Five College News
Five College Multicultural Theater presents the WORD! Festival of staged student readings
WORD!, an annual presentation of student-written scripts dealing with issues of race and diversity, will be presented Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. at New Africa House at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The event is free and open to the public.
Symposia to showcase research by Five College students
Five College students and community members are invited to attend several student symposia taking place throughout the month of April. Undergraduate students will be presenting their research in anthropology, ethnomusicology, geology and marine sciences. Their presentations offer a unique opportunity to see the work of students from all five campuses within a single discipline.
Five College students to describe how learning a language helped them achieve their goals
Linking Languages and Careers, The Fourth Annual Five College Student Language Symposium
April 5, 3:00—5:30 p.m. Franklin Patterson Hall, West Lecture Hall, Hampshire College
African Studies Community Dinner being held at Hampshire College
Thursday, March 28, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Red Barn, Hampshire College
African food, music and conversation will be abundant at the Five College African Studies Community Dinner on March 28 at 5:30 at Hampshire College’s Red Barn. The Five College African Studies Council has sponsored the event for the past several years to connect students and faculty interested in African Studies.
Five College Jazz Festival to feature quality, quantity and variety
Friday, March 29, 2:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Blanchard Campus Center, Mount Holyoke College
PoetryFest features leading student poets from each of the five campuses
The 17th Annual Five College PoetryFest will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry in Robert Frost Library at Amherst College. The event is free and open to the public.
Ray Rennard named new Five College Academic Programs Director
Dr. Ray Rennard, a professor and administrator at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, has been named Five College’s new director of academic programs.
Hampshire Gallery exhibition highlights works of Five College students
December 10–13, Hampshire College Art Gallery; reception Dec. 12, 6–8 p.m.
Artwork of students from each Five College campus will be on display at the Hampshire College Art Gallery from December 10 through December 13 in a show entitled, “It’s not about space, it’s about space.”
Five Colleges, PVTA, towns reach agreement to increase bus payments
A proposal by the Five College Consortium to increase its annual payment to the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority by a total of $250,000 over the next four years has been accepted by PVTA and area municipalities.
PVTA’s costs are covered with a combination of federal and state subsidies, payments from towns and cities, and passenger fares. Since 1979 Five Colleges has agreed to pay PVTA the town portion of the cost of bus routes that include its campuses. This has been with the understanding that, to encourage bus use, Five College students do not have to pay fares.