9 E N D OWE D G I F T O P P O RT U N I T I E S


Endowed Internship: $100,000 Without funding, students often must turn down summer internships in order to earn money to help defray expenses associated with their MHC experience. A paid internship, however, eases that stress and allows students to pursue a path connecting their liberal arts education to the world of work.


Visiting Practitioners Fund: $250,000 Since the heart of the Curriculum to Career program is linking the theoretical to the practical, “professors of practice” each year will be invited to teach or coteach a semesterlong course and to collaborate with students and faculty in providing hands-on experience in their fields, including internship opportunities. Pairing faculty with practitioners will allow the College to model but also to interrogate the relationships between critical inquiry and practical action in the world. Examples of potential visiting practitioners range from symphony conductors and film producers to policy analysts and journalists to robotics engineers. Alumnae will be encouraged to participate.


A $250,000 endowment gift allows the College to think past financial constraints when imagining which visiting practitioners to invite to engage with our students and faculty.


Curriculum Development: $500,000 The kinds of courses our faculty are planning, with their intentional focus on liberal arts approaches to the professions, will address student interests in connecting their under- graduate educations to their long-term career goals while preserving, even strengthening, the College’s commitment to the core values and skills of the liberal arts: critical thinking and ethical reasoning, understanding of human cultures and the natural world, the capacity to speak and write persuasively and to work collaboratively, and the ability to apply knowledge to concrete problems.


A $500,000 endowment gift provides the funding necessary for our faculty to explore and refine the curriculum in support of the relationship between liberal learning and Curriculum to Career.


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