Protesters: Keep Gorse open long-term
About 150 people rallied on the Mount Holyoke College campus Monday evening to urge college officials to keep Gorse Children’s Center open long-term. Lily Reavis
About 150 people rallied on the Mount Holyoke College campus Monday evening to urge college officials to keep Gorse Children’s Center open long-term. Lily Reavis
About 150 people rallied on the Mount Holyoke College campus Monday evening to urge college officials to keep Gorse Children’s Center open long-term. Parents and children gather in front of the center prior to marching across campus. Lily Reavis
Published: 3/9/2021 3:54:01 PM
Supporters of a child care center on Mount Holyoke College’s campus want long-term assurances from college officials that the preschool will stay open beyond a recent one-year contract extension that ends in June 2022.
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Mount Holyoke reverses closure decision, extends contract on child care center
Students walk to and from the Mount Holyoke College Blanchard Campus Center Nov. 16. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 3/3/2021 8:09:46 PM
SOUTH HADLEY Following protests from families, Mount Holyoke College has announced that the on-campus Gorse Children’s Center, which was previously slated to close at the end of June, will remain open for another year.
In a message to the Mount Holyoke and extended communities, college President Sonya Stephens said she was “deeply sorry” for the stress caused by the college’s initial announcement that Gorse would close in the summer.
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Budget cuts, layoffs, burnout: a year into the pandemic’s hold on U.S. academe, faculty members aren’t getting too many wins. So Mount Holyoke College quickly scrapping a plan to shutter its on-campus childcare center stands out.
“First, let me say how deeply sorry I am,” Mount Holyoke president Sonya Stephens wrote in a campus memo this week, promising that the Gorse Children’s Center would not in fact close on June 30, as previously announced. Instead, Stephens said that the college had secured a one-year contract extension with the center’s corporate management partner, Bright Horizons, to ensure continued operations.