YEARBOOK REPORT ON 2013–2014

Amherst College | Hampshire College | Mount Holyoke College | Smith College | University of Massachusetts Amherst 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 1948 the Pioneer Valley. Extension sponsors the First joint faculty appointment, country’s first courses in economics, created. taught over radio.

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

1965 1966 Latin American Studies, first First Five College Fellow joint area studies program, 1961 named. founded. Four College Bus system launched. Four Colleges, Incorporated Four Colleges, Incorporated is 1960 becomes Five Colleges, created. The campuses assist 1979 1960 Incorporated after Hampshire with planning and fund-raising Neill Endowment of $1 WFCR (Four College joins. for a new college. million is established by College Radio) private donor to support begins broadcasting. visiting scholars.

Consortium provides subsidies to Pioneer Valley 1973 1978–79 Transit Authority (PVTA) 1970 Student cross registration Five College Dance for free transportation 1970 without additional fee or Department is established; for students and campus Hampshire College admits inter-campus reimbursement operated previously as Five employees on Five College its first students. is approved. College Council on Dance. bus routes.

1985 Five College automated library catalog system installed. 1989 1980 Center for the Study of First joint certificate (minor), World Languages, focusing 1988 international relations, 1984 1980 on less commonly studied Five College Learning in is established. There are now Five College Public Schools Five College office moves languages, is founded. Retirement established. 15 certificate programs. Partnership founded. to 97 Spring Street, Amherst, a house owned by Amherst College near its campus.

1999 1998 1990 Five College Library 1991 Five Colleges and Historic Depository collection is 1990 Five College Women’s Deerfield Museum Consortium created and housed in Amherst National Endowment Studies Research Center create a shared collections College –owned bunker in the for the Humanities and launched. database of cataloged objects. Mount Holyoke Range. matching funds create $1 million endowment for 2005 joint faculty appointments Museums10 collaboration of and faculty development. seven campus museums and 2007 three associated independent 53-mile, high-speed fiber optic museums is established. 2000 network linking the campuses to one another and to high- First joint major, film studies, is speed Internet providers in established. There are now Springfield is completed. two joint majors.

2011 UMass Accelerated Master’s programs open to Five College students.

2010 The Andrew W. Mellon 2013 Foundation provides a $1.5 Pritzen Endowment established million endowment to fund to support academic programs academic support positions. and initiatives. CONTENTS

REFLECTIONS ON THE YEAR...... 2

WHAT IS FIVE COLLEGES...... 4

THEME OF THE YEAR: LANGUAGES...... 5

ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS...... 8

ADMINISTRATIVE COLLABORATIONS...... 23

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS...... 29

STUDENT LIFE...... 30

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS...... 31

GOVERNANCE/ADMINISTRATION...... 32

Detailed financial information can be viewed in the online version of the Yearbook at fivecolleges.edu/consortium/publications

Above: Students in the Five College Summer Research Seminar entitled “Caboom!!!” Unless otherwise noted, all photos are by Nancy Palmieri. REFLECTIONS ON THE YEAR

During 2013–14, we The students, who began meeting the course requirements launched several exciting of the certificate before the program officially began, initiatives and strength- pursued research in a variety of areas: methods for educating ened many ongoing ones. young children about the science of climate change; the history, culture and experience of the Connecticut River; Among the new projects is a guide to sustainable redevelopment and energy use; and regional planning around a guide to developing buildings with net-zero energy library management and water use and net-zero waste creation. of print resources, an 18-month effort funded Another existing program began to bear fruit in April, when by the Andrew W. Mellon students participating in Five College Digital Humanities Foundation in which we projects presented their results at a symposium hosted by engaged representatives of Smith. These ranged from the use of computer mapping more than 130 libraries in the Northeast. The project is now and 3D renderings as documentation for building a house named EAST, an acronym for Eastern Academic Scholars’ out of salvaged materials to the creation of a program that Trust. The participating librarians developed workable can sift through thousands of proverbs and learn to compose models for collaborative approaches to long-term retention adages of its own. and access to rarely used print materials, both monographs and journals. Combine a healthy love of play with lots of pizza and no sleep and you have the makings for a new phenomenon We also launched a set of coordinated activities exploring sweeping our campuses: game jams and “maker” jams. how best to enhance student learning through a mix of The emphasis at these events is on students collaborating online resources and activities and in-person work among to build things—video games, robots, interactive art students and with faculty members. Supported by a grant installations—in 24-hour sessions. In 2013–14, there from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the three-year were three game jams and a maker jam and the Five College “blended-learning” project supports faculty members’ Statistics Program got into the spirit of things with its first efforts to create and use online resources in their courses Datafest, held in March. to improve academic experiences both in and outside of the classroom. Many other celebrations of creativity marked the year, particularly in the performing arts. Opera fans could An example of a maturing consortium effort is the enjoy not one but three distinctly different productions. Sustainability Certificate Program, initiated in 2012, The historical Garden of Martyrs—created by Amherst which awarded its first certificates to students in 2014. College Associate Professor Eric Sawyer and UMass

