To Know Is Not Enough by Hampshire College

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OUR WORLD IS ASKING BIG QUESTIONS. About the state of our communities, societies, and governments. About the condition of our health and our environments. About systems that are broken and in need of change, everywhere. When the world encounters problems, it turns to those who approach them like no one else can. It looks to those who know how to lead through uncertainty, and make a meaningful difference.

T O D AY, T H E W O R L D L O O K S T O HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE AND OUR STUDENTS.

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There are thousands of colleges and universities in the U.S. Only one is entirely unconstrained by the assumptions of the past. Only one has as its goal to invent the future of the liberal arts.

Only one has as its mission the transformation of all the others.

The world is complex and interconnected. A college education should match. This is not how colleges have been organized or designed. But if we’re to address the bedeviling questions facing humanity, we must fundamentally shift our approach to confront the challenges of the 21st century. This is what excites me about what we’re building at Hampshire College. Today, we are remaking liberal arts education to engage the demands of the future. Experimentation has always been at the core of our mission. And now, we will continue to invent the future of higher education. We must take the risk to design a Hampshire that once more defines how colleges everywhere should respond to the present. We’re moving these inescapable questions and problems to the very center of our curriculum. We’re transcending majors, drawing upon the best thinking, methods, and resources humanity has to offer. We are learning to integrate without boundaries or limits. And we’re better preparing entrepreneurial graduates who will respond to ambiguity and uncertainty with innovation and action. Our students are engaging in the collaborative, creative work of envisioning a better world, so they can transform it. We believe that this is what an education was always intended to do. We believe the liberal arts provides the most powerful foundation for addressing the problems our world must solve. Together, we are building the college the future demands. Join us as we once again radically change how undergraduates learn.

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We always see opportunities for something different. Today, that means educating a different kind of leader. As we reinvent our curriculum to answer the most pressing questions of our time, we look to you. We know that great change takes place at Hampshire. The achievements of our alums are momentous. Their impact is felt everywhere — inextricably shaped by how they learned here. But to prepare the next generation for growing and ever-shifting challenges, we need your help. To stay relevant in the face of global uncertainty and upheaval, we’re calling on everyone. Because that’s what the most radical change requires. Never one for the status quo, Hampshire College is constantly in motion. This is an invitation to join our movement.

At Hampshire College, radical positive change is in the making. And we’re embarking on an unprecedented effort to fund it. Join us. 9

In 1965, we radicalized the liberal arts, and became the original agents of change in higher education. Our college and our students were different from day one. The Hampshire experiment proved that a highly personal, one-of-a-kind way of learning could be transformative. And while our pedagogy has always stood apart, we continue to transform. Our vision for building a better future is grounded in three principles. This approach is urgent, unbounded, and entrepreneurial. This means a stronger focus for those who are passionate about a cause, a freer experience for those who are exploring important issues, and greater resources for those who are willing and able to make positive change happen.

Your gift will empower solvers of urgent challenges, students of an unbounded curriculum, and entrepreneurs of their own education.

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LUCY McFADDEN

As a senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Lucy McFadden 70F investigated the composition of the solar system’s small bodies.

JOSE FUENTES

I wouldn’t be where I am without Hampshire. It rearranged all my molecules.” Jose Fuentes 05F is a partner at

KEN BURNS Emmy, Peabody, and Grammy-winning documentarian Ken Burns 71F continues to produce and direct films that preserve important pieces of American history. 12

HwC Ventures and was a cofounder of Duolingo, a crowdsourced languagelearning and translation platform.

T HI S I S HOW H A MP S HIR E GR A DUAT E S LOOK TO T HE WOR LD.

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Ian Spalter 94F has been named one

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Heather Boushey 88F was president,

of Fast Company’s most creative people,

CEO, and co-founder of the Washington

and has held UX and design positions at

Center for Equitable Growth and is a

tech giants like Foursquare and YouTube.

member of President Biden’s Council

Currently, he’s head of Instagram Japan.

of Economic Advisers.

LUPITA NYONG’O

Actor Lupita Nyong’o 03F won an

MANNY CASTRO

Manny Castro 02F, executive director of

Oscar for 12 Years a Slave. Other credits

New Immigrant Community Empowerment

include the movies Black Panther,

(NICE), recently received a $200,000 grant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Us,

from the David Prize to make a difference

and the Broadway play Eclipsed.

in the lives of New York City’s residents.

