Honoring students of color and their mentors
Mount Holyoke’s Stoling Ceremony this year was both virtual and in person, the better to honor faculty and staff who support students of color.
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Mount Holyoke’s Stoling Ceremony this year was both virtual and in person, the better to honor faculty and staff who support students of color.
Mount Holyoke hosted its first-ever virtual Commencement for its 184th ceremony to honor graduating seniors and send them on to do great things.
This year’s Baccalaureate at Mount Holyoke College was livestreamed for the first time in its history, due to COVID-19.
The Cording Ceremony is a moment to honor the unique challenges that first-generation and low-income students overcome to graduate.
Now in its fifth year at Mount Holyoke College, the Lavender Ceremony is a celebratory rite of passage for the LGBTQ community.
Jean Grossholtz, Professor of Politics, contributor to Asian studies, and the force behind women’s studies at Mount Holyoke died on February 9, 2021. Colleagues describe Jean with some common phrases: “a legend,” “an inspiration to live up to the ideals [we] profess,” “a fierce and fearless advocate for justice,” “a force to be reckoned with,” “the epitome of the scholar/activist,” and “a one-of-a-kind force of nature.”
Mount Holyoke College’s 2021 Women of Color Trailblazers Leadership Conference focuses on entrepreneurs of color in a virtual business expo.
To celebrate Earth Week 2021, the Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke held events to remind people that every day can be Earth Day.
Mount Holyoke Fellow Carmen Yulín Cruz, former San Juan mayor, spoke with USA Today about the violence against the transgender community in Puerto Rico.
Mount Holyoke geology professors tell US News & World Report that understanding the earth requires a firm grounding in liberal arts.