CONNECTION SPOTLIGHT
The Spring 2026 issue of The Connection magazine is out, in print and online. Check out our cover story on Elizabeth Staples '03, '05, founder of The Good Dog Spot, who turned her passion for dogs into a thriving business, as well as features on The Green Thread alumni podcast, the 25th anniverary of theTaber Art Gallery and the usual mix of campus and alumni news.
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news&events Keep up with everything going on at HCC.
A New Dean Rises
Holyoke Community College has hired alum and long-time staff member Julissa Colón '13 as its first dean of student experience.
April '26 News Blog
Visual art faculty recognize outstanding student work ... Transfer Affairs Coordinator Mark Broadbent honored ... HCC student and two alumni named to "40 Under Forty" awards list ...
Student Art Expo
The annual Student Art Exhibition has been extended through May 6 with an artists career panel in the gallery that day at 11 a.m.
