3 is asked to contact Butler at First Year Matters program is designed to help first-year students establish on-campus community connections, engage in shared learning experiences, explore new opinions and ideas, and acquire the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in Wesleyan’s rigorous liberal arts environment.
The FYM committee is currently working to arrange a related keynote address during the New Student Orientation program.Īny faculty or staff who is willing to facilitate a small group discussion with incoming students on Thursday, Sept. This Changes Everything includes a non-fiction book, a feature documentary film and a global impact and outreach strategy that will reframe our response to the climate crisis, launching Fall 2014. “The film is an unflinching look at the disparate impacts of climate change on various communities around the world and highlights some fundamental conflicts between global economic systems and efforts to combat climate change,” said First Year Matters Committee Chair Kevin Butler, assistant dean of students and director of community standards. Produced with New Plot Films in association with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, David Yurman, and. Next fall, the Class of 2024 will watch and discuss the documentary This Changes Everything, directed by Avi Lewis and based on the award-winning book of the same title by environmental activist Naomi Klein. Now, Davis has lent her own power to Tom Donahue’s documentary, This Changes Everything, which is designed to shine a more public light on the imbalances both in front of and behind the. This Changes Everything takes an incisive look into the male-dominated film industry to examine those forces - both conscious and unconscious - that continue to foster the systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women. As part of Wesleyan’s First Year Matters (FYM) program, the FYM committee selects a “common experience” for the incoming class as an intellectual introduction to Wesleyan.
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