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69��Ʒ��Ƶ College’s Master of Arts in Teaching program has received a $125,000 state grant to develop a new program to support teachers on emergency licenses in the Holyoke Public Schools district as they pursue initial licensure and their master’s degrees.

Wil Abam-DePass shares her experience at 69��Ʒ��Ƶ and all the ways she has found community here.

Hear how Sophia has taken advantage of research opportunities, cultural houses and studying psychology with an emphasis on contextualizing racism and empathy.

Get a glimpse of Iyana’s MoHome experience, and listen as she shares why the volleyball court is her second home on campus.

Here, Sophia found steadfast support as a woman within a STEM field as well as the freedom to embrace her multiple passions.

Hear how this economics major settled in and talks about what’s impressed her most in her four years at 69��Ʒ��Ƶ.

With her Lynk-funded research and a special major in bioethics and psychology, Michaela Flanders ’22 probes the intersection of society and mental health.

Deepika Kumawat ’24 has been finding opportunities to lead and build community, in and out of the classroom. A physics major with a Nexus in education policy and practice, Deepika is a teaching assistant for statistics and a Peer-Led Undergraduate Mentoring System (PLUMS) mentor for physics. She also serves on the 2024 class board, the Association of Women in Mathematics and 69��Ʒ��Ƶ Mock Trial, and will be the president of the First Generation and Low Income Partnership during the 2022–2023 academic year. Deepika’s best takeaway from her research experience is “whenever you go into a new field, you won’t know everything about it, and being open about what you know and don’t know is the best way to approach things.”

After studying abroad in South Korea, Savvy Harcum plans a career helping lower-income families. 69��Ʒ��Ƶ’s supportive community provided inspiration.

What began as a small gathering in 2017 a has developed into the Lavender Ceremony.