Mary Corinne is the Program Coordinator for Professional and Graduate Education. In this capacity, she supports all of the programs offered through the department. Prior to working at Mount Holyoke College, Corinne served as the Program Coordinator for Executive Education at NYU Stern.
Sarah Bent is the Assistant Director of Math Programs in the Professional and Graduate Education Division. In this capacity, she oversees the Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics program and supports the professional learning programs for K-8 math teachers locally and nationally.
Ruth Hornsby. Prior to working with Mount Holyoke College, Ruth worked as an elementary school teacher and before that, she worked in international corporate communications for over ten years. She brings to the division her experience of working, living and being educated on three different continents (Europe, Asia and North America), ...
Catherine Swift, Director of the Graduate Licensure Program , has been in the field of education for over 25 years with a focus on Teacher Education. Initially an elementary classroom teacher, Swift became a visiting lecturer and program supervisor at Smith College before moving to Mount Holyoke College in 2013.
Kelly Carriere is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership program. She holds a PhD in Special Education from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, an M.Ed. in Special Education from Springfield College, and a B.A. in Early Childhood from Fitchburg State University. Her 20 years of professional experience includes 10 years of teaching special education for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities in residential treatment facilities and public schools from PreK-6. She has vast experience as a Teaching Assistant, a Practicum Supervisor for Masters Students, and Adjunct Faculty member.
Annie Sussman is a curriculum developer and education researcher at TERC in Cambridge, MA . She is passionate about the intersection of learning, design and technology and brings a strong background in teaching and learning to her work. Annie holds an M.A.T. from Smith College and has taught students in grades 1-6 in both public and independent school settings.
David Bosso is the 2012 Connecticut Teacher of the Year and 2012 National Secondary Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Bosso was co-chair of Connecticut’s 2015 Empowered to Lead Symposium, and was elected President of the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies. He was a 2014 fellow at the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes and provided instruction in educational methodology for forty Rwandan educators in the Rwanda Teacher Education Program. Bosso’s dissertation, focusing on teacher morale, motivation, and professional identity, is a qualitative study of State Teachers of the Year.
Mark Shea is an applied linguist with a focus on second language acquisition and pedagogy. His research focuses on quantitative and qualitative approaches to describing language development in postsecondary contexts. At Mount Holyoke, his courses include First-Year Seminars and courses on public speaking, academic writing and various aspects of multilingualism.
Lauren Mattone has been an educator for over 30 years. Since graduating from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in English, she has worked in private early childhood education , as well as the public schools. In addition to currently teaching Math Science and Technology for the M.A.T. program, she continues to teach elementary education in the public schools.
Lisa Manzi is the instructor for Teaching with Technology in the Master of Arts in Teaching program. She has been a middle school instructional technology educator for over 18 years at the Michael E. Smith Middle School in South Hadley. She is a graduate of St. Michael’s College and has a Master of Education in Educational Technology degree from Lesley University. Her other interests are professional development for educators and curriculum development in Computer Science.
Ann Zito began her career in education as an elementary classroom teacher in Holyoke before transitioning to teaching math. Six years ago she began working with elementary teachers in the capacity of a Math Coach, spending the last four years in East Longmeadow Public Schools. She was selected to be a Math Ambassador by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, working on a long term project to create high quality tasks for teachers and to provide professional development inside and outside of her district.
In 1927 she was appointed dean of women at Lingnan University. Yau Tsit Law was awarded an honorary doctorate by Mount Holyoke College in 1937, at its centennial celebration.
Yau Tsit Law attended the True Light Seminary in Canton, where her mother was the principal. In 1912 she traveled to the United States for college, one of the first women sent by the Chinese government for an American college education. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1916, and pursued graduate studies at Columbia University.
Yau Tsit Law (1888-1961) was a Chinese Christian educator, and one of the first Chinese women to graduate from Mount Holyoke College .
Mount Holyoke professor tried to kill colleague in case of unrequited love, police say. Police say Rie Hachiyanagi used a fire poker, a rock and garden shears in the December attack. Tap to Unmute.
The severely beaten professor, who suffered multiple broken bones near her eyes and nose, didn't initially tell first responders who attacked her because she was "terrified that Ms. Hachiyanagi would harm her again or even burn down her residence," according to police.
Hachiyanagi was charged with armed assault to murder a person over 60, three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, one count of mayhem and one count of armed assault in a dwelling. No attorney had yet been listed as representing Hachiyanagi on Monday, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office said. David K. Li.
Hachiyanagi's specialty is handmade paper works. "The process of making paper by hand allows me to be humble," according to Hachiyanagi's faculty profile. "As plant fiber and its beauty must be generated from nature. Our hands have brought paper into being. In paper resides a communion of nature and humanity.".
By David K. Li. A college art professor, wielding a fire poker and garden shears, tried to kill a colleague in a case of unrequited love, Massachusetts police said.
Rie Hachiyanagi in an undated photo. Mount Holyoke College. Hachiyanagi beat "the victim with a rock, fire poker and garden shears, leaving the victim, who is expected to survive, with severe injuries," prosecutors said.
Mount Holyoke, with its 1,000-acre campus and reputation for academic excellence, had by then already produced notable graduates including Emily Dickinson, and would over the years count Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein and current secretary of transportation Elaine Chao as alumnae.
The idyllic women's college Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, has been home to Emily Dickinson, Wendy Wasserstein, and, more recently, a crime mystery for the ages.
E. said she kept playing along, telling Hachiyanagi she wouldn’t tell anyone, and persuaded her to call 911. Placating her attacker saved her life. When the police and paramedics arrived, E. was terrified that if she told the truth Hachiyanagi would burst into a violent rage or even try to burn down her house, so she kept her mouth shut until she arrived at the hospital.
Rie Hachiyanagi was a highly respected art professor whose own work explored “the absurd conflicts among urges, necessities, and mortality.”
Hachiyanagi emerged from the darkness. Hachiyanagi exclaimed that she missed E. and wanted to talk with her about her feelings. E. opened the sliding door and encouraged her colleague to come inside. Right away, within a foot of the doorway, E. said, she felt something hard hit the back of her head.
The charges against Hachiyanagi—including three counts of armed assault to murder a person, three counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, armed assault in a dwelling, and mayhem—hit the local news that afternoon, rocking the town of South Hadley and the Mount Holyoke community.
The administration’s lack of transparency felt similar to an earlier controversy that took place in 2018 , when a tenured professor was publicly accused of sexual assaults dating back to the 1980s by three alumnae and the college refused to release his name.