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Our curriculum is organized around four Learning Collaboratives. Through these collaboratives, we bring disciplines together to address the pressing issues facing society today. And as global challenges shift, so do the topics of our collaboratives. We evolve and change to reflect the world around us.

urgent Hampshire College was founded in 1965 to radically reimagine liberal arts education. Today, we’re more unconventional than ever, and we’re organized in a way that’s different from any other college in the world.

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ed ENTREPRENEURIAL We’re looking for the type of student who can’t imagine waiting to be told what to do. Our community of self-starters is resilient, resourceful, and committed enough to do the deep work of understanding complex problems.

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URGENT

An education designed to invent the future.

Setting and re-setting the bar for changemakers. Hampshire became the first college to divest from apartheid-era South Africa, inspiring a total of 155 schools to divest over the next decade.

Hampshire was the first college to divest from fossil fuels and establish a mission-based investment policy.

Hampshire established the Undocumented Student Scholarship, becoming the first college in Massachusetts with such a program.

T he R.W. Kern Center, at the center of campus, is the 17th building in the world certified under the advanced green-building standard, the Living Building Challenge.

Solving the unsolved requires methods no one’s ever tried before. If we expect change by following the same narrowly confined and all-too-specialized approaches, we are doomed to failure. Our new curriculum centers on urgent, global challenges. As challenges shift and new issues arise, our focus will also evolve to reflect the world around us. In this way, our students remain ever relevant in their pursuit of change. Each challenge is addressed by a Learning Collaborative, which consists of a cluster of courses, events, projects, and public forums for sharing work in progress. Each Collaborative rallies thought leadership and expertise from disparate disciplines to dissect, discuss, and solve these modern issues from every angle.

Hampshire was the first college in the country to pursue 100 percent solar power.

Simply put, progress demands collaboration. So we’re convening artists, humanists, and social and natural scientists, and preparing them to address/engage/improve climate change, global health, migration, human rights, digital privacy, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, empowering the arts, food access and security, and more. Students and professors alike carve out their individual niches and make these issues their own, responding to the challenges in ways that are personally meaningful to them.

ENVIRONMENTS AND CHANGE

IN/JUSTICE

How do we repair our environment?

How can we dismantle white supremacy?

Students dig into the challenge of creating a just future in the face of climate change while living a sustainable life. They work to build a culture that cares for others and our planet, explore how we adapt, and examine how we define a sense of home and embody our place in the world.

Students apply critical tools to racism, classism, and other forms of systematic oppression, developing strategies to make anti-racist practices a part of our everyday lives, actions, and decisions. They examine the future of social justice and ponder the issue of who or what has rights.

MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

TIME AND NARR ATIVE

How do technologies shape the world and our relationships to it?

Whose histories get told? Who decides whose memories matter?

Here, students engage with the tools, books, computers, videos, and technology that have radically changed the way we live. They design strategies to address the ethical, political, social, and economic problems these media pose.

Students look at how cultural positioning impacts how we consider human evolution, history, knowledge, and the future. They explore how we author time, what lies ahead, and how to plan for and reimagine a different world.

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Darleane Torres 17F

When I was talking about wanting to study engineering and business together, Hampshire was the one school to tell me yes.”

To build the skills she’d need as an entrepreneur, Darleane Torres wanted an education that focused on both engineering and business management. Hampshire was the only place where she knew she’d be able to get that. Taking full advantage of the freedom, resources, and support of the Hampshire experience, 18

Darleane started her own business as a Division I student. Her startup, Painter Printer, is developing robotic technology to paint houses better and more efficiently than professional painters. The company has already won funding in a competition for womenfounded startups, which will be used to create prototypes.

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WHAT WE DO MAKES A DIFFERENCE. WHAT WE DON’T DO IS JUST AS IMPORTANT.

Different in more than theory. Every element that today’s Association of American Colleges & Universities recognizes as a high impact educational practice has been part of Hampshire’s method from the beginning.

Hampshire was one of the first colleges to have test-optional admissions and to eventually become test-blind.

Our faculty adopted an equity model for salary—distinct in not favoring one academic discipline over another.