Right: Participants in the Native Americans of New England Summer Institute in July, 2013, organized by the Five College Partnership. Left: Students in a Game Jam at Hampshire College in September, 2013.

2 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

Professor Harley Erdman—was performed last fall after own travels abroad. To help them prepare to go to countries being refined in a Five College faculty–student summer in which languages other than English are spoken, research project. February saw the remarkable return of we introduced a language portal at our website, the Five College Opera, with its production of Street Scene. fivecolleges.edu/languages. The portal lists each of the more Then, in April, Five College Associate Professor of Music than 60 languages available for study at the campuses, Olabode Omojola directed Queen Moremi, an opera he most of them offered by the Five College Center for the wrote based on a legend from the Yoruba people of West Study of World Languages. Africa. Student actors, musicians and stagehands played key roles in each of these productions. On a very sad note, our community was shocked by the death of Elizabeth Mazzocco, who for a quarter of a century Another series of performances that featured student and directed the Five College Center for the Study of World faculty participants was the biennial Five College New Languages. Elizabeth is remembered for many things—as Music Festival, held last September. The festival’s half-dozen an innovative languages educator, as an exceptional shows drew standing-room-only audiences at UMass. administrator, as a prodigious fund-raiser—but most important as a warm, compassionate person who brought Visits by artists and researchers from beyond our campuses out the best in those she touched. She will be deeply missed enriched cultural and intellectual life over the year. The by all of us who knew her. Women’s Studies Research Center alone hosted nine women from around the world, each of whom spent a semester pursuing scholarship and giving presentations. A grant we received at the end of the fiscal year, from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, will help us bring Taiwanese Neal B. Abraham performance troupes to the Valley in coming months. Executive Director and Five College Professor of Physics A very special Five College Africa Day celebrated the life of Nelson Mandela with presentations and performances by students and faculty members and a talk by Garrey Dennie, the late South African president’s speechwriter. We also enjoyed visits from a Kenyan senator, a climate-change expert from India, a Senegalese hip-hop group and a Brazilian dancer-scholar.

Once our students get a taste for the international world from such visitors, they often want to strike out on their

Right: A workshop session in Holyoke Bound. Left: Five College joint faculty member Olabode Omojola.

fivecolleges.edu 3 The cost—and value—of collaboration Funding for the consortium and its collaborative activities comes from a variety of sources. Each campus contributes some $1.2 million to consortium operations and shared costs, and together the five schools provide $1.7 million to support the home-campus portions of the 40 joint faculty appointments. The consortium has a $12 million endowment, which in 2013–14 provided $598,000 to support various Five College initiatives. The consortium annually spends about $2 million from external grants. This makes the total cash outlay for shared activities managed by the consortium about $9.3 million for 2013–14.

More than $1 million in annual savings results from partnerships among our five institutions in purchasing; library catalogs, subscriptions and shelving; student health; campus police and insurance; and Internet, printing and mailing. In-kind contributions, such as offices for members of the consortium staff, support for consortium employees and, most important, the tuition value of the courses students take at other campuses, bring the total value of the annual consortium operations and services to $50 million.

