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Wesleyan University
Established 1831
Type Private
Endowment $601 million[1]
President Michael S. Roth
Academic staff 350
Undergraduates 2,766[2]
Postgraduates 180[2]
Location United States Middletown, Connecticut, United States
Campus Small city, 360 acres (1.5 km2)
Colors Cardinal and Black          
Athletics NCAA Division III
Sports NESCAC
29 varsity teams[3]
16 club teams
Nickname Cardinals
Website wesleyan.edu
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Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut and founded in 1831. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and sciences, also provides graduate research in many academic disciplines, and grants PhD degrees primarily in the sciences and mathematics.[4][5] Wesleyan is the second most productive liberal arts college in the United States in the number of undergraduates who go on to earn PhDs in all fields of study.[6][7][8][9]

Founded under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the now secular university was the first institution of higher education to be named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. About 20 unrelated colleges and universities were subsequently named after Wesley. Wesleyan, along with Amherst College and Williams College, is a member of the historic Little Three colleges and has long been known as one of the Little Ivies.

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[edit] History

Main article: Wesleyan University history
The Samuel Wadsworth Russell House, home to the Philosophy department. The building was designated a national Historic Landmark in 2001 and is considered one of the finest examples of domestic Greek Revival architecture.
The rear of 'College Row'. From left to right: North College, South College, Memorial Chapel, Patricelli '92 Theater (Not pictured: Judd Hall)

Two histories of Wesleyan have been published, Wesleyan's First Century by Carl F. Price in 1932 and another in 1999, Wesleyan University, 1831–1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England, by David B. Potts. Wesleyan was founded as an all-male Methodist college in 1831.[10] The University, established as an independent institution under the auspices of the Methodist conference, was led by Willbur Fisk, its first President.[10] Despite its name, Wesleyan was never a denominational seminary.[11] It remained a leader in educational progress throughout its history[12][13][14] and erected one of the earliest comprehensive science buildings devoted exclusively to undergraduate science instruction on any American college or university campus, Judd Hall (named after alumnus Orange Judd).[15][16][17] It also has maintained a larger library collection than institutions comparable in size.[18][19] The Wesleyan student body numbered about 300 in 1910[20] and had grown to 800 in 1960, the latter being a figure that Time described as "small".[21] Although Wesleyan developed into a peer of Amherst and Williams, Wesleyan was always decidedly the smallest of the Little Three institutions until the 1970s, when it grew significantly to become larger than the other two.[22][23]

In 1872, the University became one of the first U.S. colleges to attempt coeducation by allowing a small number of female students to attend,[16] a venture then known as the "Wesleyan Experiment". "In 1909, the board of trustees voted to stop admitting women as undergraduates, fearing that the school was losing its masculine image and that women would not be able to contribute to the college financially after graduation the way men could."[24] Given that concern, Wesleyan ceased to admit women, and from 1912 to 1970 Wesleyan operated again as an all-male college.[14]

Wesleyan severed its final ties with the Methodist Church in 1937.[25]

Beginning in the late 1950s, president Victor Lloyd Butterfield[26] began an ambitious program to reorganize the University according to Butterfield's "College Plan" somewhat similar to Harvard's House system or Yale's colleges, where undergraduate study would be divided into seven smaller residential colleges with their own faculty and centralized graduate studies, including doctoral programs and a Center for Advanced Studies (later re-named The Center for the Humanities).[27][28][29] The building program begun under this system created three residential colleges on Foss Hill (the Foss Hill dormitories) and then three more residential colleges (the Lawn Avenue dormitories, now called the Butterfield Colleges). Although the facilities were largely created, only four of the academic programs were begun, and only two of those continue today: the College of Letters (COL) and the College of Social Studies (CSS).[21][30]

Butterfield's successors, Edwin Deacon Etherington (Class of 1948)[31] and Colin Goetze Campbell,[32] completed many of the innovations begun during Butterfield's administration, including the return of women in numbers equal to men;[33] a quadrupling in the total square footage of building space devoted to laboratory, studio and performing arts instruction; and a dramatic rise in the racial, ethnic, and religious diversity and size of the student body.[34][31][35][36][37]

The University and several of its admissions deans were featured in Jacques Steinberg's 2002 book The Gatekeepers: Inside The Admissions Process of a Premier College.[38][39] In the fall 2007 semester, Michael S. Roth, a 1978 graduate of Wesleyan and former president of the California College of the Arts, was inaugurated as the University's 16th president.[40]

[edit] Campus

The view from Foss Hill. From left to right: Judd Hall, Harriman Hall (which houses the Public Affairs Center and the College of Social Studies), and Olin memorial library.
Clark Hall, a freshman dormitory built in 1916 and renovated in 2002.

