March 18, 2005
MHC joins Women's Colleges to Promote
Scientific Success
A heads-up for you as you sit down Sunday to read
through the papers.
Mount Holyoke College has joined with dozens of other members of the Women's
College Coalition to put together a full page advertisement in this Sunday's
New York Times promoting the longstanding and ongoing success that women's colleges
have had in educating women in the sciences--an especially powerful message in
Women's History Month.
President
Creighton, chair of the Coalition's advocacy committee, has
played a significant role in building a working relationship,
now in its founding stages, between the Times and the WCC, and more directly
between the Times and Mount Holyoke. The evolving partnership between the Times
and the WCC has already brought opportunities to students here. Last June,
three
Mount Holyoke students joined women from 26 other institutions at the Times
to discuss strategies to encourage American women to vote.
Also sponsoring these
sessions, which helped inform a very successful voter registration drive on
campus this fall, was Vote, Run, Lead, a nationwide, nonpartisan
program of the White
House Project designed to mobilize women's political power and close the leadership
gap in this country.
The ad will appear in the front news section, Sunday, March 20.
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