Because of the all-campus day of dialogue at Amherst College on Friday, November 2, the Five College colloquium scheduled to take place that day at Amherst will be rescheduled. A new date will be announced at this website soon.
All Five College offices and member campuses are closed on Monday, October 29, due to Hurricane Sandy. PVTA Five College buses will operate on a mid-semester holiday schedule; be prepared for delays, detours, or cancellations. Please check back with this page for further announcements.
The Five College Blue Sky Sustainability Initiative, a year-long process that began with nearly 500 brainstormed ideas and will end with up to a handful of projects for campuses to pursue, is turning to students and faculty members to help narrow the field.
To celebrate the inception of its new database—the Japan Artists Information Directory (JAID)—the Five College Center for East Asian Studies invites the public to Aki Matsuri (Fall Festival), a series of cultural events taking place in October. The events are a workshop on Japanese Aesthetics of Sound and Movement, a reception and a showcase of JAID artists, and a concert featuring renowned musicians Masayo Ishigure and James Nyoraku Schlefer.
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass.—The following events will be held at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, 83 College St., on the Mount Holyoke College campus unless otherwise noted. All events are free, open to the public and fully handicapped accessible.
Following recommendations from the Massachusetts Department of Health, Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges and UMass Amherst have lifted the curfew on dusk to dawn activities activities that had been initiated as a precaution against mosquito-borne illnesses such as eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). The Massachusetts Department of Health had instructed campuses that curfews could be lifted after the first hard frost of the season, which would be expected to kill all mosquitos.
The Nature Conservancy and Five Colleges, Inc., team up to make improvements to Hawley Bog Preserve in northwestern Massachusetts.
HAWLEY, MA - A volunteer team is repairing a boardwalk that provides access into a popular nature preserve in western Franklin County that has long served as an educational laboratory.
The Nature Conservancy and Five Colleges, Inc., team up to make improvements to Hawley Bog Preserve in northwestern Massachusetts.
Visionary leadership, measurable outcomes and strategic planning will be the stuff of the second annual Association for Consortium Leadership Summer Institute, hosted by Five Colleges, Inc., in Amherst, Massachusetts from June 24 to 27.
Beginning in fall, 2012, Five College students will be able to enroll in the consortium’s Queer and Sexuality Studies Program. The new program examines connections between sexual and gender identities and the community in a variety of historical and political contexts by providing a formal course of study in critical race and transnational studies, the arts and humanities and the social and natural sciences.