Finding the confidence to speak up and to help build community at Mount Holyoke
“Now that I have the confidence to speak up, I have to speak up for people who can’t speak for themselves.”
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“Now that I have the confidence to speak up, I have to speak up for people who can’t speak for themselves.”
“Mount Holyoke has given me more purpose. Now I am driven to improve community and to open opportunities for others.”
“Something about Mount Holyoke seemed welcoming. I liked the beauty of the campus, the energy, the life. It seemed more collaborative than other places. I knew immediately it was the place for me.”
“They teach us with their actions, and that makes me want to be the best of me.”
Mount Holyoke emerita professor says that in some cases abortion bans can be considered torture, as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is set to weigh in.
An anti-liberty, pro-religion Texas-based judge is poised to ban the abortion pill. Mount Holyoke’s Joanna Wuest talked to Texas Monthly about it.
The Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College will be hosting the event from April 13-15, 2023. Speakers include Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Kat Cadungog and Tamar Toles O’Laughlin.
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.