The Matthew C. Sel­l­itto Foun­da­tion recently awarded a grant of $100,000 to Wes­ley Col­lege. The dona­tion will be used as an endowed fund to pro­vide sup­port to under­priv­i­leged stu­dents from urban envi­ron­ments attend­ing Wes­ley College.

When Lyron Deputy AS ’99, MSN ’06, first entered Wes­ley in 1997, he never imag­ined he would end up where he is today: CEO of Delaware Sleep Dis­or­der Cen­ters, a sleep study provider that serves 5,000 patients annu­ally. He cred­its his expe­ri­ences at Wes­ley with pro­vid­ing the edu­ca­tional back­ground and espe­cially the courage he needed to take the huge step from staff nurse at a hos­pi­tal to suc­cess­ful nurse entrepreneur.

To be on a cam­pus these days is to wit­ness a col­lege more inte­grated than most in this coun­try: nation­ally, 14 per­cent of col­lege stu­dents are African Amer­i­can; Wesley’s minor­ity pop­u­la­tion well exceeds that. That wasn’t always the case, as alum­nae Glo­ria James ’73, the Rev­erend Char­lotte Nichols ’73 and Peggi (Young) Wat­son ’73 well know.

Since 2005, Wes­ley College’s hon­ors pro­gram has been a sym­bol for out­stand­ing scholas­tic prowess and per­sis­tence, nur­tur­ing a group of stu­dents who excel amongst their peers in their aca­d­e­mic accom­plish­ments at Wes­ley. In seven years, enroll­ment has tripled in size. Incom­ing stu­dents must now be placed on a wait­ing list to join the program.

Dr. Gam­bardella reflects on her legacy to Wesley’s nurs­ing program

Dr. Howard Bal­len­tine believes Wes­ley Col­lege is on the cusp of some­thing spe­cial. The col­lege, he says, is clearly on the move and primed for a big jump in pres­tige and mar­ket share. As Wesley’s new dean of enroll­ment man­age­ment it will be his job to help make sure that vision becomes a reality.

KATHY (EDMUNDS) BIGLIN ’78 found her way to Wes­ley Junior Col­lege in 1976, leav­ing her home­town of Lin­wood, N.J. for the first time. Dur­ing her time at Wes­ley, she was actively involved in cam­pus life, par­tic­i­pated in var­i­ous sports, and acquired many last­ing friendships…

After meet­ing Dr. Patri­cia Dwyer, it’s easy to under­stand why adjec­tives like “engag­ing” and “intel­li­gent” are used by col­leagues to describe her…

On August 21, fac­ulty, staff, com­mu­nity lead­ers and stu­dents gath­ered with gloves, brushes and ham­mers in hand. More than 800 par­tic­i­pants in total came together at the Wes­ley cam­pus pre­ced­ing the largest clean-up project that the City of Dover has ever seen. Part­ner­ing with the Dover Hous­ing Author­ity (DHA), Cen­tral Delaware Habi­tat for Human­ity (CDHFH), City of Dover and the Office of the Hon­or­able Sen­a­tor Tom Carper, Wes­ley incor­po­rated the com­mu­nity ser­vice project into its New Stu­dent Ori­en­ta­tion pro­gram­ming. The Class of 2014 took to the streets, start­ing their col­lege expe­ri­ence by giv­ing back to their new community…

Shortly after arriv­ing for foot­ball camp in the sum­mer of 1990, fresh­man defen­sive end Chris Fur­rule ’94 found him­self sit­ting in his dorm room with an injury won­der­ing what he was doing there…