Yearbook REPORT ON 2014–2015

Amherst College | | | | University of Massachusetts Amherst Reflections on the Year ...... 2

Accomplish...... 4

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Table of Enrich...... 8 Contents Experiment...... 10 Value...... 11

COVER Top: A visitor to the Hampshire College Gallery, a member of Museums10; Bottom: students at Hack Holyoke, hosted by Mount Holyoke (photo: Major League Hacking). INSIDE COVER Clockwise from top left: Multicultural Theater Conference 2015 (photo: Francis Phan); Agnes Kimokoti mentoring Swahili (photo: Nancy Palmieri); the Hampshire Inter-Library Center, circa 1952. By the time this issue of the Yearbook, covering our 2014–15 fiscal year, goes to press, Five Colleges will be celebrating its 50th year of incorporation. It’s worth noting that the eve of our 50th anniversary marked 100 years of collaboration among Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith and UMass. In 1914 these campuses joined with the International YMCA College (now Springfield College) to form the Committee on Uni- versity Extension of the Connecticut Valley Colleges and to develop higher-ed programming for the region’s residents. Among those early collaborations were the following:

The campuses began allowing students to cross-register for courses in the 1930s; in 2014–15 students took more than 5,200 courses on other campuses.

The first shared faculty member was hired in 1948 in economics; in 2014–15 we recruited our newest joint appointees—Felicity Aulino (in medical anthropology), Jean Jaminet (in architectural studies) and Conor Peterson (in art and technology)—to join 35 other continuing joint appointees in fall 2015.

The Hampshire Inter-Library Center opened in 1951, providing a framework for sharing subscriptions and collections and giving students full access to the libraries on all four campuses; the number of print volumes avail- Reflections able in the consortium libraries now totals some 12 million, with millions of additional electronic files also accessible. on the Year The inter-campus bus system was born in 1961 with the campuses operating a limo, a station wagon and a couple of vans; in 2014–15 the Five College bus system operated by the regional transit authority provided 1 million rides.

Not every initiative continues—the radio program the campuses created in the 1920s as a distance learning experiment lasted only a year or so—but the many that do remain remind us of the strength and endurance of our campuses’ commitments to improving the lives and educations of their students through collaboration.

With energy, persistence, innovation and flexibility, our consortium is well positioned for continued success for at least the next 50 years.

Neal B. Abraham Executive Director

Clockwise from top left: Five College Bus riders, 2014; 4 Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. Four College Bus riders, circa 1964; the Hampshire College library, 2015. Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. 2 Each year the campuses jointly pursue new opportunities for accomplishment. They may be exploring potential programs or developing events to celebrate achievements in research or the performing arts.

Some of the most exciting initiatives undertaken during the past year are being funded by 10 grants totaling more than $3 million. Of that, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given $2 million to fund innovations in language teaching. This effort is sweeping in its scope, covering faculty fellowships, curriculum development, enhanced use of technology and video conferencing, and expanded presence in many languages. Accomplish Included among the consortium’s other grants are funds to expand emergency preparedness capacity, promote peace education between the United States and Japan and hold 10 New grants 30 Open grants a summer institute on Native Americans of New England. This year also saw events that come around only once Value of new grants Value of open grants every few years, such as the Five College Choral Festival, $3,265,686 $13,950,657 which culminates in hundreds of student voices joining together in one song, and the Jazz Festival, featuring a dozen bands from the campuses and beyond. NEW GRANTS WERE RECEIVED Whatever each year’s accomplishments bring, they continue FROM THE FOLLOWING FUNDERS to keep the consortium relevant and engaged with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation campus communities it represents. Community Foundation of Davis Educational Foundation Freeman Foundation Longview Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities Paul and Edith Babson Foundation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services United States-Japan Foundation

6 Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. Top: Jazz Festival 2015; Bottom: Choral Festival 2015 (photos: Ben Barnhart). Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. 4 Cooperation to develop economic sustainability within Five Colleges takes several forms. It helps our campuses carry out existing endeavors less expensively, expands programs without increasing costs and makes affordable opportunities that had been beyond reach. Examples of each are easy to find.