WHAT IS FIVE COLLEGES? As substantial as this amount is, other, nonfinancial measures of the worth of the consortium are equally important: for example, more Ask a dozen people what the Five College curricular opportunities for students than any one campus could provide; more certificates and majors; a wider range of faculty ex- Consortium means to them and you’ll probably pertise; and larger peer communities for students, administrators and get a dozen different answers. To some, it means the faculty for advice, consultation on best practices and collaboration. being able to take free bus rides to classes on another campus. For others, it’s a way to get the funding to support scholarly discussions with might not be feasible individually. Dozens of initiatives— colleagues at other schools. For still others, it most of which are noted in this publication—arise from this principle and are the result of the hard work of the people of means having access to some 11 million library the campuses and of the consortium. volumes they can find and order online. Forty full-time consortium employees work variously on one Students, faculty members and administrators have many of the campuses, at the Five College center in downtown points of contact with the consortium. One way to begin Amherst or, in some cases, at multiple sites. The onetime to understand the consortium’s workings is to think of its home of children’s book authors Howard and Lilian Garis, efforts as falling into two categories: our 97 Spring Street center houses the consortium’s offices for information technology, business, development, com- Helping campuses share resources that are otherwise  munications, academic programs, the Schools Partnership available to one institution or a few institutions. and the executive director. Almost as important are the Helping campuses pool resources to accomplish things center’s two conference rooms, which annually host some that none of them could do alone. 700 meetings of the 120 academic and administrative committees that represent collaboration in action. The thinking behind sharing resources is straightforward: whenever possible, make available that which you provide But Five Colleges isn’t so much a place as it is its people: to those on your own campus to those at the other four. the 2,200 faculty members working to create academic Thus, students at any one institution may enroll in courses opportunities; the 6,800 staff members exploring ways to on other campuses, borrow books from other libraries and operate their campuses more efficiently and effectively; eat in other dining commons. Although resources belong to the 40 members of the consortium staff working to make one institution, the consortium ensures that sharing happens collaboration as seamless and transparent as possible; and smoothly by building cooperation, in these cases among the the 35,000 students who take courses, complete programs, registrars, librarians and dining-service directors, respectively. attend parties and befriend one another as if the five colleges were one. Together they represent more than 1 trillion One of the things that sets Five Colleges apart from most possibilities for collaborating to improve individual and other higher-education consortia is the extent to which our collective higher-education experiences. campuses pool their resources to achieve collectively what

Above: Workshop leaders at Holyoke Bound. Opposite page: Agnes Kimokoti, Five College Swahili mentor, in class.

4 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 LANGUAGE LEARNING SPURS INNOVATIVE EFFORTS

The wealth of language-learning opportunities available tutorials, students have a variety of choices when deciding on to students at the Five Colleges transforms educational a learning method that fits their needs. Each school provides journeys and inspires nuanced engagement with the world. classroom instruction in almost a dozen more commonly Although the consortium is firmly rooted in western taught languages, in which students can do a major, a minor, Massachusetts, language instruction promotes stronger a concentration or a certificate. Individual campuses and the ties to, and greater collaboration with, partners around the language center host foreign–language teaching assistants, world. Language instruction paired with cultural immersion some of whom are Fulbright scholars, as instructors. best prepares students for study and work overseas. “The breadth and depth of the language offerings in the Five College Center for the consortium set our institutions apart from other liberal arts Study of World Languages timeline colleges in the nation,” said Elizabeth Mazzocco, who was founder and, until her death in September, director of the Five College Foreign Language Resource Five College Center for the Study of World Languages and 1989 Center opens. a professor of Italian at the university. Professor Elizabeth Mazzocco joins the Courses are available in more than 60 languages at the 1990 center as director. elementary level, and for many of these languages students may take classes at intermediate and advanced levels. The Five College Self-instructional Language Students can immerse themselves in the most commonly 1991 Program offers six languages. spoken languages, such as Spanish and Chinese, or less commonly taught languages, such as Twi and Urdu. Some LangMedia, which includes a variety of campuses have language requirements, and thanks to the 1999 multimedia resources, is initiated. collaboration of the five schools, even if a language or level of language isn’t available on a student’s home campus, the Name is changed to Five College Center for student can usually find it on another one. 2002 the Study of World Languages.

