Fall Break Travels
Most years I spend much of Fall Break on planes traveling to meet with far flung members of the Wesleyan world. Last week I was in Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai, before heading back to the US with a stop in Berkeley, California. I’ve always enjoyed my trips to India, and this year’s was a very special one. Along with colleagues from Advancement, I met with parents of our students, alumni, and prospective Cardinals. It’s always interesting to visit a few high schools that send students to the States, and it was impressive to see how our school remains an attractive destination for families. I stressed to everyone with whom we met that our students from India make an enormous contribution to the vitality of our campus, from neuroscience to dance.
After a couple of days in three different cities in India, I made a short visit to UC Berkeley to talk about institutional neutrality and free speech at the Townsend Humanities Center. We used to live in Berkeley, and I confess to being filled with nostalgia as I wandered a bit in our old neighborhood. The welcome at Cal was warm, but I was delighted to be back in Middletown, gearing up now for the second half of the semester.
