Be the Entrepreneur of Your Own Education

BE THE ENTREPRENEUR OF YOUR OWN EDUCATION

Key Elements of the Hampshire Experience

Studentdesigned curriculum

You choose the faculty advisors you’ll work with to create your own curriculum to address the big questions, challenges, or issues you’re most interested in. Take your passion projects beyond the conceptual, tackle 21st-century challenges, and enact real change.

Divisional sYSTEM

You advance through a divisional system rather than traditional school years. Each division requires a portfolio review, including narrative feedback from the professor of each course you’ve taken, final papers and projects, other meaningful work, and a retrospective essay. The divisional system culminates in a yearlong, independent project of your own design.

Narrative evaluationS

We don’t think grades are an accurate or effective measurement of performance. Your performance will be assessed with constructive, written feedback on your projects, writing, and engagement in classes and community.

At Hampshire, you’ll learn multiple ways to identify a challenge, ask the right questions, mobilize resources, and incorporate diverse points of view as you creatively propose solutions. You’ll take your passion projects beyond the conceptual, and make them real.

These six key elemenTs of The hampshire experience make iT work:

urgent questions

You’ll have the chance to work with other students and faculty to determine which urgent global challenges should be addressed as a unifying area of study at Hampshire. You can pursue these issues, questions, or problems with an existing Learning Collaborative or propose a new one.

Learning Collaboratives

The Learning Collaboratives are the resources aligned with key themes and urgent questions. Students, faculty, and staff bring their own perspectives and expertise, mixing ideas, skills, and passions among a community of others pursuing similar questions and projects.

You’ll deepen your engagement on campus and in the world through required Community-Engaged Learning. You’ll design opportunities to build community and seek innovative ways to address critical community and organizational needs.

Learning Collaboratives

You’ll take part in a curriculum that reflects the world around us—ever-changing, fluid, and never contained within a single discipline. Our Learning Collaborative-based curriculum is experiential and radical. It extends beyond conventional ways of teaching, learning, and living.

A Learning Collaborative is a community of faculty, staff, and students that engages in collaborative inquiry and action from multiple perspectives. This happens in and out of the classroom crossing disciplines to examine and solve realworld problems.

Each Learning Collaborative consists of a cluster of

And since we’re actively committed to advancing racial justice, you’ll see this topic woven into many aspects of the Learning Collaboratives and academic programming as a whole.

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I’m studying reproductive rights/health/ justice through Black feminist thought and photography.

In my free time, you can find me planning events for the BIPOC campus community, visiting the pool and sauna, walking the Hampshire trails, or hanging out with the Hampshire Farm animals. But, my favorite thing to do is work at the Early Learning Center. Being

able to hang out with babies after days filled with dense theory is my favorite way to relieve stress. At the end of the day, I love being able to spend time with my housemates and best friends. We often cook dinner then watch TV in the common space to reconnect at the end of the day.

FIVE College Consortium

hampshire’s founders were amhersT, smiTh, and mounT holyoke colleges, and

The universiTy of massachuseTTs amhersT.

They set out to create a lab of an undergraduate institution, experimenting with how a college could be a more effective intellectual and moral force in the world. Part of the plan: share the resources of all five schools. Together, we make up the Five College Consortium.

One of the country’s most exciting and active educational collaborations, the Consortium offers a huge network of academic and social resources:

Students at each campus can cross register for classes, join clubs, try out for club sports and performing arts groups, borrow books, attend events, and dine at the other four schools. That’s more than 7,000 classes a year, NINE MILLION volumes among the libraries, HUNDREDS of clubs, and about 30,000 potential new friends to make.

Western Massachusetts is a cultural mecca of art, music, and food surrounded by the foothills of the Berkshires. Home to DOZENS of museums, concert venues, bookstores, restaurants, 200+ miles of bikes trails, and much more, it’s the perfect blend of city and country.

A free bus system connects the FIVE COLLEGES and THREE towns, day and night.

Students are recruited by almost 500 companies.

