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Mount Holyoke College

January 01, 1970

Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.[11] It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States.[12] The college was founded in 1837 as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary by Mary Lyon, a pioneer in education for women. Mount Holyoke is part of the Five College Consortium in Western Massachusetts.

Mount Holyoke College
Former names
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (1837–1888)
Mount Holyoke Seminary and College (1888–1893)
MottoThat our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace — Psalms 144:12[1]
TypePrivate liberal arts women's college
EstablishedSeminary, 1837 (seminary charter, 1836)
Seminary and college, (collegiate charter) 1888
College, 1893
FounderMary Lyon
AccreditationNECHE
Academic affiliations
Endowment$1.068 billion (2021)[3]
PresidentDanielle Ren Holley[4]
DeanMarcella Runell Hall[5]
Academic staff
247 (fall 2021)[6]
Administrative staff
647 (fall 2021)[6]
Total staff
894 (fall 2021)[6]
Students2,342 (fall 2021)[7]
Undergraduates2,220 (fall 2021)
Postgraduates122 (fall 2021)
Location
South Hadley, Massachusetts
,
U.S.

42°15′20″N 72°34′28″W / 42.2556°N 72.5745°W / 42.2556; -72.5745
CampusRural, 2,000 acres (810 ha), academic campus: 1,000 acres (400 ha)
ColorsBlue and white[8]
   
NicknameLyons
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III
NEWMAC, Liberty League (golf)
MascotPaws the Lion (Official)[9]
Jorge the Goose (Unofficial)[10]
Websitewww.mtholyoke.edu

Undergraduate admissions are restricted to female, transgender, and nonbinary students.[13] In 2014, it became the first member of the Seven Sisters (not counting the coeducational Vassar College) to introduce an admissions policy that was inclusive of transgender students.[14] Graduate programs are open to applicants regardless of gender.[15]

The college's 800-acre (3.2 km2) campus includes the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the John Payson Williston Observatory, and a botanic garden. The college awards the Glascock Prize annually.

History edit

 
Mary Lyon ivory miniature
 
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837
 
Mount Holyoke in 1887

Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.[16] Lyon developed her ideas on how to educate women when she was assistant principal at Ipswich Female Seminary in Massachusetts. By 1837 she had convinced multiple sponsors to support her ideals and the nation's first real college for women. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opened on November 8, 1837 in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The town had donated the land and main building.[17] Lyon's layout of the campus provided a widely imitated model for the higher education of women by providing a physical environment that supported a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum equivalent to that of men's colleges. Lyon's innovative goals set her Seminary apart from other female seminaries of the period, offering a curriculum equivalent to those at men's colleges. All the students worked in one building with little privacy. There was close contact with the all-female faculty, and daily self reports on their personal strengths and weaknesses. The college cut staff to the minimum as the 100 or so students each performed one hour of work a day, handling most of the routine chores like cooking and cleaning and maintaining the grounds. Lyon rejected the goal of the men's colleges to promote individualism and independence and instead fostered the collective ideal of a united team of women could match the success of nearby men's colleges like Amherst and Williams. The curriculum allowed women to study subjects like geometry, calculus, Latin, Greek, science, philosophy, and history, which were not typically taught at other female seminaries in the 19th century. Lyon's efforts in founding an institution of higher education for women, despite the economic challenges of the time, paved the way for more women to have the same opportunities for higher education as their brothers.[18][19]

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was one of several Christian institutions of higher education for young women established during the first half of the 19th century. Prior to founding Mount Holyoke, Lyon contributed to the development of both Hartford Female Seminary and Ipswich Female Seminary. She was also involved in the creation of Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in 1834.[16] Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was chartered as a teaching seminary in 1836[20] and opened its doors to students on 8 November 1837. Both Vassar College and Wellesley College were patterned after Mount Holyoke.[21]

According to historian Amanda Porterfield, Lyon created Mount Holyoke to be "a religious institution that offered a model of Christian society for all to see."[22] Students "were required to attend church services, chapel talks, prayer meetings, and Bible study groups. Twice a day teachers and students spent time in private devotions. Every dorm room had two large lighted closets to give roommates privacy during their devotions".[23] Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was the sister school to Andover Seminary. By 1859 there were more than 60 missionary alumnae; by 1887 the school's alumnae comprised one-fifth of all female American missionaries for the ABCFM; and by the end of the century, 248 of its alumnae had entered the mission field.[24]

Collegiate charter edit

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary received its collegiate charter in 1888, becoming Mount Holyoke Seminary and College. The change in admission from Seminary to College included fundraising by the trustees, an overhaul of the entrance requirements, and course catalog. Entrance exams were introduced at this time, scheduled in June or September at the college. In 1889, students traveling from the midwest could take these examinations in Freeport, Illinois, and within a few years, this was expanded to other cities. Many additions were made to the course catalog, and starting in the 1889 academic year, students could choose to pursue degrees of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.[25] Within 4 years, the seminary enrollment dropped from 269 to 8. In 1893, the seminary course was discontinued, and the new title Mount Holyoke College was authorized.[25]

Cottage-style living edit

A movement towards what was referred to as cottage-style living started in 1889 by the New York Association[26] after the change to Mount Holyoke Seminary and College. $15,000 was raised, and plans were put in place for Mary Brigham Cottage, with accommodations for the president and thirty students, with priority given to those in the collegiate course. At the time, two South Hadley families agreed to host boarders. President Elizabeth Mead deemed these options unsatisfactory and pushed the trustees to build yet another cottage. Mrs. Mead was ready to relieve the students of a large share of the drudgery of domestic work that had made up a good portion of their studies since Mary Lyon's conception of the seminary. From 1895 to 1996 the trustees allotted funds for the employment of four women to wash the dinner dishes that had formerly constituted the task of eight or ten students.[25]

On February 28, 1987, the United States Postal Service's Great Americans series issued a postage stamp featuring Mary Lyon, in honor of Mount Holyoke's Sesquicentennial (Mount Holyoke's 150th anniversary).[27][28]

Debate on becoming co-educational edit

In the early 1970s, Mount Holyoke had a long debate under the presidency of David Truman over the issue of coeducation. On 6 November 1971, the board of trustees voted to remain a women's college.[29]

Admission of transgender students edit

At Convocation on September 2, 2014, President Lynn Pasquerella announced a new policy allowing the admission of transgender individuals of both sexes to the college,[30] as well as the admission of students whose gender identities are non-binary.[31] Of the Seven Sisters that had remained women's colleges, Mount Holyoke was the first to implement such policy.[32]

