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Economics professor Phillip Levine calculated that nine schools would hit the top tax rate, and Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and MIT would each owe more than $410 million in taxes a year.

60 college presidents, including Paula Johnson, are sharing messages about civic discourse, democratic participation, and free expression to inspire grads to think critically and engage with empathy.

The Globe keeps a running list of commencement speakers at Mass. colleges and universities, including Wellesley. The list includes political and business leaders, academics, actors, and activists.

A 14 percent endowment tax—in the middle range of the proposals—would cost Harvard, for example, about $560 million a year, according to an analysis by economics professor Phillip Levine.

If Harvard loses tax-exempt status, the university will “lose the ability to enroll the very brightest lower and middle-income students who can now afford to be able to enroll," says Phillip Levine.

“The perception that college is financially inaccessible is out there,” says Phil Levine. “Every time there is another headline that says college costs $100,000, it inadvertently misleads people.”

Not even heavy rain could dampen the excitement as Wellesley College seniors ran down Tupelo Lane with wooden hoops in one of the school’s oldest traditions. Arushi Ghosh ’25 was this year’s winner.

Professor Stacie Goddard: “Rather than compete with China and Russia, Trump now wants to work with them, seeking deals that, during his first term, would have seemed antithetical to U.S. interests.”

Yale is the latest university to offer a course on Bad Bunny’s cultural impact; Wellesley has offered a class taught by Petra Rivera-Rideau called “Bad Bunny: Race, Gender, and Empire in Reggaetón.”