ACTIVITIES & STUDENT LIFE

Outdoor Programs, Recreation, and Athletics (OPRA)

O utdoor Programs provides students with opportunities to explore the outdoors through day-long and multiday trips, as well as semester-long classes. Enjoy hiking, camping, climbing, skiing, boating, and much more.

T he Recreation program provides instructional offerings such as martial arts, yoga, and strength and conditioning. Students can also focus independently on their health and well-being by taking advantage of our various facilities, including the fitness center and weight room, indoor track, indoor tennis courts, bouldering cave, and sauna, or by exploring the miles of trails on our 800-acre campus and nearby Mount Holyoke Range State Park.

Athletics: Hampshire College is a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) and the Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC). We offer student-athletes an opportunity to compete in soccer, cross country, basketball, and track and field at the regional and national level.

Clubs

We offer 50+ student groups, which support an eclectic range of campus events and activities. Hampshire students can also access the clubs, organizations, and events at the other Five College schools.

J oin Design Conspiracy, Circus Club, Fermentation Club, Climbers Coalition, Pokémon Go! Trainer Alliance, The Portfolio Zine & Newspaper, Yurt Radio, Mixed Nuts Food Co-Op, and many others. Find more information about our student organizations at engage.hampshire.edu

Club Sports: Ultimate Frisbee, Equestrian Team, Rock Climbing.

S OURCE (Students of UnderRepresented Cultures and Ethnicities) is a coalition of groups that exist for students who identify as: indigenous/Native American, mixed heritage/race, queer international and people of color, international students, Asian/Asian American, Latinx American, African/African American, James Baldwin Scholars, international women and women of color, and men of color.

– T hese groups have a long history of organizing a number of impactful initiatives that look at community building, campus awareness, and institutional change on topics related to race, under-representation, and social justice.

Play on one of our six varsity teams or three club teams.

The Lebrón-Wiggins Pran Cultural Center offers a range of programming, as well as a space for multicultural community building, individual expression, leadership fostering, and the exchange of ideas. Work is done continually examining how race and culture intersect with other social identities and impact one’s view of self and of the world.

The student-run Infinity Productions supports students with video and film needs, and documents Hampshire student performances. They’re always recruiting talent to work on either side of the camera.

Resources & Community Advocacy

At Hampshire College, we offer a comprehensive approach to health and wellness, taking into consideration your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

You have access to Health and Counseling Services, the Wellness Center, and Spiritual Life on Hampshire’s campus. There are also resources available to you through UMass University Health Services, emergency care at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and a wide variety of practitioners and providers in Amherst and Northampton.

Wellness Center

The Wellness Center offers health education and promotes wellness on topics such as healthy relationships, bystander intervention and prevention of sexual violence, preventing alcohol and other drug abuse, self-care, developing resilience, sexual health, sleep health, and campus and community resources.

Spiritual Life

At Hampshire, we believe that spiritual well-being is a key component of holistic wellness, and it’s integrally connected to social justice. Spiritual Life strives to offer programs that enable you to explore these connections while engaging our community in vital questions of meaning, purpose, and how we live in the world.

Meet up with friends at The Bridge to argue the implications of falafel on gender and culture, or to just play euchre.

Health and Counseling Services

M edical Services: immunizations (HPV, flu shots, and travel vaccines); case management and coordination of specialist care; diagnosis and treatment of common illnesses and injuries; gender-affirming hormone therapy, counseling, and medical care; and other medical services

Mental Health Services: Counseling Services is staffed with a diverse group of clinicians who are available for brief consultations, short-term psychotherapy, crisis support, and group therapy.

Hampshire College offers a variety of services to support students’ academic work and success.

Academic Support and Advising (CASA) provides academic support and assistance to you and your advisors for planning and achieving your academic goals.

Accessibility Resources and Services (OARS) strives to support students with disabilities through relationship building, coaching, appropriate accommodations, and intentional referrals. OARS provides services to students with physical, learning, sensory, psychological, developmental, and other disabilities, and supports students who cannot/do not want to disclose.

