“.
He wrote about his older brother, who died at the age [...]
Before his attack on Johanna Justin-Jinich, killer Stephen Morgan made jarring comments in his journal about targeting Jews and Wesleyan students in general, which made an already terrible incident even more unsettling.
American Jewish newspaper The Forward explores his conflation of Wesleyan students, Jews, and Justin-Jinich, and talks about Jewish identity at Wesleyan in the wake [...]
In case you missed it, President Michael Roth sat down for an interview with the Argus last week to talk about what he thinks he’s accomplished during his two years in office (budget-balancing, forming A Long-Term Plan) how Wes has changed since he was a student here thirty years ago, and what he plans for [...]
Applications are at a record high at top universities (including Wes), but it seems that with shrinking endowments and many more needy students applying, a lot of colleges are finding ways to accept more wealthy applicants and still claim to be need-blind in admissions, like taking more transfer and wait-listed students, or admitting more international [...]
Watch out class of 2013 – you should be hearing back from Wes by this week.
The New York Times published an article yesterday about the record number of applications which top colleges received this year, despite the state of the economy. More students than ever applied to some of the most competitive schools, including [...]
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