Diversity

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Mount Holyoke fails its principle of intellectual diversity

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Mount Holyoke fails its principle of intellectual diversity

If Mount Holyoke is a flavourful dish, then we the people on this campus would be its rich ingredients. Our diversity is what makes Mount Holyoke unique. Unfortunately, I have found that this richness is not welcome in all spaces, specifically our intellectual spaces.

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Mount Holyoke’s English department needs to better incorporate content reflecting multicultural perspectives

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Mount Holyoke’s English department needs to better incorporate content reflecting multicultural perspectives

Hansell’s email on low enrollment in certain courses, accompanied by the ensuing course cancellation, reflects a concerning case of diverse course offerings within the Mount Holyoke College Department of English being sidelined. This Spring 2023 semester registration trend reflects a need for the English department to do better by its diverse course offerings and better institute structures to incorporate the multicultural perspective within the department.

Letter to the Editor: Diversity in the History Department

Mary Renda writes to Mount Holyoke News on behalf of the History Department: as reported in these pages last week, a group of students recently initiated a campaign to call attention to the need for a more diverse faculty here at Mount Holyoke, including in the history department.

Letter to the Editor: Diversity In Our Community

Mount Holyoke has a diversity problem.  While we score above the national average in terms of racial and ethnic diversity in our student body, students of color do not see this diversity reflected in our classrooms, and rarely see ourselves represented in the faculty that teach our classes. This problem is particularly apparent in the history department, where there is not a single black professor in the faculty of nine.

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