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Ellen Walsh ’85 discusses how her transformative experience at Mount Holyoke helped her thrive throughout her career.
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Ellen Walsh ’85 discusses how her transformative experience at Mount Holyoke helped her thrive throughout her career.
Trustee KC Maurer has honored beloved family members by making gifts to Mount Holyoke. Her goal: expanding access for a new generation of students.
Thanks to a scholarship, Rhae A. Kennedy ’81 discovered the campus gates were the threshold to another world. “Mount Holyoke challenged me to think differently and make connections. It changed my life.”
“My Mount Holyoke learning experience has been very intimate, and the opportunities I’ve received have been very helpful to my personal growth.”
“I realized that a weight had been lifted from my shoulders the moment I stepped on campus. That was the moment I decided to attend MHC.”
The Speaking, Arguing and Writing (SAW) Program is a critical component of the Weissman Center for Leadership at Mount Holyoke College.
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A new Mount Holyoke program aimed at addressing the growing crisis of teacher burnout in our nation’s public schools will kick off on Saturday, October 29.
Mount Holyoke College’s Master of Arts in Teaching program has received a $125,000 state grant to develop a new program to support teachers on emergency licenses in the Holyoke Public Schools district as they pursue initial licensure and their master’s degrees.
Ellen Walsh ’85 — a principal program manager at Adobe — came to Mount Holyoke looking for a different experience. “I didn’t give any thought to it being a women’s college. But I got more than I ever imagined. Mount Holyoke was transformative.”