#mt. holyoke

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[jennyboom21]

In 1837, Mary Lyon did the unthinkable. She founded the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke College—the first of the Seven Sisters. Radical moves for a woman wearing a bonnet.

In doing so, she forever changed the landscape of higher education—not just for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, but for women around the world. She built a place where women could develop their intellects, hone the power of their voices, and cultivate courage.

These days, change is all around us, happening at a pace too fast to measure. And while Mary Lyon couldn’t have foreseen a digitally connected world, she did understand that a woman would need to be agile, creative, and brave to live the life she wanted. Her vision still drives Mount Holyoke.

Mary Lyon once issued a challenge to the women who would follow her: “Go forward, attempt great things, accomplish great things.” She did. You will.

[mozonemhc-blog]

MoZone is on Tumblr!

Hello, everybody!

Your favorite diversity peer education program is fully launching its social media platforms, and we are here to perform multiple services for our Mount Holyoke community. The purpose of this blog is to further connect you to educational material regarding diversity and inclusion beyond what you may have been exposed to during our workshops. This will also be a space where you can connect to on-campus resources and ask questions you may have about diversity and inclusion.

So excited to have an additional platform to connect with our Mount Holyoke community!

[nemfrog]

“Titan’s Piazza: Mt. Holyoke.” Final report on the geology of Massachusetts. 1841. 

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Mount Holyoke, 1945.

[hellyeahmtholyoke-blog]

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[sarahmarian]

Potts also falls into what I’ll hereafter call the Chait trap, which assumes that the internecine strife of progressive groups is necessarily damaging to “the greater cause.” In fact, while these struggles can lead to burnout and disengagement, they more often produce the opposite: awareness. Isn’t it possible that the future female senators who were touched by these intense debates at Mount Holyoke or Bryn Mawr will be more mindful of their trans brethren (or sisters, or siblings) when they do go out and occupy the leadership pipelines into which women’s colleges feed? And vice versa, for the pioneering trans senators? These students may not ever drop the word “sisterhood” entirely, but they may reexamine what it means.

Transgender Students at Women’s Colleges and Language – Flavorwire

[tempathamp]

Saving crawdads from a grizzly death in a stream at Mt. Holyoke College.