Upcoming Alumni Programs & Events

october 3-5, 2025

2025 homecoming weekend

Join us back in North Adams to reminisce with your fellow alums! Events include informal meetups and dinners, the Distinguished Alumni Awards Brunch, NASC/MCLA themed trivia, alumni baseball and softball games with a dessert tailgate, a guided campus tour, a tribute to Jonathan Monroy, a visit to a saw-whet owl banding station, and more. We can't wait to see you!

Click here for the full schedule.

Online registration for this event has closed. Please email alumni@mcla.edu or call 413-662-5224 if you would like to join us.


october 4, 2025
5:30 pm

mcla athletics hall of fame induction & dinner

Please join the MCLA Athletics Department as it inducts Allison Clark '17 (Women's Volleyball), Paul Cooney '83 (Men's Ice Hockey), Jonathan Greenberg '11 (Men's Basketball), and Sean McElroy '01 (Men's Baseball) into the MCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

Online registration for this event has closed. 


october 11, 2025
7 pm

elizabeth and lawrence vadnais environmental issues lecture

This year’s event will celebrate the legacy of The Center for Resourceful Living (CRL), started 50 years ago by MCLA Professor Emeritus Lawrence H. Vadnais. The evening will feature the debut screening of filmmaker Sharon Wyrrick’s documentary, “Did You Put Milk in the Bucket?: A Tribute to The Center for Resourceful Living.” The filmmaker will be in attendance at the screening, taking place in MCLA's Murdock Hall, Room 218.

This event is free and open to the public.


october 15, 2025
5:30-7:30 pm

Ma state universities reception in washington, D.C.

The Alumni Association and MCLA President James F. Birge, Ph.D. invite you to join the Presidents of the Massachusetts State Universities and your fellow MA state university graduates at a reception celebrating our campuses. The event will take place at the Russell Senate Office Building | Kennedy Caucus Room, SR-325, located at 2 Constitution Ave. NE, Washington, D.C.

Online registration for this event has closed.


november 13, 2025
7pm

hardman journalist in residence lecture

Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive officer of the Society to Protect Journalists, will speak in the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation atrium.

This event is free and open to the public.


december 2, 2025
6-8 pm

alumni & Friends holiday craft & sip

Join us for another fun, on-campus craft class led by alumna Lisa Mendel of Mendel's Stained Glass Studio. Your $30 registration fee includes a 2-hour lesson, all materials, snacks, and sips. Leave with four ornaments in alcohol ink, decoupage, and/or crayon melting to keep or give as a gift.

Please register at this link by November 25.


february 7, 2026
9:30 am

virtual alumni association board of directors meeting

This is a fully virtual meeting, held via Zoom. If you would like to attend the meeting, please email alumni@mcla.edu for more information.


april 11, 2026
9:30 am

alumni association board of directors meeting

This is a hybrid meeting, held both in person and via Zoom. If you would like to attend the meeting, please email alumni@mcla.edu for more information.


june 11, 2026
6 pm

virtual alumni association board of directors meeting

This is a fully virtual meeting, held via Zoom. If you would like to attend the meeting, please email alumni@mcla.edu for more information.


CONTACT US


 

Office of Alumni Relations
alumni@mcla.edu 
413-662-5224