Admissions edit

The 2020 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report categorizes Mount Holyoke as "more selective".[33]

For the Class of 2023 (enrolling fall 2019), Mount Holyoke received 3,908 applications, accepted 1,491 (38.2%), and enrolled 496.[34] The middle 50% range of SAT scores for enrolled students was 1320–1450 for the composite, 630–720 for evidence-based reading and writing, and 640–770 for math, while the middle 50% range for the ACT composite score was 27–32.[34]

Rankings edit

U.S. News & World Report's 2023 rankings ranked Mount Holyoke the 36th-best liberal arts college in the nation, and tied for 30th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching."[37] In 2023, according to a ranking by the Princeton Review which assessed students' perceptions of their faculty, Mount Holyoke's faculty was ranked #9 in the nation.[38] The ranking was based on students' level of agreement or disagreement with the statement, "Professors are interesting and bring their material to life."[39] As of 2023, Mount Holyoke was ranked #6 in the Princeton Review's ranking of the "Top 20 Best Schools for Making an Impact."[40]

Mount Holyoke College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.[41]

Academics edit

 
The Pioneer Valley and Connecticut River

Undergraduate programs edit

Mount Holyoke offers 50 departmental and interdepartmental majors, including the option to design a special major. The most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:[42]

Experimental Psychology (45)
Biology/Biological Sciences (44)
Econometrics & Quantitative Econometrics (34)
English Language & Literature (33)
Computer Science (26)
Neuroscience (21)
International Relations & Affairs (20)

The primary degree conferred is the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, for which students complete 128-semester credits (one standard course equals 4 credits). At least 68 credits must be earned from coursework outside the major department, across the three curricular divisions: humanities, science and mathematics, and social sciences. Study of a foreign language and completion of a multicultural perspectives course is also required.[43]

Mount Holyoke's membership in the Five College Consortium allows students to enroll in courses at nearby Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They may also complete one of 12 Five College Certificates—among them African studies, Buddhist studies, coastal and marine sciences, cognitive neuroscience, international relations, and Middle Eastern studies—in lieu of a minor.[44]

Graduate programs edit

 
 
The calibration target for the NASA's Mars Curiosity rover ChemCam; developed by Mount Holyoke College professor of astronomy Melinda Darby Dyar, the instrument is made of heterogenous ceramics similar to those expected on Mars,[45] Dyar and her team have received multiple grants for analyzing Martian geology with this instrumentation[46]

In addition to the BA, Mount Holyoke offers three master's degrees: a coed Master of Arts in Teaching,[47] a Master of Arts in mathematics teaching,[48] and a master's in psychology.[49] Other programs include dual-degree programs in engineering with the California Institute of Technology, the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst;[50] the Frances Perkins Program,[51] for women over the age of 24 who wish to complete the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree; and the Postbaccalaureate Studies Program,[52] for students who have already earned an undergraduate degree and wish to complete additional course work in preparation for graduate work in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, dentistry, or physical therapy science.

Academic centers and programs edit

Three academic centers—the Weissman Center for Leadership,[53] the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives,[54] the Miller Worley Center for the Environment[55]—support the academic program through public lectures by visiting scholars, conferences on issues of pressing concern, mentoring and internship opportunities, and hands-on learning experiences. The Weissman Center's Speaking, Arguing, and Writing (SAW) Program[56] provides opportunities for developing leadership and communication skills, including the ability to effectively frame, articulate, and advocate positions. The Community-Based Learning Program[57] links students with community-based organizations in courses that combine analysis and action.

Study abroad edit

Mount Holyoke has study abroad programs and exchanges for full-year or semester study in France, Senegal, Costa Rica, Chile, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as a summer program in China and January term programs in Georgia and South Africa. The college is also affiliated with more than 150 study abroad programs in more than 50 colleges and students have the opportunity to petition any programs with which the college is not already affiliated. The college also encourages international internships and research for the semester, year, summer, or January terms. Each year more than 200 Mount Holyoke students, representing approximately 40 percent of the junior class, study for a semester or academic year at universities and programs abroad.[58]

Twelve College Exchange edit

Through the school's membership in the Twelve College Exchange program, Mount Holyoke students can study at one of the following 12 other schools for one semester or a full year:[59]

Faculty edit

A number of faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for their research and writing achievements, including Christopher Benfey (literary scholar), Joseph Ellis (historian), Susan Barry (neurobiologist), Mark McMenamin (geologist and paleontologist) and Becky Wai-Ling Packard (psychologist). Mark McMenamin's Hypertopia Option has been called one of only two methods "by which planetary temperature can be stabilized."[60]

Attempted murder of faculty member edit

Mount Holyoke administrator and art professor Rie Hachiyanagi made international headlines when she was charged with the attempted murder of a regular member of the faculty on 23 December 2019.[61] Hachiyanagi used a fire poker, large rock, and a gardening shears to attempt to beat and kill her victim.[62][63] Hachiyanagi's alleged victim survived the attack.[64] Hachiyanagi pled guilty to the charges and on October 20, 2021, was sentenced to a term of 10 to 12 years in prison.[65]

Campus edit

 
The main campus gate on College St
 
Home of Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, 'Sycamores', a former dormitory for the college
 
Mary Lyon Hall, 2016
 
John Payson Williston Observatory, Mount Holyoke College, ca. 1945–1955
 
Seminary Building, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, viewed from the southwest, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1886

The 800-acre (3.2 km2) campus was designed and landscaped between 1896 and 1922 by the landscape architecture firm of Olmsted and Sons. The campus includes a botanic garden, two lakes, several waterfalls, tennis courts, stables, and woodland riding trails. It is also home to the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum which is part of the Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield and the Museums10. An independent bookstore, The Odyssey Bookshop, is located directly across from the campus in the college-owned Village Commons.[66] Mount Holyoke has instituted "The Big Turn Off" energy conservation campaign.[67] It also focuses on "green" building with five LEED certified buildings on campus.[68] It has reduced its environmental impact by recycling 40% of waste and composting as well as using produce grown in the student-run organic garden in dining halls.[69]

The Seminary Building (1837) contained classrooms, parlors and rooms for students and faculty, the original library, and a periodical reading room. A south wing was added in 1841, a north wing in 1853, and a gymnasium and laundry in 1865. All were destroyed by fire in 1896.[70] Upon the burning of the college building in September 1896, Treasurer Williston announced the pressing need for a new chapel building, a new gymnasium, and a series of cottage dormitories in the modern style.[25] This style of separated buildings allowed for flexibility in fundraising that was attractive to the trustees, while still providing the students with the resources and accommodations they needed. In 1897, Mary Lyon Hall and Mary Lyon Chapel were built, as well as dormitories Brigham, Safford, Porter, and Pearsons. Blanchard Gymnasium was completed in 1899.[71]

