Fall 2024 Issue, Wesleyan University Magazine

Shaping the Future of Health Care with Paul Kusserow ’85

America’s health care system is in crisis, but Paul Kusserow ’85 thinks there’s still time to turn things around. In this Q&A, Kusserow talks about his latest book, The Coming Healthcare Revolution, and outlines the 10 forces that can help effect the kind of systemic structural change needed to restore the American health care industry.

Letters

From the President

“Only about half of Americans in their first decade of voting eligibility are likely to vote.... At Wesleyan we should exceed that, but voting is only the endpoint of civic engagement not its entirety. By participating in the electoral process in the run-up to the election, our students are involved in the exchange of ideas, in learning how to listen to those with opinions different from their own, and in learning the art of organizing people for a common purpose.”

From the Editor

“Four years ago, we welcomed the Class of 2024 to campus under pandemic quarantine protocols while preparing for a hotly contested presidential election that would see the highest voter turnout in a century. The cover of that Fall 2020 issue of Wesleyan magazine had one simple message: VOTE. This time, for those of us on campus, the call to action goes beyond voting. While speaking through the ballot is important, for meaningful and sustained change, we know we have to engage.”

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Words, Music, and AI

With AI-driven software and access to advanced Digital Design Commons technology, students in Wesleyan’s new music video production class are creating pro-quality work that explores new frontiers of the art form.

Class Notes

Left: Lloyd Komesar ’74 celebrates a new award named in his honor at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Right: Red Cattleya—Smith Greenhouse 2024 by Eric Kaye ’72.

Catch up on these and other updates from classmates across the globe!

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In Conversation: A Crucial Time for Higher Ed

President Michael S. Roth ’78 joins Wesleyan’s Executive Director of the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life and host of NPR’s Disrupted Khalilah Brown-Dean for a wide-ranging discussion on fostering hope in the face of cynicism, escaping our echo chambers, what DEI really means, and building fellowship by granting the permission to be wrong.