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

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.

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

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

“This moment requires something of all of us.”

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

Alum cinematographer receives one of the highest honors in Hollywood

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

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

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

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

Fumio Sugihara will join us on March 30 from Marlboro College

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alum Fuentes previously served as Vice Chair

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

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

Students create a vertical aquaponics system for growing greens sustainably indoors

Hampshire alum Nancy Grimm elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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

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

A powerful community performance rounded out the day’s events

An Unexpected Career Turn à la Hampshire

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

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

Transformative study abroad opportunity generates wide range of cultural exploration

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

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

Student Oliver Silberstein conducts independent research on rainwater

“Hampshire Launch” Plan to Be Released in November

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

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

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

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

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

A letter from President Wingenbach to our campus community

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

News Conference July 18, 2019

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

Letter from Hampshire’s Advancement office thanking the community

Using mouse cells, Avalon Mercado researches a rare heritable disease 

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A Div III Venture Gets Capitalized in Start-up Country

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

Board Votes to Fundraise to Keep Hampshire Independent

The Board met earlier today and voted to appoint Kenneth Rosenthal as interim president

In “Tender Creatures,” student Gabriel Horvath tackles gender identity, belonging, care, and religion

Trustees address a breach of confidentiality, done without authorization, and assure the campus the breach has no impact on the review of strategic options by the Board

Graduating student Bailey Fernandez 15F on designing and writing his sublime and torturous final project

A letter from Dean of Students Gloria Lopez about changes to housing and dining services for 2019-20

A letter from the independent working group advising the Board of Trustees, comprising alumni, parents, and former trustees

Concerning the Campus Options Committee, the President’s Options Working Group, and the Re-envisioning Hampshire Coalition