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Stormy the Shark, Simmons University’s mascot, kicked off the 2025–2026 school year with a spirit of community by gathering with other Colleges of the Fenway mascots (L-R): Halo the Saint Bernard (Emmanuel College); Red the Cardinal (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences); Willy the Leopard (Wentworth Institute of Technology); and Marty the Mastodon (Massachusetts College of Art and Design).

• Community Engagement

Simmons is pleased to welcome 441 undergraduate students and 962 new graduate students to the start of the 2025–2026 academic year. We look forward to interacting with this diverse and interdisciplinary group of thinkers and leaders.

• Adult Student (Dix Scholar)
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• International Student
• Online Student
• Transfer Student

President Wooten welcomes new and returning students, faculty, and staff, and shares her excitement about all the opportunities that lie ahead as the 2025–2026 academic year begins.

• From the President

To honor Women’s Equality Day (August 26) 2025, which commemorates women’s right to vote in the United States, we offer highlights from some of our favorite women-centered content from the past year that recognize Simmons faculty, students, staff, and alumnae/i who have helped pave pathways toward gender equity.

• Social Justice & Advocacy

President Wooten reflects on the generations of women who fought for the right to vote and what it takes to advance gender equity in this moment.

• From the President
• Traditions & Annual Events

Simmons University Center for the Study of Children's Literature presented the biennial Summer Children's Literature Institute from July 25-27, 2025. This year’s theme, “Are We There Yet?” brought an impressive array of creative writers, illustrators, publishers, and scholars to reflect and promote conversations about literature for young people.

• Community Engagement
• Simmons History

The Simmons Honors Program is launching new initiatives this fall, including collaborative events with the Colleges of the Fenway. We spoke to Anna Aguilera, Biology Professor and Director of the Honors Program, about how the Honors Program can enrich a student’s experience.

Local and state officials gathered with project and Simmons University leaders this week to celebrate a major milestone in the University’s transformational One Simmons project — the topping off of its new Living and Learning Center.

• Facilities
• One Simmons

Students in the course “Applied Inclusive Leadership: Project Management for Real-World Impact” used a real-time model for learning successful project management: the Simmons Leadership Conference 2025.

• Community Engagement
• Leadership

Over 350 members of the Simmons community gathered on campus June 6–8 to celebrate Simmons University’s 125th Anniversary with a unique Reunion for all classes that included special celebrations for the classes of 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2000, and 2003.

• 125th Anniversary
• Community Engagement
• Giving
• Simmons History
• Traditions & Annual Events