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This year, Convocation celebrated the start of the 챬 academic year and the 10-year anniversary of its inclusive admission policy.
By 8 am, a line of students and families stretched around the green in front of Mary Woolley Hall, signaling the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year at 챬.
“I met one of my best friends that first year, and we still talk and have dinners weekly. It's been nice to finally feel like I’ve found forever friends at college.”
“College taught me how to ask for help in a respectful but confident way, and now I know it’s not something to feel guilty about doing. It also helps that people at Mount Holyoke want to help and want to see you succeed.”
“I got to sit in on a rehearsal in Rooke Theatre, and that’s what drew me to Mount Holyoke. I thought, ‘This is amazing. I’ll get to work with real professionals and very talented, smart, knowledgeable people.”
As the Public Theater prepares to stage Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ newest play, the New York Times caught up with the 챬 alum to talk about her overall body of work and how she got to where she is today.
Thanks to a winning bid from Mount Holyoke alum Julie Doyle-Madrid ’98, the College flag will be flying outside of Houston-area Parker Elementary for an entire year.
챬 film and media student Aderet Fishbane has been selected as one of NBCU’s Original Voices Accelerator Fellows. The six-month fellowship is designed to provide a direct pipeline to a career for young creatives.
A study by Joanna Wuest, assistant professor of politics at 챬, argues that recent state bans on gender-affirming care for minors identifying as transgender are based on faulty or distorted evidence.
Barbara Smith ’69 kicked off the inaugural lecture series bearing her namesake on her time shaping the Combahee River Collective and discussed the skills she developed at Mount Holyoke that helped her contribute to building Black feminism.