Wesleyan occupies a 360-acre (1.5 km2) campus, with over 340 buildings, including: the five-building College Row; Olin Memorial Library (see below); Harriman Hall (which houses the John E. Andrus Public Affairs Center and the College of Social Studies); the Exley Science Center; Shanklin and Hall-Atwater Laboratories; the Van Vleck Observatory; the Butterfield dormitories; the Fauver Field dormitories; and the 11-building Center for the Arts complex. [41][42]

The original core buildings of the campus were North College and South College. North College, Nassau Hall-type building seen in most early American college campuses, was replaced after a fire in 1909 with the current North College. South College is the sole building from the beginning of the college. These two buildings were the first two in a line of six later called 'College Row'. The other buildings of College row include the recently renovated Memorial Chapel, the original college library (now a theater), and Judd Hall. Adjacent to College Row, Olin Library, Harriman Hall, Shanklin Hall, and the former Hall Chemistry Building were designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White as a set (with Clark Hall and a never built sixth building) to form a quadrangle.

The northern end of High Street contains several large buildings which were former private residences a few of which were exceptional architectural examples. These include Russell House, a National Historic Landmark, two Alsop family houses, (one is currently the African-American Studies center with student housing; the other is the Davison Art Center), the Davison infirmary, a second Russell family house that contains the University Development Office, and Downey House. High Street, which is the old center of campus, was once described by Charles Dickens as "the most beautiful street in America."[43]

Recent building initiatives include the Freeman Athletic Center (which includes a 50-meter swimming pool, the Spurrier-Snyder Rink for hockey, the 1,200-seat Silloway Gymnasium, the 7,500-square-foot (700 m2) Andersen Fitness Center, and the Rosenbaum Squash Center with eight courts); the Center for Film Studies; and a multi-building renovation project creating a 'Humanities District' on the east side of High Street between Fisk Hall and Russell House, which includes facilities for the departments of English, Romance Languages, the College of Letters, Classical Studies, Philosophy, and Art & Art History. The Allbritton Center (previously the Davenport Student Center, and before that Scott Lab) opened in the fall of 2009 and houses the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, the Shapiro Creative Writing Center, the Quantitative Analysis Center (QAC), and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.[44][45]

The Usdan University Center, which opened in September 2007, has dining facilities for students and for faculty. It also houses seminar and meeting spaces, the Wesleyan Student Assembly, Student Activities and Leadership Development Office, University Events and Scheduling Office, the post office, and the computer store.

[edit] Public safety

Between 2008 through 2010, reported cases of forcible sex offenses increased 600 percent (from one to six), drug related violations in dormitories rose by a third, and liquor disciplinary referrals remained at over two per school day per year. Larceny had dropped by nearly a third to only 113 incidents in 2010, while aggravated assault, burglaries and motor vehicle theft had decreased after peaking in 2009. In the three year period, there was only one murder documented on campus and no cases of arson.[46]

[edit] Undergraduate

Wesleyan's 40 undergraduate academic departments offer over 900 courses each semester and more than 900 individual tutorials.[47][48] Wesleyan also offers fifteen interdisciplinary programs, ten certificate programs, and nine Academic Centers.[49][50][51] Undergraduates receive the Bachelor of Arts in one (or more) of 47 major concentrations.[52][53][54] As many as a third of these majors are interdisciplinary in structure.[55] No minors are offered, but double majors are popular and up to 40% of Wesleyan’s graduates are double majors.[56]Students triple major as well. Undergraduates can also pursue a custom-designed major, known as a University Major.[57] According to the Columbia Encyclopedia, "Wesleyan is noted for its undergraduate programs of tutorial instruction and independent study."[58] Approximately 52% of students undertake independent study.[59]

Wesleyan offers 3–2 programs in engineering with the California Institute of Technology and Columbia University's School of Engineering. These programs allow undergraduates to receive degrees in five years from both Wesleyan (B.A.) and Caltech or Columbia (B.Sc., Engineering).[60][58][61] Additionally, Wesleyan offers a BA/MA Program in the sciences leading to a Bachelor's degree in the fourth year and a Master's degree in the fifth year. Tuition for the fifth year of the Master's degree is waived.[62] Undergraduates can pursue studies in pre-medicine, pre-law, and pre-business through any major.[63][64][65][66] Most classes at Wesleyan are small; the predominant class size for undergraduates is 10–19 students, and the student to faculty ratio is 9 to 1.[5][67] The faculty has been graded as "accessible."[68]

