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“What attracted me was the drum, but what kept me there was the community.”

Families, friends, faculty and staff celebrated graduates during Wellesley’s 147th commencement exercises.

Economist Phillip Levine never heard of a college adopting a wait-and-see budgeting approach like Swarthmore’s. “It’s a creative solution… idiosyncratic of the times that we are currently living in.”

The proposal threatens to cost Harvard about $850 million a year, Yale $690 million year, and Princeton $586 million a year, according to estimates by economics professor Phillip Levine.

Around the world, people are retiring later. How do you decide when it’s time? And what comes next? We talked to Wellesley experts to find out what they are thinking.

From how to fix democracy with math to what twins teach us about improving humanity, Wellesley professors are tackling timely topics in recent books.

We explore the paths from first-year roommates to lifelong friends through the stories of alum roomies across the decades.

Juliet Homes ’25 is first Wellesley student commissioned into the United States Space Force