http://2020.blogs.wesleyan.edu Planning Wesleyan’s Future Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:24:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://2020.blogs.wesleyan.edu/comment-page-1/#comment-42352 Eric Caplan Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:08:42 +0000 http://2020.blogs.wesleyan.edu/?page_id=301#comment-42352 Having just visited a number of small New England with my daughter, I was thrilled to see the wonderful progress that Wesleyan has made since 1984, the year I received my degree. I was also surprised to learn how small Wesleyan’s endowment is relative to its peer institutions. Absent an audacious capital campaign to bolster financial aid, Wesleyan runs the risk of becoming yet another playground for the children of wealthy rather than a remaining a vital force for providing a world-class liberal education to all able and aspiring students irrespective of need.

]]> http://2020.blogs.wesleyan.edu/comment-page-1/#comment-1852 Rick Garcia ’60 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:34:25 +0000 http://2020.blogs.wesleyan.edu/?page_id=301#comment-1852 As I see we have to do a lot more with less money to regain Paradise lost. Maybe there is still plenty of room to improve what we have with what we got. For example we could advertise a lot more about our superb teachers. I believe undergrads approaching the 2020s will be looking more for teachers than scholars!. Sometime ago while Dr Butterfield was President we had a tutor system that worked very well. A good idea would be to enhance that system- intoducing students into a learning by doing scheme- thru something we may call a Peer Tutor System. With teaching research besides, Wesleyan could aim at becoming one of the top leaders in the country in university teaching science and technology Any comments? Rick Garcia Class of 1960

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