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English professor Dan Chiasson writes in the New York Review of Books about why he is against AI: “My love for human language leads me to strongly oppose all attempts by machines to impersonate it.”

This summer, it’s Harvard vs. Harvard—still a point for Trump’s score card, economist Phillip Levine told the Boston Globe: “That’s what Trump thrives on: the ability to get people riled up.”

Wellesley College economics professor Phillip Levine—an expert in higher education finance—is making it easier for high school students and their families to understand college costs.

Chinese American businesswoman Shirley Young ’55 was an early breaker of glass ceilings. Decades ago, she brokered GM’s most successful deal ever in China.

Wellesley’s 2026 commencement speaker Ruth J. Simmons received the 2026 Radcliffe Medal. President Paula Johnson gave a tribute to the pioneering educator during Harvard’s Radcliffe Day festivities.

Nearly 40 small colleges no longer pay endowment tax due to a 2025 law. Some are using the savings for financial aid, including Wellesley, which covers tuition for families earning less than $150,000.

Alumnae who have served as college presidents and Paula Johnson, president of Wellesley, discuss the value of the liberal arts

Music professor Claire Fontijn’s article about composer Antonia Bembo, whose 1707 opera “Ercole Amante” will be staged at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, was translated and published by The Conversation France.

Laura Pappano, Wellesley Centers for Women writer-in-residence, writes for Slate about former Oklahoma superintendent of schools Ryan Walters and the chaos he sowed for more than two years.