SPARC (Supporting Your Purpose Through Action, Resources, and Connections) works with you to help you fuse your intellectual passions and creativity into an employment or life path that is as fulfilling to you as it is necessary in the world. You can develop skills, find resources, and make connections that support you in creating a life that is uniquely yours.

The Writing Center offers assistance to all Hampshire students interested in developing their communication skills. Because writing is important at Hampshire, the Writing Center provides you with a range of services including individual meetings, workshops, and formal courses in writing.

The world looks to Hampshire graduates for leadership in hundreds of fields.

HOW WILL THE WORLD LOOK TO YOU? Fulbright

Twenty-three Fulbright Scholarships in the last nine years

Highest percentage of graduates who earn a Ph.D. in history %

2/3 of graduates earn an advanced degree within ten years of commencement Hampshire alums have won Pulitzer and Hillman Prizes and Emmy, Academy, Peabody, and Grammy Awards >>>

TOP 50

One of the top 50 schools whose graduates went on to receive a Ph.D. in science or engineering

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Manny Castro 02F is the executive director of the New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) organization in Queens, New York, and is the first Mexican-American and the first DREAMer to hold the position of commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Affairs in New York City.

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Ian Spalter 94F has been named one of Fast Company’s most creative people, and has held UX and design positions at tech giants such as Youtube and Foursquare. Currently, he’s the head of Instagram Japan.

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Actress Lupita Nyong’o 03F won an Oscar for 12 Years a Slave Other credits include: Black Panther, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Us, and the Broadway play Eclipsed. In 2019 she published the #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book, Sulwe

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Computer scientist and entrepreneur Nirman Dave 15F launched his tech company

Obviously AI with co-founder classmate Tapojit Debnath 15F as his Div III. In 2021, they raised nearly $5 million in seed funding to support the company’s research and development work for their AI/ machine learning platform.

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Jose Fuentes 05F is a partner at HwC Ventures and was a co-founder of Duolingo, a crowdsourced language learning and translation platform. Fuentes is the Chair of Hampshire College’s Board of Trustees.

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

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A former Obama White House staff member and longtime Director of Development Strategy at the Obama Foundation, Jamie Citron 01F now serves as a special assistant to the president for presidential personnel for the Biden-Harris administration.

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Brooklyn-based dance artist Mariana Valencia 02F won a Bessie Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Choreography, one of the industry’s highest honors.

Financial Aid & Application Deadlines

We are committed to making Hampshire affordable for you and your family. At Hampshire, we accept the brightest, most creative, and passionate students regardless of their ability to pay. And all applicants are automatically considered for merit scholarships.

U.S.

Citizens and Permanent Residents complete the FAFSA

Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), av ailable online at www.fafsa.gov

The FAFSA determines a student’s eligibility for federal aid based on t he student’s family financial background. Hampshire College also uses this information to determine institutional need-based financial aid. This information is sent to Hampshire College when our school code is added to the FAFSA

The FAFSA school code for Hampshire College is 004661

International Applicants complete the CSS Profile

Complete the CSS Profile, available online at cssprofile.collegeboard.org

The CSS profile is used to determine a student’s financial need for institutional aid. The CSS Profile is sent to Hampshire College.

FIRST-YEAR ADMISSIONS Deadlines

Early Decision I November 15 December 15 January 1 November 15

Early Action December 1 February 15 May 1 December 1

Early Decision II January 1 February 1 February 15 January 1

Regular January 15 April 1 May 1 January 15

International students do NOT submit a FAFSA; we instead require the CSS Profile, and if applicable, the Non-custodial Profile. International first-year students can apply under any decision plan.

DOMESTIC TRANSFER March 15 April 15 June 1 March 15 TRANSFER

PROFILE and

Non-Custodial

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER March 15 April 15 May 15 March 15 N/A TRANSFER Application Notification Deposit Deadline Date Deadline FAFSA