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A Year of Events Celebrating 50 Years

During the pandemic, Hampshire commemorates its semicentennial with numerous online presentations

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Fall 2020 Update from the President

We have given ourselves the opportunity to make Hampshire work under unexpected conditions, and, with continuing vigilance and creativity, we will continue this success

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Taking a Deep Dive into Dolphin Communication

Exploring many interests leads Div III student to intensive study of marine mammals

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Statement Regarding the Department of Education’s Princeton Investigation

Hampshire President Ed Wingenbach has signed on to a statement co-authored by Amherst College and Wesleyan University Presidents

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First Community Education Day Centers on Anti-Black Racism

One of a series of programmatic events complements new academic curriculum

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Hampshire Farm Provides Free Vegetables to Students

Fall shares for mod residents provide fresh options for meals without leaving campus

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Asymptomatic Testing Program for Fall 2020

A biweekly protocol to monitor the community and keep campus safe

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Getting to Know the Fall 2020 Entering Students

They are athletes, musicians, farmers, filmmakers, scientists, philosophers, and, above all, debaters

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First Community Orientation Kicks Off Hampshire’s Fall Semester

Dr. Barbara Love delivers a message inspiring action, equality, and justice

Community Commons Summer Grants Announced

This year, the COVID-19 pandemic made on-site internships untenable, and students had to quickly figure out alternatives for summer work

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Hampshire College Appoints Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Zauyah Waite

Waite joins Hampshire from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, a private liberal arts institution of 2,200 students, where she was vice president for student affairs & dean of students.

Hamp Forward: Fall 2020

We are confident that, with regular virus testing combined with community adherence to health and safety protocols and behavioral expectations, our faculty and staff can deliver a genuinely Hampshire education, safely

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Classes to Begin August 25: Planning for Fall at Hampshire

Fall classes will now begin on August 25 and end on November 20, the Friday prior to Thanksgiving

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Appointment of Co-Deans of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies Roosbelinda Cardenas and Associate Professor of African American History Amy Jordan have accepted the position

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Cooperation in a Crisis

Hampshire College faculty and administration reach budget agreement in the time of COVID-19

Resisting Racism and White Supremacy

“This moment requires something of all of us.”

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Hampshire Celebrates 2020 Graduates at 50th-Anniversary Commencement, Held Online

Despite no on-campus ceremony this year, no lack of commemoration

Lillian Mabel

New Graduate’s Div III Uses Her Own Poetry to Address the Western Literary Canon

Capstone Project Weaves Together Language, History, Writing, and Critical Perspectives

Michael Pessah

A Director of Photography Reflects on How Hampshire Primed Him for Success

Alum cinematographer receives one of the highest honors in Hollywood

Rebecca Buckley Stein

Seeking Justice for the Disenfranchised

A Hampshire alum links her work as a civil rights lawyer to her studies in storytelling

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President’s Update on the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

“I am confident in Hampshire's future. I know that getting there will require both hard work and real costs.”

Alyssa Coffey

Bridging Divides, Embracing Diversity Through Spiritual Student Life Work

A Hampshire student brings together interfaith groups and individuals

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Building Solutions to Climate Change: Celebrate Earth Day from Home with the R.W. Kern Center and NESEA

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Hampshire Well-Equipped to Pivot During Crisis, Extends Deposit Deadline

Deposit deadline for accepted students extended to June 1, virtual tours and Accepted Student days now available

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Still Hearing Music

An alum reflects on life in Italy during the Covid-19 lockdown

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Christoph Cox Named Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty

Dr. Cox will serve as chief academic officer, responsible for Hampshire’s academic mission, budget, and governance for academic affairs

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NOTICE: Covid-19 Case in the Hampshire Community

Fumio Sugihara

Appointment of Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid

Fumio Sugihara will join us on March 30 from Marlboro College

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Hampshire COVID-19 Update

Most important, Hampshire College will temporarily adopt remote instruction after spring break in order to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and allow time to assess whether students can return to campus in April.

