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  • Illustration of two Black students in a cozy dorm room, talking while sitting on beds with matching bedspreads

    Strangers in a Small Room

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    • Alumnae Lives
    • Student Experience
    Published:  May 20, 2025

    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.

    Shooting for the stars

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    • Student experience
    Published:  May 19, 2025

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

  • Isabel Wilkerson

    Wellesley College commencement speaker Isabel Wilkerson urges grads to “transcend humanity’s current upheavals”

    Published:  May 16, 2025
  • 2025.05.14 Paula Johnson among 60 college presidents share grad messages The Boston Globe

    The Boston Globe
    Published:  May 14, 2025

    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

    The Boston Globe
    Published:  May 14, 2025

    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.

  • Trees, Green Hall, and Galen Stone Tower

    How Wellesley is responding to national challenges to higher education

    Published:  May 13, 2025
  • 2025.05.06 Phillip Levine 14% endowment would cost Harvard $560 million The Atlantic

    The Atlantic
    Published:  May 6, 2025

    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

    The Boston Globe
    Published:  May 6, 2025

    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.

    Ewe won’t want to miss this!

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    • Student experience
    Published:  May 6, 2025

    Sheep are grazing near Paramecium Pond to help the Botanic Gardens with meadow diversification

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