About Hampshire College

Hampshire College is a private futuristic arts learned in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in swap education, in attachment with four further colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Together they are known as the Five College Consortium. The campus along with houses the National Yiddish Book Center and Eric Carle Museum, and hosts the annual Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics.

The school is known for its vary curriculum, self-directed academic concentrations, progressive politics, focus on portfolios rather than distribution requirements, and its reliance upon narrative evaluations instead of grades and GPAs. Sixty-five percent of its alumni have at least one graduate degree and a quarter have founded their own concern or organization. Alumni put in recipients of the Pulitzer Prize; the National Humanities Medal; Emmy, Academy, Peabody, Tony and Grammy Awards; and MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. The bookish is also in the middle of the top producers of Fulbright Students and of alumni who go on to earn a doctorate degree.

In January 2019, following the billboard that the scholarly would object a merger taking into consideration another institution, the bookish received backlash from students and gift and announced a re-envisioning project to ensure the instructor remain independent and sustainable. As a consequences of the controversy, President Miriam Nelson stepped down; Hampshire hired its tenth president, Edward Wingenbach, beginning an effort to amend the curriculum in order to deposit interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and access.

Amherst (/ˈæmərst/ (listen)) is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County (although the county seat is Northampton). The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five Colleges. The say of the town is pronounced without the h (“AM-erst”) by natives and long-time residents, giving rise to the local saying, “only the ‘h’ is silent”, in mention both to the pronunciation and to the town’s politically nimble populace.

Amherst has three census-designated places: Amherst Center, North Amherst, and South Amherst.

Amherst is allocation of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lying 22 miles (35 km) north of the city of Springfield, Amherst is considered the northernmost town in the Hartford-Springfield Metropolitan Region, “The Knowledge Corridor”. Amherst is also located in the Pioneer Valley, which encompasses Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin counties.