Winter 2012

Leadership institute features Five College leaders s colleges and universities “It’s rare to see a Aaround the country are con- hire its leadership from within sidering collaborations to reduce its own ranks,” says Abraham. costs and maintain offerings, “Most o#en executive directors the Association of Consortium and business o$cers are being Leadership sponsored a 2011 brought in from posts at col- summer leadership institute leges and universities, or even whose faculty included current from outside higher education. Five College Executive Director %is means people are taking Neal Abraham and retired execu- leadership roles in consortia tive director Lorna Peterson. with an increasing pressure to Held over four days at the Cla- succeed, but lacking any direct remont University Consortium experience in how a consortium in Southern California, the in- actually operates.”

TEVEN DUNN stitute was the !rst e"ort to train Abraham announced that the S consortium leaders in the art of second ACL summer leadership Undergraduates from all !ve campuses and graduate students from UMass running a higher-education col- institute will be hosted by Five explored the American Southwest during the annual Five College geology laboration. It was a response, in Colleges in June 2012. “We wel- !eld trip, led by professors from Mount Holyoke and the university. Here the group is examining marine sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous- part, to the fact that few leaders come this opportunity to serve aged Mancos shale formation in southern Utah, where they found in this emerging !eld have ac- as host and co-sponsor for the interesting sedimentary structures and ammonite fossils. Reports Mount tual consortia experience. With second ACL Summer Institute in Holyoke Professor of Geology and Geography Steven Dunn: “We had an dozens of consortium already in consortium leadership, and look extraordinary experience!” existence and more forming each forward to sharing with and learn- year, the need is apparent. ing from the attendees,” he said.

munity partnership coordina- and Mount Holyoke with down- Consortium expands tor to assist with community town Holyoke. Paid for by the service placements and other consortium, the bus service its presence in Holyoke opportunities for engagement. operates Monday through In recent years, the Five %ursday, dropping o" riders College Community-Based at the Holyoke Transportation Learning Committee has Center and other spots in the city. worked with community lead- Continued on page 2 ers to create a daylong training workshop to prepare students for community engagement opportunities in the city. Some NewsBreaks is published by 250 students participated in Five Colleges, Inc., Holyoke Bound training during 97 Spring Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Last year some 250 students from Five College campuses participated in Holyoke the last academic year. Editor: Kevin Kennedy Bound in preparation for community-based learning placements. To further encourage student Designer: Falyn Arakelian engagement with Holyoke, Writer: Julie Varney UM ’12 he city of Holyoke, an members. Building on that Five Colleges and the Pioneer Copy editor: Doris Troy Tethnically diverse com- interest, the consortium this Valley Transportation Authority Questions and comments munity of 40,000, has long year initiated regular bus runs (PVTA) launched a new, a#er- can be addressed to the editor attracted the interest of Five linking four of the campuses noon express bus line linking at the above address or at kkennedy@!vecolleges.edu. College students and faculty to the city and hired a com- UMass, Amherst, Hampshire

Amherst College, , , , UMass Amherst • 1 Holyoke—continued Five Colleges receives Although every campus As Five College community $1.5 million grant from maintains its own community- partnership coordinator, Carta- based learning program, each gena works with two VISTA recognized the value of coordi- volunteers to support Holyoke Mellon Foundation nating e!orts through a central Bound and the newly formed office. And so in September, Springfield Bound, and helps major new grant will projects bridging liberal arts and Five Colleges opened a Com- the campuses explore additional Ajump-start e!orts across the professional education. #e $rst munity-Based Learning o"ce opportunities for student place- campuses to improve the student set of awards was approved in at the Holyoke Transportation ment in the two cities, main- experience by exploring digi- December 2011. Center. #e consortium hired taining contacts with some 50 tal approaches to teaching the Under the second prong of Maria Cartagena to serve as the community partners. “In some humanities and strengthening the project, “Embedding the first community partnership ways,” she says, “it’s a victory for connections between the liberal Digital in the Humanities,” coordinator. the community partners that arts and professional education. Five Colleges will explore ways Cartagena’s family moved Five Colleges has heard them #e Andrew W. Mellon Foun- to use digital humanities re- to Holyoke from New York and created this position.” dation awarded Five Colleges and sources and technologies as a when she was 13, and she Opening the Five College its member campuses a four-year, tool for teaching humanities to began community organizing o"ce is one of many hopeful $1.5 million grant to pursue their liberal arts students, supporting as a volunteer while still in high signs Cartagena sees in Holy- Curricular Innovations project. student scholarship and prepar- school. In the years since, com- oke, which also includes a new “#e Curricular Innovations ing them for the increasingly munity development became energy in city government and grant will enable the consortium technological environment of her passion, and Cartagena has the construction of the Mas- to strengthen relationships the working world. worked for several Holyoke- sachusetts Green High Perfor- and create pathways between Digital humanities tech- based social service organiza- mance Computer Center in a our liberal arts colleges and niques are already being used by tions in her career, most re- former industrial site. “For the the university’s graduate and faculty members in Five College cently as the assistant director of $rst time in a long time, I think professional programs to in- classrooms: a classics professor Nuestra Raices/Solutions CDC, good things are going to happen vigorate the teaching at both at UMass, using the university’s a nonpro$t providing $nancial in Holyoke.” the undergraduate and graduate digital humanities laboratory, literacy and asset building ser- —Kevin Kennedy levels,” said Five Colleges Ex- is pioneering cutting edge ar- vices to the community. ecutive Director Neal Abraham. chaeological research methods “Similarly, strengthening use with hand-held GPS devices. and access to digital humanities A religion professor at Mount tools and techniques will sup- Holyoke worked with a com- port e!orts of our humanities puter scientist at Smith to de- Newly formed colleagues to remain current in velop handwriting-recognition their teaching methods and will so%ware for author identi$ca- collaboration prepare students for the more tion of early Syriac manuscripts. technologically enhanced envi- An associate professor of French responds to crisis ronment that will be the future studies at Smith is working with world of work in humanities.” an Amherst GIS specialist to new collaboration of were destroyed on the Spring- Called “Bridging Liberal Arts enable students to explore the Awestern Massachusetts field campus. Ultimately, the and Professional Education,” historical and geographic layers colleges and universities had schools together donated more under the $rst prong of the Mel- of Paris. an early opportunity to test its than $14,000 to help Spring$eld lon-funded project Five Colleges Work has already begun on cooperative skills when on June College replace the trees. will look for ways to combine both aspects of the project, with 1 tornadoes struck member Among the top items on the the best qualities of a liberal arts calls for proposals being distrib- Spring$eld College and the sur- group’s agenda for future discus- education—the development uted and project teams being rounding area. #e leaders of the sions are exploring cooperation of critical thinking, the abil- assembled. Grant funding will 14 higher education institutions in community-service oppor- ity to make connections across continue through the 2014–2015 in the , composed tunities, better coordinating disciplines and to communicate academic year, at which time it is of the Five College consortium, support for pre K–12 education effectively—with preparation expected that many of the strate- its member campuses and nine and improved college access for speci$c professions. gies developed by the project will other campuses, had just begun programs for local residents. #e Five College deans are be incorporated into the ongoing meeting one month earlier, but inviting collaborating groups best practices of the campuses. they came together to o!er their of faculty members from the landscaping crews and $nancial consortium’s liberal arts colleges help to contend with the hun- and the university’s professional dreds of century-old trees that programs to propose two-year

2 • Five College Ink NewsBreaks Five Colleges and PVTA agree to more buses and faster routes ore than a dozen new tween Smith and UMass, and Mbus runs, more e!cient eliminating a 10-minute delay at schedules and the first new Hampshire for the Five College bus route in years emerged buses on Route 116 connecting from negotiations among Five UMass, Amherst, Hampshire Colleges, UMass Transit and and Mount Holyoke. A shi# in the Pioneer Valley Transit departure times will enable stu- Authority (PVTA). dents to more easily catch a bus September saw the addition immediately a#er class to attend of 12 express runs between a course at another campus, Participating in the ribbon cutting for the new Five Colleges-to-Holyoke PVTA bus, Mount Holyoke and Smith missing only one class period. from le!: Mount Holyoke Community-Based Learning Coordinator Alan Bloom- reducing to 30 minutes trips “Getting students to campuses garden; Holyoke Girls Inc. Executive Director Suzanne Parker; UMass student and CBL participant Kenny Francis; PVTA Administrator Mary MacInnes; Five Colleges that could take more than an faster, and at times that work Executive Director Neal Abraham. hour and require a bus change. better with class schedules, gives Another early-morning run students more options to take was added during the semester advantage of the intercampus began subsidizing a new PVTA a new route from UMass to to accommodate commuters curricular opportunities the Five route linking UMass, Amherst, the Holyoke Transportation traveling from Northampton to College consortium o$ers,” said Hampshire and Mount Holyoke Center, with funding provided Mount Holyoke. "e times of Five College Executive Director with downtown Holyoke. "e by Five Colleges.” bus runs between the two wom- Neal Abraham, who negotiated service is available to the public All these changes appear to en’s colleges were also shi#ed, so the changes with PVTA and for a small fee. be appreciated; overall rider- that students would be arriving UMass Transit. “Because PVTA has been ship on Five College bus runs on campus just before (rather Recognizing the growing level-funded by the state for sev- increased more than 5 percent than just a#er) classes begin. interest among Five College eral years, there are no resources in fall 2011 over fall 2010, to Among other changes to students in pursuing internships to add new service,” said PVTA more than 493,000 riders. existing routes were adding a and research opportunities in the Administrator Mary MacInnes, Minuteman Express run be- city of Holyoke, the consortium “so we are very excited to launch

Expansion, diversi!cation mark WFCR’s 50th anniversary

efore there was a Hamp- day, six days a week, to 24/7 and to position ourselves for Bshire College, or even the over two FM stations, an AM future growth and greater service consortium that welcomed it, station and %ve translator links, to our communities,” said station there was Four College Radio. extending into %ve states and manager Martin Miller. In May 1961, WFCR—based at reaching some 180,000 listeners "e station also celebrated its UMass Amherst and named for each week. Included among the golden anniversary by launch- the as yet informal collaboration new stations is WNNZ, o$ering ing a $7 million capital cam- of UMass with Amherst, Mount all-news programming on both paign to fund new facilities and Holyoke and Smith—emitted its AM and FM frequencies. equipment, technology and %rst signal (the consortium was "is diverse success has led to other resources. “"e success incorporated as Four Colleges the corporation encompassing of this campaign is extremely in 1965, and redubbed Five Col- these stations to rename itself important to serve the Five leges a#er ground was broken Public Radio College community and the for Hampshire a year later, four and begin an e$ort to expand community as a whole,” said years before the new campus into 12,000 square feet of Miller. “We want to provide opened its doors). studio and o!ce space in down- greater access to the knowledge- In the 50 years since, the town Spring%eld. based information that’s coming organization has grown be- “We decided that we had a out of the Five Colleges.” WFCR sta" in the early years in this yond its namesake region, from unique opportunity at the age of —Julie Varney UM ’12 archival photo. broadcasting just 12 hours a %#y to re&ect all of these changes,

Five College Ink NewsBreaks • 3 Winners picked in Riverscaping design/build competition

he votes are in and the sachusetts and Hamburg, Twinners have been chosen Germany. Coordinating the in the design/build competition project were "om Long, Five sponsored by the Riverscaping College assistant professor of Project, an 18-month effort architecture and design at of Five Colleges and the Five Hampshire; Karen Koehler, College Architectural Studies professor of architectural and Program to help communities art history at Hampshire; and along the Massachusetts stretch Frank Sleegers, assistant pro- of the !nd fessor of landscape architecture creative, sustainable approaches at UMass. to working with the river. Last fall Riverscaping initiated With a grant from the the design/build competition

European Union Delegation for interpretive installations at RJ SAKAI to the United States and sup- four sites on the Connecticut. port from Five Colleges, the "e purpose of the installations Chris Curtis, chief planner at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and a project has brought together would be to create connections member of the Riverscaping design/build competition jury, reviews entries. researchers, policy-makers, among communities, ecosys- environmentalists, students tems and economies along the city. We have a lot of work to will discuss his latest project, and others in western Mas- river and foster understanding do to bring these projects to suspending fabric panels along between Connecticut River life, but the entire group was 5.9 miles of the Arkansas River communities and those along excited by the new additions to in Colorado. the Elbe River in Hamburg. In their community.” "e jury selected the following January a jury made up of area In upcoming phases of the winners for each site: architects, artists, builders and project, winners will construct Spring!eld: Anthony Di Mari; others picked winning designs their designs, and all entries will Quincy, Massachusetts for sites in Spring!eld, Holyoke, become a part of an exhibition, Holyoke: Samuel St. Jacques, Hadley and Turners Falls. Riverscaping 2010–2020, that Jillian Tara and Gabriella Jannotta; “The Riverscaping design/ will travel to museums in the Amherst, Massachusetts build competition submissions Pioneer Valley and Hamburg. Hadley: Laura Brooks; Amherst, ranged from landscape design "e exhibition’s opening will Massachusetts to architecture to sculpture and coincide with a Riverscaping Turners Fall: Terry R. Marashl- came from as far away as India,” symposium aimed at broaden- ian, Dan Trenholm, Paul Duga said "om Long. “"e projects ing community discourse over and Heidi Schmidt; North!eld,

RJ SAKAI gave our jury and committee sustainable uses of the Con- Massachusetts members an amazing array necticut. Scheduled for April "om Long, Five College assistant of ideas to bring to the com- 19–21, the symposium will For more information about River- professor of architecture and design at Hampshire, addresses jurors before munity. "e projects selected feature a keynote address by scaping, visit www.riverscaping.org they begin judging entries in the River- for the design/build are sure to the renowned environmental scaping design/build competition. have a unique impact on each installation artist Christo, who

Hill’s Tap Dancing America awarded national prize

ap Dancing America: A by Oxford University Press, lades, such as the American Tap based at Hampshire College and TCultural History, by Five explores tap dancing from 1900 Foundation’s Tap Preservation teaches on multiple Five College College Dance Professor Con- to the present from a cultural Award, the Bill “Bojangles” Rob- campuses each year. stance Valis Hill, was awarded perspective, featuring for the inson Award, and selection as a the 2010 de la Torre Bueno Prize !rst time in any book the accom- !nalist for the "eatre Library as the year’s most distinguished plishments of women dancers. Association’s Richard Wall Me- book of dance scholarship, by Since its publication, in morial Award. An accomplished the Society of Dance History 2010, Tap Dancing America jazz tap dancer, choreographer Scholars. Hill’s book, published has received a number of acco- and performance scholar, Hill is

6 • Five College Ink NewsBreaks Consortium subscriptions to East Asian resources provide local tools for researchers

ith the consortium pur- the Yomidasu Rekishikan online one department may not want na Maxx, a digital library of Wchase of subscriptions database, Five College researchers to devote part of its budget to Chinese e-books, with almost to two East Asian-language now have access from their home a language that only one or two 1 million volumes dating to newspaper databases, faculty campus to millions of articles, people in the department can 1938. Users at the #ve campuses members and students at the photographs—even comics— read,” said Domier. “I’m very can search the database and view five campuses will no longer dating to the 19th century. grateful to the Five College Li- up to the #rst 17 pages of any have to travel to Boston or New Sharon Domier, East Asian braries Collection Management book with the option to pur- Haven to conduct research us- studies librarian at UMass, Committee, who were able to see chase the book for a small fee. ing these materials. said the database subscriptions the bigger picture of faculty and According to Domier, this gives For years, the Japanese will be a resource not only for student needs, not only across member campuses access to studies researchers at the five faculty researchers, but also departments but also across col- materials that don’t exist in print campuses had to rely on news- for language instructors and leges, so we can provide a level outside China or that would paper databases at Harvard and their students. “It’s been chal- of support that will allow our otherwise be impossible to order Yale to access newspaper articles lenging in the past to provide researchers to do more of their through interlibrary loan. from such national newspapers research-level collections in research in the comfort of the —Julie Varney UM ’12 as the Yomiuri Shimbun, the East Asian languages, because Pioneer Valley.” largest-circulation newspaper in funding is o$en tied to speci#c The consortium also pur- the world. With a subscription to programs and departments, and chased a subscription to Chi- Five College risk Campus librarians present manager wins national at national conference innovation award essons learned by Five Col- opment at Mount Holyoke; Llege librarians in their e!ort and Pam Skinner, reference/ ive College Director of ing an institution’s auto insurance to reduce the duplication of electronic resources librarian FCompliance and Risk Man- program. To help respond to and monographs in their collections at Smith. agement Elizabeth Carmichael mitigate the risks associated with were shared with colleagues In 2010, the libraries of Five was honored with the fourth the drivers of campus %eets total- from around the country at the Colleges member campuses annual Innovative Risk Man- ing more than 200 vehicles, the annual Charleston Conference instituted a program to re- agement Solutions Award from Five College Risk Management in November. "e conference, duce unintentional duplication. the University Risk Manage- Program developed an online which draws librarians, publish- An analysis of the combined ment and Insurance Association database to more effectively ers, electronic resource manag- monograph collections identi- (URMIA). "e award highlights manage its driver credentialing. ers and others from the pub- #ed the number of duplicated innovative projects that others This database enables vehicle lishing world to South Carolina titles, their circulation, and in the profession of risk manage- program managers to easily and is, according to organizers, “a the cost of the volumes. With ment can use. Carmichael was e&ciently collect license infor- collegial gathering of individu- some 80 percent of the books named for her development of mation, review drivers’ training als from di!erent areas who dis- within a single collection being an online database to manage and provide them with safety cuss issues in a nonthreatening, duplicated and roughly half of Five Colleges’ driver credential- rules. "is represented a signi#- friendly and highly informal those items apparently unused, ing program at the consortium’s cant innovation over the previous environment.” collection strategies were ad- four college members. paper form of data collection. Included in this year’s pre- justed to eliminate unintentional “I was deeply honored to be Carmichael said the program sentations was “Reducing duplication and increase unique recognized for this work among will be licensed to other schools Unintentional Duplication: material within the consortium. the many talented and creative for a small fee. She plans to use Adventures and Opportuni- "e session reviewed the results risk managers that are URMIA these fees to pay for development ties in Cooperative Collection of the collection policy as well members,” Carmichael said. “I costs on new risk management Development,” by Leslie But- as how the libraries developed hope that the award will show- support programs. ton, associate director for li- a shared approach across mul- case the program so that other —Julie Varney UM ’12 brary services at UMass; Rachel tiple institutions with varying schools may take advantage Lewellen, assessment librarian environments. of it.” at UMass; Kathleen Norton, —Julie Varney UM ’12 At many universities, manag- director of collection devel- ing drivers is the biggest risk fac-

