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FULL CIRCLE: Wheaton College President Michaele Whelan, far right, is the third woman to lead the college since its founding by a woman in 1839. Seated with her, clockwise from far left, are students Olivia Deschenes, Sarocha Wongwatanawisut, Courtney Kass and Eleanor Cerra. 
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College leaders positioned to meet post-pandemic challenges

Since 2019, eight of the region’s 13 four-year colleges have hired new long-term leaders. And another four-year school, Rhode Island College, still has an...
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Meet the new guard: Whelan’s presidency brings Wheaton ‘full circle’

When Michaele Whelan became Wheaton College president in January 2022, it brought the Norton-based liberal arts college back to its roots in a way. The...
TOUBA GHADESSI has been named Wheaton College's new provost and vice president of academic affairs. / COURTESY WHEATON COLLEGE

Ghadessi named Wheaton College’s new provost

NORTON – Touba Ghadessi, an art history professor at Wheaton College who has been the college’s interim provost for the past year, has been...
MICHAELE WHELAN has been appointed as Wheaton College's new president. She is just the second full-time woman president to lead the college in its history. / COURTESY WHEATON COLLEGE

Wheaton College appoints Whelan next president

NORTON – A high-ranking academic administrator from Emerson College in Boston will move south to Bristol County, Mass., to lead Wheaton College. The private college...
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