Hampshire College

Links to Other Archives Sites:

Division III Online Archive. Graduating students have the option of contributing full text copies of their Div III to this website.

Five College Archives and Manuscript Collections. A shared database of finding aids for archives and manuscript collections within the Five Colleges.

PDF Documents

The New College Plan. Produced by a committee of faculty from Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, this 1958 report is one of the original founding documents for Hampshire College.

The Making of a College. Written by Franklin Patterson and Charles R. Longsworth (Hampshire's first two presidents), this is the original educational blueprint for the college. First published in 1966, this is the text of the 1975 edition.

The 1998 Constitution of Hampshire College. The outline of the current governance system for the college.