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Hampshire Values Inform Approach to Resistance for Alums

Two graduates bond over action and common beliefs forged in college

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Hampshire College Alum Represents

A Jamaican cartoonist illuminates issues of blackness in a traditionally white medium

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Historic Havana Digital Photo Archive Published by Hampshire College Library

The digital archive is hosted for public and research use at the Five College Compass: Digital Collections and the Center for Research Libraries

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Five College Dance Faculty Concert Explores Distance and Intimacy Amidst Upheaval

Five faculty and guest artists from each campus to perform works that investigate human distance and intimacy

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New Board Chair Jose Fuentes Letter to Hampshire Community

“I’m excited to build on lessons learned as I begin my term”

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Hampshire to Offer 12th Annual ‘Super 8 Filmmaking in Paris’ Course This Summer

Course is deeply connected to our Hampshire philosophy and inquiry-based learning

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President’s Spring 2020 Welcome

It’s the start of our historic 50th anniversary year

Five College Consortium Awarded $2.5 Million for Native and Indigenous Studies

The effort will allow the campuses to develop and establish a set of new academic pathways for students interested in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Advancement Office Celebrates Successful End-of-Year Fundraiser and Full Staff

Our most successful December ever for raising funds for operating support

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Hampshire Board of Trustees Names Ed-Tech Entrepreneur Jose Fuentes as Chair

Alum Fuentes previously served as Vice Chair

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Hampshire Invites 50th Anniversary Class to Engage in Complex Questions of the 21st Century

College reorganizes around modern themes empowering students to explore freely and innovate across fields

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Seeing the Forest for the Trees, and Much More

Student work examines forest systems and precipitation, including the threats and impacts on climate change

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Culture, Brain, and Development Program Announces Latest Student Grant Awards

CBD’s competitive awards are offered twice a year, and provide critical financial support for students who are conducting in-depth research and ambitious projects.

Liam Malone and Robert Mueller

Planning for Urban Farming

Students create a vertical aquaponics system for growing greens sustainably indoors

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Streaming Knowledge

Hampshire alum Nancy Grimm elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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Hampshire College Maintains Accreditation, Advances Ambitious Plan for its Future

Hampshire Actively Recruits New Students for Its 50th Anniversary Class of 2020

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Sonic Boom: A New Album with a Hampshire Twist

Based in Los Angeles, Meara O’Reillly is a composer, artist, and instrument designer, playing music that’s largely of her own creation

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President’s Letter on Plans for Hampshire’s Future

I hope you will join us in shaping and supporting our work to launch Hampshire into our next 50 years

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Third Annual Engage! Day Focused on Anti-racism, Social Justice, and Inclusion

A powerful community performance rounded out the day’s events

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Pivoting from Film to Tech

An Unexpected Career Turn à la Hampshire

Darleane Torres

How a Personalized Curriculum Drove Successful Entrepreneurship

Darleane Torres Parlays a Robotics Idea into Reality

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Mellon Foundation Awards Five Colleges $800,000 for Online Museum Collections

The major award re-imagines the way museums including the Hampshire College Art Gallery can share their online collections with each other and the world

Hampshire College to Transform Curriculum and Student Experience Around Contemporary Challenges

Hampshire leads innovation in higher education with new framework reshaping the liberal arts

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President's Letter on Proposed Student Experience Models

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Board of Trustees Statement on a New Model for the Hampshire College Student Experience

Hampshire College will adopt a bold, distinctive vision to reestablish Hampshire as the leader in higher education innovation

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Launch Update from Academic Innovation Planning Group

The process of engaging the college’s constituencies was extraordinarily successful

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Students from Havana Exchange Program Present Final Projects

Transformative study abroad opportunity generates wide range of cultural exploration

Student Moira Tan and Senator Elizabeth Warren

Reproductive Realities

Hampshire Student Moira Tan Takes a Hard Look at the States’ Threat to Abortion Rights

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From Reel to Reel to Reel

A small window into the legacy of filmmaking at Hampshire

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Hampshire College to Admit a Spring 2020 Class in January

Hampshire’s Application is Now Live on the Common App for Spring and Fall 2020

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Living Building is a Learning Lab

Student Oliver Silberstein conducts independent research on rainwater

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Hampshire College to Reinvent Academic Program, Launching its Next 50 Years

“Hampshire Launch” Plan to Be Released in November

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In his Div III, student Edward Ongweso analyzes why and how Uber has set back its workers

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Populationism and Prejudice

In a new publication, Hampshire alum and PopDev Director Anne Hendrixson 91F puts population control in its place

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First All-Campus Address by President Ed Wingenbach: September 3, 2019

I believe in Hampshire College, I believe our society needs Hampshire College now more than it ever has.

