• Claflin House Council pose with Kulima, a plastic skeleton that serves as Claflin’s unofficial mascot.
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    Students find fun and friendship through House Council

  • 2025.03.31 Mfoniso Udofia ‘06, “Her Portmanteau" installation The Boston Globe

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    The fourth installment of the series by Mfoniso Udofia ‘06, “Her Portmanteau,” is a work of fiery intensity about the tense reunion and fraught reconnection of a mother and her two adult daughters.

  • 2025.03.28 Phillip Levine Pell Grant recipients increased by 5 points Higher Ed Dive

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    Pell Grant recipients at colleges with large endowments increased nearly 5% points since 2007, per a Brookings Institution analysis by professor and Brookings senior economics fellow Phillip Levine.

  • Four people stand in front of an audience, holding trays in front of them and singing as part of a play taking place outside. Behind them is a sign that reads Richmond Hills.
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    Three alums receive inaugural Wellesley Repertory Theatre grants

  • 2025.03.26 Liseli Fitzpatrick Val Gray Ward brings true perspective on Black life The Black Wall Street Times

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    Val Gray Ward “was born to lift the words from the page and out of Black life to put Black life into its true perspective,” says professor Liseli Fitzpatrick, one of Ward’s closest collaborators.

  • 2025.03.25 Wellesley is 14/20 for highest mid-career salary in Mass Boston Business Journal

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    A 2024 survey from PayScale ranks colleges according to a survey with more than 3 million respondents by "mid-career" salary (10+ years of experience). Wellesley is 14 out of the top 20 in Mass.

  • A student passes off a paper baton to another student, who expresses great excitement with her face.
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    Students relay the good news across campus

  • 2025.03.25 Linda Charmaraman AI can help with parenting but discussion still required The Boston Globe

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    Getting an AI summary of your child’s internet usage may be “helpful...but it doesn’t replace the need to have ongoing discussions,” says Linda Charmaraman, Wellesley Centers for Women researcher.

  • 2025.03.25 Phil Levine $1.6 billion annually in taxes by 14 NE Colleges The Boston Globe

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    Economist Phil Levine estimates that in a year with average endowment returns, 14 New England colleges would collectively pay around $1.6 billion annually in taxes if a 14% rate is implemented.