Word: wesleyanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sorensen arrived at Harvard in 2001 from Columbia. She previously served as dean of the arts and humanities at Wesleyan University...
Harvard professor Amartya Sen may have won a Nobel Prize for his work in welfare economics, but his son addresses the issue of social injustice in a different manner—he raps about it. Kabir Sen, a Wesleyan University graduate and son of Lamont University Professor Sen, will release his third album, “Peaceful Solutions,” on April 25. According to the rapper’s manager, Howard Turkenkopf, Kabir’s first two albums were well received. “His stuff has a lot more in terms of intelligence and a sort...
Attractiveness does not make a person better at mazes, said co-author of the study Tanya S. Rosenblat, a Wesleyan assistant professor of economics...
...we’re different and unique in a certain way. But this is just not OK,” says MK Eagle ’06, the BGLTSA’s community chair.Other universities have transitioned to more trans-friendly policies, but with varying degrees of success. Wesleyan University scrapped gender-neutral housing after a pilot year because of opposition from certain members of the university administration. The University of Vermont (UVM), however, has had a better “gender bending” track record. Students who prefer gender-neutral housing, which includes gender-neutral private bathrooms...
...rates that are 4 percentage points higher for black than white students, though neither tops 90 percent. Though numerous universities have white graduation rates that top 90 percent, only nine universities have black graduation rates above 90 percent—including Brown, Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams, and Harvard, Amherst, and Princeton. Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) President Tracy T. Moore II ’06 said that with all the resources available at Harvard, he wonders “what type of infrastructure is in place at these other institutions?...