The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts has grown to include a multitude of academic, administrative, and support staff buildings across its humble campus over the years. In the beginning, these…

In the early 1970s, as North Adams State College looked toward the future, its ambitions began to outgrow its campus. What had once been a small, regionally rooted institution was now attracting…

The Governor of Massachusetts, beginning in the early 1930s, threatened to close the State Teachers College of North Adams in hopes of saving the state one and a half million dollars. Word spread…

The Freel Library was built in 1970, reflecting a focus on educational development at the college as MCLA’s enrollment increased.

MCLA’s legacy is defined by the influence of the Progressive Education movement, thanks to the work of the first president of the North Adams Normal School, Frank Murdock. Murdock integrated the ideas…

More changes have taken place in the Bowman building at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) than most people would expect. Its history reflects the growth of the college itself, dating…

President Catherine A. Tisinger was president of North Adams State College from 1984 to 1991. She was the first female president of North Adams State College (now MCLA) and the first female president…

Did you know that MCLA hockey was once competing at the Division II level? In 1975, the then North Adams State Mohawks made the leap from Division III to Division II with mixed results.

Beginning in the 1960s, the North Adams State College Pub was a center of student social activity for the next three decades. As times changed, however, the Pub was phased out in the early 1990s as…