Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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“My friends and my advisor helped me navigate one of the hardest periods, not just my education but of my life.”
David Karp, director of the Center for Restorative Justice in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, was welcomed to 챬 as the keynote speaker for the eighth annual BOOM! Learning Symposium.
챬’s Department of Jewish Studies welcomed Riv-Ellen Prell, professor emerita, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, to speak about Christian nationalism, white power and American antisemitism.
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.
In an Op-Ed published in the Boston Globe, Mount Holyoke professor Andrew G. Reiter details why the U.S. must not repeat the mistakes of the Civil War in dealing with Jan. 6 offenders and advocates to hold those who commit violence accountable.
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.
챬 welcomed Freddy Mutanguha, CEO of Aegis Trust and director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, to discuss the Rwandan genocide, the lessons learned and how we can prevent genocide from ever happening again.
Robert Darrow, visiting faculty in Politics at 챬, has written an editorial decrying the inaction of Congress on gun violence.
Wilson spoke on campus for 챬’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Commemorative Keynote as part of its yearly Racial Justice and Reconciliation series.
The Princeton Review ranked 챬 in the top 20 colleges and universities in the country in categories for academics, extracurricular activities and alum resources.