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3 Questions with Gail Holt

3 Questions for Dean of Financial Aid Gail Holt

March 29, 2023 Gail Holt discusses the most “significant change in financial aid administration since 1992.”
Three question for Emily Griffen and the Loeb Center.

3 Questions for the Loeb Career Center’s Emily Griffen

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“We’ll Do Everything in the Bounds of the Law That We Can”

Angie Tissi-Gassway

Angie Tissi-Gassoway is Named Amherst College’s Chief Student Affairs Officer and Dean of Students

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David Blistein ’74 Brings His Own Experience to a Docuseries Exploring Youth Mental Illness

The Commons – Blistein talks with reporter Annie Landenberger about his work as a writer and co-producer of the interview-based PBS series Hiding in Plain Sight. He is also the author of the 2013 memoir David’s Inferno: My Journey through the Dark Wood of Depression.

Writer-in-Residence Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

Literary Hub – In a Q&A with Julia Kovalenko, Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires, talks about her next novel, American Hagwon. She also discusses her role as a writing teacher, the importance of advocacy and encouragement to writers, and the global privileges that come with being fluent in English.

Retired Amherst Coach Chris Paradis Named to Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Hall of Fame

USA Lacrosse Magazine – “With a career coaching record of 321–123 (.723), Chris Paradis molded Amherst College Women’s Lacrosse into one of the most successful teams in the nation,” says an article announcing that Paradis is one of three coaches chosen to be inducted into the IWLCA Hall of Fame later this year. 

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Inside the Winter 2023 issue: Carmella de los Angeles Guiol ’09 takes a year-long break from social media; Ron Lieber ’93’s interview with Colin Diver ’65 tackles the problematic college ranking system, the Drake is finally saved, and much more.

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