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President’s Invite to Invent Hampshire’s Future

Our current moment requires another “strong and sudden effort” marked by a surge of creativity, vision, and decisiveness

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Public Release of Hampshire-UMass 2018 Negotiation Documents

President Wingenbach responds to the UMass public records release of last year's documents to the Daily Hampshire Gazette

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Hampshire College Raises Projection for Student Enrollment, Relaunches Admissions

High school students have already begun to apply to enroll in fall 2020, when the College will celebrate its 50th anniversary

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Welcome Chief Advancement Officer Jennifer Chrisler

New member of Hampshire’s leadership team will guide the development of our strategic advancement plan

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Our Year of Renewal

A letter from President Wingenbach to our campus community

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Roosbelinda Cárdenas Among AAUW Fellowships and Grants Recipients

In support of her research in Latin American Studies/Black Studies

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Exhibit of Multi-Layered Photographs and Notebooks Celebrates Robert Seydel

Hampshire College Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, “A Short History of Portraiture,” celebrates the work of renowned artist, curator, and Hampshire professor Robert Seydel (1960–2011)

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Five College New Music Festival

Bi-annual Five College New Music Festival Returns to UMass Amherst September 6-8

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Why Do Mice Horse Around?

Miranda Harrison’s Div III explores the connection between sex hormones and behavior using genetically altered (aka “knockout") mice

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Leadership Team Update from President Wingenbach

We’re strengthening our leadership team. A number of longtime employees are stepping into new roles, an interim dean of admissions and financial aid is on board, and we welcome new trustees

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Start-up in Senegal

Forel Kourouma launches an international internship program based on his Div III

When Identity Trumps Self-Interest

In her Div III, Olivia Brochu explores why so many white women voted Republican in 2016

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In her Div III, Laura Howard beams in on the shady world of museum acquisition

Research spotlights the importance of ethics in the curation of art and archaeology

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Archaeological Project Co-Directed by Dr. Pamela Stone Awarded AAUW Community Action Grant

The project is focused on excavating a historic mission church in New Mexico built in the 1700s

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Grassroots organic farmers to gather at Hampshire for workshops on soil, social justice, and swine

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Hampshire President-elect Ed Wingenbach: Public Remarks

News Conference July 18, 2019

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President-elect Ed Wingenbach Greeting to Hampshire College

Campus Gathering in the R.W. Kern Center July 18, 2019

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Hampshire Announces Eighth President is Ed Wingenbach, Accomplished Administrator, Scholar, Proponent of Liberal Arts Education

Board makes unanimous appointment upon recommendation from search committee of faculty, students, staff, trustees, and alums

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FY19 Fundraising Update

Letter from Hampshire’s Advancement office thanking the community

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Of Mice and Mastocytosis

Using mouse cells, Avalon Mercado researches a rare heritable disease

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Creating Cuban Consciousness

Moving into its twentieth year—and counting—Hampshire’s Cuba Program will continue to immerse students in todas las cosas cubanas in spring 2020

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: July 10, 2019

Interim President Rosenthal updates the community on campus staffing

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In Natalie Wong's Div III, fragmented paintings let her break out of traditional shapes and help process her personal narrative

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Hampshire College Ramps Up Admissions and Recruitment for a Fall 2020 Class

High school and transfer students and families are invited to schedule campus visits this summer

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Presidential Search Update: July 3, 2019

More than 30 members of the Hampshire community will participate in confidential interviews of finalists for Hampshire President

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Presidential Search Update: June 26, 2019

The Presidential Search Committee is committed to keeping the Hampshire community in the loop on our important and fast-paced work

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 20, 2019

Interim President Rosenthal updates the Hampshire community on securing our future and relaunching admissions to enroll a fall 2020 class

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Presidential Search Update: June 19, 2019

The Presidential Search Committee has committed to keeping the Hampshire community in the loop on our important and fast-paced work. Here is a recap of our efforts to date.

