Usdan University Center is a gathering spot for everyone, creating a hub in the heart of campus. All are welcome to stop by and enjoy a comfortable, convenient place to p connect with classmates and/or family members, meet new friends…or simply hang out.

Usdan Univrsity Center

Food and beverages available for purchase on site.

Usdan University Center

Join your classmates in planning your 50th Reunions! Please visit your class pages for more information and contacts. Please indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend this meeting.

1973 50th Reunion

1974 50th Reunion

1975 50th Reunion

1976 50th Reunion

1977 50th Reunion 

Room 108, Usdan University Center

Everyone—parents, families, and students—please visit the Office of Admission for a final weekend schedule (with updates and event locations), pre-purchased meal tickets, nametags, and more.

McKelvey Room, Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission

Join us for a WESeminar panel discussion on the impact of Title IX on women's athletics at Wesleyan. Please check back for more information.

Room 116, Judd Hall

Watch on Zoom

Come enjoy a cup of coffee and continental breakfast, meet the team, watch the team in a practice, team introductions at end of practice before we head over to Corwin Stadium to cheer on our Cardinals v. Williams in the football game.

Biddiscombe Wrestling Room, Freeman Athletic Center

Spurrier Snyder Rink, Freeman Athletic Center

Visit the Campus Store on the first floor of the Usdan University Center.

Usdan University Center

Visit the Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore on Main Street.

413 Main Street

Join the team for a morning at the boathouse! Refreshments will be served. 

Macomber Boathouse, 30 Harbor Drive, Middletown

Spurrier Snyder Rink, Freeman Athletic Center

In its 12th year of real-time analysis of election ads, the Wesleyan Media Project is navigating a much more complex media environment than it did a decade ago. Join us to hear about the latest 2022 advertising trends, our latest tools and innovations and how our student researchers make it all possible.
Presenters include: Laura Baum, Associate Director, Wesleyan Media Project; Sam Feuer ‘23.5, Latonya Smith ‘24 and Emma Tuhabonye ‘23, representing WMP’s Delta Lab; and Ruby Baden-Lasar ‘23, representing the WMP human coding team.

About The Wesleyan Media Project: The Wesleyan Media Project was established in 2010 to track advertising in federal elections, and it is a successor to the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which tracked political advertising between 1998 and 2008.

The Wesleyan Media Project is directed by Professors Erika Franklin Fowler (Wesleyan University), Michael M. Franz (Bowdoin College) and Travis N. Ridout (Washington State University). The Associate Director is Laura Baum and the Research Coordinator is Breeze Floyd. An outstanding group of students from all three institutions support the project through ad coding, data management and other activities.

Room 112, Boger Hall

An opportunity for parents to have brief informal one-on-one meetings with their student’s class dean and/or the dean for academic advancement and accessibility specialist.

Laura Patey, Dean for Academic Advancement, 218 North College

Michael L. Guerrero, Dean for the Class of 2026, 217 North College

Kelly Dunn, Dean for the Class of 2025, 202 North College

David Phillips, Dean for the Class of 2024, 215 North College

Jennifer Wood, Dean for the Class of 2023, 203 North College

Crystal Rose Hill-Farrell, Director of Student Academic Resources, 002 North College

Various offices in North College

Advance registration through the Office of Admission is required. Register for thet tour.

Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission

All are invited to attend a memorial celebration for this much beloved community member. A gathering will follow the service in the Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center.

Memorial Chapel

Watch on Zoom
Passcode: 076263

The Wesleyan men's and women's swimming and diving teams oversee and direct visitor parking at all home football games. Parking is $5 per car, and proceeds will assist the swimming and diving program to help defray equipment, travel, and other program costs.  

Open Container Policy: University policy and NESCAC regulations state that alcohol is not allowed at any sporting event with the exception of the tailgate area on Andrus Field.  Open containers are not allowed near the football field.

Andrus Field 

Many teams will host tailgates on Andrus Field during the football game. Please continue to check back for details.

Andrus Field

Light breakfast will be served. 

Spurrier Snyder Rink, Freeman Athletic Center

The Wesleyan squash teams will host an open house at the squash courts along with an opportunity to play against the 2022–23 men's and women's teams. Bring your families and friends to try squash or just come and watch the action. All are welcome to play. Match play against the team members will begin at 10:30 a.m.

This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with the current student-athletes, introduce friends and family to the sport of squash, and/or to reminisce about past experiences at Wesleyan. Please contact Shona Kerr if you would like to play.

Rosenbaum Squash Courts, Freeman Athletic Center 

Musical Performance featuring Wesleyan’s K-Pop dance group and rap artist Kyle Shin ’20, Son of Paper.

Seminar Room, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies

Drop in for a walk down memory lane through the Argus, Hermes, and yearbooks. Chat with Wesleyan’s archivists and special collections librarians about Wesleyan history and how the collections are used in teaching and research. Books and manuscripts discussed in “The Baker’s Dozen” WESeminar will be on view in the Davison Rare Book Room. 

