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Surprise, Trailblazers! Your Tuesday lunch just got a little more musical. 🎻 🎻

Tanglewood is coming to MCLA!

Join us today at noon in the Campus Center for a special 20-minute pop-up concert featuring three Tanglewood Music Center Fellows and TMC Director Ed Gazouleas on viola.

Grab your lunch, bring a friend, and enjoy a little unexpected music in the middle of your day.

📍 Campus Center
🗓️ Tuesday, October 27 | Noon

A big thank-you to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood for bringing this special experience to MCLA!

Every child deserves the opportunity to become a confident reader. Join MCLA for an evening discussing early literacy in our community on Wednesday, October 21, at 5 p.m. in the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation.

As Dr. Maggie Clark, Associate Professor in MCLA’s Department of Education, shares, preparing future educators goes hand in hand with engaging the classrooms, families, and communities we serve. This event will bring our community together for meaningful conversation about early literacy and how we can work together to support all young readers.

Be part of the conversation and help to explore ways to strengthen early literacy, support families, and expand reading and writing opportunities for all children!

Register: apply.mcla.edu/register/?id=bd4627d2-a4af-4e91-8b2f-e2c2804d01ef

Learning beyond the classroom! 💙

While fall is here, MCLA nursing students Jazzmyn Valego ’28 and Gabrielle Gingras ’28 spent their summer gaining hands-on experience at a Remote Area Medical clinic in Vermont, putting their education into action and making a difference in their community.

Read more:
https://www.mcla.edu/mcla-in-the-community/mcla-news/2026-september/what-do-nursing-students-do-on-summer-break-some-work/

Interim Commissioner José Luis Santos joined the MCLA community to celebrate the inauguration of President Diana L. Rogers-Adkinson. 🎓

In his remarks, Interim Commissioner Santos reflected on the shared experiences he and President Rogers-Adkinson have as first-generation college graduates and the power of public higher education to open doors for students at every stage of life.

He also spoke on the value of liberal arts and reaffirmed the Department of Higher Education's commitment to advance college affordability, access, student success and economic mobility across Massachusetts.

Congratulations, President Rogers-Adkinson and the entire MCLA community!

Still thinking about Saturday. ✨

A day filled with celebration, tradition, community, and the beginning of a new chapter for MCLA.

Congratulations to Diana L. Rogers-Adkinson, Ph.D., MCLA’s 13th president!

Here’s to a bright future. 💙

What a weekend! 🍂💙💛

From celebrations on campus to community traditions, it was a weekend packed with Trailblazer spirit.

MCLA brought that spirit to the North Adams Fall Foliage Parade! 🎉🍁