“Students attending the Five Colleges have the opportunity Mentored Language Program launched, to study languages that are most often offered only at select 2004 offering instruction in Swahili and Arabic. research universities,” said Mazzocco. “They can also tailor upper-level language and culture courses to meet their LangMedia receives the Multimedia individual needs and interests while still undergraduates.” 2005 Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Editors’ Choice Award for The five campuses and the language center use a number Overall Exemplary Online Learning Resource. of innovative approaches to teach students (see sidebar, page 6). From language-immersion classes to one-on-one

fivecolleges.edu 5 In addition, the consortium pools the resources of member Innovations in language learning campuses in order to provide other offerings. Notable among One of the Five College Center for the Study of World these is the Arabic Language Initiative, an exciting example Language’s most innovative tools is Culture Talk, found on of how increasing student interest in a language spurred a langmedia.fivecolleges.edu, which features video clips of larger collaborative programmatic effort. Ten years ago, the native speakers in their home countries discussing everyday language center began offering tutorials in Modern Standard topics, from food to recreation to religious and cultural Arabic. Now there are five full-time lecturers and one traditions. The center received funding from the Andrew part-time lecturer teaching classroom-based elementary W. Mellon Foundation and the International Research and Arabic on all our campuses and a sequence of more advanced Studies Program of the U.S. Department of Education to courses up to the fourth-year level. The curriculum has send video cameras home with international students grown to incorporate advanced courses that address a range to get the footage, all of which is now available online. of political, social, religious and literary themes.

In the new Five College Blended Learning program, created “Typically, when Arabic is offered at the college level in the to enhance student learning in the humanities and humanistic United States, it is the formal written language, which is quite social sciences, four of the seven projects focus on different from the language most native speakers use in their language learning. Ying Wang and Lisha Xu of Mount everyday lives,” says Chelsea Villareal SC ’13, who has traveled Holyoke College, along with Zhijun Wang of UMass and worked extensively throughout the Middle East, both Amherst, are working on a project to support Chinese- language learning at advanced levels by engaging students before and after graduation. “Most university students don’t online with Chinese news broadcasts. Bruno Grazioli and have the opportunity to study any of the spoken dialects of Maria Succi-Hempstead of Smith College and Morena Arabic until they study abroad in an Arabic-speaking country. Svaldi of Mount Holyoke College are collaborating to Students of the Five Colleges are given a huge advantage develop Italian video tutorials that students can use outside by having resources to learn the spoken dialects and of the classroom. Wako Tawa and Kozue Miyama of Amherst practice using the language with a native speaker” before College are developing online learning tools to help students going abroad. practice grammar. Swahili instructor Agnes Kimokoti and other language center staff members are creating a platform The consortium also hosts joint faculty appointments in three to offer online exercises to students so they can practice other languages: Korean, Japanese and Russian. Each instructor speaking and listening skills in Italian and Swahili. is based at one campus and teaches at one or more others.

Five Colleges awarded Teaching with Technology grants Along with these programs, the consortium created the to two projects—one to advance upper-level Chinese Five College Language Portal, in 2013, to guide students studies and the other to support beginning-level Russian. to all the opportunities for language learning at the five Mount Holyoke’s Xu, along with Ling Zhao of Smith and campuses and through the language center. Located at Daryl Weber, director of the Language Resource Center www.fivecolleges.edu/languages, the portal offers links at Mount Holyoke, worked together to develop a database to studying more than 60 languages. of online teaching and learning materials for advanced Chinese language and culture courses offered at Mount Launched in 1989, the Five College Center for the Study Holyoke and Smith. They also created online components of World Languages, then dubbed the Five College Foreign for these courses and conducted research on how to teach Language Resource Center, in 1991 began to provide access literacy in advanced Chinese using computer-assisted to languages that were of interest to Five College students learning resources. but didn’t enjoy a critical mass large enough to justify For the second Teaching with Technology grant, Five hiring a full-time instructor to teach in the classroom College Lecturer Evgeny Dengub and Mount Holyoke’s (see the timeline in the sidebar on page 5). In its early Susanna Nazarova worked with Weber during summer days, the center offered instruction in only a handful 2013 and into the fall to streamline and synchronize of languages, such as Hindi, Korean and Swahili. It has since first-year Russian-language courses taught at Mount grown to offer courses in 40 less commonly taught languages Holyoke and UMass. They created 12 learning modules to (LCTLs), which last year attracted more than 200 students. instruct students in Russian-language and culture. These The tutorial and independent-study formats for LCTLs modules offered students creative and effective ways to provide the flexibility in both scheduling and location of collaborate with one another across campuses. study that wouldn’t be possible with classroom instruction.

6 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 courses to test in the intermediate proficiency range and for as many as possible to be in the advanced range before graduation.

All Hindi and Swahili students were recently tested, and of them, “one hundred percent had met or were on track to meet the benchmark goals,” says Amy Wordelman, associate director of the center. “Ninety percent received ratings in the intermediate range or above and thirty-five percent received ratings in the advanced range, including one student who received a superior rating.”