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ECG Grants Announced

Ethics & the Common Good Project Announces Recipients of Student Project Grants

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 13, 2019

"We are determined to sustain Hampshire’s unique place in higher education and our singular program that empowers students like no other"

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Presidential Search Update: June 12, 2019

The presidential search committee has committed to keeping the hampshire community in the loop on our important and fast-paced work. Here is a recap of our efforts to date.

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Art Auction for Hampshire

Alums and former faculty have donated their artwork for a fund-raising auction. Bidding will start at noon on June 12 at Mrs. Gallery in New York and online at Paddle8.

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Update on Accreditation: June 7, 2019

Hampshire remains fully accredited and dedicated to our students and the future of the College.

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Presidential Search Update: June 5, 2019

The Presidential Search Committee has committed to keeping the Hampshire community in the loop on our important and fast-paced work. Here is a recap of our efforts to date.

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Material Metabolism

Jackson Horne creates a modular sculpture that explores the function of mechanisms in abstract

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May 22, 2019: Letter on Presidential Search from Board Chair Luis Hernandez

Chair Hernandez announces the Board has formed a Presidential Search Committee with the goal of naming a new president this summer

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Misconduct: On Celebrity and Rape Culture

In his Division III, Gabe Sklan examines rape culture through the lens of media studies and celebrity worship

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An Illuminating Div III

Kyra Kabler explores the significance of light and color in CG (Computer Generated) animation

Hampshire College CBD grantees

Culture, Brain & Development Program Spring 2019 Student Grant Awards

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Peter Pan Pedagogy

In her Div III on cognitive linguistics, Xuemeng Zhao makes the case for teaching ESL to kids through children’s literature

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Artificial Intelligence Made Simple

A Div III Venture Gets Capitalized in Start-up Country

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A Letter from Past Presidents in Support of Hampshire

"All students can and should be partners in defining the essential questions they wish to explore. This remains the approach most likely to create transformational outcomes."

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: May 8, 2019

Update on Commencement events, accreditation, and fundraising - including a save the date for the #Div4ward giving challenge

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"Sex Is On A Spectrum"

For their Div III, Savvy Cornett 15F looks at the protein interactions of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone II to find a previously unidentified hormone receptor

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Creating Art from Alienation

In her tunnel books, student Lauren Burke creates a safe space to explore her multiracial identity

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Narratives of Struggle and Hope

Clara Wagner analyzes the life stories of drug addicted mothers and their families for her Div III

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Youth Leadership and Empowerment Through Collaborative Research

Div III: Mac Dvorak brings research methodology into a youth organization

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Labor’s Love’s Found

In her Div III project on the Progressive ERA in Pittsburgh, native daughter Nichole Greene finds the perfect intersection of art and labor history

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April 29, 2019: Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President

Hampshire is preparing to operate as a smaller college next year, with our highest priority being to serve our students and support their education as we reinvent the College for a long future

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Our Commitment to Financial Aid in 2019-2020

The following letter was sent to Hampshire students regarding financial aid in 2019-2020

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April 19, 2019: Securing Hampshire’s Future: A Letter from Ken Rosenthal

"This is our chance to secure our future as a College focused on high-impact, lifelong learning."

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Photo Books Become Home for a Divided Family

Student Claudia Hermano used old negatives and new images to register her family’s experience through difficult times

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April 11: Update from Interim President Kenneth Rosenthal

“It’ll take everyone’s cooperation and imagination to re-make Hampshire.”

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Hampshire Names 2019 Commencement Speaker Ericka Hart

Activist, sexuality educator, and “cancer warrior,” Ericka Hart will deliver the keynote at Hampshire’s Commencement on May 18, 2019.

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April 6, 2019: Letter from Interim President Kenneth Rosenthal

“The Board of Trustees has asked me to become Interim President to help Hampshire find its way in a difficult time, and I will do my best.”

Hampshire's Seventh President Miriam Nelson

President Miriam Nelson Resigns from Hampshire, Board Names Ken Rosenthal Interim President

Board Votes to Fundraise to Keep Hampshire Independent

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