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Pell Grant recipients at colleges with large endowments increased nearly 5% points since 2007, per a Brookings Institution analysis by professor and Brookings senior economics fellow Phillip Levine.

Val Gray Ward “was born to lift the words from the page and out of Black life to put Black life into its true perspective,” says professor Liseli Fitzpatrick, one of Ward’s closest collaborators.

Getting an AI summary of your child’s internet usage may be “helpful...but it doesn’t replace the need to have ongoing discussions,” says Linda Charmaraman, Wellesley Centers for Women researcher.

A 2024 survey from PayScale ranks colleges according to a survey with more than 3 million respondents by "mid-career" salary (10+ years of experience). Wellesley is 14 out of the top 20 in Mass.

Economist Phil Levine estimates that in a year with average endowment returns, 14 New England colleges would collectively pay around $1.6 billion annually in taxes if a 14% rate is implemented.

Despite high costs for parents, childcare workers are severely underpaid. “Providers themselves are not getting rich working a daycare job,” said Wendy Robeson, Wellesley Centers for Women researcher.

“If we’re going to make a clean energy transition,” says professor Jay Turner, “it will require deploying electric vehicles, batteries, wind turbines and solar panels at unprecedented scales”

Psychology professor Tracy Gleason studies imaginary friends, and says they take the form of an object the child “animates and personifies”––a stuffed animal, a doll, or even a can of tomato paste.

There is no replacement for the loss of tens or hundreds of millions in federal support. As professor Phil Levine said, “If the asteroid is approaching the earth, putting up your umbrella won’t help.”