Lecturer in Africana Studies Ophera Davis loves to develop “the whole student.”
“That’s my goal,” she explained: “to develop the student inside and outside of the classroom in every way.”
“Inside...
Early in “I Feel Pretty,” Renee Bennett (Amy Schumer) comes home from a night out with friends — in which no man pays her any mind, and she can barely even get the bartender’s attention— and...
Clare Egan ’10 recently became Wellesley’s third Olympian and its first U.S. Olympian competing in the Biathlon, a sport that combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting. Colette Flesch ’60...
On Friday, Feb. 23, the Wellesley College English Department hosted Jennifer Acker and Elizabeth Witte respectively, the editor-in-chief and assistant editor of The Common, a nonprofit literary magazine...
The North Korean cheerleaders, a team of 230 young women sent to the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games to support only 22 North Korean athletes, have been in the media a lot lately. They are undoubtedly...
Every Friday and Saturday night, The Wellesley College Film Society holds screenings of two films at Collins Cinema, and each weekend has a theme. Some of this semester’s themes included “Film in Drag,”...
Leon Wu, founder and creator of suit design company Sharpe Suiting, located in Los Angeles, recently donated a collection of his company’s clothing to Wellesley College’s Career Education. Sharpe Suiting’s...
On Wednesday, May 3, Wellesley’s Academic Council will vote on the future of shadow grading at Wellesley College.
The Council, which is composed of multiple committees and addresses academic issues...
Whenever instances of abuse or violence occur and are widely spread over social media, a lot of information will often appear about the backgrounds of victims and perpetrators. Some believe that a person’s...
At Senate on March 13, Wellesley’s Honor Code Council (HCC) presented a few changes that it wished to make to its Constitution. According to the summary document that was included in the Senate minutes,...
Wellesley fall housing process begins this week
Wellesley College kicked off fall housing process on March 6 by releasing each student’s priority number. The housing selection preference form is due...
A group of Wellesley students recently created an initiative in an effort to obtain a tenure-track Asian-Americanist professor for the Asian-American Studies (AAS) minor. The program is not currently an...
At the Senate meeting on Monday, Feb. 13, the Office of Residential Life announced a change in the current student housing policy, which will take effect in the Fall 2017 semester. This policy aims to...
At Senate on Monday, Feb. 6, Wellesley College Government (CG) announced a decision made by the CG President (CGP), Zainab Younus ’17, to create an ad hoc committee with a focus on mental health on campus....
The 2016 Presidential election was a difficult one for many Wellesley students for a variety of reasons, but since the election, there has been a rise in the numbers of students participating in political...
Wellesley College’s recent transition to the Workday administrative system is not just an upgrade from the outdated previous system, Banner. It is also, as Ravi Ravishanker, the Chief Information...
Wellesley’s softball team has a 10-10 record thus far this season, and outfielder Anna Pisac ’17 has been an important part of the team’s success. Hailing from Snohomish, Washington, Pisac has a...
Wellesley College’s Writing Program, founded in 1983, is still thriving after years of development and improvement, including the creation of the Writing Tutors Program and the addition of Writing...
Like many of Wellesley’s other open-campus parties such as Remix, Tau Zeta Epsilon’s (TZE) annual White Party on Saturday, Feb. 27 drew a large number of students from other schools to Wellesley’s...
Sexual misconduct has recently been a much-debated topic on college campuses across the country, and Wellesley recently administered its first survey on sexual misconduct. The results of the survey led...
On behalf of the six organizations in the Harambee House, which are Ethos, BlackOUT, Black Women’s Ministry, Minority Association for Premedical Students, Wellesley African Students’ Association and...
Housing at Wellesley College is tight this semester. Interim Dean of Students Adele Wolfson recently sent out an email to the student body informing them that although every student has been housed,...
Students graduate with less than half of average national debt
In a report recently released by The Institute for College Access and Success, Wellesley College was listed among the top low-debt schools...
