It’s National Volunteer Week 2023, and we're celebrating the members of our pack who do so much for Wily! It would be impossible to name all the people who have gone above and beyond to support Wily Scholars. This year alone, our teams of volunteers have come together to provide hundreds of [...]
Twice a year, Wily Scholars, alums and staff gather for Community Day. Each Community Day strengthens the relationships in our Pack, providing a powerful resource for Scholars: each other.
When Wily’s coaches sit down to meet with Scholars every week, the student guides the conversation. The topics that come up tend to fall into eight themes: Education, Personal Identity, Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and [...]
My name is J’Saun, and I am a graduate of Boston College. I am also a proud alum of the Wily Network. People usually assume that every student at a university has the same level of resources, but that is not true. For example, we may all have access to...
How many times have you heard the phrase “your network is your net worth”? The people you know are part of what helps you access opportunity. But we don’t...
Students are heading back to school for the fall semester, and that means we’re returning to a schedule of regular, in-person meetings with every Scholar! We geared up for the new semester with All-Pack Prep Week; a week where staff spent time together for trainings and team-building activities.
A collection of poetry by Wily Scholar Tommy, Boston College '25
When Wily met Eric James, we were both just starting out. He hadn’t yet enrolled at UMass Dartmouth, and we were yet to partner with our first student. Now, seven years and more than 100 Wily Scholars later, we sat down with Eric to talk about his new role. The first ever Wily Scholar has been appointed Mattapan’s Neighborhood Liaison to City Hall by Mayor Michelle Wu.
During my senior year of high school and freshman year of college, I decided to read some books outside of my comfort zone. This is a list of the ones that have changed my perspective and inspired me. I find that the books that make [...]
Mackenzie Fierceton is the child of a doctor who attended a private prep school in a wealthy suburb. She also called herself a first-generation low-income student. But Mackenzie Fierceton is not a liar. She is a student who found herself in a complex and easily-misunderstood situation: working towards her degree without support from family. Just as Mackenzie’s story was misunderstood, what makes a student a Wily Scholar [...]
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