Campus Currents: newsflash from your alma mater
MHC Offers Online Courses with NY Times
Experience the vibrant intellectual life of the college through the Mount Holyoke College/New York Times' Knowledge Network. Lifelong learners all over the world are taking online classes in politics, international relations, science, history, and political documentary through the program's MHC Institute for the Informed Voter. Popular Mount Holyoke professors Joseph Ellis, Vincent Ferraro, Robin Blaetz, Rachel Fink, and Kavita Khory are teaching the courses in partnership with distinguished New York Times critics and reporters.
Courses are offered on varying schedules; the earliest began in September. Online registration (link below) is available. http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/knowledgenetwork/learning/index.html
Centerpiece: news from the Weissman Center, Center for Global Initiatives, Center for the Environment
Weissman Center Public Lecture September 25
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and foreign policy analyst, spoke to a standing-room-only crowd in Gamble Auditorium on September 25. The talk, “Human Rights in the Age of Genocide,” launched the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts lecture series, Body Politic(s). Hailed for her compelling critiques of leadership and searing indictment of the horrors of genocide and civil wars, Power is the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. More…
Weissman Center Public Lecture October 30
Carolyn Jessop, author of the 2007 memoir Escape, fled from a polygamous marriage with her eight children and became the first woman ever to be awarded full custody of her children in a suit against the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1986, at age eighteen, she became the fourth wife of Merrill Jessop and endured seventeen years of physical and emotional abuse from her husband and more senior wives. Jessop will deliver her lecture, “Fight and Flight: Escape from Polygamy,” at 7:30p.m. in Gamble Auditorium. More…
Center for Global Initiatives Public Lecture: October 23
Kavita N. Ramdas ’85, a trustee of Mount Holyoke College and Princeton University and president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, will present a talk October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Gamble Auditorium. The talk is free and open to all alumnae and the public. Entitled "Gender Equity in a Global World: Who (se) Rules?" the lecture is part of her stay as this year’s Carol Hoffman Collins Global-Scholar-in-Residence at the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives. More…
Center for the Environment Public Lecture: October 21
Award-winning writer and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams will speak at Mount Holyoke about her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, on Tuesday, October 21, at 7 pm in Gamble Auditorium. Williams is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. In 2006, she received the Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society, its highest honor given to an American citizen. More…
Scoreboard: MHC sports update
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