• Illustration of two Black students in a cozy dorm room, talking while sitting on beds with matching bedspreads
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    We explore the paths from first-year roommates to lifelong friends through the stories of alum roomies across the decades.

  • Juliet Homes ’25 takes the Oath of Office during her commissioning ceremony on Wellesley’s campus.
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    Juliet Homes ’25 is first Wellesley student commissioned into the United States Space Force

  • 2025.05.14 Paula Johnson among 60 college presidents share grad messages The Boston Globe

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    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.

  • 2025.05.14 Levine calculates nine schools with highest taxation The Boston Globe

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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.

  • 2025.05.06 Phillip Levine 14% endowment would cost Harvard $560 million The Atlantic

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    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.

  • 2025.05.06 List of commencement speakers at Mass. colleges The Boston Globe

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    Wellesley's 2025 Commencement speaker was Isabel Wilkerson, journalist who has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal and author of “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “Caste.”

  • Sheep leap towards the street as they are released on campus.
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    Sheep are grazing near Paramecium Pond to help the Botanic Gardens with meadow diversification