Wesleyan President Michael Roth recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post praising Wesleyan students' recent political activism. Roth who has written three blogs for HuffPost. Read as Roth commends students for their dedication to the campaign this year.

Barack Obama has generated enormous excitement among young people across the country. As adolescent cynicism has given way to a deep hope for change, students are expressing their faith in the electoral system in the old fashioned way: they are participating in it.

On my own campus, Wesleyan University, this engagement in electoral politics has energized student and faculty life in powerful ways. Wesleyan has long been known as a progressive school in which students often express strong views about the importance of social justice. When Senator Obama gave the Commencement Address in the spring, he lit up the campus with his energy and gravitas, with his commitment to public service and with his call to students to take responsibility for the public sphere.

Our campus is not an island unto itself, but instead an incubator of ideas and a forum for debate. Most encouragingly, students are taking these ideas and debates into neighborhoods across the country to advocate for their beliefs. Participation, once again, is key.

Across the country many college campuses are seeing similar increases in student engagement. In large state universities and in small liberal arts institutions like Wesleyan, students are no longer content to watch electoral politics from the sidelines. It's their future on the line, after all.

It's great to see the University getting national press and salute President Roth's column.

While we wait for SuperRoth's next blog, keep your fingers crossed, Wesleyan for tomorrow's election!

Read President Roth's Wesleyan blog and his Huffington Post column.