Language instruction at the five campuses and the center is integrated with cultural education, and many students mention that knowing a language informs their interactions with the people and culture native to that language.

“Any scholar of the Middle East who doesn’t speak Arabic can’t possibly maintain a nuanced understanding of the region’s history, development and deep-seated customs and traditions without the ability to interact and learn from the “For the LCTLs, the combination of proficiency and cultural people themselves,” says Villareal. experience gives Five College students a competitive edge in these languages and cultures,” said Mazzocco. Cassidy Rappaport HC ’16 studies Burmese and has traveled to Myanmar several times, both before and after “I’ve found that knowing a less commonly taught language learning the language. “I hope to work with refugees,” she has been helpful in applying to jobs,” says AnnElizabeth says. “My being able to converse with newly arrived refugees Konkel MHC ’14. “While the popular foreign languages can change their experiences and make them feel more require an advanced knowledge to have an edge in an welcomed after very traumatizing experiences. Studying this application, less commonly taught languages are valuable language has changed the way I interact with the world.” even at a less advanced level. In my internship last summer at the U.S. Army War College, my boss told me my Billie Jean Stirewalt MHC ’14, project manager at GORBI, application really stood out because I was learning Urdu.” a statistical analysis and public opinion firm in Tbilisi, Georgia, says learning a language “not only helped me shape Like Konkel, other students who have studied languages a unique and personal experience within my major and my at the Five Colleges readily talk about how the experience academic pursuits, but it also helped me get an amazing affects them, particularly when they travel abroad, as roughly international job right after graduation.” 1,800 undergraduates do every year. Those who want to travel overseas after graduation report being better prepared Language learning will continue to thrive within the to apply for and undertake Fulbright programs after taking consortium. Thanks to funding from the Andrew W. Mellon our language courses. In 2014, 48 Five College students Foundation, the language center is creating grammar videos, received Fulbrights. starting with Persian and Arabic, to enhance online resources. The center has two full-time lecturers, one in Swahili and “I wouldn’t have gotten a Fulbright if I hadn’t taken a one in Hindi, who will travel to all five campuses to teach. language course at the center,” says Noa Gutterman SC ’14, In 2014, the center launched a summer intensive-language who will be undertaking an ethnographic study of women’s program for students and the community. The program traditional agriculture and food security in Ethiopia this featured two five-week sessions of elementary Japanese and year. Before she applied for the award, she says, staff members elementary Hindi. The Japanese course was taught in person at the language center “helped me fill out the application for and online, which made it accessible to participants who my project to show what I would be learning during the year lived beyond this area. The language center will offer the and that I was committed to the course of language study.” program again in 2015. In addition, the center, which has Another measure of success as a result of language center long offered private tutoring to members of the community, programs is how well students do on the American Council is in the early stages of developing a program to teach specialized of Teachers of Foreign Languages oral proficiency scale. The languages on a contractual basis with local individuals and center’s goals are for all students who have taken elementary organizations.

Above: A student in a language class.

fivecolleges.edu 7 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

Academic collaborations within Five Colleges take many forms, from sharing faculty members to funding seminars and developing curricula in specialized fields. Joint Faculty Appointments Through Joint Faculty Appointments, campuses share specialized instruction they might not be able to afford to accomplish alone, at the same time preserving the breadth of the curriculum as faculty members retire or leave. Since the program’s beginning, in 1948, there have been almost 100 joint appointments; 40 were current in 2013–14. You’ll find guidelines for joint faculty positions at the Resources for Joint Faculty Appointees website: fivecolleges.edu/faculty/joint_faculty.

OTHER PARTICIPATING FIELD NAME HOME CAMPUS CAMPUSES African Dance Marilyn Middleton-Sylla Smith Amherst, Mount Holyoke African Politics Kim Yi Dionne Smith Mount Holyoke, Amherst, UMass AmericanStudies/Asian/Pacific/ Sujani Reddy Amherst All campuses American Studies Arabic Olla Al-Shalchi Smith All campuses Heba Arafah Mount Holyoke All campuses Mohamed Hassan Amherst All campuses Nahla Khalil UMass All campuses (part time) Brahim Oulbeid Amherst All campuses John Weinert Smith All campuses Architectural Studies Thom Long Hampshire Amherst, Mount Holyoke John Slepian Art and Technology Hampshire Smith (on leave spring ’14) Art History Lorne Falk Hampshire Amherst Biology Robert Drewell Amherst Mount Holyoke Dan Sheldon Computational Biology UMass Mount Holyoke (on leave fall ’13)

