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For the second year in a row, Mount Holyoke College has received the 2025 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine.
Mount Holyoke College President Danielle R. Holley spoke to both New England Public Media and the podcast “The Harvard Plan” about how higher education is not the enemy, as well as supporting students going forward.
Mount Holyoke College held a panel discussion “Trans Health Care Is a Human Right: On Safeguarding Gender-Affirming Care After United States v. Skrmetti.” Speakers discussed the case and its impact on transgender and gender-diverse people.
Lily E. Rood ’27 will serve as a Youth Ambassador for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for two years, raising awareness of its efforts to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ youth at home, at school, at work and beyond.
Mount Holyoke College alum Earl Wren ’24 is the recipient of the AHEAD Student Recognition Award for their work amplifying student-led networks of accessibility and disability support and providing critical feedback to the Disability Services office.
This year, Convocation celebrated the start of the Mount Holyoke College academic year and the 10-year anniversary of its inclusive admission policy.
By 8 am, a line of students and families stretched around the green in front of Mary Woolley Hall, signaling the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year at Mount Holyoke College.
“I met one of my best friends that first year, and we still talk and have dinners weekly. It's been nice to finally feel like I’ve found forever friends at college.”
“College taught me how to ask for help in a respectful but confident way, and now I know it’s not something to feel guilty about doing. It also helps that people at Mount Holyoke want to help and want to see you succeed.”
“I got to sit in on a rehearsal in Rooke Theatre, and that’s what drew me to Mount Holyoke. I thought, ‘This is amazing. I’ll get to work with real professionals and very talented, smart, knowledgeable people.”
