Five Colleges, Incorporated: Five College Counselor Colloquy 2005

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Five College Counselor Colloquy and Campus Tours
October 26-28, 2005

Presented by Five Colleges, Incorporated and the Five Colleges: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, University of Massachusetts Amherst

What is the Five College Counselor Colloquy?
Every other year, we invite a group of counselors from different regions of the country to visit our campuses for two or three days, spending time with our students and faculty, with admission staff, and with each other. Through these visits, counselors gain a clear idea of the very distinct personality of each member college and see how our ground-breaking consortium serves each college community and forms a larger shared community. The colloquy also creates a setting in which individual relationships can form and grow.

Here’s what past participants have had to say about their experience with the tour:

“A cost-effective and dramatic way to get to know five campuses.”

“This was great. Coming such a long way, seeing the schools was most important to me.”

“I really enjoyed meeting counselors from all over the USA and sharing ideas. Thank you so much for the great experience.”

What about the program?
The visit includes part of a day spent at each campus, where you can sit in classrooms, tour labs and theater spaces, and spend time in conversation with faculty and students. We also build in free time for you to explore the towns in which our schools reside and encourage you to make your way using the fare-free buses that link our campuses day and night.

The program for the 2005 Five College Counselor Colloquy is as follows:

October 26
Arrive at the historic Hotel Northampton in downtown Northampton for a late-day reception with the directors and deans of admission.

October 27
UMass Amherst: breakfast, tour, program 8:00-11:30 a.m.
Amherst College: lunch, tour, program 12:00-3:00 p.m.
Smith College: tour, program, dinner 4:00-7:00 p.m.
(Free time on the town follows dinner; shops are open until 9:00 or 9:30 p.m.)

October 28
Hampshire College: breakfast, tour, program 8:00-11:30 a.m.
Mount Holyoke College: lunch, program, tour 12:00-3:00 p.m.
Departures: 3:30 p.m.*

*Those going on to the College Board Forum in New York City will board a bus and have a boxed supper provided on board. There is no charge for this bus.

What are the costs?
Counselors are here as the guests of the Five Colleges for lodging and all meals. Free ground transportation from the local airport (Bradley International Airport, Hartford, Connecticut), from bus and train stations in Springfield is also furnished, as is ground transportation from campus to campus during the visit. Counselors are responsible for paying their own round-trip travel and for incidental costs when on their own in town.

What about Five College Opportunities?
The Five Colleges were among the first group of schools to introduce the concept of the joint campus tour for counselors. In a sense, it came naturally to us because we already associate as members of one of the oldest and most succesful consortia in American higher education, Five Colleges, Incorporated. Through the consortium, we offer students enrolled in any of our schools a number of Five College opportunities to enrich and expand their educational, cultural, and social experiences:

open cross registration: taking classes at any of the schools, free of charge and for credit
open borrowing: a Five College database of holdings gives students and faculty easy access, both electronically and in person, to five distinguished libraries with a combined collection in excess of nine million volumes
a Five College online course catalog
opportunities to study with 2,000 faculty in the five colleges combined
Five College Departments of Astronomy and Dance and a range of Five College Programs
Open auditions for theater
Opportunities to perform in a Five College Choral Festival, World Music Festival

Registration Deadline: September 30, 2005
Click here to register on-line.

For more information about the many Five College programs, go to www.fivecolleges.edu.

For more information about the College Board Forum, go to www.collegeboard.com/forum

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