{"id":473,"date":"2023-08-18T18:13:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/?page_id=473"},"modified":"2024-10-08T22:11:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T22:11:47","slug":"living-learning-communities-llc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/living-learning-communities-llc\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Learning Communities (LLC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2016, students designed and proposed two identity based floors, the first ones on campus: the Shirley Chisholm LLC and the Mosaic LLC. &nbsp;They were approved as a new community in January 2017 and students began living in these communites in fall 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Shirley Chisholm LLC is named after Shirley Chisholm, a former professor of politics and sociology at Mount Holyoke and the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. It is a community designed to support students who are of African descent, identify within the African diaspora and\/or wish to foster connections between different cultures within the diaspora. The community residents are committed to developing a safe, supportive, and celebratory environment that is sensitive to the complexities of being a student of African descent at a predominantly white institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mosaic LLC is \u201ca community that is designed to support students who self-identify as people of color and express a commitment to creating an inclusive and socially just community that allows residents to learn, listen and share the many identities they embody.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/islandora\/object\/mtholyoke%3A144742\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"813\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/890\/2023\/08\/HollyExhibit20230803_0014-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-493\" style=\"width:500px;height:undefinedpx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/890\/2023\/08\/HollyExhibit20230803_0014-2.jpg 732w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/890\/2023\/08\/HollyExhibit20230803_0014-2-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup><em>Mount Holyoke News<\/em>, February 16, 2017<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2016, students designed and proposed two identity based floors, the first ones on campus: the Shirley Chisholm LLC and the Mosaic LLC. &nbsp;They were approved as a new community in January 2017 and students began living in these communites in fall 2017. The Shirley Chisholm LLC is named after Shirley Chisholm, a former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/blackhistoryatmhc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}