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Paula Johnson said that the idea of academic freedom goes back to 19th-century Berlin and the first modern research university. German intellectuals argued the pursuit of knowledge requires freedom.

“America the Beautiful” by poet Katharine Lee Bates, Wellesley College literature professor and class of 1880 alumna, is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker John de Graaf.

Bipartisan pushback yielded a win for nature preservation. “There’s no question that the long history of public lands protection in the United States has been a bipartisan effort,” said Jay Turner.

Boston Arts Academy helps craft the next Ufot Cycle play: ‘Kufre n’ Quay’ by Mfoniso Udofia ’06. Twelve current BAA students are in the show, which is a co-production with the Wheelock Family Theatre.

“When Alexander Hamilton was Treasury Secretary, he proposed to assume the debts of the states in the Revolutionary War, and… expanded the debts of the federal government,” said professor Eric Hilt.

Trump is killing American EV companies to benefit China. According to Jay Turner of Wellesley College, more than $200 billion in US EV investment is now at risk. And that could be just the beginning.

Wellesley’s website redesign wins a CASE Gold Award! “So many education institution websites today [are] nearly identical... Wellesley took their design a step further to stand out from the crowd.”

The Trump administration's work to dismantle federal climate policy and clean energy support has already had a dramatic impact on the lean tech sector, according to research by professor Jay Turner.

President Paula Johnson told graduates: “We are in the midst of a degree of meddling that American colleges and universities have not seen since the McCarthy era in the late 1940s and 1950s.”