Colleges' safety chief moves to Princeton

SOUTH HADLEY - Paul L. Ominsky, director of public safety at Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges, will leave the Valley in January to head up the public safety department at Princeton University.

College eating 2009: With an eye to healthy bodies and a healthy planet, college dining changes

In the University of Massachusetts dining commons, what students don't know could help them.

Alumna tapped as MHC president

SOUTH HADLEY - When Lynn Pasquerella completed an alumnae survey identifying which qualities she'd like to see in the next president of Mount Holyoke College, she never dreamed she could be describing herself.

On Monday, college officials named Pasquerella, a medical ethicist and provost at the University of Hartford, as Mount Holyoke's 18th president.

She succeeds president Joanne V. Creighton, who has served as the college's president since 1996. She announced her retirement in the spring.

Mount Holyoke College selects next president

SOUTH HADLEY - Mount Holyoke College's 18th President will be Lynn Pasquerella, a medical ethicist and provost at the University of Hartford. Pasquerella was chosen after a seven-month search to find a successor for current President Joanne V. Creighton.

Mount Holyoke College selects 1980 alumna as next president

SOUTH HADLEY - Mount Holyoke College's 18th president will be Lynn Pasquerella, a medical ethicist and provost at the University of Hartford. Pasquerella was chosen after a seven-month search to find a successor for current President Joanne V. Creighton.

Ms. Jahangir's justice: Pakistani rights advocate uses Mount Holyoke College visit to reflect on her nation's troubles

SOUTH HADLEY - Asma Jahangir is treating her week as a scholar-in-residence at Mount Holyoke College as a chance to stop running, if only for a little while, and reflect. Jahangir, a prominent and controversial Pakistani lawyer, human rights activist and founding member and chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, has spent the last 30 years fighting for the rights of Pakistani women, children and religious minorities -- and dodging attempts on her own safety.

Area college funds begin long climb back from decline

After a year of decline, area college and university endowments are finally seeing some improvement.

Following last August's Wall Street meltdown, colleges nationwide were concerned endowments could lose as much as 30 percent of their value by the end of the fiscal year, forcing institutions to slash operating budgets.