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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.

  • 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.

  • A group of college graduates in black caps and gowns, silhouetted by the sun

    In the Boston Globe, economist Phillip Levine weighs in on the heated debate over three-year college degrees

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    Three-year bachelor’s degrees and early college programs almost concede that we might never have a sufficiently funded higher education system, said Phillip Levine, professor of economics.

  • Black and white logo of the The Institute for Philosophy in Public Life featuring the optical illusion that can either look like two faces or a vase

    Philosophy professor Erich Hatala Matthes asks what we should save for posterity

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    On the Philosophy in Public Life podcast, Erich Hatala Matthes, philosophy professor, explores which of our possessions and commitments deserve our attention and how we should protect them.

  • An old wooden dresser with a false drawer that leads to a secret passageway

    Smithsonian magazine mentions Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson’s take on an Underground Railroad hiding spot

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    In a story about a recently discovered secret passageway likely from the Underground Railroad, Smithsonian refers to a New York Times interview with Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson.

  • Wrought iron and brick gate to Harvard Yard

    Economics professor Phillip Levine talks to the Globe about universities pledging to cover full tuition for some students

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    Though the sticker price for higher education is rising, more universities say they’ll cover the costs for some students. Economist Phillip Levine says these policies have become more common.