The University has described a set of general principles that define its approach to undergraduate education summed up in ten essential capabilities that the faculty believe every undergraduate should possess when he or she graduates from Wesleyan.[69][70][71] Students may acquire these capabilities through numerous courses throughout the curriculum designated by the faculty as satisfying specific capabilities and through extra- or co-curricular activities.[69][72][73][74][75][76] Writing is emphasized across the disciplines and 99% of undergraduates participate in Wesleyan's Writing Across the Curriculum program.[77]

Wesleyan does not require undergraduates to take prescribed courses.[78][79] Freshmen are offered First Year Initiative seminars, which are designed to prepare them for upper level courses by emphasizing writing, analysis, discussion, and critical thinking.[80] Undergraduates are encouraged in the first two years of study to take a minimum of two courses in each of three areas: natural sciences and mathematics, humanities and the arts, and social and behavioral sciences.[81] In the second two years, undergraduates are expected to take one course in each of these three areas. Fulfillment of the General Education Expectations in conjunction with co-curricular activities provides simultaneous acquisition of the ten essential capabilities. "A student who does not meet these [general education] expectations by the time of graduation will not be eligible for University honors, Phi Beta Kappa, honors in general scholarship [honors or high honors], and for honors in certain departments."[82][83]


[edit] Butterfield Colleges

[edit] College of Social Studies

The College of Social Studies (CSS) was founded in 1959, combining the fields of history, economics, government, and philosophy. It emphasizes intellectual independence and collaborative and social ties between faculty and students. Students take 5.5 of the program's 10.5 (thesis-writing students take 11.5) required credits during their sophomore year. Sophomore year focuses on the development of modern Western society from historical, economic, social and political perspectives, and culminates with comprehensive final exams. Junior year has a more global focus, while Seniors are required to write an Honors thesis (full year) or a Senior Essay.[84]

[edit] College of Letters

The College of Letters (COL) combines the study of history, literature, philosophy, and a foreign language of the student's choice. The program has a primary focus on the Western canon. Undertaking a chronological study that progresses from antiquities to modernity, COL students take one colloquium together each semester and study abroad for the second semester of their sophomore year; they are expected to be at an intermediate level of study in their language of choice at the time they enter the program as sophomores. During their junior year students prepare for intensive comprehensive examinations on the three colloquia taken up to this point. During their senior year students must write a thesis (full year paper) or an essay (half year paper).[85]

[edit] College of the Environment

The College of the Environment (COE), created in 2009, integrates the following components: 1) a curricular component, including the newly established environmental studies major, the environmental studies certificate, and a senior capstone project; 2) a Think Tank of Wesleyan faculty, scholars of prominence, and undergraduates whose aim is to produce scholarly work that will influence national and international thinking and action on critical environmental issues; and 3) the Collaborative Research Initiative (CRI), which is designed to encourage COE majors with the most potential to undertake environmental research. The threefold goal of the CRI combines: a) preparing students for senior research work; b) recruiting students of exceptional skill for participation in the COE Think Tank; and c) preparing students for research careers in environmental studies, as well as facilitating internships (non-credit) to provide students with research opportunities and "real world" experience (e.g., internships with governmental organizations, NGO's, and businesses, etc.).[86][87][88]

[edit] Science and mathematics

According to National Science Foundation (NSF) research and data, the University ranks first nationally among liberal arts colleges in federal funding for research in the sciences and mathematics. Wesleyan is also the number one ranked liberal arts institution in publications by science and mathematics faculty as determined by a measure of research publication rate and impact of publication that factors in both the number of research papers and the number of times those papers are cited in the literature. The University's undergraduates co-author (with Wesleyan faculty) and publish more scientific papers than do students at any other liberal arts school. Additionally, the University is the only liberal arts college in the nation to receive research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Research Training Program. Wesleyan is the sole undergraduate liberal arts college to receive this support among research universities such as Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Harvard University Medical School, Duke, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania.The University also may be the only liberal arts college to offer an undergraduate concentration in Molecular Biophysics. Medical school acceptances historically have averaged above 90% and in some years Wesleyan has recorded an acceptance rate of 100%. Many pre-med graduates are admitted to the most prestigious programs in the country.[89][90]

Wesleyan was one of the first colleges to establish a separate Molecular Biology & Biochemistry department, and has extensive laboratory facilities.[89] The University is reputed to have the most square footage of lab space per student of any college in the country. All of the science departments, mathematics & computer science and psychology support original post-graduate research programs. An additional laboratory building is in the planning stages.

Astronomy program

Main article: Van Vleck Observatory

The Astronomy department graduates more astronomy and astrophysics majors than any other liberal arts college in the country.[90] The program is based at Van Vleck Observatory, built in 1914, which is on Foss Hill near the center of the Wesleyan campus.