Compliance and risk management, through which the four college campuses share efforts in claims administration, loss prevention, risk management and insurance, has saved more than $20 million over the past 20 years. Economize Hiring full-time professors to teach courses in new disciplines can be beyond the financial grasp of a campus. Annual savings from shared Thanks to the consortium’s Joint Faculty and Faculty $2,114,500 administrative operations Exchange programs, 80 professors taught 160 courses on multiple campuses last year, allowing the campuses to expand their curricula at an affordable cost. Courses taught by 80 professors 160 on multiple campuses By pooling their online collections into a single database, our campus museums have created a collection of tens of thousands of digitized objects, vastly expanding research Museum objects shared jointly online 82,216 opportunities without increasing costs to the museums.

Objects in the Five College 570,000 Library Repository Collection

Average annual campus savings $272,727 from a joint insurance company

Passenger rides on fare-free 1,001,883 Five College bus routes

Top: Five College Professor Michael Klare discussing peace and world security 8 Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. studies; Bottom: the Five College Library Repository at the Bunker. Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. 6 Many Five College efforts evolve to improve the educational experiences of people on our member campuses and beyond. In some cases, the efforts themselves have not evolved but our perspectives of them have, and we have learned to look at long-standing opportunities differently, developing a better understanding of their value.

For example, our campuses began allowing cross-registration of courses decades before the consortium was incorporated, and the big numbers we track are impressive: more than 5,000 courses are now taken each year by students going to other campuses. But there are smaller numbers that are impressive as well, such as 42. That’s the percentage by which Amherst College’s course offerings were expanded by its students taking advantage of courses at the other four campuses last year. Enrich Some numbers, impressive in themselves, become astounding when we consider their broader impact. Three Five College initiatives—Museums10, the Schools 284 Student enroll- 23 Student symposia, Partnership and the Center for East Asian Studies—saw ments in 38 less commonly performances and a total of nearly 900 K–12 educators take advantage of taught languages presentations offerings ranging from two-hour webinars to semester-long professional learning communities. Add to that the thou- 493 Faculty 125 Five College sands of students with whom these educators interact, members involved certificates awarded and we begin to grasp the impact of such efforts. in Five College programs 117 Five College Other numbers prove to be beyond our ability to tally, 896 K–12 teachers Fellows since 1989 such as the number of students who go to other campuses reached through profes- to join clubs, use the libraries, meet new friends and in sional development 186,000+ general enrich their higher education experiences. But Exhibition attendees at enrichment, almost by definition, is often beyond our Museums10 institutions ability to quantify. It’s something we have to experience to fully appreciate.

Percentage by which each campus’ course offerings were expanded by cross-registration

AC 42% MHC 105% UM 11%

HC 227% SC 49% Top: Center for East Asian Studies teacher workshop at Historic Deerfield (photo: Ben Barnhart); Bottom: Five College postdoctoral fellows Catherine 10 Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. Chou, Valeria Jimenez and Lokeilani Kaimana (photo: Paul Schnaittacher). Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. 8 Pooling efforts while sharing costs can create a fertile environment for trying new ideas. Even before the consortium was formed, our campuses collaborated on new ideas—offering course instruction over the radio in 1922, drafting a blueprint for a new college in 1958. Notable innovations over the past year pushed the digital limits in research and teaching.

Take the Blended Learning Initiative. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Teagle Foundation, Five Colleges has brought together faculty and staff members to create courses that combine face-to-face interaction with self-paced, online learning that can occur outside the classroom. We support those courses with project funding and technical assistance. Experiment In 2011 Five Colleges launched a Mellon Foundation–funded effort to encourage projects and initiatives in the “digital humanities”—a term used to describe scholars integrating technology into their research. Over the past year, in Faculty members engaged addition to supporting new research efforts, the consortium’s in Blended Learning projects 142 Digital Humanities Program also emphasized helping researchers develop assessment methods for their efforts. Students, professors and staff members 102 involved in Bridging classes and events As with Blended Learning and Digital Humanities, the Five College Bridging Initiative in the Public and Applied Humanities has become an established program that each Disciplines represented in 36 Digital Humanities initiatives semester yields innovative approaches to education. Over the past year, 19 courses were taught through the initiative across the five campuses, linking undergraduate work in the liberal arts with graduate and professional work at UMass.

