Entrepreneurs shine at Grinspoon awards
Mount Holyoke students and alums won recognition at the Grinspoon Foundation’s prestigious annual entrepreneurship competition.
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Mount Holyoke students and alums won recognition at the Grinspoon Foundation’s prestigious annual entrepreneurship competition.
LGBTQ and nonbinary individuals are effectively rendered invisible by curricula, says a local alum of Mount Holyoke College’s graduate teacher licensure program.
Experience on the job and in the classroom inspired senior Ananya Singh to combine her interests in psychology, economics and nonprofit management.
“I definitely feel the warmth of the Mount Holyoke community while I am on campus, but I found it to be a [real] source of strength during my time abroad.”
Data collected by Mount Holyoke students has shown a major policy flaw in a program originally meant to fight housing blight.
“The College doesn’t teach you how to think; [it] give[s] you the resources to think on your own.”
“Mount Holyoke taught me a lot about how important it is to listen to and work with others.”
At MHC I’ve had the support and encouragement of faculty, staff and fellow students who pour their time, energy and hearts into making Mount Holyoke a community that lifts students up to achieve their dreams and goals.
“Working in a lab has been a great opportunity. Not only have I made friends who have similar academic interests as I do, but working in the lab shows employers that I’m able to come up with my own research project. To have the experience on my resume shows that I can do that work and lead a research project on my own.”
“[Mount Holyoke has] given me the time and space to grow so that I’m much more secure in how I’m going into the world.”