Science in Society
Wesleyan's Science in Society Program (SISP) is an interdisciplinary major that encourages integrated study of the sciences and medicine as practices, institutions, and intellectual achievements, among other areas of study. The program has three components: science courses, SISP courses, and an area of concentration (which may include a major in one of the sciences). The program is well suited for students interested in a variety of professional and academic pursuits, since it encourages students to integrate technical scientific understanding with a grasp of the multiple contexts in which scientific knowledge is applied, and the issues at stake in its application.[91][92][93][94]

[edit] Music

Wesleyan's program in World Music, described as "one of the top schools in the country for the study of ethnomusicology"[95][96] and music,[97] employs leading teaching musicians and ethnomusicologists, representing a variety of musical traditions. European (including Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, Expressionistic, Neoclassical, Neoromantic, Gebrauchsmusik, 20th century, Contemporary, and Opera), South Indian Classical, Indonesian (including Javanese Gamelan), East Asian, classical Chinese music, Korean music, Japanese music including Taiko drums, West African, Caribbean, African-American, as well as Experimental music have been permanent components of the Music Department since the 1960s.[98] The Experimental music work at Wesleyan dates to the residency of John Cage at the University, and subsequently to Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, and Jon Barlow. Among universities, Wesleyan "has one of the largest and most diverse collections of world musical instruments,"[99] many of which are depicted in the University's "Virtual Instrument Museum."[100]

[edit] Film studies

The University's Film Studies program, ranked among the ten best in the world,[101] is led by film historian Jeanine Basinger.[102] In 2008, Vanity Fair said: "This tiny Connecticut University, with a total enrollment of 2,700, has turned out a shockingly disproportionate number of Hollywood movers and shakers."[103][104] Similarly, in 2008, Variety magazine noted Basinger's contribution to the film industry through her work in the Wesleyan Film Studies program, and the large number of alumni of the program now working in Hollywood.[105] University students, biographers, media experts, and scholars from around the world may have full access to The Wesleyan Cinema Archives, which document the film industry during the 20th century and contain the personal papers and film related materials of Ingrid Bergman, Frank Capra, Clint Eastwood, Federico Fellini, Elia Kazan, Frank Perry, Roberto Rossellini, Robert Saudek, Martin Scorsese, Gene Tierney, Raoul Walsh, and John Waters, amongst others.[106][107]

[edit] Theater

'92 Theater

Wesleyan's highly regarded theater program makes use of two theater facilities: the Theater in the Center for the Arts, a 400-seat space, and the '92 Theater, home to Second Stage, which may be the country's first solely student-run volunteer theater organization. Second Stage produces at least one performance per weekend during the school year, either in the fully equipped black-box Patricelli '92 Theater or alternative spaces around campus. Second Stage produces dance as well as theater performances. The Patricelli '92 Theater (then simply '92 Theater) became available for student-run productions when the Center for the Arts opened in 1974, providing the Theater Department with a state-of-the-art facility.[108][109][110]

[edit] Certificates

According to the University, "Certificate programs at Wesleyan supplement (but do not replace) a major. A certificate requires an interdisciplinary set of courses that prepares a student for postgraduate work in a specified interdisciplinary field."[111] There are eleven certificate programs at the University.[112]

[edit] International Study

Wesleyan sponsors international programs in France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Spain; has special relationships with programs in Japan and China; and has 140 other approved programs. Nearly 50% of students study abroad for a semester or academic year.[113]

[edit] Twelve College Exchange

Many students participate in the Twelve College Exchange program, which allows for study for a semester or a year at another of the twelve college campuses: Amherst, Bowdoin, Connecticut College, Dartmouth, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Trinity, Vassar, Wellesley, Wheaton, and Williams.[114][115]

[edit] Post-Graduate

Departmental Programs
According to the University, Wesleyan features 11 graduate departmental programs in the sciences, mathematics, computer science, psychology, and music.[116] Graduates receive the Master of Arts, Master of Science, or Doctor of Philosophy degrees.[117]

Graduate Liberal Studies Program
In 1953, Wesleyan was the first university to begin a program leading to a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree, called the Graduate Liberal Studies Program.[118] To date, hundreds of educational institutions have followed suit with similar programs.[119] The program provides for interdisciplinary graduate study independent of the undergraduate academic departments.[120]

A large proportion of G.L.S.P. students are public and private school teachers from the region, and the others are in different professions or are otherwise augmenting their graduate studies.[121] The Graduate Liberal Studies Program offers both the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) and the Certificate of Advanced Studies (C.A.S.). The former requires 36 credit hours of study and may culminate in a capstone project or thesis. The latter requires 30 credit hours of academic study and a thesis.