Top: UMass classicist Eric Poehler discussing Pompeii at a Five College Blended Learning workshop; Bottom: Digital Humanities Undergraduate Fellow Coralie Pardo 12 Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. (photos: Ben Barnhart). Five College Yearbook 2014–2015 | fivecolleges edu. 10 Governance and Leadership Groups of ken through ses Ta Cros our s-re Five Colleges, Incorporated, 2014–15 C gis of tra ue tio al n Darcy Buerkle, Director, Five College Women’s V Officers of the Corporation INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORS Studies Research Center gional Transp f Re orta Carolyn Martin, President David Hamilton, Chief Information Officer, Elizabeth Carmichael, Director, Five College e o tio Jonathan Lash, Vice President alu n Amherst College Compliance and Risk Management V Neal B. Abraham, Clerk John Manly, Director of Systems and Networking, Hilary Caws-Elwitt, Information Technology Analyst Barbara Lucey, Treasurer Amherst College Sue Dickman, Academic Programs Liaison llaborative Adm Yvette Morneau, Assistant Treasurer Bob Crowley, Director of Information Technology, Barkha Dwivedi, Hindi Mentor, Five College Center Annual Return Co inis Hampshire College of tra BOARD OF DIRECTORS for the Study of World Languages ue tio Alex Wirth-Cauchon, Chief Information Officer Nancy Eckert, Business Office Coordinator al n Carolyn Martin, President, Amherst College on Investment V and Executive Director of Library, Suzan Edwards, Chair, Five College Income a Jonathan Lash, President, Hampshire College Information and Technology Services, ent nd O Astronomy Department $42 million wm th Lynn Pasquerella, President, Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Jessica Egan, Coordinator, Five College Blended do er Kathleen McCartney, President, Smith College n R David Powicki, Director of Technical Infrastructure Learning Instructional Technology E e Kumble Subbaswamy, Chancellor, UMass Amherst , v and Systems Support, Mount Holyoke College s Nancy Goff, Director of Development t e Robert Caret, President, University of Massachusetts David Gregory, Chief Information Officer, n n Criss Guy, Postbaccalaureate for Blended Learning u Neal B. Abraham, Executive Director, a Smith College (Convener) r e Kyla Hakim, Developer for Advising and Information Five Colleges, Incorporated G Julie Buehler, Vice Chancellor for Information Resources and Strategies, Five College Center Services and Strategy and Chief Information for the Study of World Languages Board Committees Officer, UMass Amherst Ida Hay, Depository Assistant, Five College Campus Investment Heidi Dollard, Associate Chief Information Officer, Library Depository AUDIT COMMITTEE UMass Amherst Agnes Kimokoti, Swahili Mentor, Five College Center $8.5 million Carolyn Martin, President, Amherst College Chris Misra, Associate Chief Information Officer for the Study of World Languages Kevin Weinman, Treasurer, Amherst College for Security and Executive Director of Kevin Kennedy, Director of Communications Jonathan Lash, President, Hampshire College Networking, UMass Amherst Stacie Kroll, Insurance and Claims Specialist, Maria Toyofuku, Information Technology Director, Five College Compliance and Risk Management INVESTMENT COMMITTEE Five Colleges, Incorporated Linda Kurowski, Depository Associate, Mauricia Geissler, Chief Investment Officer, PRINCIPAL STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICERS Five College Library Depository Amherst College Suzanne Coffey, Chief Student Affairs Officer, Susan Lander, Information Technology Specialist Shannon Gurek, Vice President for Finance Amherst College Sarah Lince, Coordinator for Academic Programs and Administration and Treasurer, Byron McCrae, Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara Lucey, Treasurer Mount Holyoke College and Dean of Students, Hampshire College Julie Martyn, Staff Accountant Joint Faculty Appointees Joint Library Programs Ruth Constantine, Vice President for Finance Cerri Banks, Vice President for Student Affairs and Elizabeth Mazzocco, Director, Five College Center and Administration, Smith College Dean of the College, Mount Holyoke College for the Study of World Languages (Fall 2014) (Fall 2014, serving as retired thereafter) Donna Lisker, Dean of the College and Vice Rogelio Miñana, Director, Five College Blending Neal B. Abraham, Executive