Hampshire College

893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-5001 -  View Map

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• Hampshire is a member of the Five College consortium, which also includes Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts. Students have a choice of over 5,000 courses per year taught by more than 2,300 faculty members, access to 9 million library volumes, and the opportunity to join Five College community service, cultural, political and religious organizations or attend lectures, concerts and performances on the different campuses.
• As a liberal arts college, Hampshire helps students develop confidence in their intellect, creativity, and values. It encourages their desire to be lifelong learners and their capacity to advance the cause of social justice and the well-being of others. The college fosters these attitudes through: a multidisciplinary, multicultural curriculum; self-initiated, individual programs of study negotiated with faculty mentors; students' active participation in original research; and the diverse communities, on campus and off, in which learning takes place. Within the college's residential community students encounter and learn to respect difference and appreciate diversity, thereby enhancing their capacity to live together well.
• Hampshire College is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Membership in the Association indicates that the institution has been carefully evaluated and found to meet standards agreed upon by qualified educators.
• Profile last updated: 10/27/2008.

In the News:

• Jerome Liebling; his camera captured the human spirit (Boston Globe)
  posted on July 29, 2011 at 08:01:13 am
  Jerome Liebling, one of the nation's foremost documentary photographers and for many years an influential teacher of photography and film at Hampshire College, died Wednesday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. A longtime resident of Amherst, he was 87. The cause of death was bladder cancer.
• Activist urges graduates to make a difference (The Republican)
  posted on May 22, 2011 at 07:31:48 am
  AMHERST - At the Hampshire College commencement Saturday, amid talk about the end of the world there was a recurring message to make Earth a better place.
• Hampshire picks 6th president (The Republican)
  posted on May 12, 2011 at 07:27:22 am
  AMHERST - An expert on climate change, energy security and resource, environment and development policy will become Hampshire College's 6th president.
• Jonathan Lash named as Hampshire College president (Boston Globe)
  posted on May 12, 2011 at 07:16:57 am
  Hampshire College trustees have selected climate change expert Jonathan Lash as the next president of the private liberal arts school in Western Massachusetts.
• Jonathan Lash named as Hampshire College president (Boston Herald)
  posted on May 12, 2011 at 06:48:39 am
  AMHERST - Hampshire College trustees have selected climate change expert Jonathan Lash as the next president of...

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