John Payson Williston Observatory, completed in 1881, was given in memory of the Willistons' eldest son and built to be ready for the rare transit of Venus in 1882. It is the oldest academic building on campus.[72]

Mount Holyoke has been recognized for its campus beauty by Huffington Post,[73] The Princeton Review,[74] and Architectural Digest.[75] Its oldest building dated back to the school's opening in 1837, but it burned down in 1896 and was replaced by buildings that opened the following year. Additional buildings were constructed, remodeled, torn down, and expanded at various points from the 1870s to the 2010s, most recently with a new residence hall in 2008 and the construction of a centralized dining hall in 2018.[76] The school owns an 18-hole golf course, The Orchards, which was designed by Donald Ross and which hosted the U.S. Women's Open in 2004.[77]

Library edit

 
Williston Library, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA

Mount Holyoke's library includes more than 740,000 print volumes, 1,600 periodicals, and more than 140,000 electronic resources. Its first librarian was an alumna Mary Nutting. Through the Five College Consortium, students have access to more than 9 million volumes.[78] Computer support is provided.[79] The MEWS (Mediated Educational Work Space) supports collaborative multimedia learning with group project rooms, wall-mounted plasma displays, a digitization center, and a faculty development area.[80] In 2013, "Clear and Gold Tower," a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly, was installed in the Williston Library's atrium.[81]

Dormitories edit

The college has 21 residence halls as well as apartments and "annex" spaces in which to house students, and an overwhelming majority of students live on campus (98%). Each residence hall reserves a quarter of its rooms for housing first-year students[82] with the exception of Pearsons Annex, which is reserved for living learning communities,[83] and Dickinson House, which is reserved for Frances Perkins Scholars.[84] Most residence halls house students from all four class years at any given time. In January 2018, Mount Holyoke opened a new centralized dining commons within the previously existing Blanchard Community Center. Previously, six dormitories on campus had dining areas inside of them, but the plan to consolidate these into one dining hall was made so that the college could shift to accept an unlimited meal plan and offer extended hours.[85]

Memberships edit

Mount Holyoke is a member of the Pioneer Valley's Five College Consortium,[86] the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges,[87] the Annapolis Group,[88] the Oberlin Group,[89] and the Consortium on Financing Higher Education.[90]

Students edit

In 2019, Mount Holyoke's 2,190 undergraduates included 1,021 White students, 587 international students, 183 Asian American students, 162 Latina students, 102 African American students, 2 Native American students, and 96 multiracial students.[91]

Student groups edit

Mount Holyoke offers a number of student groups and organizations. Themes include Art, Academics, Club Sports, Entertainment & the Performing Arts, Politics & Activism, Governing Organizations and Religious organizations.[92]

Among these student groups is the Mount Holyoke News, the college's independent, student-run organization which has been in print since 1917.[93] Mount Holyoke News or MHN publishes on a weekly basis throughout the academic year with new issues going out in print form each Friday. A digital edition of each issue is also made available online each week through Issuu.[94]

WMHC (91.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve South Hadley, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Mount Holyoke College and is one of the oldest stations run by women.[95]

Traditions edit

 
It is a tradition to give incoming Freshmen a plant from the Talcott Greenhouse.[96]

Mount Holyoke class colors edit

Mount Holyoke classes have been voting on class colors and mascots since the late 1800s, but the colors currently in use were not adopted until 1901.[97] The class of 1901 chose hunter green, and the classes of 1902, ’03, ’04 voted for crimson, golden yellow, and royal blue, respectively. In 1909, the students voted for lion, griffin, sphinx, and pegasus as their class symbols.[97] They also decided that even-year classes would use pegasus and lion and their colors would be red and blue, and odd years would use griffin and sphinx, with green and yellow as their colors.[97] This system has persisted to this day. Each class proudly displays their class color at class-related activities such as Convocation.[97]

Events edit

  • The Kathryn Irene Glascock Awards grants The Glascock Prize to the winner of this annual event (which has been held at Mount Holyoke since 1924).[98]
  • The Faculty Show takes place once every four years, around 1 April; faculty members create a show which parodies themselves and their students.[99]
  • The Junior Show (also known as J-Show) refers to a show created by Juniors (and a few professors) who parody life at Mount Holyoke. A common feature is a sketch mocking the president and dean of the college, along with well-known professors.[100]
  • Mountain Day begins with the sound of ringing bells from Abbey Chapel on a beautiful autumn morning secretly chosen by the president of the college, all classes are canceled for the day and many students hike to the summit of nearby Mount Holyoke.[101][102]
  • Holiday Vespers is an annual Christmas concert that has been held each year since 1899.[103] In addition to the free performance held on campus in Abbey Chapel, each year the students perform in either Boston or New York City.
  • M&Cs, originally called Milk & Crackers, is now referred to as Milk & Cookies.[104] M&Cs are a nightly snack provided by dormitory dining halls, but also refer to a student a cappella group, The M&Cs (Milk and Cookies).[105]
  • Big/Little Sibling is a reference to the pairing of juniors and "firsties" (or first-years) who are paired up to take part in organized events together. Coordinated by the junior class board.[106]
  • Pangy Day, originally called Pangynaskeia, has been a springtime tradition at Mount Holyoke for decades, but its origin is not totally clear.[107] It's about celebrating spring after a long winter, and festivities including music, games, face-painting, ice cream, and more take place.[108]
  • Elfing is a tradition shared between sophomores and first-years. Secret sophomore "elves" leave presents and treats for their first years throughout the week-long event. On the final day, the first-years get to meet their elves in person at a special M&Cs.
  • Founder's Day is held on the Sunday closest to 8 November (the date of the opening of Mount Holyoke in 1837). It was begun by Elizabeth Storrs Mead in 1891. The current version of the tradition includes ice cream being served early in the morning near Mary Lyon's grave. The current president of the college and select faculty are invited to scoop ice cream for the senior class who dons their gowns.[109][110]
  • Convocation is a spirited celebration of community marking the beginning of the academic year. All students attend wearing their class colors, and seniors wear their graduation gowns to celebrate the start of their final year.[111]
  • Canoe Sing is an event that takes place prior to commencement in which canoes are decorated with lanterns and paddled by seniors singing Mount Holyoke songs. They are joined by fellow graduating seniors on shore.
  • Baccalaureate is held in Abbey Chapel; the medieval German ode to Academe, "Gaudeamus Igitur" is sung by berobed Seniors and Faculty during the procession. Following convocation, Faculty line the path to Mary Lyon's grave. Seniors walk through this throng, to the grave (to place a wreath). The Baccalaureate Ceremony is a celebration that honors members of the graduating class. This traditional ceremony is for seniors only and holds a deep meaning: students are given a final charge and hear from their selected faculty and classmates. Academic regalia and a cap is worn.
  • The Laurel Parade takes place the day before commencement. Graduating seniors wear white and carry laurel garlands, in a parade to Mary Lyon's grave. They are escorted by approximately 3,000 alumnae, also in white, who thereby welcome them into the Alumnae Association. Once at Mary Lyon's grave, the garland is wound around the cast-iron fence, and the Mimi Fariña song "Bread and Roses" is sung by all in attendance. White is a tribute to those who fought for women's suffrage.[112] In 1970 students voted to replace the laurel with signs protesting the Vietnam War.[113]

