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When a college is in deficit, its leaders may try to liquidate land and other assets. But selling land is “the equivalent of raiding your endowment,” economist Phillip Levine told the Boston Globe.

The story of Boston’s valedictorians is one of defying the odds. They will attend schools including Harvard, Stanford, Northeastern, Wellesley, and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio CE/DS ’11 has no shortage of political enemies. But it doesn’t seem like that will stop her from cruising to reelection.

The Boston Globe says the conservative town of Wellesley is more progressive now in part due to Wellesley College students. At a recent rally, the town demanded ICE return a deported Babson student.

Music professor Claire Fontijn writes for the Conversation about little-known composer Antonia Bembo, whose 1707 opera “Ercole Amante” will be staged at the Opéra Bastille in Paris this month.

Charlotte Newman ’04 has used her experience and her passion to emerge in a $59.6 billion industry as one of the foremost collectors of fine art by Black artists and talent from the diaspora.

Grade deflation can disadvantage a college’s students, history professor Nikhil Rao told the Boston Globe, reflecting on Wellesley’s former policy limiting course averages to a B-plus.

Wellesley students were photographed running alongside and cheering for Janice “Rbey” Thomas, the last person to finish the 2026 Boston Marathon.

Associate Professor of Japanese Robert Goree is quoted in National Geographic about Ise Jingu, the Japanese shrine that’s dismantled and rebuilt every 20 years as part of a sacred ritual.