[edit] Profile

[edit] Rankings and admission

University rankings (overall)
National
Forbes[122] 7 (LAC)

15 (Overall)
Washington Monthly[123] 11
Liberal arts colleges
U.S. News & World Report[124] 12

Admission to Wesleyan is among the most selective in the United States.[citation needed] For the class of 2015, 10,033 applications were received and 23% (up slightly from 19.9% for the previous year) of applicants (2,339) were admitted.[125] The median SAT scores were 720 for Math, 720 for Reading, and 730 for Writing. Additionally, the middle 50 percent of students scored between 30 and 34 (composite) on the ACT. The median SAT score was 2170, and the median ACT score was 32.[125] 49% of the class of 2015 receives financial aid, and 40% are students of color.

Historically, Wesleyan holds the Washington Monthly survey's No. 1 average liberal arts college ranking in the nation. For 2011, the University is ranked No. 11 in this survey,[126][127][128] In the current U.S. News and World Report rankings, Wesleyan is the No. 12 liberal arts college in the United States. In previous U.S. News rankings, the University has been ranked as high as No. 6 overall. In the current U.S. News High School Counselor Rankings of National Liberal Arts Colleges, the University is ranked No. 11.[129]

Wesleyan has been ranked by Newsweek as one of the 25 best colleges in the nation for schools with the most highly decorated students ("Brainiac Schools"--which measures the success of alumni in winning Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Gates-Cambridge, and Fulbright Scholarships--#18 overall, No. 9 among liberal arts colleges),[130][131] for international "students immigrating to the United States for their higher education" (#18 overall, No. 10 among LACs),[132][133] for paying back alumni in future earnings and quality experience (#18 overall, No. 12 among LACs),[134][135] for schools offering an exceptional artistic atmosphere (#13 overall, No. 7 among LACs),[136][137] and for "Activists" (#6 overall, No. 4 among liberal arts colleges).[75][138][76]

In the 2010 Forbes magazine ranking of American colleges the University is ranked #15.[67] Among liberal arts colleges only, Wesleyan ranks No. 7 in the survey.[139] According to a study entitled "Revealed Preference Ranking" published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Wesleyan ranks No. 22, and No. 5 among liberal arts colleges only.[140]

In its 2012 edition, the Princeton Review gave the University an admissions selectivity rating of 98 out of 99 and an academic rating of 98. The university is classified as a "most selective" institution by U.S. News and World Report, and in the U.S. News ranking of "Highest 4-Year Graduation Rates" for all colleges and universities in the nation, Wesleyan is ranked No. 10,[141] In August 2011, the Global Language Monitor ranked Wesleyan as the No. 7 liberal arts college in the U.S.[142][143]

Wesleyan is ranked very highly in the Washington Monthly's key academic output categories, currently holding first place in the research component among national liberal arts colleges.[126] Business Week's 2011 study of which undergraduate institutions produce graduates who fare best on the GMAT ranked Wesleyan No. 13 in the nation among both national research universities and liberal arts colleges and No. 2 among liberal arts colleges alone.[144] In the Princeton Review's 2011 ranking of the 100 "Best Value Colleges" (a ranking combining national research universities and liberal arts colleges) Wesleyan was named the No. 6 "Best Value" private college in the nation.[145] Overall selection criteria included more than 30 factors in three areas: "academic excellence, financial aid and cost of attendance."[146] According to the Wall Street Journal, the university is one of the top "feeder schools" to elite graduate medical, law, and business schools.[147][148]

The University is notable for the success of its minority populations. Wesleyan is one of only nine universities with a black graduation rate above 90 percent.[149] In this regard, Black Enterprise has ranked Wesleyan No. 10 overall among the magazine's top 50 universities and colleges for African Americans, and No. 2 among liberal arts colleges alone.[150][151][152][153][154]

According to a 2003 summary, women constituted 55.3% of Wesleyan's undergraduates who received doctorates.[9] Similarly, "[a]ccording to the 2000 to 2004 Survey of Earned Doctorates, women accounted for nearly 63% of the doctorates received by Wesleyan alumni/ae in the sciences (calculated either including psychology or including both psychology and the social sciences) and earned 53% of the doctorates in the sciences when psychology and the social sciences were excluded."[155][156][157]

