The first international student enrolled in 1839 (two years after the college’s founding), marking the beginning of growing international student diversity at the college, 今天有来自50多个国家的600多名学生.
1928年国内第一个学生出国留学(巴黎), experiencing the profound personal and professional impact of immersion in a 文化 different from one’s own.
Mount Holyoke President Mary Woolley (1901-1937) was the only female participant in the U.S. government delegation to the international disarmament conference in Geneva in 1932; a shining example of our commitment to make the world a better place.
Politics professor Ruth Lawson established the first Mount Holyoke international internship program in 1949, 让学生看到他们的学习, 的职业道路, 以新的和扩展的方式.
Over the decades Mount Holyoke developed a rich array of internationally-focused curricular and co-curricular offerings. 2003年, our faculty and trustees decided that the realities of an increasingly globalizing world demanded that we make comprehensive internationalization a strategic priority. The College established the 麦卡洛克全球倡议中心 to implement internationalization within the entire community of faculty, 学生, 工作人员, and alums and to extend MHC’s international involvement to a network of organizations around the globe that focus on social justice, 健康, 业务, 环境, 文化, 科学技术, 分享MHC的价值观和原则.
与我们的教职员工同事合作, 得到学院领导和校友的大力支持, 并与世界各地的基金会和组织合作, we have been weaving global education into the fabric of a Mount Holyoke education.