A type of on-campus employment you may be eligible for depending on financial need
What is work study?
This tradition is held at the beginning of the fall semester in the Amphitheater
What is Convocation?
A person dedicated to helping you select courses, plan your academic journey, explore career fields, and talk about your goals and ideas for your future
What is an academic advisor?
Student peer living on your floor who you can go to for support with transitioning to dorm life, issues with roommates, community building, and more
What is a Resident Advisor?
The place to learn more about tuition and billing and receive financial-related information and support
What is Student Financial Services?
An application you may be encouraged or required to complete in order to be considered for financial aid
What is FAFSA?
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
A fall semester tradition when the ringing of the Abbey Chapel announces that classes are cancelled
What is Mountain Day?
A time for you to get additional course support, chat, and connect with professors outside of the classroom
What are office hours?
Identity and interest based residential floors to help you build community and make friends
What are Living Learning Communities (LLCs)?
Office that can support students navigating challenges such as stress, anxiety, depression, building healthy relationships, etc.
What is Counseling Services?
The cost of living in an on-campus residence hall with a campus dining plan
What is room and board?
Special, themed dinners in the Blanchard Dining Commons that happen a couple times throughout the year
What are Gracious Dinners?
The days after the last day of classes where students prepare for finals
What are reading days?
Free bus system to take you between the 5 Colleges and the rest of the region
What is the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA)?
A place to explore careers, seek out job/internship advice, build your resume, and chart your goals for the future
What is the Career Development Center?
A guaranteed $4000 stipend to fund a summer internship or research opportunity
What is Lynk funding?
An annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion learning symposium featuring a series of sessions and events
What is Community Day (BOOM)?
A peer-led resource where trained mentors can support other students through strengthening their writing and public speaking skills
What is tutoring and/or the SAW Center?
Programming and community spaces designed to allow you to connect with your identity, experience new perspectives, seek support, and learn
What are cultural centers?
MHC's wellness program to provide students with strategies, supports, and opportunities to create a path to their own wellness and health
What is BeWell?
Resource to help first generation and/or low income students by providing funds for essential living expenses, technology expenses, and emergency needs
What is the student safety net fund?
A celebration of the first known student of color to graduate from Mount Holyoke College and the first known black identified student to attend MHC
What is Hortense Parker Day?
The online resource to see requirements for majors/minors and access information on course descriptions and registration
What is the course catalog?
MHC's student engagement platform that supports students in finding, joining, and engaging in club, organizations, and other events on campus
What is Embark?
The place to go if you need accommodations in the classrooms or residence halls
What is the Office of Disability Services?