Athletics edit

Mount Holyoke offers 13 varsity sports programs and six competitive club sports teams. The college is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III and the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) as well as the New England Rowing Conference (NERC).[114] Facilities include a lighted synthetic multipurpose turf field surrounded by an eight-lane track with a nine-lane straightaway; Kendall Sports and Dance Complex housing a swimming pool and separate diving well; gymnasium with basketball, volleyball, and badminton courts; weight room; cardiovascular area; one-acre (4,000 m2) field house with indoor track and tennis courts; squash courts; racquetball courts; and three studios for dance, aerobics, yoga, and other activities; The Orchards, an 18-hole golf course (home to the 2004 U.S. Women's Open) designed by Donald Ross; and a 60-stall equestrian center with two indoor arenas (100' × 256' and 70' × 130'), an outdoor show ring, permanent fibar dressage arena, outdoor cross-country courses, and a boathouse finished for Spring 2010.[115]

Notable people edit

Main article: List of Mount Holyoke College people

In popular culture edit

Literature edit

  • Wendy Wasserstein's 1977 play, Uncommon Women and Others, is based upon Wasserstein's experiences at Mount Holyoke of the early 1970s. The play explores the lives of the fictional characters Carter, Holly, Kate, Leilah, Rita, Muffet, Samantha, and Susie as they gather for lunch five years after graduation and reminisce about their collegiate days. The play was adapted into a television movie starring a then-unknown Meryl Streep.[116]
  • In Tayari Jones’s 2011 novel, Silver Sparrow, the two protagonists, Dana and Chaurisse, apply to Mount Holyoke College.

Film edit

Several feature films reference Mount Holyoke. Prominent among them are:

Television edit

An urban legend says that the characters of the hit 1960s cartoon Scooby Doo Where Are You! are said to be modeled after the Five College Consortium. Scooby Doo is meant to be University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shaggy is Hampshire, Fred is Amherst, Daphne is Mount Holyoke and Velma is Smith. These characterizations are made under the assumptions of stereotypes of the students from the Five Colleges.[121]

Humor edit

  • A 1968 article in the Columbia University student newspaper Columbia Daily Spectator repeated a line from the 1964 movie Sex and the College Girl: "Smith to bed, Mount Holyoke to wed". This referred to the reputation of students from the two Seven Sisters Colleges.[122] In the 1980s, Mount Holyoke students launched a campaign against a dating book and article written by two Princeton graduates that tell men how to pick up female students at women's colleges. Under the "Pickup Strategy" category, the article states: '"Low Key. Recall the Smith saying, 'Holyoke to bed; Smith to wed.''[123]
  • The Mount Holyoke song, "We're Saving Ourselves For Yale", alludes to the Ivy League-Seven Sisters relationship, which amusingly relates tales of women who hold onto their virginity long enough to catch a Yale graduate to marry. The song features prominently in Wendy Wasserstein's "Uncommon Women and Others."[124][125][126]

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Further reading edit

  • Allmendinger, David F. "Mount Holyoke Students Encounter the Need for Life-Planning, 1837-1850." History of Education Quarterly 19#1 (1979): 27-46.
  • Butchart, Ronald E. "Mission Matters: Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, and the Schooling of Southern Blacks, 1861-1917." History of Education Quarterly 42#1 (2002): 1-17.
  • Harwarth, Irene B. "A Closer Look at Women's Colleges." National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1999.
  • Harwarth, Irene B., Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra. ": Executive Summary." U.S. Department of Education National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning.
  • Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993 (2nd edition).
  • Turpin, Andrea L (2010). "The Ideological Origins of the Women's College: Religion, Class, and Curriculum in the Educational Visions of Catharine Beecher and Mary Lyon". History of Education Quarterly. 50 (2): 133–58. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2010.00257.x. S2CID 143159340.

