Politics+Society
Fall 2015
The lives of six alumnae demonstrate the depth and breadth of the Wellesley Effect—the way four years at the College transforms students, and through their lives after graduation, helps to transform the world.More
Summer 2015
You may not have to give up latte to get yourself into a savings state of mind. It might even help if you choose to spend some money on things that bring you joy.More
Spring 2015
Assistant Professor of Psychology Stephen Chen, whose research centers on Asian American families, enabled the College to lauch the Asian American Studies minor last year.More
Spring 2015
The American conversation on race has grown more urgent all over the country in the past year—and this has been true at Wellesley, too. President Bottomly has formed a Presidential Commission on Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Wellesley to study the issues and make policy recommendations.More
Spring 2015
After a year of rigorously examining the question of what it means to be a women’s college in a time of gender complexity, Wellesley announces a clarified admissions policy.More
Winter 2015
If you were an art major at Wellesley, you might have spent some time studying Sonia Delaunay-Terk’s Electric Prisms at the Davis. Now, Parisians are enjoying it, too.More
Winter 2015
Research by Isabel Van Devanter Sawhill ’59, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., shows that if individuals finish high school, work full time, and marry before they have children, their chances of falling into poverty drop from 15 percent to 2 percent. Her new book surveys the impact of family structure on children.More
Winter 2015
Early in this transporting novel, the protagonist, 25-year-old television reporter Ali Sikandar, wonders, “How many other families lived like fractured glass, cracked but still holding up within the constraints of their frames?” It’s an elegant and potent metaphor about a family left shattered.More
Winter 2015
Thank goodness you are still printing in magazine form so I can continue to “thumb” (“From the Editor,” fall ’14)! And, yes, I do have a computer, iPhone, and tablet. Gertrude Bove Parton ’63, Little Silver, N.J.More
Winter 2015
I won big in the parking lottery of life years ago when I was assigned to the Founders lot in the center of campus. I’m thankful for it every winter when I don’t have to…More