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As of today, at least 40 students are left without assigned housing for the 2025-2026 academic year. However, this is not the first time Wellesley’s residential life has dropped the ball on housing ...
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 ...
This morning, I received a flurry of messages about this year’s housing selection. My roommate and I had written down a list of 12 rooms we wanted, and by 10 a.m., our first six choices were gone. As ...
As the College figures out new academic policies for the rest of the semester in light of the current strike by the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers (WOAW), students across years and majors have ...
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 ...
President Paula Johnson joined more than 500 higher education leaders in a letter released condemning the Trump administration’s recent attacks against higher education institutions. The statement ...
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 ...
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!
Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, joined Wellesley non-tenure track (NTT) faculty on the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers (WOAW) picket line on April 1. “No matter what ...
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 ...
As of March 27th, 2025, the non-tenured faculty union, WOAW-UAW has gone on strike at Wellesley, marking an unprecedented time in the college’s history. This strike comes after the college’s ...