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mount, holyoke, college, this, article, multiple, issues, please, help, improve, discuss, these, issues, talk, page, learn, when, remove, these, template, messages, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article. This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Mount Holyoke College news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2023 Learn how and when to remove this message This article contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view April 2023 Learn how and when to remove this message Learn how and when to remove this message Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women s college in South Hadley Massachusetts United States 11 It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States 12 The college was founded in 1837 as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary by Mary Lyon a pioneer in education for women Mount Holyoke is part of the Five College Consortium in Western Massachusetts Mount Holyoke CollegeFormer namesMount Holyoke Female Seminary 1837 1888 Mount Holyoke Seminary and College 1888 1893 MottoThat our daughters may be as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace Psalms 144 12 1 TypePrivate liberal arts women s collegeEstablishedSeminary 1837 seminary charter 1836 Seminary and college collegiate charter 1888 College 1893FounderMary LyonAccreditationNECHEAcademic affiliationsAICUMAnnapolis GroupCICCLACCOFHEFive CollegeNAICU 2 Oberlin GroupSeven SistersSpace grantEndowment 1 068 billion 2021 3 PresidentDanielle Ren Holley 4 DeanMarcella Runell Hall 5 Academic staff247 fall 2021 6 Administrative staff647 fall 2021 6 Total staff894 fall 2021 6 Students2 342 fall 2021 7 Undergraduates2 220 fall 2021 Postgraduates122 fall 2021 LocationSouth Hadley Massachusetts U S 42 15 20 N 72 34 28 W 42 2556 N 72 5745 W 42 2556 72 5745CampusRural 2 000 acres 810 ha academic campus 1 000 acres 400 ha ColorsBlue and white 8 NicknameLyonsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division IIINEWMAC Liberty League golf MascotPaws the Lion Official 9 Jorge the Goose Unofficial 10 Websitewww wbr mtholyoke wbr edu Undergraduate admissions are restricted to female transgender and nonbinary students 13 In 2014 it became the first member of the Seven Sisters not counting the coeducational Vassar College to introduce an admissions policy that was inclusive of transgender students 14 Graduate programs are open to applicants regardless of gender 15 The college s 800 acre 3 2 km2 campus includes the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum the John Payson Williston Observatory and a botanic garden The college awards the Glascock Prize annually Contents 1 History 1 1 Collegiate charter 1 2 Cottage style living 1 3 Debate on becoming co educational 1 4 Admission of transgender students 2 Admissions 3 Rankings 4 Academics 4 1 Undergraduate programs 4 2 Graduate programs 5 Academic centers and programs 5 1 Study abroad 5 2 Twelve College Exchange 6 Faculty 6 1 Attempted murder of faculty member 7 Campus 8 Library 9 Dormitories 10 Memberships 11 Students 11 1 Student groups 12 Traditions 12 1 Mount Holyoke class colors 12 2 Events 13 Athletics 14 Notable people 15 In popular culture 15 1 Literature 15 2 Film 15 3 Television 15 4 Humor 16 References 17 Further reading 18 External linksHistory edit nbsp Mary Lyon ivory miniature nbsp Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 nbsp Mount Holyoke in 1887 Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary 16 Lyon developed her ideas on how to educate women when she was assistant principal at Ipswich Female Seminary in Massachusetts By 1837 she had convinced multiple sponsors to support her ideals and the nation s first real college for women Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opened on November 8 1837 in South Hadley Massachusetts The town had donated the land and main building 17 Lyon s layout of the campus provided a widely imitated model for the higher education of women by providing a physical environment that supported a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum equivalent to that of men s colleges Lyon s innovative goals set her Seminary apart from other female seminaries of the period offering a curriculum equivalent to those at men s colleges All the students worked in one building with little privacy There was close contact with the all female faculty and daily self reports on their personal strengths and weaknesses The college cut staff to the minimum as the 100 or so students each performed one hour of work a day handling most of the routine chores like cooking and cleaning and maintaining the grounds Lyon rejected the goal of the men s colleges to promote individualism and independence and instead fostered the collective ideal of a united team of women could match the success of nearby men s colleges like Amherst and Williams The curriculum allowed women to study subjects like geometry calculus Latin Greek science philosophy and history which were not typically taught at other female seminaries in the 19th century Lyon s efforts in founding an institution of higher education for women despite the economic challenges of the time paved the way for more women to have the same opportunities for higher education as their brothers 18 19 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was one of several Christian institutions of higher education for young women established during the first half of the 19th century Prior to founding Mount Holyoke Lyon contributed to the development of both Hartford Female Seminary and Ipswich Female Seminary She was also involved in the creation of Wheaton Female Seminary now Wheaton College in 1834 16 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was chartered as a teaching seminary in 1836 20 and opened its doors to students on 8 November 1837 Both Vassar College and Wellesley College were patterned after Mount Holyoke 21 According to historian Amanda Porterfield Lyon created Mount Holyoke to be a religious institution that offered a model of Christian society for all to see 22 Students were required to attend church services chapel talks prayer meetings and Bible study groups Twice a day teachers and students spent time in private devotions Every dorm room had two large lighted closets to give roommates privacy during their devotions 23 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was the sister school to Andover Seminary By 1859 there were more than 60 missionary alumnae by 1887 the school s alumnae comprised one fifth of all female American missionaries for the ABCFM and by the end of the century 248 of its alumnae had entered the mission field 24 Collegiate charter edit Mount Holyoke Female Seminary received its collegiate charter in 1888 becoming Mount Holyoke Seminary and College The change in admission from Seminary to College included fundraising by the trustees an overhaul of the entrance requirements and course catalog Entrance exams were introduced at this time scheduled in June or September at the college In 1889 students traveling from the midwest could take these examinations in Freeport Illinois and within a few years this was expanded to other cities Many additions were made to the course catalog and starting in the 1889 academic year students could choose to pursue degrees of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science 25 Within 4 years the seminary enrollment dropped from 269 to 8 In 1893 the seminary course was discontinued and the new title Mount Holyoke College was authorized 25 Cottage style living edit A movement towards what was referred to as cottage style living started in 1889 by the New York Association 26 after the change to Mount Holyoke Seminary and College 15 000 was raised and plans were put in place for Mary Brigham Cottage with accommodations for the president and thirty students with priority given to those in the collegiate course At the time two South Hadley families agreed to host boarders President Elizabeth Mead deemed these options unsatisfactory and pushed the trustees to build yet another cottage Mrs Mead was ready to relieve the students of a large share of the drudgery of domestic work that had made up a good portion of their studies since Mary Lyon s conception of the seminary From 1895 to 1996 the trustees allotted funds for the employment of four women to wash the dinner dishes that had formerly constituted the task of eight or ten students 25 On February 28 1987 the United States Postal Service s Great