Wheaton College welcomes Lee Burdette Williams as new dean of students.

The Wheaton annual fund has topped its $3.7 million goal for the 2008-2009 academic year. Despite the national recession, more than 5,400 people contributed a total of $3,888,255 to the college through their annual gifts.

Julia Bolt, a 2008 Wheaton College graduate from Cambridge, Mass., has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Bulgaria.