8 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC continued OTHER PARTICIPATING FIELD NAME HOME CAMPUS CAMPUSES COLLABORATIONS Dance Paul Matteson Amherst Mount Holyoke Dance/History Constance Valis Hill Hampshire All campuses Dance Outreach (part time) Jodi Falk Mount Holyoke All campuses English/Comp Lit. Scott Branson Amherst Hampshire Jane Hwang English/Renaissance UMass Hampshire Degenhardt Ethnomusicology Bode Omojola Mount Holyoke All campuses Angela Willey Feminist Science Studies UMass Hampshire, Mount Holyoke (on leave 2013-14) Film Studies/Production Baba Hillman Hampshire Amherst, UMass Bernadine Mellis Mount Holyoke Smith, UMass (on leave fall ’13) Geology J. Michael Rhodes UMass All campuses History/Pacific Empires and Richard Chu UMass All campuses Asian/Pacific/American Studies History/Russian Studies Sergey Glebov Smith Amherst International Relations/ Jon Western Mount Holyoke All campuses US Diplomacy Japanese Fumiko Brown Amherst All campuses Judaic Studies Adi Gordon Amherst UMass Korean Suk Massey Smith All campuses Chan Young Park UMass Mount Holyoke Latin American Elizabeth Klarich Smith Amherst, Mount Holyoke Archaeology Teresa Shawcross Medieval History Amherst Mount Holyoke (on leave 2013–14) Middle Eastern History Nadya Sbaiti Smith Mount Holyoke Music/Early Music Robert Eisenstein Mount Holyoke All campuses Peace and World Michael Klare Hampshire All campuses Security Studies Physics Courtney Lannert Smith UMass Russian Evgeny Dengub Amherst UMass Sustainable Architecture Gabriel Arboleda Hampshire Amherst Naomi Darling Hampshire Mount Holyoke, UMass

Opposite: Joint faculty member Robert Eisenstein, director of the Five College Early Music Program.

fivecolleges.edu 9 Faculty Exchange Through the Five College Faculty Exchange program, our campuses “borrow” faculty members from one another to teach courses not otherwise available. Using experienced Five College full-time faculty members to cover short-term needs minimizes acclimation challenges, and the 2,200 full-time faculty members already teaching on the five campuses represent a tremendous depth and breadth for this program. In the 2013–14 academic year, there were 34 exchanges in 17 fields. The most popular fields for which instructors were borrowed were art and art history, dance and history.

10 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC

FIELD/PROGRAM COURSE TITLE PROFESSOR FROM TO Anthropology African Cultures and Societies Elliot Fratkin SC AC

Architecture Gradute Design Studio II Heidi Gilpin AC UM COLLABORATIONS Introduction to Architectural Studies Karen Koehler HC AC Art and Houses, Brothels & Luxury Goods: Barbara Kellum SC HC Art History The Lives & Afterlives of Ancient Pompeii The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece Rebecca Sinos AC SC Digital Photography I Kane Stewart HC MHC Still Photography Workshop II Kane Stewart HC MHC Modern-Contemporary Dance Technique 3: Dance Paul Dennis UM HC Intermediate Level Dance in the Community Jodi Falk MHC HC Scientific Principles in the Teaching of Dance Terese Freedman MHC SC Contemporary Dance Technique 4 Angie Hauser SC HC Economics History of Economic Thought Fred Moseley MHC UM English Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Jenny Adams UM AC Old English Stephen Harris UM MHC Personal Essay Marian MacCurdy HC UM French Language and Literature Philippe Baillargeon UM AC The Art of Translation: Poetics, Politics, Practice, Carolyn Shread MHC SC and French Translation in Practice Climate Change: Exploring the Geosciences Rob DeConto UM HC Science and Solutions History Afro-Latin America since 1800 Lowell Gudmundson MHC UM Aspects in Ancient History: Fred McGinness MHC SC Rome–Majesties and Miseries in the Late Empire Topics in Social History—Interrogating Gandhi: Uditi Sen HC SC Beyond the Myth of the Mahatma History, Memory, and Modernity James Wald HC UM in Modern Europe LARP Edible Landscapes Gabriel Arboleda HC UM Latin American Translatino/a Cultural Studies Wilson Valentin-Escobar HC MHC Studies Math Introduction to Statistics Joanna Jeneralczuk UM AC Politics World Politics Vincent Ferraro MHC UM Phys Ed/Athletics College Athletics Laurie Priest MHC UM Religion Archaeology and the Bible Michael Sugerman UM SC Russian Modern Russian Poetry in Translation Polina Barskova HC AC Spanish Literary Currents of Spain I Ibtissam Bouachrine SC UM Foundational Women Poets from South America Margara Russotto UM AC

