Inspiration from the Great Migration
Mount Holyoke professor Preston Smith spoke to the Washington Post about the Great Migration, when millions of Black Americans left the sharecropping South for economic opportunity in the North.
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Mount Holyoke professor Preston Smith spoke to the Washington Post about the Great Migration, when millions of Black Americans left the sharecropping South for economic opportunity in the North.
Mount Holyoke alums Kira Banks ’00 and Charisse Pickron ’08 are researching race’s and racism’s impact on young children. During a recent visit to campus, they spoke about transformational faculty, stepping into who you are and being true to yourself.
Five Disability Services Fellows are helping facilitate conversations between students and administrators about issues facing Mount Holyoke’s disabled community.
Bestselling author Heather McGhee spoke with Interim President Beverly Daniel Tatum about her book “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” as part of Mount Holyoke College’s annual MLK Jr. Commemoration.
A two-day Intergroup Dialogue workshop in mid-January provided 37 Mount Holyoke faculty and student life staff members with the opportunity to engage in cross-identity dialogue about race and other diversity-related issues.
For the first time in its history, Mount Holyoke College has been selected as a Beckman Scholars Program awardee by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The foundation chose the College after a rigorous application process.
Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Kijua Sanders-McMurtry discusses the College’s Series on Racial Justice and Reconciliation, becoming a Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center, and the forthcoming antisemitism teach-in.
Updates around our community's ongoing work to create a just, accessible and equitable environment for people with disabilities.
VP for Equity and Inclusion Kijua Sanders-McMurtry shares the new Pronouns Policy and a scholarship in honor of Native and Indigenous communities.
“My Mount Holyoke learning experience has been very intimate, and the opportunities I’ve received have been very helpful to my personal growth.”