[edit] After graduation

Wesleyan has been noted as one of the most productive baccalaureate colleges in the United States in the undergraduate origins of PhDs in all fields of study, with exceptional productivity in undergraduates pursuing doctorates in the physical sciences, geosciences, life sciences, psychology, social sciences, and humanities.[7][6][158][89] According to studies undertaken by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies, for the years 1999–2008, 1999–2003, and 1994–2003, Wesleyan undergraduates were second in receiving PhDs among all liberal arts colleges in the nation.[6][9][8] For example, the University produces more history doctorates per undergraduate history major than any other liberal arts college or national research university in the United States (with the exception of the University of Chicago which tied for first place with Wesleyan in a study (by the American Historical Association) of history PhDs earned between 1989 and 2002).[159][160]

Eighty percent of Wesleyan graduates attend graduate or professional school.[161] In 2011, Newsweek ranked Wesleyan eighteenth in their list of the nation's best colleges for paying back alumni in future earnings and quality experience.[134][135]

Wesleyan graduates are awarded external fellowships, including Fulbright, Goldwater, Marshall, Rhodes, Truman, and Watson.[130][131] For the years 2004 through 2010, Wesleyan was named a "Top Producer of Fulbright Awards for American Students" by the Institute for International Education.[162][163][164][165][166][167] For the years 2007 through 2011, a total of 42 Wesleyan students and alumni received scholarships under the Fulbright program.[168][169][170][171][172] The University has had at least 87 Watson Fellows since the inception of the program in 1968.[173]

[edit] Libraries

The front facade of Olin Memorial Library.

Wesleyan University has an extensive library collection, most of which is housed in Olin Memorial Library, which has more than 1.8 million volumes and approximately 10,000 serial subscriptions.[19][174][175] Wesleyan's first library was Rich Hall (now '92 Theater), which was built just after the Civil War.[176][177] Olin Library was designed by the firm of McKim, Mead, and White, built in 1925–27 and dedicated in 1928.[178] Olin originally was much smaller and also contained classroom space. It has since been enlarged twice, the last time in 1992.

The second largest library on campus is the Science Library, which houses over two hundred fifty thousand volumes of science abstracts, books, journals, monographs, papers, periodicals, and surveys.[179] The Science Library also has a large collection called the Cutter Collection, which is an older private collection of mostly 19th century English language books of European literature, art, and culture.

The Art Library is housed in the Davison Art Center. There is also a Music Library (which includes scores and recordings and the World Music Archives) and several department libraries.[180]

[edit] The Davison Art Center

Alsop House

Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center is in the Alsop House, which is designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark.[181][182] The Art Center has a large collection consisting primarily of works on paper, including 18,000 prints, 6,000 photographs, several hundred drawings, a small number of paintings, and three-dimensional objects (including artists' books, sculptures, and other objects).[183][184][185] The print collection is considered to be one of the most important at an American University, with works by Dürer, Goya, Rembrandt, Manet, and others.[186][187][188] Parts of the collection are regularly exhibited to the public. Some objects have been made available for loan to selected museums in the United States and abroad.[189] Students at Wesleyan in many departments make use of the DAC collection for class assignments, viewings, and individual research projects under the guidance of faculty.[190][191][192]

The Art Center's publications program produces catalogs concerning DAC collections and gallery exhibitions. In general, one catalog is published annually. This program affords students the opportunity to take part in carefully mentored student authorship. Additionally, it is a critical component of the museum's educational program, which also includes student museum internships and solely student-curated exhibitions.[186][193][194]

[edit] The Center for the Humanities

A meeting place for those interested in the humanities and social sciences.[195]

[edit] Wesleyan University Press

Main article: Wesleyan University Press

The Wesleyan University Press, an important educational asset to the school, is well regarded for its books of poetry[196] and books on music, dance and performance, American studies, and film.[citation needed] The Press serves Wesleyan students directly through its work programs during the academic year and its summer publishing internships.[citation needed] The Press also connects the campus to the larger intellectual and cultural world through the presence of its authors on campus, whether they are faculty, visiting scholars, guest lecturers, or participants in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series or Writers Conference.[citation needed] Wesleyan is the smallest college or university to have its own press. Approximately 25 books are released each year.[citation needed]

[edit] Student life

Memorial Chapel, a multi-denominational space built in 1871.
Main article: Douglas cannon

In the late 1860s, a yearly contest, the “Cannon Scrap,” began between the freshmen, whose mission it was to fire the Douglas Cannon on February 22, and the sophomores, who were charged with foiling the effort. In 1957, the tradition of stealing the cannon began in earnest.[citation needed][clarification needed]

[edit] Religious Life

Wesleyan's Memorial Chapel is the heart of religious life on campus.[citation needed] The university employs a Jewish Rabbi, a Catholic Priest, a Protestant Chaplain, and a Muslim Imam.[citation needed] There is also program housing for Buddhists and Jews.[citation needed] Within the Memorial Chapel there are meditation rooms.[citation needed] There is a Wesleyan program in Israel.[197]

