Window on Wellesley

Spring 2020

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The Quiet Campus

President Paula Johnson announced that spring break would begin early, on March 16, and remote instruction would begin on March 30 and continue for the rest of the semester.More

Technology to Level—and Broaden—the Playing Field

Rebecca Darling shows students and professors how to tap into technology to make class assignments more dynamic and, in the process, more accessible and inclusive for students with a wide variety of learning styles, language backgrounds, and disabilities.More

From Zero to Zoom

Assisted by Library and Technology Services staff, faculty redesigned syllabi, learned Zoom, and prepared for a new kind of intellectual engagement in class. They moved online with alacrity: Professor of English Frank Bidart, who before the COVID-19 crisis didn’t even use email, began teaching via Zoom.More

Adventures in Recreation

Remember going outside? With friends? That was amazing.More

A Celebration of Their Own

On March 14, the class of 2020 held an “unofficial senior ceremony,” AKA “fauxmencment,” featuring flowers, speeches, tears, and laughter.More

Gratitude and Kindness for 40 Days

Wellesley’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life “40 Days of Gratitude & Kindness” program ran from late February until the College went to remote learning.More

Reinventing the Flag

Sara Rahbar’s series of mixed-media works based on the United States flag now numbers over 50 works of art, and each unique composition embodies a complicated narrative of politics, aesthetics, and biography.More

Ode to the Anonymous Snapshot

The Davis Museum spring exhibition Going Viral: Photography, Performance, and the Everyday put forth 123 anonymous snapshot photographs from the early 20th century that remind us of ways that we are alike—while also interrupting our assumptions about the past.More

Educating Other Generations of Women

Is there a better place to learn about women’s leadership than Wellesley College? And that learning doesn’t necessarily start—or end—with the undergraduate experience. Just ask Nancy Coleman, associate provost and director of Strategic Growth Initiatives.More

College Road

Michael Jeffries, associate professor of American studies and Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics, will become the next dean of academic affairs; Wellesley donated some of the PPE items to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health stockpile; class trees!More

From the Coast to the Capitol

In May 2019, Rebecca Selden’s passion for the ocean led her somewhere new—to Capitol Hill, where she traded her mask and fins for a microphone to testify before the House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife about a central aspect of her research: how climate change is affecting fisheries.More

When an Opinion Is Not Enough

Assistant Professor of Political Science Maneesh Arora is writing a book that examines how political and media elites talk about minorities and why explicitly racial messages work to mobilize voters.More