Special Collections & Archives, 1st floor east, Olin Library

Parents, families, friends, and guests are invited to join students for lunch at Usdan University Center. Sample a variety of fresh, local, and made-to-order options from Bon Appetit, Wesleyan’s on-campus dining service. Enjoy salad bars, carving stations, hot entrees, numerous side dishes, beverages, and desserts. Vegetarian, vegan, and Kosher-style options are available and you do not need to specify your meal preference in advance.

A very limited number of meals may be available on-site at the Usdan Univeristy Center cashier during lunch (second floor).  

Note: A select menu of a la carte food and beverages will also be available for purchase on-site at the Usdan Café, some athletic teams may be selling concessions on Andrus Field, or you can visit one of the many restaurants in downtown Middletown. 

Marketplace, Usdan University Center

All are welcome to join the Wesleyan Community as we honor local veterans as well as students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents who have served. Check back for more details soon.

Beckham Hall, Fayerweather

Massive Power Ball by Karen Xu ’22 is rooted in a close relationship to basketball. Growing up in China, Xu regularly played the game and watched broadcasts of the NBA. The past few years living in the U.S. have enabled Xu to gain a more complex understanding of her favorite pastime. In Massive Power Ball, Xu has created a character who may simultaneously be a surrogate for the artist, a basketball star, or the crowd of fans. Through animation and printmaking, Xu places that character in scenes that incorporate both communist propaganda and screenshots of basketball games. She inquires how basketball can be an arena for the clash and meditation of individual desire and collective force, extending the thrill of the game into her consideration of the dynamics of the China-U.S. relationship and Chinese Communist Party ideals. Xu’s playful criticality manifests in many different media including printmaking, collage, and video, embodying her basketball world of lighthearted fantasy within an uncompromising reality. This presentation marks the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition.

Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, 343 Washington Terrace

Please join President Michael S. Roth '78 at a reception celebrating members of the Wesleyan Leadership Societies. Wesleyan Leadership Societies recognize the extraordinary commitment and support of Wesleyan leadership donors. By invitation only.

Olson Commons, Gordon Career Center 

Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

Exley Science Center

Alumni who are parents and grandparents of current students are invited, along with their children, to be part of this year’s legacy photograph. Please be prompt; the photo will be taken at 12:30 p.m. sharp.

Steps of North College

fron/terra incognita + Hostile Terrain (HT94) is an exhibition comprising a series of lectures, performances, readings, and art installations on the broad theme of borders, migration, displacement, and violence. Programming will provoke reflections on the territorial dimensions of borders and their consequential effects.

The exhibition is anchored by the Hostile Terrain (HT94) installation in the gallery. HT94 has been installed at many institutions both nationally and globally in 2021 and throughout 2022. The work of forensic anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow Jason de León (University of California, Los Angeles), HT94 is a visceral and visual documentation of migrant deaths along the United States / Mexico border. ​The exhibition is composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. The installation is created by Wesleyan student volunteers, who record identifying details of each person and then pin the toe tags to a map of the border region.

Co-curated by A. George Bajalia, Benjamin Chaffee, Rosemary Lennox,  Paula C. Park, María Ospina, and Anu Sharma. 

Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace

Women at War features works by a selection of the leading contemporary women artists working in Ukraine, and provides context for the current war, as represented in art across media. Several works in the exhibition were made after February 24, 2022, when Russia began full-scale invasion; others date from the eight years of war following the annexation of Crimea and the creation of separatist “republics” in Donbas in 2014

Zilkha South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace

In his new book Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life, Wesleyan professor Stephen Angle updates ancient Confucian insights for our contemporary world. In this WESeminar, Angle joins his colleague, Tushar Irani, to discuss the relevance of both Eastern and Western classical philosophy to our lives today.

Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, 287 Washington Terrace

A common complaint about today’s young professionals is that they are terrified of failure. But fear can be seen as a rational, human response to the competition and uncertainty inherent in the modern job market. There is a problem with reacting to this fear by pursuing a safe, stable career path because there is no longer any safe, stable career path--it’s an illusion held over from a less turbulent time. It’s not about whether you will fail or succeed; ultimately, you will do both many times over the many decades of your adult life. What you do need to learn is how to evaluate risk: you need to understand the risks behind whatever course you consider while also recognizing that everything you consider will be inherently risky. In this session we will review different types of risk and how to maximize your chances of building a meaningful career.
Please check back for presenter details.

Presenter: Sharon Belden Castonguay is Executive Director of the Gordon Career Center (GCC) at Wesleyan. She joined the GCC in May 2013 from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, where she was the Director of the Graduate Career Management Center. She holds a doctorate in human development & psychology from Harvard.

Room 114, Boger Hall

Bring your suit and goggles and enjoy open swim hours. 

Webster Family Natatorium, Freeman Athletic Center

Watch the game live on NSN Sports.

Corwin Stadium, Andrus Field

Celebrate game day with friends, food, and fun. Be sure to stop by during the game. All are welcome! GO WES, BEAT WILLIAMS!