[edit] Athletics

Wesleyan is a member of the Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), fields intercollegiate varsity teams in 29 sports,[5] and competes against traditional Little Three rivals Amherst and Williams. Approximately 600 students participate in intercollegiate sports each year.[198] Wesleyan is one of the 39 founding members of the NCAA.[199] Wesleyan's football field, Andrus Field, is notable for being the oldest college football field in the nation.[200]

[edit] Student groups and organizations

In February 2011, U.S. News & World Report described the University as one of "20 Colleges Where It's Easiest to Get Involved" with a "Students per Club" ratio of "11.66". At that time there were around 270 student groups available to the 3148 enrolled students.[74]

[edit] Wesleyan Student Assembly

Main article: Wesleyan Student Assembly

The Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA) is a body of 38 students elected annually to represent Wesleyan University's undergraduate student body. The members of the Assembly serve as student advocates in all areas of the University, including matters related to student life, academics, University finances, and campus facilities.[201][202][203][204] The WSA also serves as a liaison between the student body and the city of Middletown.[citation needed]

[edit] Debate

The Debate Society was founded in 1903[citation needed] and later named in honor of[citation needed] Woodrow Wilson, who had been a professor at Wesleyan between 1888–1890 and who "became deeply involved in extracurricular student activities such as the [Wesleyan] debate society." [205] He "stimulated students to organize opportunity for debate through a House of Commons similar to the one he had started at Johns Hopkins in 1884."[206][207] It captured first place in past years at the annual Brown,[citation needed] Columbia,[citation needed] Georgetown,[citation needed] Harvard,[208] Princeton,[citation needed] Tufts[citation needed] and Williams[citation needed] tournaments, among others, and has reached the semi-finals of all other major tournaments.[citation needed] The Debate Society also has competed internationally, and in 1990 the Society won a national championship[209] and ninth place in the World Student Debating Championships.[citation needed]

[edit] Environmental

Another student group is the Environmental Organizers' Network (EON), which campaigns on environmental issues.[210][211] Wesleyan also owns a tract of land that is used as Long Lane Farm, a 1-acre (4,000 m2) organic vegetable farm run mostly by students.[212]

[edit] Publications

Some of the oldest and most visible student groups are campus publications, including a bi-weekly newspaper, The Wesleyan Argus, one of the oldest college newspapers in the country[citation needed] and the oldest twice-weekly college newspaper in the United States[213] and a periodical, Hermes, the University's oldest student-run progressive publication.[214] The student body also publishes the Olla Podrida which was originally a quarterly newspaper in the late 1850s, but which has been the college yearbook since the Civil War and the permanent establishment of the Argus as the campus newspaper.[215] Wesleying is a student-run weblog that documents undergraduate life at Wesleyan.[216] Overall, at least "[fifteen student publications are sent to press ... once a semester, ranging from the school newspaper, the Argus, to magazines of fiction, humor, women’s issues, activism, and poetry."[citation needed]

[edit] Singing groups

Wesleyan was long known as the "Singing College of New England."[217] The University's "tradition as a 'singing college' had its roots in the vitality of Methodist hymnody."[218] Glee clubs were formed "for special occasions from the mid-1840s through the 1860s".[218] In 1862, however, a University glee club made the first tour of Wesleyan singers. The Wesleyan glee club organized by students frequently traveled and performed from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century[219][220] and was considered among the best collegiate glee clubs in the late 19th century.[221] It traveled widely giving concerts, including being received twice at the White House (in 1901 by President McKinley and again in 1928 by President Coolidge) and being recorded onto a phonograph record by Thomas Edison.[221] University alumni published the first edition of The Wesleyan Song Book in 1901.[219] Subsequently, the Glee Club twice won the National Intercollegiate Glee Club Competition at Carnegie Hall.[222] Since the Glee Club's disbanding, the tradition of choral singing has been carried on by the Wesleyan Singers, later renamed the Wesleyan Concert Choir, and then renamed again The Wesleyan Ensemble Singers (2010). This tradition also continues today in several student-run a cappella groups on campus.

