About the Weissman Center

At Mount Holyoke College, our students are bursting with idealism and a passionate desire to make a difference. What they want to know is, how? How do we focus our energy and idealism? How do we use our minds and imaginations to transform our ideas and visions into reality?

The Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts was established to answer these questions and to focus greater attention and resources on the College's long-standing commitment to educating women leaders.

Located in Porter Hall (map), the Weissman Center advances students' abilities to become effective agents of change in their chosen professions and communities. The center collaborates with faculty, students, alumnae, student organizations, and College offices to advance initiatives that engage students critically with important problems; that foster their commitment to public and civic life; that build their abilities to analyze, argue, and promote their views; and that increase women's preparation to take action and bring about positive change.

In the spring of 1999, a $4 million gift from Harriet Levine Weissman '58 and her husband, Paul M. Weissman, provided for the merger of the Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy and the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program under the umbrella of the Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts.