Yearbook Report on 2011–2012

amherst | hampshire | mount holyoke | smith | umass amherst www.fivecolleges.edu | 1 Five College Consortium Timeline

1910 1914 Committee on University Extension of the Connecticut Valley Colleges is established 1922 1920 to offer extension courses in Committee on University the Pioneer Valley. Extension sponsors the country’s first courses taught over radio.

1958 1951 The New College Plan: 1950 Four College Library coopera- A Proposal for a Major tion begins with the creation 1957 Departure in Higher Education 1959 of the Hampshire Inter-Library 1956 First coordinator of Four College recommends the establishment First joint department, Loan Center (HILC), a shared, First joint appointment, in affairs, Sidney R. Packard, of a fifth, experimental college astronomy, is established. circulating serials collection. statistics is created. begins term. in the Pioneer Valley. There are now two departments.

1966 1965 1960 Four Colleges, Incorporated Four Colleges, Incorporated is becomes Five Colleges, created. The campuses assist 1960 Incorporated after Hampshire with planning and fund-raising WFCR (Four College Radio) College joins. for a new college. 1979 begins broadcasting. Consortium provides subsidies to Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA) for free transportation for students and campus employees on 1973 1978–79 Five College bus routes. 1970 Student cross registration Five College Dance 1970 without additional fee or Department is established; Neill Endowment of $1million Hampshire College admits inter-campus reimbursement operated previously as Five is established by private donor its first students. is approved. College Council on Dance. to support visiting scholars.

1989 1985 1980 Center for the Study of World First joint certificate (minor), Languages, focusing on less international relations, 1980 commonly studied languages, is established. There are now Five College office moves to is founded. 15 certificate programs. 97 Spring Street, Amherst, a house owned by Amherst College near its campus.

1999 1990 Five College Library Depository 1990 1993 is created in Amherst College – National Endowment for the Five College Women’s Studies owned bunker in the Mount Humanities and matching Research Center is launched. Holyoke Range. funds create $1 million endowment for joint faculty appointments and faculty development. 2007 53-mile, high-speed fiber optic 2000 network linking the campuses 2005 to one another and to high- First joint major, film speed Internet providers in studies, is established. Springfield is completed. There are now two majors.

2011 2010 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides a $1.5 million endowment to fund academic support positions.

2 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 theme of the year: Sustainability

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Reflections on the Year...... 3 What Is Five Colleges?...... 4 Theme of the Year: Sustainability . 5 Academic Collaborations. 7 Administrative Collaborations...... 18 Student Life...... 23 Community Connections . 24 Governance/Administration...... Inside back cover

Financial information can be viewed in the online version of the Yearbook at www.fivecolleges.edu/consortium/publications. www.fivecolleges.edu | 1 2 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 Reflections on the Year

By contrast, there are also times when we simply need to set up an experiment and see what it has to show us, as was the case with improving the bus systems for student use. A common reason given by students for not taking courses at other campuses has been the travel time required to attend such courses. We decided to reduce travel times in 2011–2012 by tweaking bus schedules and adding buses to see if such moves could improve bus rider- ship and cross registration. The experiments paid off, with ridership increasing 5 percent and cross-registration numbers increasing nearly 4 percent over the previous year. But experiments are also successful when they show us what won’t work. Hundreds of Five College students each year work on academically related projects in Holyoke, but the lack of convenient public transportation has been an obstacle and other transportation options have been expensive. Last fall we supported PVTA in launching new bus runs linking UMass, Amherst, Hampshire and Mount Holyoke with downtown Holyoke, and UMass and Smith with downtown Holyoke with others. Unfortunately, neither attracted the ridership necessary to maintain the routes, but because of the experiment we were able to design alternatives for 2013–2014. As described later in this yearbook, intiatives that link the liberal arts with professional education and that bring digital tools and digital resources to the L eft photo : K evin K ennedy ive Colleges’ 2011–12 year ended with a significant event for humanities have generated tremendous interest from students and faculty higher-education consortia around the country. In June we host- members. What we learn from these Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–funded ed the Association for Consortium Leadership’s second Summer programs will inform our broader, long-term efforts. Institute in Consortium Leadership, at which 40 attendees and Although not an experiment, a new experience for the consortium in leaders from 21 consortia met for three and a half days in work- 2011–2012 was hosting an American Council on Education (ACE) fellow. shops exploring strategic planning, communications, leadership and financial Over the course of the year Rosemary Feal, the executive director of the Mod- ; A bove : nancy P F strategies. Perhaps the most important aspect of the Leadership Institute is its ern Language Association of America, worked with our campus presidents, existence: it means higher education recognizes the value of consortia enough deans, business officers and me, learning our methods of collaboration and that an association of them — with 68 institutional members — exists, and offering valuable insights from her own perspective.

almieri that it has created an institute to foster future leaders. And finally, a note about this publication. As we investigate the best way The year was an important one for Five Colleges as well. On the academic to communicate the work of our member campuses, sometimes the traditional front, we ushered in our 14th and 15th certificate programs — in sustain- trumps the state-of-the-art. After four years of publishing our annual report ability studies and in queer and sexuality studies — and our second major, in online, we’ve decided to return it to print (as well as PDF) and rechristen it as a architectural studies. Launching the programs and major was the culmination yearbook, giving it a broader perspective than it had as an annual report, with of years of work by faculty members and administrators to determine student more information about our many programs, an article reviewing many of the needs and develop the best means for addressing them. year’s efforts and a piece describing the Five College consortium. I hope this updated format and the information it presents offer you a better understand- ing of the role the consortium plays in helping our campuses carry out their missions. For even greater depth and breadth of information, visit our website, www.fivecolleges.edu. We look forward to continuing carrying out the mission of our almost- 50-year-old consortium: “to sustain and enrich the excellence of our institu- tions — Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst — through academic and administra- tive collaboration. The consortium facilitates intellectual communities and broad curricular and cocurricular offerings, affording learning, research, performance and social opportunities that complement the distinctive quali- ties of each institution.” Neal Abraham Executive Director and Five College Professor of Physics

www.fivecolleges.edu | 3 What Is Five Colleges?

Five Colleges, Incorporated represents many things to many people. The cost — and value — To some, it means being able to take a free bus to a class on another campus. For others, it represents getting the fund- of collaboration ing they need to pursue research with colleagues at other schools. For yet others, it means having access to some 9 million library volumes they can search and order online. Each campus contributes about Students, faculty members and administrators have many potential points of contact with the consortium; any $1 million to consortium operations dozen people represent a dozen perspectives on what the consortium is and does. One way to begin to understand its and shared costs, and together workings is to think of its efforts as falling into two categories: helping campuses share resources that may be unique to they provide $1.4 million to support one institution and helping campuses pool resources to accomplish something that none could do alone. the home-campus portions of the The thinking behind sharing resources is straightforward: whenever possible, make available to people from the nearly 40 joint faculty appointments other four campuses that which you provide to people on your own campus. Thus, students at any one institution may shared by various institutions. The enroll in courses on other campuses, borrow books from other libraries and eat in other dining commons. Although the consortium has an endowment resources being shared belong to the home institutions, the consortium ensures that such sharing happens smoothly by of about $10 million, which in building cooperation, in these cases among the registrars, librarians and dining-service directors. 2011–2012 provided $$565,000 to One of the things that set apart Five Colleges from most higher-education consortia is the extent to which our cam- support various Five College initia- puses pool their resources to achieve collectively what might not be feasible individually. Dozens of initiatives — most of tives. The consortium also garners which are noted in this publication — spring from this principle, and from the hard work of the people of the campuses (and spends) about $2 million in and of the consortium. external grants each year. This makes Consortium employees, of whom there are 38 in full-time positions, work on one of the campuses or at the Five the total cash outlay for consortium College center in downtown Amherst, or, in some cases, at more than one site. The one-time home of children’s book operations about $9 million. In-kind authors Howard and Lillian Garis, our 97 Spring Street center houses the consortium’s offices for information technology, contributions, such as offices for business, development, communications, academic programs and the Schools Partnership, in addition to the office of the consortium staff members, support executive director. Almost as important are the center’s two conference rooms, which host some 700 meetings a year of for consortium employees and, most the 120 academic and administrative committees that represent collaboration in action. important, the tuition value of the But Five Colleges isn’t so much a place as it is the many people who help it succeed: the 2,200 faculty members student cross registration for some working to create academic opportunities; the 6,800 staff members exploring ways to operate their campuses more effi- 6,000 courses each year, bring the ciently and effectively; and the 35,000 students who take courses, complete programs, attend parties and befriend each total value of the annual consortium other as if the five colleges were one. Together they represent over 1 trillion possibilities for collaborating to improve operations and services to approxi- individual and collective higher-education experiences. mately $50 million. almieri J im C oleman nancy P

4 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 Theme of the Year: Sustainability Sustainability initiatives mark a busy year at Five Colleges

ustainability was an important theme for the Five College con- to working with and on the Connecticut River. They recruited participants who sortium and its campuses in 2011–2012, with a growing focus looked around the region and the world for answers, turning to environmen- on sustainable operations and management practices, teaching talists, business leaders, community members and officials in area towns and sustainability, and new courses and new degree and certificate developing a partnership with peers in Hamburg, Germany, which was named programs. In a special endeavor we invited members of our five the European Green Capital of 2011. Scommunities to take a step back and brainstorm about new initiatives for the The 18-month project, which concluded in April 2012, featured a design/ entire consortium and our neighboring communities. build contest for creating physical structures to encourage people to interact with the Connecticut River in its Massachusetts communities. Finalists were Transportation selected for installations in Springfield, Holyoke, Hadley and Turners Falls. “The Developing and maintaining an efficient means of getting students and Riverscaping design/build competition submissions ranged from landscape employees to campuses and downtowns has been a longstanding goal, and design, to architecture, to sculpture and came from as far away as India,” said a significant success, of the consortium. Decades ago, the consortium decided Thom Long, Five College assistant professor of architecture, who along with to end its private inter-campus Five College buses and form a partnership Karen Koehler, professor of architectural and art history at Hampshire, and with the regional transit authority. With this in mind, Five College Executive Frank Sleegers, assistant professor of landscape architecture at UMass, led the Director Neal Abraham is now working with bus officials from UMass Transit effort. “The projects gave our jury and committee members an amazing array and the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority to explore opportunities for moving of ideas to bring to the community,” Long said. “The four projects selected for more riders more efficiently among the campuses. In part, the goal has been construction are sure to have a continuing impact on their respective cities.” to find convenient ways of matching bus schedules to student needs for ar- Riverscaping’s final component was an international conference on the riving conveniently before a class begins and being able to leave shortly after art, history and science of the river that took place on the campuses and that class ends. included Five College students and faculty members, sustainability leaders The answers came in a variety of simple adjustments. In some cases, it from around the world, and a keynote address by the celebrated environmen- was a matter of adjusting the current Five College bus schedules to match tal artist Christo. class schedules, such as shortening the travel times between UMass and In another project with green themes, faculty members are collaborating Mount Holyoke (via Hampshire and Amherst). In other cases, the answer to link undergraduate coursework in the environment and sustainability with was to add nonstop bus runs, particularly on the underserved route between the university’s graduate and professional programs in sustainability science, Smith and Mount Holyoke. By September 2011, a dozen express runs landscape architecture, regional planning and environmental conservation. between Smith and Mount Holyoke had been added, shortening average trips It is one of several similar linking efforts that are part of a four-year initiative by 20 minutes. Another strategy was arranging for a new express bus route funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. connecting UMass, Amherst, Hampshire and Mount Holyoke to community- A longer-term consortium initiative is the Five College Sustainability service sites in Holyoke. These changes were widely promoted with press Studies Certificate Program, launched in 2011–2012 with the approval of releases and announcements on the nancy P consortium and campus websites and in bus shelters. almieri As a result of these changes, ridership on the new Smith to Mount Holyoke route has increased steadily since it was added, and annual rider- ship on all Five College bus routes increased 5 percent, to more than 1 million rides over the academic year.

Classroom and Community The Riverscaping Project, funded in large part by the European Union Delegation to the United States, combined academic exploration with artistic expression and environmental awareness. It was led by members of the Five College Architectural Studies Program, who set a goal of helping communities in the Pioneer Valley find creative, sustainable approaches A student participates in a Riverscaping exercise.

www.fivecolleges.edu | 5 THEME OF THE YEAR: Sustainability

three campuses. This is the outgrowth of a set of sustainability initiatives, including a sustainability-themed lecture Campus Sustainability series, a website of related course offerings and faculty members, and the development of the certificate, begun under Highlights the leadership of Five College Sustainability Programs Coordinator Beth Hooker. To complete the certificate, a student takes courses on various of the five campuses in humanistic, social scientific and scientific aspects of sustainability and Amherst completes a capstone project. The certificate identifies five concentration areas for elective study matching Five College Organized and hosted the Thoreau faculty expertise: in agriculture and food systems; energy, climate and water; culture, history and representation; politics Foundation–funded Workshop and policy; and green infrastructure, design and technology. in Environmental Leadership, a Jan Dizard, professor of sociology and American studies at Amherst, was an organizer of a January 2012 January-term course open to all Five environmental civic activism workshop that will be continuing as a Five College initiative in January 2013. A member College students. of the certificate program’s steering committee, Dizard believes such efforts within higher education are critical. “The search for sustainability is something campuses around the country are really going to have to get behind,” he says. Hampshire “We can make an impression, we can make a dent, as a result of the five institutions collaborating.” Formalized its Sustainability Initia- tive, exploring opportunities for The Big Picture sustainable change in all aspects of Even with all this going on, the campus life; initiated the Food, Farm, Five College Board of Directors and Sustainability Institute as a sum- decided to explore whether much mer program for students. more in the area of sustainability could be accomplished through the Mount Holyoke consortium. So we began a process Established five environmental to collect from campus members indicators to measure energy use, suggestions, ideas and fully devel- greenhouse-gas emissions, recycling oped proposals for incorporating rate, campus land use and storm- sustainability into the campuses, the water management, which will be consortium and our neighboring presented to the trustees annually. communities. On the premise that no idea could be too far-fetched, Smith the effort was labeled the Blue Sky Unveiled the Building Dashboard, Sustainability Initiative. Ideas were an interactive technology that collected between February and enables students, faculty members April in campus meetings and at the and alumnae to view, from any Five College website. computer, the level of energy and “The fact that we received water use in campus houses and more than 500 ideas — from buildings. students, faculty members and staff members at all five campuses and UMass Amherst from members of our neighbor- Expanded the permaculture gardens ing communities — tells us that project — winner of the White House developing sustainable practices Campus Champions of Change is important to our campuses and Challenge — to serve all four dining communities, and therefore worthy commons; UMass Student Farming of joint action by the five institutions Enterprise opened a farmers market through the consortium,” says Neal in the Campus Center. Abraham, executive director of Five Colleges, Incorporated. For more on consortium and Beth Hooker, first as the Five College Sustainability Programs coordinator and currently as sustainability initiative campus sustainability efforts, visit director for Hampshire College, coordinated efforts to organize and prioritize the wealth of ideas into six subject areas. www.fivecolleges.edu/sustain. Then, over the summer of 2012, faculty members, staff members and students from the five campuses split into teams to review proposals in particular areas: Academic Programs, Energy and Green Buildings, Food and Land Use/Land Con- servation, Transportation, Waste Reduction, and Water/Other. During 2012–2013, teams are researching the advantages in reduced climate impact and educational opportunities for each of 18 semifinalist proposals. “Our main goal with the Blue Sky Initiative is to use the best thinking of our faculty members, staff members and students to identify the best opportunities to reduce the impact of our campuses on the environment, through op- portunities that engage our students and develop sustainable practices that could also save our campuses money,” says Abraham. The same could be said for each of the sustainability efforts pursued by the consortium over the past year.

6 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 J udith R oberge Academic Collaborations

s can be seen in this section, academic collaborations within Five Colleges take many forms, from sharing faculty members to funding seminars and developing curricula in Aspecialized fields. Joint Faculty Appointments Through Joint Faculty Appointments, campuses share specialized instruction they might not be able to afford to accomplish alone while preserving the breadth of the curriculum as faculty members retire or leave. Since the program’s beginning, in 1956, some 80 joint appointments have been made and 28 were current in 2011–12. Guidelines for joint faculty positions can be found at the Resources for Joint Faculty Appointees website: www.fivecolleges.edu/faculty/joint_faculty. Five College joint faculty appointee Suk Massey with a student. Name Field Home campus Other participating campuses Heba Arafah Arabic Mount Holyoke All campuses Abdelkader Berrahmoun Arabic Smith All campuses Fumiko Brown Japanese Amherst Mount Holyoke Richard Chu History/Pacific Empires and University All campuses Asian Pacific American Studies Jane Hwang Degenhardt English/Renaissance University All campuses Evgeny Dengub Russian Amherst Mount Holyoke Robert Eisenstein Music/Early Music Mount Holyoke UMass Amherst; Director, Five College Early Music Program Sergey Glebov History/Russia Smith Amherst Mohamed El-Sawi Hassan Arabic Amherst All campuses Constance Valis Hill Dance/History Hampshire All campuses Baba Hillman Film Studies/Production Hampshire Amherst, UMass Mohammed Jiyad (on leave 2011–12) Asian Studies/Arabic Mount Holyoke All campuses Nahla Khalil Arabic University All campuses Michael Klare Peace and World Security Studies Hampshire All campuses Elizabeth Klarich (on leave spring 2012) Latin American Archaeology Smith Amherst, Mount Holyoke Thom Long Architecture and Design Hampshire Amherst, Mount Holyoke Suk Massey Korean Smith All campuses Bernadine Mellis Film Studies/Production Mount Holyoke Smith, UMass Marilyn Middleton-Sylla Dance Smith Amherst, Mount Holyoke Catharine Newbury (on leave spring 2012) Government/African Studies Smith All campuses Bode Omojola Ethnomusicology Mount Holyoke All campuses Sujani Reddy (on leave 2011–12) American Studies/ Amherst All campuses Asian Pacific American Studies J. Michael Rhodes Geology University All campuses Nadya Sbaiti Middle Eastern History Smith Mount Holyoke Teresa Shawcross Medieval History Amherst Mount Holyoke John Slepian Art and Technology Hampshire Smith Jon Western International Relations/US Diplomacy Mount Holyoke All campuses Angela Willey Feminist Science Studies University Hampshire, Mount Holyoke

www.fivecolleges.edu | 7 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS Faculty Exchange Through the Five College Faculty Exchange program, campuses borrow faculty members from one another to teach courses not otherwise available. Using expe- rienced Five College full-time professors to cover short-term needs minimizes acclimation challenges, and the 2,200 full-time professors already teaching on the five campuses represent a tremendous depth and breadth for this program. In the 2011–12 academic year, there were 41 exchanges in 24 fields. Field/Program Course Title Professor From To African Studies Capstone Colloquium in African Studies Holly Hanson MHC SC Afro-American Studies African Americans and the Politics of Reparations Christopher Tinson HC SC Anthropology Law, Science & Medicine Jennifer Hamilton HC AC Anthropology Making Class Visible Debbora Battaglia MHC HC Art and Art History Current Issues in Latin American Art Dana Leibsohn SC MHC Art and Art History Digital Photography Kane Stewart HC MHC Art and Art History Digital Photography Kane Stewart HC MHC Art and Art History Introduction to Art History: Asia Ajay Sinha MHC SC Astronomy Astrobiology Darby Dyar MHC HC Classics Advanced Readings in Greek Literature Justina Gregory SC AC Computer Science Introduction to Computer Systems Scott Kaplan AC HC Dance Scientific Principles in the Teaching of Dance Terese Freedman MHC SC English Classics of Indian Literature Indira Peterson MHC HC English Old English Stephen Harris UM MHC French The Allegorical Impulse Paul Rockwell AC UM Geology Dynamic Earth J. Michael Rhodes UM MHC German Cinema of East Germany Barton Byg UM SC German Witches: Myth & Reality Kyle Frackman UM AC History American Material Culture Kevin Sweeney AC UM History The Decline and Fall of the Chinese Empire Stephen Platt UM SC History Environmental History Robert Schwartz MHC AC History History as Prophecy Joseph Ellis MHC HC History The Inheritance of Iran: The Iranian World from Richard Payne MHC AC Antiquity to the Middle Ages History National Latin America Joel Wolfe UM SC Italian Elementary Italian Morena Svaldi MHC UM Jewish Studies Israel: Texts & Contexts Justin Cammy SC HC Management Individuals & Organizations Tony Butterfield UM MHC Mathematics Intermediate Statistics Joanna Jeneralczuk UM AC Philosophy Philosophy of Mind Louise Antony UM AC Philosophy Plato’s Republic Jyl Gentzler AC UM Political Science The State and Violence Sayres Rudy HC AC Political Science World Politics Vincent Ferraro MHC UM Political Science World Politics Vincent Ferraro MHC UM Psychology Abnormal Psychology Richard Halgin UM AC Psychology Psychopathology Lisa Raskin AC UM Russian, East European and Russian 20th-century Literature and Film Polina Barskova HC MHC Eurasian Studies Sociology Pierre Bourdieu: Theory and Practice Rick Fantasia SC UM Sociology Sociology of Crime Wenona Rymond-Richmond UM SC Sport Management College Athletics Laurie Priest MHC UM Sport Management College Athletics Laurie Priest MHC UM Women & Gender Studies Gendering Political Economy Nancy Folbre UM AC

8 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

Lorna M. Peterson Prize nancy P The Lorna M. Peterson Prize, established in 2010, supports scholarly and creative work by undergraduate students taking part in Five College programs, almieri and is awarded annually based on nominations from Five College programs. Dr. Peterson served as the executive director of the Five College Consortium from 1990 to 2009. The prize, established by the Five College Board of Direc- tors and her colleagues and friends throughout the consortium, honors her commitment to collaboration as a means of advancing understanding and expanding opportunity, especially for students.

Peterson Prize Recipients Spring 2011 Sarah Vasquez, Frances Perkins Scholar, Mount Holyoke College (Community-Based Learning Program)

Spring 2012 Andrew Fallon, UMass Amherst (Earth systems major working toward a certificate in Coastal and Marine Sciences) Peterson Prize winner Andrew Fallon with Lorna Peterson.

40th Anniversary Professors Initiated in 2005 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the incorporation of the consortium, the 40th Anniversary Professorships honor faculty members whose excel- lence in teaching, scholarship and service is central to cooperation among the Five College institutions. During their three-year appointments, each 40th Anniversary Professor receives an annual research allowance and once during the three years presents a colloquium or public lecture on a topic related to his or her research. For each of those three years, a 40th Anniversary Professor teaches one course at another campus and in return is assigned one course fewer at his or her home campus. Joanne V. Creighton, former president and now a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, was appointed a 40th Anniversary Professor in 2011–12. Five College 40th Anniversary Professors Martha Ackelsberg, Professor of Government, Smith College, 2006–07 David Newbury, Gwendolen Carter Professor of African Studies Debbora Battaglia, Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, (Department of History), Smith College, 2005–06 2010–11 Indira Peterson, David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies, Mount Christopher Benfey, Mellon Professor of English, Mount Holyoke Holyoke College, 2008–09 College, 2005–06 Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Herbert Bernstein, Professor of Physics, Hampshire College, 2010–11 Political Science, Amherst College, 2005–06 Barton Byg, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures in the Joseph Skerrett, Professor of English, UMass Amherst, 2007–08 Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMass Amherst, Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino 2005–06 Culture (Departments of Spanish and European Studies), Amherst John Connolly, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College, 2007–08 College, 2005–06 Joanne V. Creighton, Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College, Ileana Streinu, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Smith 2010–12 College, 2008–09 Joseph J. Ellis, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College, 2009–10 Daniel Warner, Professor of Music in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, Hampshire College, 2005–06

Jackie Pritzen lecture The Jackie Pritzen Lecture was created in spring 1995 in honor of former Five College associate coordinator Jackie Pritzen. The lecture celebrates the teaching and scholarship of faculty members on the five campuses. It is now the practice to have a Five College 40th Anniversary Professor give the Pritzen Lecture.

Jackie Pritzen Lecturers 1995–96: Samba Gadjigo, Mount Holyoke College 2003–04: Wayne Kramer, Hampshire College 1996–97: Murray Kiteley, Smith College 2004–05: Margaret Hunt, Amherst College 1997–98: Nina Scott, UMass Amherst 2005–06: Ilan Stavans, Amherst College 1998–99: Amrita Basu, Amherst College 2005–06: Austin Sarat, Amherst College 1999–00: Alan Goodman, Hampshire College 2006–07: Christopher Benfey, Mount Holyoke College 2000–01: Ralph Faulkingham, UMass Amherst 2007–08: Barton Byg, UMass Amherst 2001–02: Dana Leibsohn, Smith College 2010–11: John Connelly, Smith College 2002–03: Jim Coleman, Mount Holyoke College 2011–12: Indira Peterson, Mount Holyoke College

(Not every year has featured a Jackie Pritzen Lecture.)

www.fivecolleges.edu | 9 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS Five College Academic Events and Programs The consortium sponsors or co-sponsors a variety of events that bring together faculty members, and often students, for academic purposes, such as faculty seminars, speakers, colloquia, symposia, residencies and performances. In 2011–2012, the consortium supported the following events.

Faculty Seminars Geometry Conferences, Colloquia Post-hegemonic Global In 2011–2012, the Faculty Seminar German Studies and Symposia Governance Colloquium, at Program distributed $16,898 in History Five College programs and com- Mount Holyoke College grants to Five College groups that Immigration, Nativism, and the mittees organize events to inform, Responses to a Changing World: brought together faculty mem- Challenge of Pluralism explore and celebrate a wide variety of German Studies in the 21st bers from member institutions to Inter-Asian Political Cultures subjects. They include the following: Century, at Mount Holyoke exchange ideas, read works in International Relations Africa Day, at Smith College College progress and host guest speakers. Italian Studies Acting for French, at Mount Riverscaping Conference In 2011–2012, there were 36 active Literary Translation Holyoke College Rutherford Symposium, at seminars, with expenses ranging Marxist and Postcolonial Discourse American Whistleblower Tour: Smith College from less than $300 to $1,000. Medieval Studies Essential Voices for Accountability, Spanish Women and Cinema, at Afro-Luso-Brazilian Music and Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College, Smith Architectural Studies Native American Indian Studies Arabic Night, at Smith College College and UMass Asian/Pacific/American Studies Number Theory Environment and Empire: At the Student Success Conference, at Atlantic Studies Performance Studies Transition from Antiquity to the UMass Amherst Buddhist Studies Photography Middle Ages, at Amherst College War, Dictatorship, and Memory: Chemistry Propositional Attitudes/ Intersections of Class, Race An International Symposium on Childhood Studies Philosophy and Gender, at Mount Spain, at UMass Amherst Classics Religion Holyoke College Women, Social Justice, Coastal and Marine Sciences Renaissance Learning in Retirement Documentary, at Smith College Eastern Christianity Studies Slavic Studies Sesquicentennial Symposium: Civil Zeytin Winter Workshop, at Economics Social Thought/Political Economy War Causes and Consequences, Amherst College Folklore Statistics at UMass Amherst French Sustainability Women’s Studies alonso nichols A lonso N ichols Five College ethnomusicology artist-in-residence Nani Agbeli, a Ghanaian dancer and musician, performed and taught workshops in April.

10 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

Lecture Series “Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Maylei Blackwell, University of “Global Approaches to Local The following lectures are organized Through MIT’s Male Math California Los Angeles, Political Change in the Middle and funded by Five College Maze,” at Mount Holyoke “Chicana Power” East and North Africa” programs and committees, including College Earl Lovelace, novelist , reading from “Interpreting Water Use and the Five College Lecture Fund, which Residencies Is Just a Movie Conservation at Three distributed $15,975 in funding in Five College residencies bring to the John Borneman, Princeton University, Significant Historic 2011–12. consortium leaders in a variety of “Cultural Anthropology” Agricultural Landscapes” African Studies disciplines who work with students Ron Ferguson, Harvard University, Mapping Asian/Pacific/American Anthropology in tutorials and classes and present “Closing the Achievement Gap in Studies (planning the Astronomy public lectures. Public Schools” foundational course) Coastal and Marine Sciences African Dance Indira Peterson, Mount Holyoke Second-Language-Acquisition Culture, Health and Science History (writing for the College, Jackie Pritzen Lecture Colloquium Film general public) Geoffrey Greatrex, University of Music and Society Geology Music Ottawa, “Procopius of Caesarea” Sustainability Food and Agriculture History Multicultural Theater Maria Kouroumali, Hellenic College Programs International Relations Opera Holy Cross, “Warfare and Politics in Biomath Japanese Post-hegemonic Global Ostrogothic Italy” Digital Humanities Projects Peace and World Security Studies Governance Inés París, Spanish film director, Online archive of dress and textiles Physics Public Policy “Spanish Comedy and Digitizing Historic Maps Spanish Theater Theater Filmmaking” Digitizing Pompeii Statistics Speakers Curricular Initiatives The Role of Digital Humanities Sustainability The following speakers were Curricular initiatives are programs in Gender Studies Performances sponsored by Five College and events that don’t fit neatly into Bridging Liberal Arts and The following were either performed committees or programs: other categories and yet have a Professional Education or hosted by Five College programs: James Counts Early, Smithsonian significant impact on the way we Public Policy and Social Five College Dance Concert, at Institution Center for Folklife approach research, teaching and Innovation Amherst College Programs and Cultural Studies , learning. Architecture and Banaras Soul Music 2011, at Smith “Cultural Studies” Faculty-Student Summer Research Architectural Studies College Nikky Finney, University of Kentucky, Seminars : Sustainability Studies poetry reading Five College Academic Offerings Departments nancy P In several cases faculty members, even with academic departments and almieri separate programs on their home campuses, have come together to form a Five College department, particularly to coordinate programs and undergradu- ate course offerings. In 2011–12 there were two Five College departments, in astronomy and dance.

Majors In several fields, opportunities for Five College majors, typically combining courses from several campuses, complement the options for majors at a single campus. In 2011–12 there were Five College majors in architectural studies and film studies.

Certificates Five College certificate programs, akin to academic minors, offer students focused study in areas most campuses couldn’t provide on their own. In the 2011–2012 academic year, 158 certificates were issued in 15 programs, including two programs—in sustainability studies and queer and sexuality studies—that were approved at the end of the academic year. African Studies Latin American Studies Asian/Pacific/American Studies Logic Environmental artist Christo at the Five College Riverscaping Conference. Buddhist Studies Middle Eastern Studies Coastal and Marine Sciences Native American Studies By the numbers Cognitive Neuroscience Queer and Sexuality Studies Culture, Health, and Science Russian, East European The consortium hosts 35 websites and manages 51 listservs used by Ethnomusicology and Eurasian Studies academic committees, programs and other groups. International Relations Sustainability Studies www.fivecolleges.edu | 11 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

Selected Program and Committee Descriptions African Studies Council The council oversees a certificate program (including a collaboratively taught capstone course) and coordinates lectures and other Africa-focused program- ming. It also sponsors a monthly faculty seminar and an annual celebration of student work on (and in) Africa. Work in African studies is supported by two joint faculty appointees. Council members co-edit the African Studies Review, the journal of the African Studies Association.

Anthropology The five departments sponsor an annual symposium of student work. Their collective and separate efforts are supported by a joint faculty appointee in Latin American archaeology. Smith College Associate Professor and Asian/Pacific/American studies adviser Floyd Cheung. Arabic Language Initiative The Arabic Language Initiative offers four-skill courses in Modern Standard Asian/Pacific/American Studies Arabic through four years of instruction and various Arabic dialects, includ- Programs include a certificate and a faculty seminar. It is supported by two ing introductory Arabic taught on each of the campuses. The Arabic Initiative, joint faculty appointees. which also offers cultural programming, is supported by five joint faculty appointees. Astronomy The Five College Astronomy Department, founded before the consortium, Architectural Studies offers a single undergraduate curriculum of intermediate and advanced A cross-disciplinary committee coordinates courses in all aspects of the study courses for majors and coordinates research programs, among them research of the built environment, such as history, theory and studio. A Five College opportunities for undergraduates. major was approved in spring 2012. The program is supported by three joint faculty appointees. Buddhist Studies The program includes a certificate comprising courses in most of the major Art Buddhist traditions. It supports a study-abroad program, other extended-study Since 1994, each year studio art faculty members have arranged an advanced programs in Asia and an academic exchange with the Central Institute of studio art seminar for 15 competitively selected students. Higher Tibetan Studies, in India. almieri nancy P

Preparing for a critique in the advanced studio seminar.

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Five College Academic Committees and Programs

Academic Career Network Cognitive Neuroscience (certificate) Latin American, Caribbean, and Peace and World Security Studies African Studies (certificate) Community-Based Learning (CBL) Latino Studies (certificate) Physics • Council Crossroads in the Study of the Logic (certificate) PoetryFest • The African Studies Review Americas (CISA) Massachusetts Review Queer and Sexuality Studies ◗ Editorial Board Culture, Health, and Science • Editorial Board (certificate) Anthropology (certificate) Metamorphoses Schools Partnership Program Architectural Studies (major) Dance (department) • Editorial Board Russian, East European and Eurasian Art: Advanced Studio Seminar • Executive Committee Middle Eastern Studies (certificate) Studies (certificate) Asian/Pacific/American Studies Early Music Program Music Statistics (certificate) East Asian Studies • Chairs Sustainability (certificate) Astronomy (department) • East Asian Languages • Choral Directors Theater • Faculty Senate Program • Composition and • Chairs Bioinformatics Fellowship Program Performance Faculty • Costume/Design Biomathematics Film Studies (major) • Early Music (certificate) • Lighting Biophysics • Film Council • Ethnomusicology (certificate) • Multicultural Theater Buddhist Studies (certificate) Geology • Jazz Faculty • Sound Coastal and Marine Sciences History Graduate Program • Opera Task Force • Technical Directors (certificate) International Relations (certificate) Native American Indian Studies Women’s Studies Research Center (certificate) • Steering Committee

Coastal and Marine Sciences Dance: The Five College Dance Department The program coordinates a certificate and a guest lecture series and offers The department pools the strengths of the five strong campus-based pro- an interdisciplinary curriculum to undergraduate students from all member grams, making it one of the largest dance departments in the nation. It offers campuses. Collaborative field trips and summer research fellowships and all students opportunities for performance and access to guest performances internships at some of the nation’s premier centers for marine study comple- and master classes. The department is supported by two joint faculty appoin- ment courses and traditional laboratory work. tees and three jointly funded staff members.

Cognitive Neuroscience East Asian Languages A certificate program that combines courses in research techniques, basic sci- The program supports language instruction in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, entific foundations, neuroscience, philosophy and cognition, with independent coordinating faculty professional development and cultural programming. The research. program is supported by joint faculty appointees.

Community-Based Learning (CBL) Ethnomusicology The leaders of campus-based programs collaborate to bring together students, The certificate program offers coordinated course offerings and cultural faculty members and community organizations to advance projects that pro- programming. It is supported by a joint faculty appointee. vide intellectually stimulating experiences for students and tangible benefits to communities throughout the Pioneer Valley. Among the programs are joint Film Studies faculty professional development and joint training for students who provide The Film Council supports faculty professional development, an annual festival service in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The latter program, called Holyoke Bound, showcasing student-made films and an academic major. The major guides stu- is a daylong orientation at the start of each semester to help students prepare dents in exploring film in relation to the arts, humanities and social sciences, for internships. A consolidation of previously separate individual campus ori- which can lead to a career in teaching, arts administration, web design or entation programs, Holyoke Bound now enrolls more than 250 students each freelance work in nonindustry venues. The program is supported by two joint year. The relationship between Five College Community-Based Learning and faculty appointees, in film and video production. Holyoke is guided by the Holyoke Campus Community Compact, which out- lines principles of mutual respect for their working relationships and maintains Geology a database that links the needs of community organizations with interested The five campus departments organize an annual student research colloquium students and faculty members. Holyoke Bound’s success served as a model for and regularly offer weeklong field trips to locations as far afield as the Colo- Springfield Bound, for students doing service in Springfield, Massachusetts. rado Plateau and Iceland. They also sponsor speakers, and a symposium at which faculty members present their new work. Shared efforts are supported Culture, Health, and Science by a joint faculty appointee and specialized lab facilities. This certificate program gives students an opportunity to explore human health, disease and healing from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural per- spective. It emphasizes the study of human health through integrating physical and sociocultural aspects of human experience.

www.fivecolleges.edu | 13 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS S teven F rischling History Graduate Program The University of Massachusetts Amherst/Five College Graduate Program in History offers qualified students combined campus resources to pursue advanced study in history. Faculty members from all five campuses teach graduate-level courses. The program supports an annual lectureship and an annual residency that focuses on writing history for the general public.

International Relations The program supports a certificate spanning courses in political science, history and economics. It also sponsors a faculty research seminar, colloquia, confer- ences and study-abroad placements. The program is supported by a joint faculty appointee. Michael Klare, Five College professor of peace and world security studies. Latin American Studies The Latin American Studies Council supports a certificate in Latin American, Philosophy Caribbean and Latino studies. Within the program, students design coordi- The five campus departments collaborate to enhance the many course options nated and comprehensive courses of study. The program is supported by a with guest speakers, symposia and library resources. joint faculty appointee in Latin American archaeology. Physics Logic The five campus departments coordinate the schedules of course offerings and This certificate program supports students who combine aspects of logic augment courses with guest speakers, joint undergraduate research symposia in philosophy, mathematics, computer science and linguistics. and complementary library resources.

Massachusetts Review PoetryFest Founded in 1959, this 200-page quarterly of fiction, poetry, essays and the Each year two students from each campus are chosen to read their works visual arts by both emerging and established authors is one of the nation’s at the Five College PoetryFest. Their poems are then assembled as a bound leading literary magazines concerned with pressing public issues. collection and presented to them, together with a gift certificate from a local bookshop. Middle Eastern Studies The program offers a certificate comprising courses and opportunities for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies students to study in the Middle East, learning Arabic and other languages and The certificate program offers a collaboratively taught foundation course. The culture. The program includes offerings in Hebrew, Modern Standard Arabic program also sponsors special events of interest to students and faculty mem- and a number of Arabic dialects. It is supported by a joint faculty appointee in bers working in the field. It is supported by a joint faculty appointee in history. Middle Eastern history and five joint faculty appointees in Arabic. Supervising Graduate Students Music Faculty members at the colleges serve on doctoral thesis advisory committees Special cooperative arrangements among the five campus departments give at the university; some also serve as thesis advisers. students access to their combined resources, including their music libraries and guest artists. Popular events include the Five College Jazz Festival, Teacher Education Choral Festival, New Music Festival, and opera as well as annual scholars-in- The teacher licensure coordinator works with students and faculty members residence programs. from Mount Holyoke, Hampshire and Amherst colleges, advising students, identifying and overseeing practicum and pre-practicum placements and Music: Early Music serving as a three-campus representative to the Massachusetts Department A faculty of performers and scholars together with the Five College Early Mu- of Education. sic director — a joint faculty appointee — offer students opportunities to study and perform music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque. Theater Several groups meet regularly to organize consortium projects and maintain Native American Indian Studies a joint online calendar. The five campus department chairs, the costumers and A certificate offers students the opportunity to acquire a knowledge and technical directors, and the lighting designers and directors work together to understanding of the development, growth and interactions of the indigenous host artists in residence, share resources and collaborate on projects. Auditions peoples and nations of the Western Hemisphere, with a focus on those of the for campus productions are open to all students from the five colleges. northeastern United States. It also supports a foundation course taught in The five campus departments collaborate in many areas of technical collaboration with Native elders. services, lighting, set design and production. The Five College Multicultural Theater Committee supports productions, residencies and workshops that Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS) promote an appreciation of diversity and difference. It also encourages student A multidisciplinary endeavor to foster student and faculty awareness of major productions with a multicultural focus and organizes an annual multicultural international issues, PAWSS promotes undergraduate education in the field of student play-reading festival called WORD! Each student selected for WORD! peace and security. It is supported by a joint faculty appointee. receives a $100 prize from the James Baldwin Fund.

14 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS Five College Student Cross Registration Any of the 30,000 undergraduates in the consortium may take courses at the other campuses without paying additional fees. Student cross registration has made possible a range of Five College curricular structures, such as the astronomy and dance departments, the film studies and architectural studies majors, certificate programs and the advanced studio seminar. Course enrollments through Five College student cross registration 2011–2012: 5,763 Numbers of enrollments leaving from: Numbers of enrollments going to: 2,200 2,200 2,000 2,000 1,800 1,800 1,600 1,600 1,400 1,400 1,200 1,200 1,000 1,000 800 800 600 600 400 400 200 200 782 1,982 1,336 805 858 1,129 739 794 1,276 1,640 185 0 0 Amherst Hampshire Mount Smith UMass Amherst Hampshire Mount Smith UMass FCCSWL* College College Holyoke College Amherst College College Holyoke College Amherst College College * FCCSWL = Five College Center for the Study of World Languages

Five College Center for the Study of World Languages Number of courses taken through Enrollment Statistics Key: Bars and white values = number of student enrollments cross-registration each academic year, 2007–2012 Line with dots, black values = number of languages enrolled in 6,000 300 5,500 275 5,000 250 4,500 225 4,000 200 3,500 175 3,000 150 2,500 125 2,000 100 1,500 75 1,000 50 117, 11 104, 13 185, 19 185, 20 500 25 0 5,130 5,474 5,790 5,558 5,763 0 07–08 08–09 09–10 10–11 11–12 96–97 01–02 06–07 11–12

Five College Certificate Programs and Certificates awarded by year, 1991–2012 Key: Black area and values = number of certificate programs; blue area and values = number of certificates awarded 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 91–92 92–93 93–94 94–95 95–96 96–97 97–98 98–99 99–00 00–01 01–02 02–03 03–04 04–05 05–06 06–07 07–08 08–09 09–10 10–11 11–12 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 9 9 10 10 10 12 12 12 12 13 13 47 45 23 31 22 31 23 41 56 53 51 70 92 100 76 117 102 98 104 145 165

www.fivecolleges.edu | 15 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS Five College Academic Centers Five College centers are programs created to pursue missions aligned with that of the consortium. Some are closely tied to campus academic programs; others represent outreach to area communities. K yla H akim

The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages mentorship program.

Center for Crossroads in the Study Schools Partnership of the Americas (CISA) The Schools Partnership offers professional-development opportunities Founded in 1997, CISA brings together faculty members from the five for K–12 teachers in math and science education and the humanities. The campuses to explore relational aspects of identity in the Americas. Instead partnership has an advisory committee made up of faculty members and of adopting a North–South approach, CISA has developed for its work a representatives from area K–12 schools. In 2011–2012, the partnership triangular model, in which the three sides are formed by the Old World (Africa, worked on two major programs in addition to hosting discussions about Asia, Europe), the polities of the New World and the indigenous peoples of connections between the campuses and the schools, including a Five College the Americas. The program organizes a year-long seminar for new faculty Advisory Committee to the superintendent of the Amherst-Pelham Regional members working in the comparative study of the Americas (CISA Fellows) School District. In one major project, with the Social Studies Department of the and an annual symposium of student work. Springfield Public Schools, the partnership continues to offer a U.S. Depart- ment of Education–funded Teaching American History program. This program Center for East Asian Studies included two recent two-week summer institutes, titled Twentieth-Century The Five College Center for East Asian Studies, founded in 1976, supports un- America and Using Primary Sources for Historical Learning, respectively; a one- dergraduate programs in the study of East Asia and works to support, encour- week field-based course on 20th-century industrialization in New England; age and improve teaching about Asia in elementary, middle and secondary field visits to the FDR Library and Museum and New York City; and book clubs schools, as well as at two- and four-year colleges in the Northeast. The center with Pulitzer Prize–winner Eric Foner (The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and maintains a resource library; publishes a monthly e-newsletter; and conducts American Slavery), Charles Mann (1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus seminars, institutes, conferences and workshops for college and pre-college Created) and Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Ellis (First Family: Abigail and John educators. It also organizes seminars on Asia for teachers in the region. Adams). In a second major project, a $300,000, two-year grant from the National Science Foundation for the partnership enabled the development of Center for the Study of World Languages the Western Massachusetts Mathematics Partnership (WMMP), a collabora- The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, founded in 1991, tion among eight western Massachusetts school districts and faculty members coordinates offerings in less commonly studied languages, supporting 41 from 10 institutions of higher education. languages and dialects not available elsewhere in the consortium through classroom-based instruction at more than 170 levels. The Mentored Language Women’s Studies Research Center Program combines independent study with small-group conversation sessions The Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, founded in 1991, builds and individual tutorials in languages. During the 2011–12 academic year, stu- on the interests and strengths of more than 350 scholars of women’s studies dents enrolled in the following languages in the Mentored Language Program: at the five campuses, one of the largest such concentrations in the world. The Arabic, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Hindi, Indonesian, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, center offers regular programs of mentors, speakers, symposia and discussions. Urdu and Yoruba. The Supervised Independent Language Program combines Each year it encourages critical feminist scholarship from diverse perspec- independent study with native-speaker conversations. During 2011–12, stu- tives by hosting as many as 15 research associates, who have access to Five dents enrolled in the following languages: Afrikaans, Czech, Georgian, Greek, College library resources and various opportunities to present their work to a Haitian, Creole, Mongolian, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, broad activist and scholarly community. Thai, Twi, Vietnamese, Wolof, Xhosa and Zulu.

16 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS Embracing a Diverse Scholarly and Learning Environment In recent years, the consortium’s campuses have become increasingly diverse in their faculties and student bodies. To support their efforts, the consortium has created the following programs.

Faculty Members of Color Diversity in the Classroom The consortium sponsors regular meetings of faculty members of color from % Degree-seeking the five campuses to encourage networking and mutual support. Patricia Campus Undergraduates % Faculty Members Banks, Amber Douglas and Becky Packard (Mount Holyoke) and Enobong of Color of Color (Anna) Branch and David Cort (UMass), with the support of a mutual mentor- Amherst 40 17 ing grant, created an online Directory of Resources for Faculty of Color for the Five College community, which was first published in 2011–2012. The consor- Hampshire 18 21 tium also co-sponsored with the campuses a visit by Kelly Ann Rockquemore, Mount Holyoke 25 20 who led a series of workshops on managing faculty lives and careers, some of Smith 29 16 which were targeted particularly to issues faced by faculty members of color, UMass Amherst 18 19 at many of the campuses.

Five College Fellows Intergroup Dialogue The four private liberal arts colleges provide residencies for graduate students The Five College Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) committee organizes opportunities completing their dissertations. Each fellow is appointed in an academic for faculty and staff members to participate in dialogues on difficult topics department at the hosting institution, usually teaching one course during the (race, class, rank, gender, religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation) with others year. The program’s goal is to support scholars from underrepresented groups from varied backgrounds. Conducted by trained faculty and staff facilitators, and/or those with unique interests and histories. In 2011–12, the following intergroup dialogue sessions have helped participants make significant gains fellows served at our colleges. in their understanding of themselves and others, in their ability to empathically Aneeka A. Henderson, a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of identify with people unlike themselves and in their willingness to work toward Illinois Chicago, hosted by Amherst College a more diverse, inclusive community. Jennifer R. Corns, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center, hosted by Mount Holyoke College Multicultural Theater Seung-Yun Oh, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Mas- The Five College Multicultural Theater sachusetts Amherst, hosted by Smith College Committee, supported by the Five College Theater chairs and Five Mutual Mentoring Colleges, is charged with furthering Mutual Mentoring encourages the development of a wide variety of mentor- multicultural perspectives in theater in our community. For nearly two decades, ing partnerships to address specific areas of knowledge and expertise. New it has done so by supporting visits from guest artists, five-college productions, and early-career faculty members, particularly those from historically under- and workshops that foreground the experiences of people of color. Central represented groups, are encouraged to seek out networks of mentors who to the committee’s efforts has been WORD!, an annual multicultural student can address an array of career competencies. Each year the university’s Office play-reading festival designed to encourage student writers who engage of Faculty Development provides opportunities for networking to women and multicultural themes in their work. Each year, in the spring semester, up to ten faculty of color from all five campuses. short, original works are selected to be presented as staged readings.

A Smith College lab class.

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dministrative collaborations are among the earliest of the Library Depository (all campuses) consortium, and date back decades before 1965, when Five The five campus libraries have more than 500,000 volumes in this high-densi- Colleges was incorporated. Joint efforts currently range from ty storage facility. Items in the depository are managed as a shared collection, maintaining the fiber optic network, to promoting campus and consist of mainly print copies of journals and serials now available to all museums, to developing a joint emergency-response system campuses electronically, but also including some selected less frequently used Aamong the campuses and regional municipalities. monographs. The campuses have agreed to a “last book policy,” under which a library will contribute to the depository any volume it wishes to withdraw Fiber Optic Network (all campuses) from its collection if that is the last copy of that volume held by any of the Built and owned by all five institutions under the auspices of the subsidiary libraries or the depository. The Five College Library Depository has more than Five College Net, LLC, the fiber optic network — which runs 53 miles from 180 associate members, who contribute to the operating cost in exchange for Springfield up to and around the Five College campuses — was completed having access to the print backup copies. in 2007. It now provides broadband Internet access to all five campuses and dark fiber for the towns of Amherst, Hadley and South Hadley and the cities of Meal Exchange (all campuses) Chicopee and Northampton. By special arrangement among the food-service directors, students enrolled in a meal plan at their home campus may receive permission to eat at other Libraries (all campuses) campuses, particularly when course registrations leave them far from their Extensive and long-standing cooperation among the libraries, dating formally home campus at meal times. Each year hundreds of students take advantage from 1951, gives Five College campus community members access to the of the meal exchange. combined collections of all campus libraries, currently totaling some 9 million volumes. In addition to open borrowing privileges, any member of the Five Messenger (all campuses) College community may search the collections and place a borrowing request The Five College messenger makes two daily round-trips among all campuses online by using an integrated online library catalog system overseen by a to transport intercampus mail and interlibrary loans, as well as materials being shared integrated library system coordinator. The libraries also share a librarian committed to the Five College Depository. for their East Asian collections. The libraries recently put in place two policies to leverage interlibrary Museums loan agreements into cost savings. To reduce unnecessary duplicate book Museums10 (all campuses) purchases among the campuses, the campuses cross-reference holdings and A collaboration of seven Five College campus museums and three affili- purchase requests to know when a duplicate title has been requested, a need ated independent museums located nearby, Museums10 combines the that might be met by interlibrary loan. Duplicate purchasing has declined on resources of its members with grant funding to promote broadly varied all campuses since the effort went into effect. The second policy is linked to exhibitions as well as cultural tourism in the region. coordinated deaccessioning of infrequently used materials.

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Museums continued The UMass Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), open to all Five College campus Museums10 Member Institutions members, provides educational, research and leadership opportunities for Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College student and faculty volunteers in the fields of public health and emergency pre- Emily Dickinson Museum paredness. The MRC also assists with mass vaccinations and emergencies. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Hampshire College Cultural Village consortium office helps the MRC access grant funding for project coordination. Hampshire College Art Gallery Historic Deerfield, Archaeology Field School, UMass Amherst Training and Development Collaborative Mead Art Museum at Amherst College (all campuses) Mount Holyoke College Art Museum Through this collaboration, the human resources offices combine their efforts to Smith College Museum of Art provide greater access to training and professional-development programs for University Museum of Contemporary Art all five campuses. Programs are developed based on the needs of each campus Yiddish Book Center, Hampshire College Cultural Village as well as the needs of the entire consortium. The collaborative has sponsored a range of programs for campus employees, such as conferences on leadership Mimsy and Mobius development and supervising employees, in recent years. The collaborative now Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield maintain two shared databases of the partners with the Social Justice Education Program of the School of Educa- collections of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Smith College tion at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to offer programs supporting Art Museum, the Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, the Hampshire intergroup dialogue. College Gallery, the University Museum of Contemporary Art and Historic Deerfield. One database, Mimsy, is used by collections managers to Transportation (all campuses) maintain a variety of information about each museum’s objects. The other, The campuses are linked by a daily bus service, operated by UMass Transit Mobius, is open for use by faculty members, students and others to search and the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA), that is fare-free during the and review the collections of member museums. academic year. Some routes include stops in downtowns and shopping areas. In fall 2011, PVTA added more Five College buses to its routes and improved Compliance and Risk Management (AC, HC, MHC, SC) its schedules. Among the changes are 12 new express runs between Smith Providing regulation compliance, risk management and insurance services for and Mount Holyoke, more and better service between Smith and Hampshire, the four private colleges and the consortium, this program is designed reduce and a 20-minutes-shorter trip between UMass and Mount Holyoke. Ridership the insurance costs and mitigate the risks associated with the operations on the Smith–Mount Holyoke route increased steadily throughout the year of the colleges. The consortium supports a captive insurance company and and overall ridership on Five College routes increased more than 6 percent, to provides support to the risk management and compliance management more than 1 million riders. The consortium is exploring ways to further increase programs of the four colleges and the consortium. its ridership by, for example, installing Internet service on all Five College buses.

Emergency Management Five College Fundraising The Five College Emergency Preparedness Committee meets regularly and See tables on pages 21–22. functions as the Regional Emergency Planning Committee for the consortium’s The Five College Development Office works with consortium programs and member institutions and the communities of Amherst, Hadley, Northampton collaborative projects to find external support from public and private grant- and South Hadley. In addition to carrying out extensive planning, the makers. The office coordinates the preparation and submission of proposals committee coordinates group purchases of shared emergency equipment and and budgets and compliance with award requirements, including preparation supplies and organizes group trainings and tabletop exercises. and submission of reports. The Development Office coordinates with col- leagues in corporate and foundation relations offices on the five campuses.

www.fivecolleges.edu | 19 Administrative COLLABORATIONS Shared Positions and Services Collaborations within the consortium have inspired member campuses to pursue collaborations with one another outside the consortium. Among those are student health services, campus police, grant accounting, career services recruiting and retirement-fund counsel. In addition, campuses jointly bid for services from insurance brokers, benefits advisers, auditors, and health insurance, among other services.

Health Services (AC, HC, UM) Amherst and Hampshire contract with UMass to provide student health services for their students.

Library Cataloging (MHC, UM) UMass provides library cataloging services for Mount Holyoke.

Local Purchasing (all campuses) All five campuses collaborate on local-food purchasing.

Mail Services (HC, SC, UM) UMass’ full-service mail and distribution services are utilized by Hampshire and Smith.

MHEC Joint Purchasing (all campuses) Initiated as a Five College buying group in 1967, the Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium (MHEC) today consolidates the buying power of 87 schools throughout New England by drawing up common contracts for goods and services.

Printing Services (HC, SC, UM) Campus Police (HC, MHC, SC) Through its Printing Services Department, UMass offers digital duplicating, In 2004, Mount Holyoke and Smith began sharing a director of public safety; full-color digital printing, offset lithography, binding and finishing for Smith they were joined by Hampshire in 2008. Since fall 2009, a merged dispatch and Hampshire. system and a merged employee workforce have been managed by Mount Holyoke for all three campuses. Religious Life (AC, HC, MHC, SC) Several institutions have shared religious-services staff members over Career Services (MHC, SC) the decades. Mount Holyoke and Smith share the services of a director of employer rela- tions, who represents both campuses to potential employers and oversees the Rental Property Management (AC, MHC, SC) campuses’ combined recruiting programs. This program was created in 2000 to oversee rental-property management for the three campuses. Environmental Health and Safety (HC, MHC) Beginning in 2006, Hampshire contracted with Mount Holyoke to provide WFCR Public Radio (all campuses) environmental health and safety services under the direction of a Mount Founded in 1961, WFCR, then Four College Radio, was a product of campus Holyoke administrator. collaboration before the consortium (or Hampshire College) even existed. Today, UMass holds the broadcast license for WFCR, which began branding Everywoman’s Center, now the Center itself as “New England Public Radio” in 2011. In addition to support from for Women and Community (all campuses) UMass, the four colleges contribute to the station’s operating budget and Based at UMass Amherst, the center offers the Five College community rape- have contributed to each of the major capital fund drives. Celebrating its crisis services, counseling, Latina community services and other information golden anniversary in 2011, WFCR has named its studios in Hampshire House and referral services for women. on the UMass campus The Five Colleges Studios.

Grant Support (AC, MHC) By the numbers Mount Holyoke and Amherst share a grant accountant who works with faculty members and administrators to support applications for external grants and The consortium hosts 26 websites and manages 31 listservs used by grant reporting. administrative programs and committees.

20 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 administrative COLLABORATIONS Active Grants, July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012 Program Supported Title Funder Description Grant Period Award Five Colleges, Sustaining High-Quality Andrew W. Mellon Support for nine tenure-track joint 07/05–03/13 $2,000,000 Incorporated and Contemporary Foundation faculty positions shared by two or more Curricula Through institutions. Collaboration: New Shared and Joint Appointments at the Five Colleges Five Colleges, Faculty Recruitment, Andrew W. Mellon Support for 10 postdoctoral fellows 07/09–06/15 $1,750,000 Incorporated Retention, and Foundation in three-year appointments and 10 Regeneration: A faculty-student summer research teams Collaborative Response in the arts and humanities. Five Colleges, New President’s Grant Andrew W. Mellon Implementation of Five Colleges, 06/10–06/13 $100,000 Incorporated Foundation Incorporated strategic plan Five Colleges, Curricular Innovations: Andrew W. Mellon Support for building connections *10/11–09/15 $1,500,000 Incorporated Bridging Liberal Arts Foundation between specific liberal arts and and Professional professional programs within the Education & Expanding consortium and expanding the reach Digital Humanities at of digital humanities to teaching and the Five Colleges student research. Five Colleges, Streamlining Davis Educational Projects to increase collaboration 04/10–04/13 $292,500 Incorporated Information Technology Foundation through technological improvements: Infrastructure for library e-resources, Shibboleth sign-on the Consortium to authentication, keyserver software and Improve Organizational virtual computer labs. Effectiveness and Achieve Cost Savings Five College Programs Five College Riverscaping: Delegation of the Planning and design project connecting 01/11–06/12 $125,195 Architectural Studies Rethinking Arts, European Union, work in Hamburg, Germany, on Program Environment and Getting to Know the Elbe River with Pioneer Valley Community Europe Program communities and the Connecticut River. Five College Center for National Consortium Freeman Foundation Outreach to K–12 teachers in the *07/11–06/12 $307,000 East Asian Studies for Teaching About Northeast, through seminars and Asia XIV summer study tours. Five College Center for Japan Artist Information Japan Foundation Development and dissemination of a *01/11–12/12 $55,234 East Asian Studies Directory (JAID) Center for Global database of practitioners of Japanese Partnership (CGP) performing arts in the United States. Five College Center for Human Landscapes of New Hampshire Council Workshop for New Hampshire teachers *01/12–08/12 $4,500 East Asian Studies East Asia workshop for the Social Studies on topics relating to East Asia. Five College Center for The Physical and U.S. Department of Four-week study tour to Japan for high 03/10–02/13 $87,000 East Asian Studies Human Geography of Education: Fulbright- school teachers. Japan Hays Group Projects Abroad Five College Center for Webinar Series US-Japan Foundation Workshops and pedagogical materials *01/12–12/13 $20,000 East Asian Studies about Japan delivered by Five College and Japan-based scholars via webinar and website, providing teachers with information for classroom use. Five College Center Languages for Andrew W. Mellon Continued development of mentored 07/10–06/14 $498,000 for the Study of World Independent Learners: Foundation learning, benchmarks and standards Languages Mainstreaming the for least commonly taught languages; LCTLs support for Arabic concentration * Funds awarded in fiscal year 2012

www.fivecolleges.edu | 21 Administrative COLLABORATIONS Active Grants, July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012 CONTINUED Program Supported Title Funder Description Grant Period Award Five College Center CultureTalk: Exploring U.S. Department of Capture and produce videos for 09/09–09/13 $328,470 for the Study of World Critical Languages & Education: International Langmedia website re: cultures and Languages Cultures Research and Studies languages of 20 less commonly taught languages. Five College Dance Merce Cunningham: National Endowment Restaging of Cunningham’s EVENTS 09/10–03/12 $15,000 Department EVENTS for the Arts, American on Five College student dancers; with Masterpiece Program faculty collaborators in music, art, and design; performances at five campuses, two museums and public venues. Five College Learning Civil War Symposium: Community Weekend seminar of scholars of the 04/11–03/12 $2,100 in Retirement Causes and Foundation of Western Civil War period for public discussions Consequences Massachusetts of causes and consequences that resonate today. Five College Learning Civil War Symposium: MassHumanities Weekend seminar of scholars of the 04/11–03/13 $10,000 in Retirement Causes and Civil War period for public discussions Consequences of causes and consequences that resonate today. Five College Program Program Support Paul and Edith Babson Program support (multiple *07/10–06/13 $7,500 in Peace and World Foundation annual awards). Security Studies Five College Program Peace and War/Ecology Samuel Rubin Research and dissemination. 10/09–10/12 $4,000 in Peace and World and Resources Foundation Security Studies Five College Schools Western Massachusetts National Science Partnership of regional higher ed 04/11–03/13 $299,854 Partnership Mathematics Foundation Math institutions and school districts to Partnership (WMMP) Science Partnerships develop better teaching and learning of math. Five College Schools Teaching American Springfield Public Teacher professional-development 07/08–06/13 $294,800 Partnership History IV 2008 – 2013 Schools (subcontract seminars and summer institutes from U.S. Department with Five College multidisciplinary of Education faculty team. Five College Statistics An Innovative National Science Supporting three postdoctoral fellows 07/09–06/15 $600,000 Model for Workforce Foundation Workforce in statistics for three-year appointments Development in Development Program to teach at the colleges and to staff a Statistics: Postdoctoral Statistical Consulting Center. Teaching and Applied Collaborative Research UMass Medical Capacity Building National Association of Funds for coordination of the UMass *01/11–12/12 $10,000 Reserve Corps Awards County and City Health (Five College) Medical Reserve Corps. Officials Sponsored Research Computer Science and MRI: Acquisition of an National Science Equipment acqusition for 10/09–09/13 $450,010 Engineering RFID Testbed Using Foundation computational radio frequency ID and Renewable Energy for Major Research energy harvesting. Object Identification Instrumentation and Habitat Monitoring Engineering Education Collaborative Research: National Science Development of online engineering lab 04/11–07/13 $43,143 authoring tool for a Foundation Division curriculum; pilot for larger effort. hands-on, online, lab of Undergraduate curriculum for engineer- Education ing technology students

* Funds awarded in fiscal year 2012

22 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 Student Life

uch of the social life among Five College students occurs informally, with students from all campuses attending dances and parties on each campus. At the center of efforts to more intentionally bring together students from all five campuses is the Student Coordinating Board (SCB), composed of the presidents and one additional representative from each campus’ student government. The SCB financially supports other student groups as they endeavor to bring together students from each campus, and also organizes events of its own.

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Five Colleges’ new-student orientation social is held each year for students from all five campuses who enroll at the beginning of the spring semester.

Recent events organized by the SCB Sixty-second video contest The following Five College student symposia Orientation social for all spring-semester arrivals took place during the 2011–12 academic year Reception and dinner for student-government cabinets Africa Day, at Smith College Recent events and projects supported by the SCB Anthropology Symposium, at Mount Holyoke College Quick Brown Fox, a Five College student literary magazine Asian/Asian American Studies Conference, at UMass Amherst Riverscaping Water Symposium Chinese Speech Contest, at Mount Holyoke College UMass Black Student Union Skate-a-thon Ethnomusicology Symposium, at Amherst College “M Is for Mobilize” conference Five College Water Symposium, at UMass Amherst Geology Symposium, at Amherst College Student Symposia and Performing Arts Events Indigenous Peoples Symposium and Powwow, at UMass Amherst Each year students present their research and performances at multicampus Japanese Speech Contest, at Smith College events in a variety of disciplines. They enable students to meet peers from Middle East and South Asian Studies Conference, at Amherst College other campuses who have similar interests and to gain valuable experience Physics Symposium, at Amherst College presenting their work in public settings. PoetryFest, at UMass Amherst In many cases, the annual symposia also offer students and faculty Student Film and Video Festival, at Smith College members the opportunity to hear from well-known figures in their fields. The WORD! Five College Festival of Staged Readings, Amherst College Five College Undergraduate Anthropology Conference in 2011–12 featured as keynote speaker Shannon Service, an award-winning journalist currently on assignment for NPR in Asia. Opening the events of Africa Day 2011 was Dr. Joseph Sebarenzi, former speaker of the Rwandan parliament and a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.

www.fivecolleges.edu | 23 Community Connections

he economic, social and cultural connections between Five College institutions and their communities are many and varied. Together employing some 10,000 people, the campuses have a combined payroll of approximately $780 million, pay city fees and real-estate taxes of some $2.5 million, make more than $15 million in local purchases and invest tens of millions of dollars each year in construction projects. A quick look at the Five College online calendar of events reveals some of the dozens of lectures, plays, exhibitions and other cultural opportunities, most of which are free and open to the public. Consortium centers and programs regularly reach out to educators, elders, K–12 students and social-service organizations, receiving as Tmuch from such interactions as they offer.

Community-Based Learning (CBL) The CBL program coordinates cam- Museums10 pus-based efforts to bring together A collaboration of seven Five Col- students, faculty members and lege campus museums and three Academic Career community organizations to provide Five College Associates affiliated independent museums, Network tangible benefits to the greater com- The Five College Associates Program Museums10 combines the resources The Academic Career Network munity. Holyoke Bound’s success was established in 1982 to provide of its members with grant fund- (ACN) exists to help campuses served as a model for Springfield scholars in transition with a continu- ing to promote exhibitions and accommodate dual-career couples Bound, which is for students doing ing professional affiliation in support cultural tourism in the region. It is seeking employment in higher service in Springfield, Massachusetts. of their research and careers. It considered a model for collabora- education. It provides easy access to For more on Community-Based serves former faculty members as tively promoting regional creative job postings at dozens of colleges Learning, see page 13. well as scholar spouses and partners economies. For more information, and universities in New England of current faculty members affiliated visit museums10.org. and upstate New York. In addition, with one of the five institutions. In its member campuses belong to a inaugural year, the program received Pioneer Valley Higher listserv on which deans and human- national recognition from the Education Collaborative resources directors share résumés of Academy for Educational Develop- Beginning in spring 2011, presidents job-seeking partners and spouses. ment, which awarded Five Colleges and top administrators from the a certificate of achievement for this 14 colleges and universities of the effort to serve scholars. Pioneer Valley, from Springfield to Greenfield, have been meeting to explore areas for potential Fiber Optic Network collaboration. (all campuses) The Five College Fiber Optic Network rosemary kalloch provides broadband Internet access to all five campuses and dark fiber connecting the towns of Amherst, Hadley and South Hadley and the cities of Chicopee and Northampton to a hub of Internet service providers Center for in Springfield. For more on the Fiber Learning in Retirement East Asian Studies Optic Network, see page 18. Originally comprising faculty mem- The Five College Center for East bers from consortium campuses, Asian Studies supports, encour- Five College Learning in Retirement ages and improves the teaching of (5CLIR) now reaches out to people Schools Partnership East Asian cultures in elementary, throughout the Pioneer Valley with The Five College Schools Partnership middle and secondary schools. The peer-led seminars and workshops. offers professional development center maintains a resource library; In October 2011, 5CLIR organized opportunities for K–12 teachers in publishes a newsletter; and con- the sesquicentennial symposium math and science education and the ducts seminars, webinars, institutes, Civil War Causes and Consequences, humanities. For more on the Schools conferences, study-tours and work- featuring 2011 Pulitzer Prize–winner Partnership, see page 16. shops for college and pre-college Eric Foner and other scholars who educators. It also organizes seminars explored issues of race, states’ rights on Asia for teachers in the region. and cultural changes of the Civil War era that continue to resonate.

24 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012 Governance of Five Colleges, Incorporated 2011–2012 Officers of the Marilyn Schuster, Provost and Dean of the John Dubach, Chief Information Officer, Christopher Loring, Director of Libraries, Faculty, Smith College Office of Information Technology, Smith College Corporation John Davis, Associate Provost and Dean for UMass Amherst Jay Schafer, Director of Libraries, Lynn Pasquerella, President Academic Development, Smith College Heidi Dollard, Associate Chief Information UMass Amherst Jonathan Lash, Vice President Joel Martin, Vice Provost for Academic Officer, Office of Information Technology, Principal Business UMass Amherst Neal B. Abraham, Clerk Personnel and Dean of Faculty, Officers UMass Amherst Chris Misra, Associate Chief Information Barbara Lucey, Treasurer Peter Shea, Treasurer, Amherst College James Staros, Senior Vice Chancellor for Officer for Security and Executive Yvette Morneau, Assistant Treasurer Mark Spiro, Vice President for Finance and Academic Affairs and Provost, Director of Networking, Office of Administration, Hampshire College Board of Directors UMass Amherst Information Technology, UMass Amherst Carolyn (Biddy) Martin, President, Maria Toyofuku, Information Technology Ben Hammond, Vice President for Information Technology Amherst College Director, Five Colleges, Incorporated Finance and Administration, Directors Mount Holyoke College Jonathan Lash, President, Investment Committee Hampshire College David Hamilton, Director of Web Services Ruth Constantine, Vice President for Finance Mauricia Geissler, Chief Investment Officer, and Acting Co-Director, Information and Administration, Smith College Lynn Pasquerella, President, Technology, Amherst College Amherst College Mount Holyoke College James Sheehan, Vice Chancellor for Mark Spiro, Vice President for Finance and Sandra Miner, Director of Database Services Administration and Finance, Carol Tecla Christ, President, Smith College Administration, Hampshire College and Acting Co-Director, Information UMass Amherst Robert C. Holub, Chancellor, Technology, Amherst College Ruth Constantine, Vice President for Finance UMass Amherst Principal Student Affairs John Manly, Director of Systems and and Administration, Smith College Officers Robert Caret, President, Networking, Amherst College Barbara Lucey, Treasurer, Five Colleges, University of Massachusetts Allen Hart, Dean of Students, Bob Crowley, Director of Information Incorporated Amherst College Neal B. Abraham, Executive Director, Technology, Hampshire College Neal B. Abraham, Executive Director, Five Colleges, Incorporated Dawn Ellinwood, Dean of Students, Charlotte Slocum Patriquin, Chief Five Colleges, Incorporated Hampshire College Major Committees Information Officer and Executive Library Directors Director of Library, Information, and Cerri Banks, Dean of the College, Bryn Geffert, Librarian of the College, Audit Committee Technology Services, Mount Holyoke Mount Holyoke College Amherst College Peter Shea, Treasurer, Amherst College College Maureen A. Mahoney, Dean of the College, Susan Dayall, Acting Director of the Library Lynn Pasquerella, President, Tom McAuley, Director of Technology Smith College and College Archivist, Hampshire Mount Holyoke College Infrastructure and Support, Jean Kim, Vice Chancellor for Student College (until March 2012) Carol Tecla Christ, President, Smith College Mount Holyoke College Affairs, UMass Amherst Jennifer Gunter King, Director of the David Gregory, Chief Information Officer, Deans Council Library, Hampshire College Information Technology Services, Smith Many Five College centers, councils, Gregory S. Call, Dean of the Faculty, (beginning March 2012) College (beginning October 2011) departments and programs have chairs, Amherst College Charlotte Slocum Patriquin, Chief Tom Laughner, Interim Executive Director directors, or coordinators who are Information Officer and Executive Alan Goodman, Vice President and (until October 2011) and Director of continuing faculty members employed at Director, Library Information and Dean of Faculty, Hampshire College Educational Technology Services, the campuses and who are appointed to Technology Services, Mount Holyoke Christopher Benfey, Interim Dean of Faculty Smith College those roles, usually on a rotating basis, by and Vice President for Academic Affairs, College the Five College Deans. Mount Holyoke College

Administration 2011–2012 Neal Abraham, Executive Director Alexandra deMontrichard, Communications Beth Hooker, Sustainability Anne Prescott, Director, Five College Carol Aleman, Assistant to the Coordinator, Museums10, and Programs Coordinator Center for East Asian Studies Executive Director Five College Program Coordinator Kevin Kennedy, Director of Communications Robyn Rodman, Graphic Designer/ Jean Baxter, Dance Production Manager, Sue Dickman, Academic Programs Liaison, Linda Kurowski, Depository Associate, Webmaster Five College Dance Department Joint Appointment Program Five College Library System Elke Ryan, Catering Assistant John Bator, Gardener Nancy Eckert, Business Office Coordinator Elizabeth B. (E.B.) Lehman, Assistant Nate Therien, Director, Academic Programs Robert Bowell, Information Technology Gretchen Fiordalice, Assistant Program Director, Five College Women’s Studies Rebecca Thomas, Program Assistant, Support Specialist Administrator, Five College Center Research Center Five College Center for the Study of for the Study of World Languages Cynthia Bright, Program Coordinator, Barbara Lucey, Treasurer World Languages Five College Coastal and Marine Nancy Goff, Director of Development Julie Martyn, Staff Accountant M. Sue Thrasher, Coordinator, Sciences Program Kyla Hakim, Developer for Advising and Yvette Morneau, Business Manager Five College Schools Partnership Melinda Buckwalter, Program Assistant, Five Information Resources and Strategies, and Assistant Treasurer Betty Thurston, Administrative Assistant, Five College Center for the Study College Center for East Asian Studies Gwendolyn Niven, Dance Production Five College Dance Department of World Languages Sharon Cady-Harrison, Administrative Assistant, Five College Dance Maria Toyofuku, Information Assistant for Academic Programs and Lydia Harrington, Materials Development Department Technology Director Assistant, Five College Center for Communications Stephen O’Neil, Insurance Claims Specialist Dora Tudryn, Five College Library the Study of World Languages Elizabeth Carmichael, Risk Manager Caroline (Callie) Orszak, Program and Mail Messenger Ida Hay, Depository Assistant, Hilary Caws-Elwitt, Information Coordinator, Five College Learning Amy Wordelman, Associate Director, Five College Library System Technology Analyst in Retirement Program Five College Center for the Study of World Languageswww.fivecolleges.edu | 25 26 | Five College Yearbook 2011–2012