Americans series issued a postage stamp featuring Mary Lyon in honor of Mount Holyoke s Sesquicentennial Mount Holyoke s 150th anniversary 27 28 Debate on becoming co educational edit In the early 1970s Mount Holyoke had a long debate under the presidency of David Truman over the issue of coeducation On 6 November 1971 the board of trustees voted to remain a women s college 29 Admission of transgender students edit At Convocation on September 2 2014 President Lynn Pasquerella announced a new policy allowing the admission of transgender individuals of both sexes to the college 30 as well as the admission of students whose gender identities are non binary 31 Of the Seven Sisters that had remained women s colleges Mount Holyoke was the first to implement such policy 32 Admissions editThe 2020 annual ranking by U S News amp World Report categorizes Mount Holyoke as more selective 33 For the Class of 2023 enrolling fall 2019 Mount Holyoke received 3 908 applications accepted 1 491 38 2 and enrolled 496 34 The middle 50 range of SAT scores for enrolled students was 1320 1450 for the composite 630 720 for evidence based reading and writing and 640 770 for math while the middle 50 range for the ACT composite score was 27 32 34 Rankings editAcademic rankingsLiberal artsU S News amp World Report 35 36Washington Monthly 36 47 U S News amp World Report s 2023 rankings ranked Mount Holyoke the 36th best liberal arts college in the nation and tied for 30th for Best Undergraduate Teaching 37 In 2023 according to a ranking by the Princeton Review which assessed students perceptions of their faculty Mount Holyoke s faculty was ranked 9 in the nation 38 The ranking was based on students level of agreement or disagreement with the statement Professors are interesting and bring their material to life 39 As of 2023 Mount Holyoke was ranked 6 in the Princeton Review s ranking of the Top 20 Best Schools for Making an Impact 40 Mount Holyoke College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education 41 Academics edit nbsp The Pioneer Valley and Connecticut River Undergraduate programs edit Mount Holyoke offers 50 departmental and interdepartmental majors including the option to design a special major The most popular undergraduate majors based on 2021 graduates were 42 Experimental Psychology 45 Biology Biological Sciences 44 Econometrics amp Quantitative Econometrics 34 English Language amp Literature 33 Computer Science 26 Neuroscience 21 International Relations amp Affairs 20 dd The primary degree conferred is the Bachelor of Arts BA degree for which students complete 128 semester credits one standard course equals 4 credits At least 68 credits must be earned from coursework outside the major department across the three curricular divisions humanities science and mathematics and social sciences Study of a foreign language and completion of a multicultural perspectives course is also required 43 Mount Holyoke s membership in the Five College Consortium allows students to enroll in courses at nearby Amherst College Smith College Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst They may also complete one of 12 Five College Certificates among them African studies Buddhist studies coastal and marine sciences cognitive neuroscience international relations and Middle Eastern studies in lieu of a minor 44 Graduate programs edit nbsp nbsp The calibration target for the NASA s Mars Curiosity rover ChemCam developed by Mount Holyoke College professor of astronomy Melinda Darby Dyar the instrument is made of heterogenous ceramics similar to those expected on Mars 45 Dyar and her team have received multiple grants for analyzing Martian geology with this instrumentation 46 In addition to the BA Mount Holyoke offers three master s degrees a coed Master of Arts in Teaching 47 a Master of Arts in mathematics teaching 48 and a master s in psychology 49 Other programs include dual degree programs in engineering with the California Institute of Technology the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst 50 the Frances Perkins Program 51 for women over the age of 24 who wish to complete the requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree and the Postbaccalaureate Studies Program 52 for students who have already earned an undergraduate degree and wish to complete additional course work in preparation for graduate work in medicine nursing veterinary medicine dentistry or physical therapy science Academic centers and programs editThree academic centers the Weissman Center for Leadership 53 the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives 54 the Miller Worley Center for the Environment 55 support the academic program through public lectures by visiting scholars conferences on issues of pressing concern mentoring and internship opportunities and hands on learning experiences The Weissman Center s Speaking Arguing and Writing SAW Program 56 provides opportunities for developing leadership and communication skills including the ability to effectively frame articulate and advocate positions The Community Based Learning Program 57 links students with community based organizations in courses that combine analysis and action Study abroad edit Mount Holyoke has study abroad programs and exchanges for full year or semester study in France Senegal Costa Rica Chile Hong Kong Japan South Korea Germany Spain and the United Kingdom as well as a summer program in China and January term programs in Georgia and South Africa The college is also affiliated with more than 150 study abroad programs in more than 50 colleges and students have the opportunity to petition any programs with which the college is not already affiliated The college also encourages international internships and research for the semester year summer or January terms Each year more than 200 Mount Holyoke students representing approximately 40 percent of the junior class study for a semester or academic year at universities and programs abroad 58 Twelve College Exchange edit Through the school s membership in the Twelve College Exchange program Mount Holyoke students can study at one of the following 12 other schools for one semester or a full year 59 Amherst College Bowdoin College Connecticut College Dartmouth College National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O Neill Theater Center Smith College Trinity College Vassar College Wellesley College Wesleyan University Wheaton College Williams Mystic Seaport Program in Maritime StudiesFaculty editA number of faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for their research and writing achievements including Christopher Benfey literary scholar Joseph Ellis historian Susan Barry neurobiologist Mark McMenamin geologist and paleontologist and Becky Wai Ling Packard psychologist Mark McMenamin s Hypertopia Option has been called one of only two methods by which planetary temperature can be stabilized 60 Attempted murder of faculty member edit Mount Holyoke administrator and art professor Rie Hachiyanagi made international headlines when she was charged with the attempted murder of a regular member of the faculty on 23 December 2019 61 Hachiyanagi used a fire poker large rock and a gardening shears to attempt to beat and kill her victim 62 63 Hachiyanagi s alleged victim survived the attack 64 Hachiyanagi pled guilty to the charges and on October 20 2021 was sentenced to a term of 10 to 12 years in prison 65 Campus edit nbsp The main campus gate on College St nbsp Home of Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge Sycamores a former dormitory for the college nbsp Mary Lyon Hall 2016 nbsp John Payson Williston Observatory Mount Holyoke College ca 1945 1955 nbsp Seminary Building Mount Holyoke Female Seminary viewed from the southwest South Hadley Massachusetts 1886 The 800 acre 3 2 km2 campus was designed and landscaped between 1896 and 1922 by the landscape architecture firm of Olmsted and Sons The campus includes a botanic garden two lakes several waterfalls tennis courts stables and woodland riding trails It is also home to the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum which is part of the Five College Museums Historic Deerfield and the Museums10 An independent bookstore The Odyssey Bookshop is located directly across from the campus in the college owned Village Commons 66 Mount Holyoke has instituted The Big Turn Off energy conservation campaign 67 It also focuses on green building with five LEED certified buildings on campus 68 It has reduced its environmental impact by recycling 40 of waste and composting