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PopDev Program Writes Background Chapter for UN Report
… Background Chapter for UN Report PopDev, the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, is proud to … of the Role of Women in Development: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development . The report has been presented to the UN General Assembly and translated into all six official UN languages. Betsy …
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Students in Hampshire's American Sign Language Collective Plan Second Deaf Studies Conference
… have little or no interaction with the Deaf community, and although they may not think they have a direct connection … providing a space for all individuals to discover and explore the multifaceted experiences of Deaf lives and celebrate Deaf culture, community, and history. The …
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Hoe Down
… The three-day event celebrates grassroots organic farming and offers opportunities for learning, community building, and fun, with workshops, open meetings, exhibits, and activities for children and teens. The conference will …
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Library Opens New Academic-Services Facility for Students
… renovated space on the first floor that centralizes and expands programs previously dispersed around the 800-acre campus. The facility's ribbon cutting and launch party are Friday, October 13 at noon. The … student-exhibition support Media labs Center for Teaching and Learning Holistic Learning Program The Knowledge Commons …
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Exhibition by Senegalese Graffiti Artists Opens October 15, 2021
… 15, 2021 Hampshire College is pleased to announce Look and Feel , an artist residency and exhibition of graffiti works by MadZoo TRK (Serigne Mansour Fall) and Mow 504 (Mouhamadou Moustapha Souaré) of the Dakar-based …
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Cooperation in a Crisis
… financial challenges presented by COVID-19, many colleges and universities have unilaterally announced layoffs and furloughs. Hampshire College is charting a different … vibrant academic program, protecting working conditions, and avoiding faculty layoffs while meeting sustainable budget …
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Hampshire College Maintains Accreditation, Advances Ambitious Plan for its Future
… for its Future Hampshire College remains in compliance and will continue its accreditation, according to a vote by … Education (NECHE) at its meeting on Friday, November 22 and a public announcement November 23 . The ruling validates the College’s new operational and financial plans and marks another critical milestone in a …
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How To Build A Non-Toxic Net-Zero Living Building
… of the R.W. Kern Center as a model of sustainability and environmental stewardship, made possible by the Hampshire … donors including alums who have given $8.9 million and counting to fund it; hundreds of students and employees working with the architects over two years of …
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Poetry Professor Aracelis Girmay Wins 2015 Whiting Award
… to ten emerging writers in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. The awards of $50,000 each are based on early accomplishment and the promise of great literary work to come. Professor … published two poetry collections, Kingdom Animalia (2011) and Teeth (2007). Kingdom Animalia won the Isabella Gardner …
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Gifts Support "Bridge to College"
… Support "Bridge to College" The First Niagara Foundation and the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation have each given … to support programs like Youth Connect, that have a direct and lasting impact on educational outcomes for young adults," …
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March 30: Eqbal Ahmad Lecture by #BlackLivesMatter Co-founders
… of #BlackLivesMatter —Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi — will deliver Hampshire College’s 17th … Monday, March 30, at 4 p.m. in the Robert Crown Center, and is free and open to the public. The lecture keynotes a weeklong …
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The Roos-Rohde House: A By-and-for Student Space
… The Roos-Rohde House: A By-and-for Student Space A message from students enrolled in the spring 2013 Design and Entrepreneurship for Social Impact class and students in the Rehamping group In September 2011, …
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Background on Hampshire College Flag Decision November 2016
… President Jonathan Lash has been actively convening formal and informal meetings this month with members of our campus community -- students and employees -- as part of our announced campus dialogues … President Lash acknowledged their right to demonstrate, and expressed his regret that a still unknown person or …
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What We Did This Summer: Students Showcase Their Work in Immersive Summer Programs
… dozens of students to campus from across the Northeast and beyond — they came from high schools, colleges, and grad schools as did young professionals — to participate … programs, which are marked by learning through projects and experience. The College organizes its summer programs as …
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In her Div III, Laura Howard beams in on the shady world of museum acquisition
… on display at London’s British Museum, for example, and other priceless artifacts scattered across the globe, … to improve the ethical conditions of museum acquisition and a concern for the detrimental impacts of art crime. … a nasty history to the collection of art,” she says, “and it wasn’t until 1970 that there was any basis for the …
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Sept. 12: Opening of the Robert Seydel Reading Room
… professor Robert Seydel, who passed away in 2011. Designed and constructed by alum Michael Meo 08F of Maryann Thompson … of Seydel’s books in a space created to reflect his living and working spaces. “The Robert Seydel Reading Room is, we … his collection, research into twentieth century literary and artistic figures, and small group discussions and …
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Sept. 4: Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble to Speak at Convocation
… to Speak at Convocation Distinguished medical scholar and activist Vanessa Northington Gamble 70F —a member of the … officially opening the academic year. The event is open and all who would like to attend are welcome. On August 30, … welcomes 440 new students: 368 first years, 54 transfers, and 18 visiting and non-degree students. New student …
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Campus Events To Explore Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript
… Medeiros The Institute for Curatorial Practice (ICP) and the Hampshire College Art Gallery have co-organized a public keynote panel and faculty seminar centering on a medieval Christian Ethiopian manuscript to be held November 11 and 12. The manuscript, written in Ge’ez (the liturgical …
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Hampshire College to Reinvent Academic Program, Launching its Next 50 Years
… pioneering academic program, engaging its campus community and 12,000 alumni in ongoing meetings this fall and promising to publish a plan by November. The initiative, … Launch,” marks the college’s 50th anniversary next year and the launch of its second half-century. The effort is led …
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Hampshire College Cuba Exchange Program Marks 15th Anniversary with Eqbal Ahmad Lecture, Colloquium
… lecture is titled “U.S.–Cuba Relations: Past, Present, and Future.” Speakers are former chief of mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana Wayne Smith and the eminent historian and leading U.S. scholar of Cuba Louis A. Pérez, Jr. The …
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HIV-Prevention Education
… more than two decades Jill Lewis, professor of literature and gender studies , has used education as a powerful tool in … of the HIV epidemic. Approaching the issue from cultural and gender-focused perspectives, she has developed and implemented HIV-awareness and -prevention initiatives in …
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Hampshire Protects 46 Acres on the Mount Holyoke Range
… College, Kestrel Land Trust, Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs, and the Town of Hadley permanently protects 46 acres of the … northeast flank of the Mount Holyoke Range near Bay Road and Chumura Road. It will serve as a resource for outdoor …
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Commencement Speaker Sonya Renee Taylor
… class has selected award-winning poet, activist, and transformational leader Sonya Renee Taylor as their … on the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn. Taylor is founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology. … Apology believes that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make …
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Hampshire President-elect Ed Wingenbach: Public Remarks
… all for coming out. I am coming to Hampshire College today and hopefully for a very long time because I think that it is … been more important to the success of the American college and university system over the last 50 years than Hampshire … institution is to invent the future of higher education and it has done so consistently for years. If you look at the …
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$400,000 Luce Grant Funds Research, Cultural Connections
… A $400,000 grant from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) will provide new opportunities for Hampshire College faculty and students to build cultural connections and pursue environmental and agricultural research in China …
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