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An American who settled in Vienna, Nancy Van de Vate '52 had a prolific career in contemporary classical music and broke gender barriers in her field.

A world where artifacts have been sequestered into single-culture museums struck Erich Hatala Matthes, a philosophy professor at Wellesley College who has written extensively about cultural heritage, as impoverished. For one, cultures aren’t easily sliced up into discrete, bounded wholes, he said. They’re connected, and museums are well positioned to demonstrate those connections. 

About a quarter of the people attempting to complete the Appalachian Trail actually finish it. Diana Jackosn '18 walked all 2,192 miles of it. 

Engaging with partisan news is a choice, not driven by search engines, writes data scientist and associate computer science professor Eni Mustafaraj for Nature.

Bad Bunny is already a subject of academic study.... At Wellesley College, he's a 300-level American Studies class: "Bad Bunny: Race, Gender and Empire in Reggaeton" taught by professor Petra Rivera-Rideau.

At The Presidents Dinner in Washington, D.C., last week, 13 college presidents gathered with national media outlets to engage in organic conversation about higher education and some of today’s most pressing issues. “The undertone I get is that higher ed should fix the inequality that is devastating this country, and we do have an important role,” Wellesley College President Paula A. Johnson said. “The question is, what is that role, what is the organization that we actually create, and what is the momentum and power that we might have that we don’t yet quite recognize today?”

Between 2012 and 2021, both Geneva and Allegheny lost around a quarter of their undergraduate enrollments, according to Department of Education data. Free tuition policies can attract students and help them understand that they will pay less than the sticker price for their education, said Phillip Levine, a Wellesley College economics professor who studies higher education pricing.

Knowing that objections to freedom of thought & inquiry can have detrimental implications, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars launched The Campus Call. Wellesley College is a member.

“We cannot talk about reparations and healing of any kind without addressing and redressing the worldwide desecration and dishonor of African sacred cosmologies — our eco-centered, eco-conscious, and cosmic way of life — our right to live — to be and breathe,” Dr. Liseli Fitzpatrick said to delegates and members of the Permanent Forum. Fitzpatrick is a Trinidadian professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., who attended the second session of the Permanent Forum due to her ongoing commitment to the healing, empowerment and liberation of African peoples.  “Any exercise in reparations is futile if we do not recognize and respect the spirituality of African peoples and the inflicted injuries and injustices caused by centuries of spiritual and physical violence,” Fitzpatrick said in her remarks.