Programs & Services

Lifelong Learning: Overview

› Back-to-Class Program

Minicourses offered during Reunion weekends

› Faculty-Scholar Program

This focuses one MHC professor on alumnae interests for a year of sharing ideas.

› Fellowships

The Alumnae Association offers fellowships, for which any alumna may apply. In 2005, we gave more than $50,000 to support alumnae's great ideas.

› Lyon Lecture Series

Since 2002, the Lyon Lecture Series has brought Mount Holyoke professors and other distinguished speakers to alumnae in cities throughout the United States to discuss topics of current interest.

› Online Discussions

Use the Web to share your opinions of Quarterly articles and other topics of common alumnae interest.

› Educational Travel

For more than thirty years, the Association has offered educational tours to alumnae, spouses/partners, relatives, and friends. MHC professors are among the travelers on many of these trips.

Will I become someone deep enough to see truth and strong enough to honor it? Will I be gentle to give affection and generous enough to receive it? Will I be imaginative to envision a humane solution and energetic enough to effect it? Will I make difference to the world and know peace in my soul?
—
Elizabeth T. Kennan ’60, former president, Mount Holyoke College (1978–1995), baccalaureate address, 1995