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Green Living Seminar

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Achieving Energy Sustainability for the 21st Century: Choices and Challenges

This semester, MCLA is hosting a Green Living Seminar in Murdock Hall. You can find a full schedule online.
Last Thursday’s seminar featured Bruce Harley, Technical Director at Conservation Services Group, who spoke about “Home Energy Efficiency: a major carbon impact we CAN do […]

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Tags: Berkshires · Environmental Studies · Green Living Seminiar · MCLA · Podcast

Building a Workforce from Preschool Up

December 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

With the western Massachusetts economy struggling in 2005, area leaders formed the Berkshire Compact to develop solutions. As the cornerstone of a comprehensive plan, members are pursuing efforts to interest children at younger ages in higher education.
by Mary K. Grant, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

An article about the Berkshire Compact for Higher Education from […]

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Tags: Berkshires · President Grant

The Mind’s Eye - The Shaping Role of Place in African American Biography

November 8th, 2007 · No Comments

The latest edition of The Mind’s Eye is now online. This special issue of The Mind’s Eye includes selected papers from the national conference held in North Adams at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) in September 2006 to showcase the 18-month K–12 curriculum-development project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), […]

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Tags: Berkshires · MCLA