• Tonja Honsey, center, testifies before a Minnesota state House committee. Honsey has served on the state’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission, the first formerly incarcerated woman appointed to that body.

    In Governing, researcher Tamanika Ferguson says formerly incarcerated women should help make policy

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    “We need to mandate including [formerly incarcerated women] on the bodies that shape jails, prisons, parole, sentencing and reentry,” writes Wellesley Centers for Women researcher Tamanika Ferguson.

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    Inside Higher Ed highlights economist Phillip Levine’s research on trends in net tuition prices

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    New research from economist Phillip Levine, a college cost transparency advocate, shows the net price of four-year tuition continues to drop or remain steady for all but the highest-income students.

  • Two women sit on a stage. One speaks into a microphone while the other laughs
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    Researchers at the Wellesley Centers for Women share what they learned from the data

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    Americans think higher ed is increasingly unaffordable, but economist Phillip Levine’s data says otherwise

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    When one considers what students actually pay after financial aid, college prices have stabilized and fallen over the past decade, writes economist Phillip Levine in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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    Wellesley Centers for Women researcher Linda Charmaraman talks to the Guardian about AI school counselors

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    Should schools use AI counselors to track students’ mental health? Linda Charmaraman of the Wellesley Centers for Women says that can be helpful in some ways, but it’s crucial to avoid overreliance.

  • Image of a hand holding an ice cube, sporting a manicure that says MELT ICE

    Nail artist Shani Evans ’96 expresses anti-ICE sentiments with her manicure

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    Professional nail artists, including Shani Evans '96, have been sporting anti-ICE manicures. "I'm not having it, Evans told CNN. "And I want people to know that I'm not having it," she said.

  • Photo of Karen Petrou ’75, seated on her couch next to her guide dog

    The New York Times wrote an obituary for fiscal policy analyst Karen Dolmatch Petrou ’75

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    Karen Dolmatch Petrou ’75 started her own company after a bank executive told her he “did not feel good about making a young woman a senior vice president,” she once told Wellesley’s alumnae magazine.

  • Black and white image of a dusty road by Kathya Landeros

    WellesleyWeston Magazine features the Davis Museum’s exhibit “In Focus: Wellesley College Faculty Artists”

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    WellesleyWeston Magazine says the Davis Museum’s exhibit of pieces by faculty artists “offers thought-provoking work in a variety of artistic media, giving museum-goers a layered experience.”

  • Math professor Ismar Volić talks to WellesleyWeston Magazine about solutions for democracy

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    Ismar Volić, professor of mathematics, speaks with WellesleyWeston Magazine about spearheading a movement to reform democracy through math.