Welcome to the 2025 spring semester
President Holley welcomes the campus community to the spring semester and provides updates on key College initiatives.
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Danielle R. Holley
Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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President Holley welcomes the campus community to the spring semester and provides updates on key College initiatives.
The Mass Cultural Council has approved the establishment of a Puerto Rican Cultural District in nearby Holyoke, and Maria Cartagena, director of Community-Based Learning at Mount Holyoke College, was pivotal in its development.
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.
Cora Fernández Anderson, associate professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, wrote an article for Ms. magazine about a landmark ruling that could transform the legal landscape of abortion laws in Latin America.
Adam Hilton, associate professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, writes in an essay for Jacobin that the Democratic Party is at an important crossroads following the 2024 presidential election.
Diamond Abiakalam-Chinagorom ’25 has been selected as Mount Holyoke College’s first Schwarzman Scholar. The program selects future leaders to pursue a one-year, fully funded master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Nearly 1,000 handwritten letters penned by missionary and scientist David Crockett Graham will be digitally scanned, archived and preserved by a Mount Holyoke College history major and the Archives and Special Collections office.
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.
Mount Holyoke College administrators tell the Daily Hampshire Gazette about the progress of the multiyear project to make the campus carbon neutral.