4 • Five College Ink NewsBreaks Learning in Retirement’s Civil War symposium draws hundreds ALLOCH K Y R , the dalism in the Industrial Revolu- the symposium’s project direc- EMA

S conference explored issues of tion to teaching the Civil War in tor. “Race and states’ rights still

RO race, states’ rights and cultural the K–12 classroom. Sessions trouble us, and many current Eric Foner (l) and David Blight at changes of the Civil War era that were led by faculty members cultural issues, such as gender “Civil War Causes and Consequences.” still resonate today. from institutions throughout equality and the federal role in It opened with a keynote the Northeast including several protecting and providing for its undreds of people from address from Columbia Univer- from Five College campuses. citizens, saw signi$cant changes Haround western Massa- sity professor Eric Foner, winner #e symposium closed with a in the war.” chusetts converged on UMass of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in his- keynote by Yale professor and While in the area, Foner also over two days in October tory for his book !e Fiery Trial: former faculty met with a book club of Spring- to participate in the Five Abraham Lincoln and American member David Blight. $eld public school teachers at College Learning in Retire- Slavery. Attendees then chose “#e Civil War Sesquicenten- an event organized by the Five ment symposium “Civil War from nearly two dozen small nial gives us a chance to both College School Partnership as Causes and Consequences.” group sessions and panel discus- acknowledge this traumatic part of its US Department of With major financial support sions exploring subjects ranging national event and to explore Education-sponsored Teaching from Mass Humanities and the from John Brown’s role in the issues of that era that still a!ect American History project. Community Foundation of abolition movement to neofeu- our lives,” said Chuck Gillies,

Five College Depository expands membership beyond the consortium

of campuses, and so began the print collections, while ensuring Five College Library Depository, that our members can focus on in 2002. providing local collections that Located in a former Cold best serve their patrons’ needs.” War–era strategic command In return for their annual center inside the Holyoke fee, a"liate members can free Range’s Bare Mountain, the up space on their own library depository contains nearly shelves by eliminating little-used 500,000 volumes of printed paper resources, knowing that resources in climate-controlled, they will always have access to high-density storage. In March, a print copy. #ey may also de- the three members of the Tripod posit paper copies of issues and Consortium of colleges in Penn- volumes that complement the sylvania became a"liate mem- depository’s current holdings. bers of the depository, followed in June by the 152 campuses The Bunker, home of the Five College Library Depository and Amherst of CARLI—the Consortium of College Depository. Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois. Five College collection of collections over the past two “Limited space and the Aprint copies of journals decades, they recognized the maintenance of aging library and other library resources has importance of having at least collections are urgent concerns expanded its availability from one paper version of everything, of all CARLI libraries,” said the $ve members of the con- as a resource for researchers Susan Singleton, executive di- sortium to 179 campuses in the and as an ultimate backup copy. rector of CARLI. “Our mem- Northeast and Midwest. #ey also recognized that each bership in the Five Colleges As libraries began digitizing paper version could be a re- Library Depository provides their journals and other print source shared among a number valuable access to these legacy

5 • Five College Ink NewsBreaks