SUMMER 2003 •
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1
SPECIAL ISSUE: REAPING THE REWARDS OF
THE PLAN FOR MOUNT HOLYOKE 2003
Plan
goals: Establish a center for leadership and public activity •
Foster vitalized student leadership, campus life, and support
services
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Jonathan
Kozol, Carol Browner (top right), Angela Davis (bottom left)
and Susan W. Longley '78 are among the speakers brought to
campus by the Weissman Center for Leadership. |
Shifting ideas about
travel, environmental contaminants and health, existing and emerging
human reproductive technologies, architecture and public space
in the third millennium--these are a few of the topics that have
been explored in the context of leadership by the College's Harriet
L. and Paul M. Weissman Center for Leadership. Answering The Plan
for Mount Holyoke 2003's call for the establishment of a center
for leadership and public advocacy, the Weissman Center has cut
a broad swath--taking a liberal arts approach to engaging the
campus with a wide spectrum of pressing problems in society and
providing forums for exploring ways to address them. Weissman
Center programming has brought to Mount Holyoke such prominent
personalities as former national security adviser Anthony Lake;
Jonathan Kozol, author and children's advocate; Carol Browner,
administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency;
activist, scholar, writer, and teacher Angela Davis; architects
Elizabeth Diller and Daniel Libeskind; New York Times science
writer Gina Kolata; novelist, essayist, and critic Susan Sontag;
and travel writer Pico Iyer. Also participating in Weissman Center
events have been alumnae who are leaders in their fields, such
as Paula R. Collins '71, founder and CEO of WDG Ventures, Inc.,
a prominent San Francisco real estate development firm, and former
Maine state senator Susan W. Longley '78. Alumnae have come back
to Mount Holyoke to shed light on issues ranging from the challenges
and opportunities for women in corporate and political worlds
to welfare reform and public education. |