Hampshire is the only college that requires every student to engage in a year-long independent project, often compared to a graduatelevel dissertation, as a condition of graduation.

Tomorrow’s agents of change don’t need the tried and tired structures of higher education.

The world has always looked to Hampshire for what’s next, and we will continue to keep higher education on its toes.

So we’re removing all barriers across fields of study. As they draw upon the best thinking, methods, and resources humanity has to offer, Hampshire students learn to integrate disciplines without boundaries or limits.

With your commitment, our school and its students will answer every call to action with real, meaningful change, extending far beyond conventional ways of teaching, learning, and living.

Unbound by any one school of thought or siloed way of working, they’ll disrupt the status quo and upend the expected solutions. They’ll make a difference of their own design as they engage in the collaborative, creative work of envisioning a better future.

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No majors or departments

NO letter GRADES

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JUST A BETTER

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PROGRESS

KNOWLEDGE

At Hampshire, students work across, between, and outside of disciplines—combining fields to curate their own original course of study. Here, they’re challenged with the freedom to formulate questions that have never been asked before.

Students’ performance is assessed based on narrative evaluation, with constructive, written feedback from faculty members. Their achievement is based holistically on reviews of projects, engagement in classes and community, writings, art, and more.

No freshmen or seniors

No campus borders

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We have three divisions, from exploratory to foundational to advanced. Each student’s education culminates in an in-depth Division III project similar to a graduate-level thesis, where they prove their mastery and defend their work in front of a faculty committee.

Hampshire was founded by leaders from Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Our students benefit from all of their academic resources.

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ENTREPRENEURIAL

REAL CHANGE MEANS TAKING CHARGE AND CREATING THE WORLD THIS ONE COULD BE. We believe that to know is not enough— that knowledge without understanding and application benefits no one. Our new curriculum has entrepreneurial thought and action at its core. Hampshire naturally attracts self-starters. Here, they self-design their curricula, choose faculty advisors, and take part in community-engaged learning. They learn multiple ways to identify a challenge, ask the right questions, mobilize resources, and incorporate diverse points of view as they creatively propose solutions. In their final year, each student designs and completes an advanced independent study project dealing with sophisticated and complex questions that demand equally complex and sophisticated skills.

Entrepreneurs in the making. In Divisions II and III, Hampshire students negotiate a contract with faculty members, which serves as their course of study. They identify their pursuit, the resources required, and what the measures of success will be. This contract is periodically reviewed, revised, and renegotiated.

25% of Hampshire graduates start their own business or organization.

A mong Hampshire’s notable entrepreneurs are the founders of Stonyfield Organic, About.com, Seventh Generation, Applegate, B8ta, and Basic Health International.

In short, they take their projects beyond the conceptual, and make them real. By giving them agency in their own education, we are training them to be fluid and flexible, intentionally adapting and innovating in dialogue with the world. Long before graduation, Hampshire students have already shown the world that they’re ready to provoke big questions and take on its global issues. You can be their greatest benefactor and partner, turning their passion into a powerful force for change.

Jahmique Robinson 18F

For me, I’m a futurist. When I think about what the future holds, I know it’s limitless as far as technology. I want to be a pioneer of the advancements that are coming.”

As a podcaster studying mechanical engineering, Jahmique focuses on social culture, the life experiences of his generation—and what effects technology will have on both in the future. Jahmique’s podcast, Talking Mad Shit, gives him a way to express his creativity

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and a platform to encourage his peers to express themselves as well. It’s also an avenue for him to think critically about what technological advancements are coming and what he and his peers should develop to make life better.

Urgent. Unbounded. Entrepreneurial. To Know Is Not Enough.

If we were inventing the liberal arts college for the future - what kind of institution does the world need? The answer starts deep in our DNA. At Hampshire College, we always see more opportunity for progress. More potential for connection. More possibility to build up, tear down, reconstruct, and make something altogether new. Ours has always been a story of change. And our students have always sought something different on the way to solving meaningful problems. This bold vision is the next chapter in that story.

The Change in the Making Campaign will fuel Hampshire’s re-invention of higher education.

Your support moves our students, our campus, and our curriculum forward. Your commitment helps agents of change answer the greatest questions of our time. Not just now, but for generations to come.

The state of our world calls for change. Your gift is that change in the making.

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800.619.4267 413.559.5574 giving@hampshire.edu