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Mount Holyoke College celebrated its latest cohort of Global Competence Award winners.
Samyukta Jadeja ’21 shares her Shakti Program experience, what Mount Holyoke means to her and how she plans to bring change back to India.
Julia organized an international affairs organization and faculty panel to address global politics at Mount Holyoke College.
Shannon McCarley 17 discusses language and her international experiences.
Students affected or concerned about their status should be in contact with the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives.
Mount Holyoke College students swept up seven Fulbrights this year, along with two Davis Projects for Peace grants and two critical language study awards.
Mount Holyoke economics professor Sarah Adelman enlisted a group of six of her students to join her research project in Uganda for five weeks in 2019.
An article in Robot magazine looks at Mount Holyoke College's conference on robotization and the future of jobs.
“I found myself at Mount Holyoke. I learned self-reliance in a foreign country. I realized I have control over my life. I need to be responsible for it.”
A team of three students swept their division in an international business ethics competition, the College’s first appearance at the annual event.
Interdisciplinary classrooms fuel a passion for learning in faculty and students alike.
Professor Khory discusses how South Asian immigrants in Europe and the U.S. are organizing and engaging in political activism.
Mount Holyoke’s new minor in entrepreneurship, organizations, and society is attracting students with a wide variety of interests and backgrounds.
The annual Student Leadership and Service Awards presentation was a celebration of Mount Holyoke’s top student leaders.
From clothes that light up to vacuum-formed chocolate molds, the Mount Holyoke College Makerspace offers tools and training to create and collaborate.
A Mount Holyoke senior finds study abroad brings her back home with a mission: to work with her Latinx community.
Mount Holyoke alum Umama Zillur ’18 is the founder of Kotha, an organization dedicated to ending Bangladesh’s culture of gender-based violence.
A Mount Holyoke Professor’s Quest to present his award-winning documentary, “Sembène!” to African audiences, old and young alike.
Empowered by the skills she gained at Mount Holyoke, Woyneab Habte ’17 founded a copy shop in her country to provide peers an alternative to sex work.
Six student-athletes spend part of the summer with the Coach for College program to teach sports and academics to middle-schoolers in Vietnam.
International students and McCulloch Center initiatives have helped globalize the education of every Mount Holyoke student.
Dr. Luitgard Knoll ’52 discusses some of her favorite memories of Mount Holyoke and what it meant for her to receive a global education.
Mount Holyoke students visit Washington, D.C., and find inspiration from alumnae to explore careers in public service.
Glamour Magazine selected Ellen Chilemba ’17 as its College Woman of the Year grand-prize winner.
Three seniors win big at an international competition for business ethics, the College’s second year at the event — and its second big win.
Mount Holyoke is one of five award winners for this year's Senator Paul Simon Award, which recognizes excellence and innovation in internationalization.
The McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives has changed the Mount Holyoke world — and Mount Holyoke has changed global education.
Showing how global education is an essential part of the liberal arts, 35 seniors receive an award for the breadth of their international experiences.
Marbles champ Whitney Lapic ’18 came to Mount Holyoke and found mollusk fossils, international paleontology fieldwork and a passion for research.
National Endowment funds pilot program to explore global and local inequalities through humanities lens.
Upasana Sharma '18: the first MHC student to win a General Course scholarship from the London School of Economics, will study British colonialism.
Faculty, administration, students and alumnae participated in several lectures and events marking the McCulloch Center’s tenth anniversary.
This year’s Global Challenges Conference focuses on changing global–local inequalities and features keynote speaker Diana Wells of Ashoka.
Acting President Sonya Stephens joined more than forty college and university presidents in signing a letter regarding the recent executive order.
Programs such as DAAD RISE offer internships that give students practical experience in a variety of STEM fields, stipends, and a summer in Germany!
Juniors Javeria Kella and Davan O’Donnell are the first students to participate in Mount Holyoke’s first international joint-degree program.
“Part of learning maturely is coming up with your own ideas, stepping out of your comfort zone and engaging with people who are different from you.”
While Closing Minds and Borders? An OpEd by Eva Paus, Carol Hoffmann Collins Director, McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives.
Norman “Sandy” McCulloch Jr., benefactor of Mount Holyoke College, died on July 26, 2020, at the age of 94.
Mount Holyoke students excelled at the annual Clinton Global Initiative University gathering, winning awards—and top honors in the coding competition.
Professor Corson studies how governments at various levels make environmental decisions.
Politics professor Khory, an expert in migration, international security and South Asia, will lead Mount Holyoke’s McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives.
Tess Tuitoek ’21 brought her menstrual health and hygiene project to her ancestral village in Kenya.
MHC was featured in International Educator magazine by NAFSA for Impact Assessment and Faculty Engagement on Campus.
“As an international student from a small country, I am constantly learning so much more about different cultures through the people I interact with here.”
“As a senior, I’m confident enough to say I am a global citizen, and I owe it all to the education that was provided to me within a diverse setting.”