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In a campus-wide email on May 13, Wellesley College President Paula A. Johnson described the proposed increase in the federal endowment tax as “one of the most serious threats” facing the College. If ...
In what health officials are calling “a national health crisis” and “funny af,” over 2,000 students nationwide were hospitalized following the viral launch of the USC “Speak Your Mind” Ice Bucket ...
At Wellesley, few things stir up more online discourse than berry brunch lines, housing lotteries, and, perhaps most controversially, boyfriends on campus. The first time I mentioned I had a boyfriend ...
It is unsurprising that “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination” are the targets of the Trump administration’s attack on higher education given the president’s recent string of conservative ...
As a Wellesley first-year and an English major, I selfishly want the Latin honors system to remain in place until I graduate. Humanities majors have historically received Latin distinctions more often ...
On the morning of March 27, the Office of the Provost emailed all students that students will receive 0.5 credits for courses taught by striking NTT faculty, and students falling below the three ...
46% of grades in the 2023-2024 academic year were A’s. Professors and students discuss the history of grade deflation at Wellesley and how departments are dealing with increasingly higher grades. Six ...
For more than a decade, golf pro Rory McIlroy’s legacy stood just one trophy short. Four major titles sat on his resume, but none came from the legendary Augusta National. Each spring, as the azaleas ...
UPS deliveries were disrupted for a few days as a result of the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers’ (WOAW-UAW) strike, while other deliveries to the College will remain normal. UPS, which unionized ...
Viewers were alarmed one studious evening to find that Lofi Girl was not studying. Instead of studying, she was seen aggressively cutting off random locks of hair for a new set of bangs. “I’ve had it!
Compensation and workload were dealbreakers in the College’s negotiation with WOAW, the non-tenure track faculty union, prompting discussions on campus about the College’s finances. The College had a ...
Provost Courtney Coile said the College’s current plan to cap course units and reopen registration is a “back-up” for students to comply with federal laws of contact and credit hours, in an interview ...