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The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

WAAM-SLAM2 protests against administration, demands Latin@ and ethnic studies

April 16, 2014

By XUEYING CHEN ’16 and GRACE BENNETT-PIERRE ’16 Co-Editor-in-Chief and Staff Writer Students marched in two protests on Saturday at the Seven Sisters Latin@ Conference in Pendleton Atrium and yesterday...

Wellesley to consider a Latin@ Studies minor

April 12, 2014

LUChA to also push for additional classes and new professor By GRACE BENNETT-PIERRE ’16  with additional reporting by ANNA TUPPER-BRIDGES ’14 Staff Writer and Head Copy Editor Latin@s Unidas Changing...

Financial services website misled families regarding CSS Profile on aid applications

March 5, 2014

By GRACE BENNETT-PIERRE ’16 Staff Writer Wellesley is one of 111 schools accused of violating the Higher Education Act by misleading students about the College Scholarship Service (CSS) Profile,...

Wellesley courses fail to comply with updated federal standards for class time per course: Changes to come to course schedules

February 26, 2014

By GRACE BENNETT-PIERRE ’16 Staff Writer Under updated federal standards, students are required to spend at least 45 hours in each class every semester. The Committee on Curriculum and Academic Affairs...

Wellesley top ranked for graduation rates of black students

February 12, 2014

By GRACE BENNETT-PIERRE ’16 Contributing Writer A ranking released by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) late last year listed Wellesley as the high-ranking college with the smallest...

Students work on a physics lab
Yu Zhou '16
Staff Photographer

Number of students majoring in STEM fields increases, while number of social science majors declines

November 20, 2013

By GRACE BENNETT-PIERRE ’16 Contributing Writer Last month, an article published in the New York Times Magazine raised again the issue of gender parity in science, technology, engineering and math...

Office of Sustainability implements second phase of composting program: 42 percent of waste to be composted

October 30, 2013

By EVELYN TAYLOR-MCGREGOR ’16 and GRACE BENNETT-PIERRE ’16 Assistant News Editor and Contributing Writer The Office of Sustainability implemented a new phase of the composting program this October,...

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