The Wellesley News

College Factbook continues to indicate high retention and graduation rates

May 1, 2014

Wellesley retains 95 percent of first years entering in 2012 By KARA BANSON ’17 Staff Writer In the Office of Institutional Research’s 2013-2014 College Factbook, the retention rate, defined as the...

College developing plans to communicate shadow grading policy: First-year writing courses will be shadow graded year round

February 26, 2014

By KARA BANSON ’17 Staff Writer The College is working to communicate the shadow grading policy to current students, faculty, the Class of 2018 and external audiences such as graduate schools, internship...

College in process of amending shadow grading policy: Policy intended to ease transition into college and foster exploration among first years

November 13, 2013

By KARA BANSON ’17 Contributing Writer Last semester, Academic Council approved the implementation of a shadow grading policy, which will go into effect Fall 2014 for the Class of 2018. Under the...