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Ongoing complete coverage of Wells College’s closure in local paper ($1 subscription required), now includes over 40 articles.

Rome Sentinel article on the risk to historic campus buildings left unheated all winter, 18 October 2024

Finger Lakes Daily News reports on the nomination of the Wells campus to the “Seven to Save” program of the Preservation League of NYS, 14 October 2024

Editorial in The Auburn Citizen chastises Wells leadership, 29 August 2024

Ithaca Journal on faculty complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, 20 August 2024

Editorial in The Auburn Citizen asks for communication about Wells’ future from NYS, 25 July 2024

NPR’s 1A program featured interviews and reporting about Wells’ closure, 2 July 2024.

Ithaca Journal followed local developments in wake of closure, 21 June 2024.

Finger Lakes Times reported on concerns following Minerva’s decapitation, 19 June 2024.

Editorial: Aurora’s future without Wells, The Auburn Citizen, 16 May 2024

The Hechinger Report carried the best feature story to date on Wells’ abrupt closure, 18 May 2024.

A Few Letters

Press Release: Campus at Risk of Irreparable Harm - National Historic Register campus to be without all winter, 28 October 2024

Template for writing historic preservation advocacy letter, 17 October 2024

Letter of Support for the PACNY’s nomination of the Wells campus to the “Seven to Save” program, 9 October 2024

Press Release: Historic Campus Buildings at Risk of Irreparable Damage, 3 Oct 2024

Village Board Resolution requesting that the Wells archives be released into the care of the Village of Aurora, 18 September 2024

Letter from NYS Archivists on Wells’ archives, 28 Aug 2024

WLS offer to monitor Long Library, 12 July 2024

WLS Support for Med Center & Peachtown, 30 June 2024

Village Historian’s Letter, 26 June 2024

Aurora Village Board’s Letter re future of campus, 25 June 2024

WLS to Aurora BoT proposing campus zoning compromise, 5 June 2024