Andrus Field

Advance registration required through the Office of Admission. Register for the tour.

Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission

Come celebrate 10 years of the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship (PCSE)! Since 2011, the PCSE has helped student entrepreneurs and changemakers to activate their innovations in the world. Wesleyan invites you to celebrate the PCSE and honor longtime outgoing director Makaela Kingsley ’98, MALS ’05.
Remarks at 2:30 p.m.

Please indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend this event.

Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Allbritton Center

Join us for a conversation with the Center for Prison Education, an academic program in which Wesleyan faculty teach credited courses at two Connecticut correctional facilities. Our students work toward an associate degree from local partner Middlesex Community College, and subsequently a Bachelor’s in Liberal Studies (BLS) from Wesleyan. 

Presenters: TBD
Moderator: Allie Cislo, Program Manager, Center for Prison Education (CPE)

Room 114, Boger Hall

Creative Workshop with Kyle Shin ’20, Son of Paper
Anti-Asian Violence Through the Lens of Rap Music

Seminar Room, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies

Dominated by colorful, bronze percussion instruments, the Gamelan ensemble features gongs, bronze and wooden xylophones, two-headed drums, a female soloist and a male chorus. Some of the instruments date back to the 12th century in Java, an Indonesian island located between Sumatra and Bali. Get some real experience playing the Gamelan in this lively, hands-on workshop.

Presenters: I.M. Harjito, University Professor of Music, with introduction by Sumarsam, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music

Please note: space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. This session often reaches capacity.

World Music Hall

Join Freeman Asian Scholar alumni and students along with faculty and administrators at a reception honoring the Freeman Asian Scholars Program.

Please indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend this event.

Russell House, 327 High Street

Alpha Delta Phi members and families are invited to a cocktail reception at 4:30 p.m., followed by a dinner banquet. 

Alpha Delta Phi, 185 High Street

As BIPOC members of the Wesleyan community, we all share a common thread but each with our unique experiences. Join alumni, students, and families as we gather together to celebrate. All are welcome!

Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center

Attend an open rehearsal of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play, Everybody, the fall mainstage production of the Wesleyan Theater Department. This will feature a working technical rehearsal process, to demonstrate the collaborative and interdisciplinary power of theatermaking. The Chair of the Theater Department will meet participants promptly at 6pm outside the lobby entrance to the CFA Theater, where attendees will all enter the space together to experience the work-in-progress showing of our students, faculty and staff.

CFA Theater (meet outside the lobby entrance)

Join the Wesleyan Athletics community to honor and recognize new inductees into the Athletics Hall of Fame. Please register to purchase tickets separately for this off-campus event.

Courtyard by Marriott, 4 Sebethe Drive, Cromwell, CT 06416

Register for the Hall of Fame Dinner

A student-led production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins.

In this darkly comedic musical revue, the nine Americans who succeeded in or attempted to assassinate the president of the United States gather to discuss the mark they left on history. Through telling their stories, this show analyzes how the “American Dream” can corrupt as much as it inspires.

Tickets are free and can be reserved here

Patricelli '92 Theater

Organized and hosted by the Astronomical Society of Greater Hartford (ASGH), this observing session uses our refurbished 20" refracting telescope. For details, schedule, and the COVID-19 policy please visit the ASGH website. 
Proof of vaccination and masks are required for this event.

Van Vleck Observatory

Fire of Love tells the story of two French lovers, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of our planet, while simultaneously capturing the most explosive volcano imagery ever recorded. Along the way, they changed our understanding of the natural world, and saved tens of thousands of lives. Previously unseen hours of pristine 16-millimeter film and thousands of photographs reveal the birth of modern volcanology through an unlikely lens—the love of its two pioneers.

About the filmmaker: Sara Dosa (Director) is an Indie Spirit Award-nominated doc director and Peabody award-winning producer whose interests lay in telling unexpected character-driven stories about ecology, economy and community. Her first feature as a director, The Last Season, won a Golden Gate Award at its SFIFF 2014 premiere and was nominated for the Indie Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award. Dosa co-directed an Emmy-nominated episode of the Netflix music series Re-Mastered. Dosa’s third feature as a director, The Seer & The Unseen, premiered in 2019, winning awards at a number of festivals. As a producer, she produced the Peabody-winning Audrie & Daisy (2016 Sundance/Netflix Originals) and the Peabody- and Emmy-nominated Survivors (2018 IDFA/POV). Dosa co-produced the Academy Award-nominated The Edge of Democracy”(2019 Sundance/Netflix Originals) as well as An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017 Sundance / Paramount). In 2018, DOC NYC named Dosa to the inaugural “40 Under 40” class of documentary filmmakers and was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She graduated from Wesleyan University and holds a master’s in anthropology and international development economics from the London School of Economics.

Goldsmith Family Cinema, Jeanine Basinger Center for FILM Studies

This is a student-run event.

Malcolm X House, 345 High Street