Wesleyan University
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| founding | 1831 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Middletown (Connecticut) , United States |
| president | Michael S. Roth |
| Students | approx. 3,180 (as of 2015) |
| Employee | 445 (as of 2015) |
| Foundation assets | US $ 838 million (as of 2015) |
| University sports | The Cardinals |
| Website | www.wesleyan.edu/ |
The Wesleyan University is a private university in the US state of Connecticut in the United States with a campus in Middletown . It was founded by Methodists in 1831 , named after John Wesley , but became completely independent of the Methodist Church in 1937.
In 2006 it was ranked 10th in the US News & World Report ranking of the US Liberal Arts Colleges .
As of 2015 there are 445 employees and around 3,180 students. The foundation had funds of approximately $ 838 million in 2015.
The students publish their own newspaper ( The Argus ). The university is a member of the Little Three or Little Ivies in college sports , with Williams College and Amherst College . Their sports teams are called The Cardinals . The official school colors are red and black .
Famous alumni include screenwriter Zak Penn , writers Robert Ludlum and Robin Cook , former football player and coach of the New England Patriots Bill Belichick , musicians from indietronic band MGMT , director Michael Bay, and psychologists David McClelland , Elliot Aronson and John William Atkinson . The German journalist Domenika Ahlrichs , who was editor-in-chief of the Netzeitung from August 2007 to the end of 2009 and later became deputy editor-in-chief of Zeit Online, also studied at Wesleyan University . Ulrich Wickert , the long-time moderator of daily topics, studied in 1962 as part of a Fulbright scholarship for one year at the Wesleyan.
literature
- Wesley bicentennial, Wesleyan University . Publisher: The Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn), 1904
- 1831-1906. Celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Wesleyan university . Publisher: The Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn), 1907
- Alumni Record of Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn . 3rd edition 1881-1883 . Publisher: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, Hartford, 1883
- Alumni record of Weslyan University, Middletown, Conn . 4th edition 1911. Edited by Frank Walter Nicolson, Secretary of the Faculty. Publisher: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, New Haven, Conn.
Not to be confused with:
- Minor Myers Jr., Carl Teichmann: Illinois Wesleyan University : continuity & change 1850-2000 . Publisher: Illinois Wesleyan University Press in cooperation with WDG Pub. Bloomington, 2001
Trivia
- The protagonists of the television series How I Met Your Mother , Ted, Marshall and Lily, studied there. The show's writers, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, are Wesleyan alumni.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Office of the President> Biography of Michael S. Roth. Wesleyan University, accessed August 22, 2020 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 33 ′ 20.2 ″ N , 72 ° 39 ′ 21 ″ W.