Alumni Association - Wheaton College Massachusetts

You help to make our association of over 17,000 Wheaton alumnae and alumni strong. You continue to count on each other and contribute to the college community.

You provide internships and career information to students and one another. You help each other stay in touch with classmates–and introduce each other to new friends in new cities. You provide a critical link between prospective students and today’s Wheaton. Last but not least, your financial support ensures that future generations of young women and men have the same wonderful Wheaton education that you had.

The Alumni Association is governed by a board of directors, elected by you and representing the interests and needs of our members. Wheaton and the association depend on more than 1,100 volunteers to provide all of the outreach and opportunities described above. Read on to learn more about how you can support Wheaton and your alumnae/i association–and what we can offer you!

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For questions, please email alum@wheatoncollege.edu or call 508-286-8207

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The Alumni Relations team and the Alumni Board of Directors are asking you to share interesting news and stories about yourself or fellow alumni. Do you know someone who has made an impact in their community, received an award in their professional life, or are dedicated to Wheaton community?

Alumni Achievement

Adar Cohen '04

Adar Cohen has a doctorate in international peace studies from the University of Dublin’s Trinity College. In addition to receiving a George J. Mitchell Scholarship in 2006 to study at Trinity College, he won a 2004 Watson Fellowship, a 2003 Truman Scholarship in public service and several other fellowships. He also co-wrote, with Steve Fiffer, Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America (Regan Arts, 2015), which explores a pivotal event in American civil rights history. read more…

Alumni Achievement

Betty Reardon '51

Betty Reardon drew inspiration for her path from Wheaton. She became a history major because “I was interested in the world and how it became what it was,” she said. “History gave me a kind of integrating framework for all that I was learning at Wheaton, and a discipline through which to look at the world and its problems that has served me well through the years. I especially remember as formative the senior seminar with Professor Knapton.” read more…

Community Impact

Lisa Miccolis '06

Transitioning into adulthood is difficult, but for youth aging out of foster care, the challenges can seem insurmountable.

When these individuals leave the system at age 18, they no longer are eligible for support services, and often have no family, job or mentors to guide them on their path to self-sufficiency. About 40 percent of former foster care youth experience homelessness, and one out of three will live in poverty.

“No one at that age is ready to handle everything on their own,” said Lisa Miccolis ’06. read more…

Professional Accomplishments

Derron Wallace '07

Derron Wallace ’07 is an Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at Brandeis University. He recently received an award for the Best Paper in International Studiesfrom the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for his article on “Negotiating Girls’ Empowerment: Models of Assertive and Subversive Resistance in Rwanda’s Only Inclusive School.” His paper describes how poor girls with disabilities in Rwanda strategize against prejudice in Rwanda’s largest inclusive school. It importantly highlights how men are still dominant in the group of young people with disabilities. read more…

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Leadership Transition

Volunteering for their alma mater has become a way of life for two of Wheaton’s biggest boosters, who recently were named to key leadership positions at the college.

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