Director, President for Campus Life, Smith College Learning Initiatives Transportation Five Colleges, Incorporated Value Enku Gelaye, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Yvette Morneau, Business Manager and Barbara Lucey, Treasurer, Five Colleges, Incorporated and Campus Life, UMass Amherst Assistant Treasurer Yvette Morneau, Assistant Treasurer and Marie Muir, Administrative Assistant for Five College Business Manager, Five Colleges, Incorporated LIBRARY DIRECTORS Academic Programs and Communications 45% 6% Gwendolyn Niven, Dance Production Assistant, FCN & IT Administration Bryn Geffert, Librarian of the College, 7% Amherst College Five College Dance Department Leadership Groups Jennifer Gunter King, Director of the Library, Taliesin Nyala, Communications Specialist for Five Colleges and Museums10 DEANS COUNCIL Hampshire College (Chair) Alex Wirth-Cauchon, Chief Information Officer Marisa Parham, Director, Five College Digital Catherine Epstein, Dean of the Faculty, and Executive Director of Library Humanities Program 7% Amherst College (Chair) Information, and Technology Services, Luke Phelan, Student Learning Assessment Specialist Eva Rueschmann, Vice President for Academic Mount Holyoke College Anne Prescott, Director, Five College Center for Community Outreach Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Hampshire College Christopher Loring, Director of Libraries, East Asian Studies Sonya Stephens, Vice President for Academic Affairs Smith College Nayiree Roubinian, Program Coordinator, 1% and Dean of Faculty, Mount Holyoke College Jay Schafer, Director of Libraries, UMass Amherst Five College Women’s Studies Research Center How campus Katherine Rowe, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Elke Ryan, Catering Assistant Smith College There are many other important Five College Randy Sexton, Five College Messenger (Spring 2015) investments General Administration Joseph O’Rourke, Associate Provost and Dean for administrative committees, peer groups and Marla Solomon, Director, Five College Academic Development, Smith College advisory groups (usually without chairs), and there Partnership Programs are spent 15% Katherine Newman, Senior Vice Chancellor for are many academic councils and program steering Nate Therien, Director for Academic Programs Academic Affairs and Provost, UMass Amherst committees that have chairs, directors or coordinators Rebecca Thomas, Program Assistant, Five College Betsy Dumont, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, $8.5 million who are continuing faculty members employed at Center for the Study of World Languages UMass Amherst the campuses and who are appointed to those roles Liz Tiley, Program Coordinator, Five College PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OFFICERS by the Five College deans. Learning in Retirement Program Maria Toyofuku, Director of Information Technology Kevin Weinman, Treasurer, Amherst College Megan Valcour, Administrative Assistant, Mark Spiro, Vice President for Finance and Consortium Staff Members, Five College Compliance and Risk Management 4% Administration, Hampshire College (Fall 2014) Joanna Faraby Walker, Administrative Coordinator, Sandra Chessey, Vice President for Finance and 2014–2015 Five College Dance Department Administrative Neal B. Abraham, Executive Director Administration, Hampshire College (Spring 2015) Susan Waltner, Chair, Five College Dance Department Carol Aleman, Assistant to the Executive Director Shannon Gurek, Vice President for Finance and Amy Wordelman, Interim Director, Five College 14% John Bator, Gardener Administration and Treasurer, Center for the Study of World Languages Mount Holyoke College Jean Baxter, Dance Production Manager, Ruth Constantine, Vice President for Finance and Five College Dance Department Administration, Smith College (Fall 2014) Rick Beaudry, Five College Messenger (Fall 2014) Academic Michael Howard, Vice President for Finance and Cynthia Bright, Program Coordinator, Five College Administration, Smith College (Spring 2015) Coastal and Marine Sciences Program James Sheehan, Vice Chancellor for Administration Melinda Buckwalter, Program Assistant, and Finance, UMass Amherst (Chair) Five College Center for East Asian Studies COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMS

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