as well as using produce grown in the student run organic garden in dining halls 69 The Seminary Building 1837 contained classrooms parlors and rooms for students and faculty the original library and a periodical reading room A south wing was added in 1841 a north wing in 1853 and a gymnasium and laundry in 1865 All were destroyed by fire in 1896 70 Upon the burning of the college building in September 1896 Treasurer Williston announced the pressing need for a new chapel building a new gymnasium and a series of cottage dormitories in the modern style 25 This style of separated buildings allowed for flexibility in fundraising that was attractive to the trustees while still providing the students with the resources and accommodations they needed In 1897 Mary Lyon Hall and Mary Lyon Chapel were built as well as dormitories Brigham Safford Porter and Pearsons Blanchard Gymnasium was completed in 1899 71 John Payson Williston Observatory completed in 1881 was given in memory of the Willistons eldest son and built to be ready for the rare transit of Venus in 1882 It is the oldest academic building on campus 72 Mount Holyoke has been recognized for its campus beauty by Huffington Post 73 The Princeton Review 74 and Architectural Digest 75 Its oldest building dated back to the school s opening in 1837 but it burned down in 1896 and was replaced by buildings that opened the following year Additional buildings were constructed remodeled torn down and expanded at various points from the 1870s to the 2010s most recently with a new residence hall in 2008 and the construction of a centralized dining hall in 2018 76 The school owns an 18 hole golf course The Orchards which was designed by Donald Ross and which hosted the U S Women s Open in 2004 77 Library edit nbsp Williston Library Mount Holyoke College South Hadley MA Mount Holyoke s library includes more than 740 000 print volumes 1 600 periodicals and more than 140 000 electronic resources Its first librarian was an alumna Mary Nutting Through the Five College Consortium students have access to more than 9 million volumes 78 Computer support is provided 79 The MEWS Mediated Educational Work Space supports collaborative multimedia learning with group project rooms wall mounted plasma displays a digitization center and a faculty development area 80 In 2013 Clear and Gold Tower a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly was installed in the Williston Library s atrium 81 Dormitories editThe college has 21 residence halls as well as apartments and annex spaces in which to house students and an overwhelming majority of students live on campus 98 Each residence hall reserves a quarter of its rooms for housing first year students 82 with the exception of Pearsons Annex which is reserved for living learning communities 83 and Dickinson House which is reserved for Frances Perkins Scholars 84 Most residence halls house students from all four class years at any given time In January 2018 Mount Holyoke opened a new centralized dining commons within the previously existing Blanchard Community Center Previously six dormitories on campus had dining areas inside of them but the plan to consolidate these into one dining hall was made so that the college could shift to accept an unlimited meal plan and offer extended hours 85 Memberships editMount Holyoke is a member of the Pioneer Valley s Five College Consortium 86 the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges 87 the Annapolis Group 88 the Oberlin Group 89 and the Consortium on Financing Higher Education 90 Students editIn 2019 Mount Holyoke s 2 190 undergraduates included 1 021 White students 587 international students 183 Asian American students 162 Latina students 102 African American students 2 Native American students and 96 multiracial students 91 Student groups edit Mount Holyoke offers a number of student groups and organizations Themes include Art Academics Club Sports Entertainment amp the Performing Arts Politics amp Activism Governing Organizations and Religious organizations 92 Among these student groups is the Mount Holyoke News the college s independent student run organization which has been in print since 1917 93 Mount Holyoke News or MHN publishes on a weekly basis throughout the academic year with new issues going out in print form each Friday A digital edition of each issue is also made available online each week through Issuu 94 WMHC 91 5 FM is a radio station licensed to serve South Hadley Massachusetts The station is owned by Mount Holyoke College and is one of the oldest stations run by women 95 Traditions editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Mount Holyoke College news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2018 Learn how and when to remove this message nbsp It is a tradition to give incoming Freshmen a plant from the Talcott Greenhouse 96 Mount Holyoke class colors edit Mount Holyoke classes have been voting on class colors and mascots since the late 1800s but the colors currently in use were not adopted until 1901 97 The class of 1901 chose hunter green and the classes of 1902 03 04 voted for crimson golden yellow and royal blue respectively In 1909 the students voted for lion griffin sphinx and pegasus as their class symbols 97 They also decided that even year classes would use pegasus and lion and their colors would be red and blue and odd years would use griffin and sphinx with green and yellow as their colors 97 This system has persisted to this day Each class proudly displays their class color at class related activities such as Convocation 97 Events edit The Kathryn Irene Glascock Awards grants The Glascock Prize to the winner of this annual event which has been held at Mount Holyoke since 1924 98 The Faculty Show takes place once every four years around 1 April faculty members create a show which parodies themselves and their students 99 The Junior Show also known as J Show refers to a show created by Juniors and a few professors who parody life at Mount Holyoke A common feature is a sketch mocking the president and dean of the college along with well known professors 100 Mountain Day begins with the sound of ringing bells from Abbey Chapel on a beautiful autumn morning secretly chosen by the president of the college all classes are canceled for the day and many students hike to the summit of nearby Mount Holyoke 101 102 Holiday Vespers is an annual Christmas concert that has been held each year since 1899 103 In addition to the free performance held on campus in Abbey Chapel each year the students perform in either Boston or New York City M amp Cs originally called Milk amp Crackers is now referred to as Milk amp Cookies 104 M amp Cs are a nightly snack provided by dormitory dining halls but also refer to a student a cappella group The M amp Cs Milk and Cookies 105 Big Little Sibling is a reference to the pairing of juniors and firsties or first years who are paired up to take part in organized events together Coordinated by the junior class board 106 Pangy Day originally called Pangynaskeia has been a springtime tradition at Mount Holyoke for decades but its origin is not totally clear 107 It s about celebrating spring after a long winter and festivities including music games face painting ice cream and more take place 108 Elfing is a tradition shared between sophomores and first years Secret sophomore elves leave presents and treats for their first years throughout the week long event On the final day the first years get to meet their elves in person at a special M amp Cs Founder s Day is held on the Sunday closest to 8 November the date of the opening of Mount Holyoke in 1837 It was begun by Elizabeth Storrs Mead in 1891 The current version of the tradition includes ice cream being served early in the morning near Mary Lyon s grave The current president of the college and select faculty are invited to scoop ice cream for the senior class who dons their gowns 109 110 Convocation is a spirited celebration of community marking the beginning of the academic year All students attend wearing their class colors and seniors wear their graduation gowns to celebrate the start of their final year 111 Canoe Sing is an event that takes place prior to commencement in which canoes are decorated with lanterns and paddled by seniors singing Mount Holyoke songs They are joined by fellow graduating seniors on shore Baccalaureate is held in Abbey Chapel the medieval German ode to Academe Gaudeamus Igitur is sung by berobed Seniors and Faculty during the procession Following convocation Faculty line the