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Simmons’ School of Social Work is among the grant recipients from RIZE Massachusetts Foundation (RIZE), a nonprofit foundation solely dedicated to funding and collaborating on solutions to end the opioid overdose crisis in Massachusetts. The grants are aimed at developing a pipeline of social workers trained in harm reduction approaches to this crisis.

• Awards and Honors

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

English major Jacqueline Jones ’79 and Public Relations/Marketing Communications major Gia Elie ’24, both members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (AKA), recently commissioned dedicatory plaques to honor three Simmons alums who trailblazed the domains of health care, civil rights, and women’s history. We spoke with them about honoring historic Black alumnae/i and relishing lifelong sisterhood through AKA.

• Community Engagement
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• First-generation Student

Professor Suzanne Leonard, a faculty member in the Department of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Graduate Program in Gender and Cultural Studies, recently commented on the Netflix series The Hunting Wives for Fortune magazine.

• Simmons in the News

Director of the Simmons School of Library and Information Science SLIS West program Eric Poulin published an editorial in The Shoestring warning that funding cuts to social services will result in a lack of access to electronic resources that will disproportionately hurt small, rural communities and their schools.

• Simmons in the News

Three Class of 2025 graduates of the Online Degree Completion Program share what makes the Simmons program special and a great option for students with full-time jobs and family responsibilities.

• Online Student

The State Library of Massachusetts recognized two graduate student interns from Simmons’ School of Library and Information Science (SLIS): Emily Buff ’25MS and Emily Colson ’26MS. Both students worked within the Library’s Government Documents Program.

• Careers and Internships

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’s-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