Five College Consortium

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.

Five Colleges hosts national consortium leadership institute

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.

Five Colleges initiates Certificate Program in Queer and Sexuality Studies

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.