path to Mary Lyon s grave Seniors walk through this throng to the grave to place a wreath The Baccalaureate Ceremony is a celebration that honors members of the graduating class This traditional ceremony is for seniors only and holds a deep meaning students are given a final charge and hear from their selected faculty and classmates Academic regalia and a cap is worn The Laurel Parade takes place the day before commencement Graduating seniors wear white and carry laurel garlands in a parade to Mary Lyon s grave They are escorted by approximately 3 000 alumnae also in white who thereby welcome them into the Alumnae Association Once at Mary Lyon s grave the garland is wound around the cast iron fence and the Mimi Farina song Bread and Roses is sung by all in attendance White is a tribute to those who fought for women s suffrage 112 In 1970 students voted to replace the laurel with signs protesting the Vietnam War 113 Athletics editMount Holyoke offers 13 varsity sports programs and six competitive club sports teams The college is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division III and the New England Women s and Men s Athletic Conference NEWMAC as well as the New England Rowing Conference NERC 114 Facilities include a lighted synthetic multipurpose turf field surrounded by an eight lane track with a nine lane straightaway Kendall Sports and Dance Complex housing a swimming pool and separate diving well gymnasium with basketball volleyball and badminton courts weight room cardiovascular area one acre 4 000 m2 field house with indoor track and tennis courts squash courts racquetball courts and three studios for dance aerobics yoga and other activities The Orchards an 18 hole golf course home to the 2004 U S Women s Open designed by Donald Ross and a 60 stall equestrian center with two indoor arenas 100 256 and 70 130 an outdoor show ring permanent fibar dressage arena outdoor cross country courses and a boathouse finished for Spring 2010 115 Notable people editMain article List of Mount Holyoke College people This section contains an unencyclopedic or excessive gallery of images Please help improve the section by removing excessive or indiscriminate images or by moving relevant images beside adjacent text in accordance with the Manual of Style on use of images April 2023 Learn how and when to remove this message nbsp Frances Perkins U S Secretary of Labor under Franklin D Roosevelt first woman to hold a U S Cabinet position nbsp Emily Dickinson poet considered to be one of the most important figures in American literature nbsp Suzan Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter nbsp Chloe Zhao Academy Award winning director filmmaker nbsp Nita Lowey U S Congresswoman for New York s 17th congressional district first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee nbsp Jane Garvey first female administrator of the U S Federal Aviation Administration nbsp Michele Pearce Principal Deputy General Counsel of the U S Army nbsp Helen Pitts Douglass abolitionist and suffragist wife of Frederick Douglass nbsp Caroline Ransom Williams the first female Egyptologist in North America nbsp Lucy Stone prominent abolitionist and suffragist founder of the Women s Journal the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree nbsp Clara Harrison Stranahan founder of Barnard College nbsp Kavita Ramdas former president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women nbsp Sheila Lirio Marcelo founder chairwoman and CEO of Care com nbsp Constance McLaughlin Green Pulitzer Prize winning historian nbsp Sho Madjozi South African rap artist nbsp Mary Mazzio documentary filmmaker and former Olympic athlete nbsp Dorothy Hansine Andersen first person to identify cystic fibrosis and the first American physician to describe the disease nbsp Virginia Apgar anesthesiologist and inventor of the Apgar ScoreIn popular culture editLiterature edit Wendy Wasserstein s 1977 play Uncommon Women and Others is based upon Wasserstein s experiences at Mount Holyoke of the early 1970s The play explores the lives of the fictional characters Carter Holly Kate Leilah Rita Muffet Samantha and Susie as they gather for lunch five years after graduation and reminisce about their collegiate days The play was adapted into a television movie starring a then unknown Meryl Streep 116 In Tayari Jones s 2011 novel Silver Sparrow the two protagonists Dana and Chaurisse apply to Mount Holyoke College Film edit Several feature films reference Mount Holyoke Prominent among them are Dirty Dancing 1987 which is set at a summer resort in the Catskills in the summer of 1963 The protagonist Frances Baby Houseman named after Mount Holyoke graduate Frances Perkins plans to attend Mount Holyoke in the fall to study the economics of underdeveloped countries and then later to enter the Peace Corps The film is screened annually for first year students 117 National Lampoon s Animal House 1978 which is set in 1962 It satirizes a common practice up until the mid 1970s when women attending Seven Sister colleges were connected with or to students at Ivy League schools In the film fraternity brothers from Delta house of the fictional Faber College based on Dartmouth College 118 take a road trip to the fictional Emily Dickinson College Mount Holyoke College 119 120 Television edit An urban legend says that the characters of the hit 1960s cartoon Scooby Doo Where Are You are said to be modeled after the Five College Consortium Scooby Doo is meant to be University of Massachusetts Amherst Shaggy is Hampshire Fred is Amherst Daphne is Mount Holyoke and Velma is Smith These characterizations are made under the assumptions of stereotypes of the students from the Five Colleges 121 Humor edit A 1968 article in the Columbia University student newspaper Columbia Daily Spectator repeated a line from the 1964 movie Sex and the College Girl Smith to bed Mount Holyoke to wed This referred to the reputation of students from the two Seven Sisters Colleges 122 In the 1980s Mount Holyoke students launched a campaign against a dating book and article written by two Princeton graduates that tell men how to pick up female students at women s colleges Under the Pickup Strategy category the article states Low Key Recall the Smith saying Holyoke to bed Smith to wed 123 The Mount Holyoke song We re Saving Ourselves For Yale alludes to the Ivy League Seven Sisters relationship which amusingly relates tales of women who hold onto their virginity long enough to catch a Yale graduate to marry The song features prominently in Wendy Wasserstein s Uncommon Women and Others 124 125 126 References edit MARY LYON S VISION AND THE SHAPING OF OUR PRIORITIES Mount Holyoke College Archived from the original on June 3 2022 Retrieved June 3 2022 NAICU Membership Archived from the original on November 9 2015 NABUCO table updated March 2022 U S and Canadian 2021 NTSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2021 Endowment Market Value Change in Market Value from FY20 to FY21 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Encounter the Need for Life Planning 1837 1850 History of Education Quarterly 19 1 1979 27 46 Butchart Ronald E Mission Matters Mount Holyoke Oberlin and the Schooling of Southern Blacks 1861 1917 History of Education Quarterly 42 1 2002 1 17 Harwarth Irene B A Closer Look at Women s Colleges National Institute on Postsecondary Education Libraries and Lifelong Learning Office of Educational Research and Improvement U S Department of Education 1999 Harwarth Irene B Mindi Maline and Elizabeth DeBra Women s Colleges in the United States History Issues and Challenges Executive Summary U S Department of Education National Institute on Postsecondary Education Libraries and Lifelong Learning Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz Alma Mater Design and Experience in the Women s Colleges from Their Nineteenth Century Beginnings to the 1930s Amherst University of Massachusetts Press 1993 2nd edition Turpin Andrea L 2010 The Ideological Origins of the Women s College Religion Class and Curriculum in the Educational Visions of Catharine Beecher and Mary Lyon History of Education Quarterly 50 2 133 58 doi 10 1111 j 1748 5959 2010 00257 x S2CID 143159340 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mount Holyoke College Official website Mount Holyoke College Encyclopedia Americana 1920 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mount Holyoke College amp oldid 1219403357 Athletics, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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