The multi-award winning musical In the Heights, was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda (class of 2002) during his Sophomore year and was first produced at Wesleyan.[citation needed]

[edit] Secretive societies and fraternities

Original Mystical Seven
Main article: Eclectic Society (fraternity)
Main article: Mystical Seven (Wesleyan)
Main article: Theta Nu Epsilon

Secretive societies on campus include two Mystical Sevens, Skull & Serpent,[223] and Theta Nu Epsilon.[224] There are also chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha, Psi Upsilon, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Sigma, Zeta Phi Beta, Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Epsilon Pi, and Alpha Delta Phi.[225]

[edit] Student activism

Need-blind admissions
Wesleyan adheres to a need-blind admission policy. Financial circumstances are not considered when deciding whether to admit, wait list, or turn down an applicant. In 1982, trustees announced that, following federal cuts to student aid, Wesleyan would begin to consider financial circumstances when admitting wait-listed students. Students protested the decision,[226] and though trustees did not back down from their recommendations, Wesleyan raised enough money for financial aid to avoid putting the new policy into effect.[227] In 1992, the administration again considered a moratorium on need-blind admissions. A student group, Students for Financially Accessible Education (SFAE), organized a series of actions including rallies, a silent vigil encircling a trustee meeting, a sit-in in an administration building, and a camp-out on its lawn. Wesleyan's need-blind admissions policy was preserved. SFAE continued to raise awareness about financial accessibility, offering interest-free loans to students with financial emergencies, and raising money for financial aid through energy conservation campaigns.[citation needed]

WESU & National Public Radio

Main article: WESU

Another controversy in the early 2000s was the status of the campus radio station, WESU,[228] founded in 1939.[229] Until 2004, WESU's format had been entirely free-form, with DJs and student staff having complete freedom to program what they will. The station now broadcasts an NPR feed from WSHU, the college station of Sacred Heart University, for several hours a day.[230] For the remainder of the broadcast day, WESU continues to operate as a free-form station.[231]

[edit] Literary, media, and cultural references

More than 30 books have been published concerning the University, including: The Wesleyan Song Book, by Karl P. Harrington and Carl F. Price (1901);[232] The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education, by Upton Sinclair (1923); Wesleyan's First Century With an Account of the Centennial Celebration, by Carl F. Price (1932);[233] Wesleyan University, 1831–1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England, by David B. Potts (1999);[234] The Gatekeepers: Inside The Admissions Process of a Premier College, by Jacques Steinberg (2002); One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way, by William M. Chace (14th President of Wesleyan) (2006);[235] A History of the Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta, 1837–1970, by William B.B. Moody (2007);[236] Hidden Ivies by Howard Greene and Matthew Greene (2000, 2nd Ed. 2009); Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan by Mark Slobin (2010).[237]

The main character, Girl, in the 2004 novel Citizen Girl (ISBN 0743266854), by the authors of The Nanny Diaries, is a graduate of Wesleyan.[238] John Maher's 1995 work Thinker, Sailer, Brother, Spy: A Novel (ISBN 0964312107) features a fictional look at the life of a professor (a principal character) in the "hothouse atmosphere of Wesleyan University...."[239] In the 1983 novel The Matlock Paper by Robert Ludlum, the author of espionage thrillers who created the character Jason Bourne, much of the action take's place in and around the campus of a thinly disguised Wesleyan, Ludlum's alma mater.[240][dead link]

The 1963 comedic novel, Night and Silence Who is Here?, by novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, is thought by many literary critics to be patterned humorously after Wesleyan's Institute for Advanced Studies (now the Center for the Humanities); the main characters comprise and parallel the cast of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.[241] The Eclectic Society, a play that premiered on January 27, 2010 at the Walnut Street Theatre is based upon the Eclectic Society at the University during the early 1960s.[242][243] In the 2012 novel Dream School, by novelist Blake Nelson, the protagonist attends an eastern liberal arts college, Wellington College, modeled on Wesleyan.[244]

Characters in several television series have been portrayed as Wesleyan students or graduates. They include 30 Rock,[245][246] As the World Turns,[247][248] How I Met Your Mother (characters Ted Mosby, Marshall Eriksen, Lily Aldrin),[249][250] Buffy the Vampire Slayer,[251] The West Wing,[252] and M*A*S*H.[citation needed]

The 1994 cult comedy film PCU was based on (and filmed in part at) Wesleyan, the alma mater of the screenplay's two writers, Adam Leff and Zak Penn, and represents "an exaggerated view of contemporary college life...." centering around a fictionalized version of the Eclectic Society, known in the film as "The Pit."[253][254][255]

In the autumn of 2010, the Pulitzer prize-winning comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau featured the University in a series of daily strips.[256]

[edit] Notable alumni and faculty

Main article: Wesleyan University people

Former Wesleyan faculty and affiliates V. S. Naipaul, Woodrow Wilson, and T. S. Eliot have been awarded Nobel Prizes. Gary Yohe, current Professor of Economics, is a senior member and convening lead author of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Former faculty and affiliates, Richard Wilbur, Mark Strand, and Donald Hall were United States Poet Laureates. Composer John Cage was affiliated with the University from the 1950s until his death in 1993.

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