Opposite: Five College Blended Learning Faculty Director Rogelio Miñana at a May workshop. Photo by Ben Barnhart.

fivecolleges.edu 11 Lorna M. Peterson Prize 40th Anniversary Professors The Lorna M. Peterson Initiated in 2005 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Prize, established in incorporation of the consortium, the 40th Anniversary 2009, supports scholarly Professorships honor faculty members whose excellence in and creative work teaching, scholarship and service is central to cooperation by undergraduate students taking part among the Five College institutions. During their three-year in Five College pro- appointments, each 40th Anniversary Professor receives an grams, and is awarded annual research allowance and once during the three years annually based on presents a colloquium or public lecture on a topic related nominations from to her or his research. For each of those three years, a 40th Five College programs. Anniversary Professor teaches one course at another campus Dr. Peterson served as the executive director of the Five and in return is assigned one course fewer at his or her College Consortium from 1990 to 2009. The prize, established by the Five College Board of Directors and her home campus. colleagues and friends throughout the consortium, honors Martha Ackelsberg, Professor of Government, Smith College: 2006 her commitment to collaboration as a means of advancing understanding and expanding opportunity, especially Debbora Battaglia, Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke for students. College: 2010

PETERSON PRIZE RECIPIENTS Christopher Benfey, Mellon Professor of English, Mount Holyoke Spring 2011 Sarah Vasquez, Frances Perkins Scholar, College: 2005 Mount Holyoke College Herbert Bernstein, Professor of Physics, Hampshire College: 2010 (Community-Based Learning Program) Spring 2012 Andrew Fallon, UMass Amherst (earth systems Barton Byg, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures in major working toward a certificate in Coastal the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University and Marine Sciences) of Massachusetts Amherst: 2005 Spring 2013 Emily Drummer, Hampshire College (film studies student who mentored many area students) John Connolly, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College: 2007 Spring 2014 Liana Gineitis, UMass Amherst Joanne Creighton, President Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College: 2010 (Five College Opera performer) Joseph J. Ellis, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College: 2009 Jackie Pritzen Lecturers David Newbury, Gwendolen Carter Professor of African Studies The Jackie Pritzen Lecture was created in spring 1995 in (History), Smith College: 2005 honor of former Five College associate coordinator Jackie Indira Peterson, David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies, Pritzen. The lecture celebrates the teaching and scholarship Mount Holyoke College: 2008 of faculty members on the five campuses. Not every year has featured a Jackie Pritzen Lecturer. Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College: 2005 1995–96 Samba Gadjigo, Mount Holyoke College 1996–97 Murray Kiteley, Smith College Joseph Skerrett, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts 1997–98 Nina Scott, UMass Amherst Amherst: 2007 1998–99 Amrita Basu, Amherst College Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and 1999–00 Alan Goodman, Hampshire College Latino Culture (Spanish), Amherst College: 2005 (took leave, 2000–01 Ralph Faulkingham, UMass Amherst so term extended through 09–10) 2001–02 Dana Leibsohn, Smith College 2002–03 Jim Coleman, Mount Holyoke College Ileana Streinu, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, 2003–04 Wayne Kramer, Hampshire College Smith College: 2008 2004–05 Margaret Hunt, Amherst College Daniel Warner, Professor of Music in the School of Humanities, 2005–06 Ilan Stavans, Amherst College Arts, and Cultural Studies, Hampshire College: 2005 2005–06 Austin Sarat, Amherst College 2006–07 Christopher Benfey, Mount Holyoke College 2007–08 Barton Byg, UMass Amherst 2010–11 John Connelly, Smith College 2011–12 Indira Peterson, Mount Holyoke College 2012–13 Herbert Bernstein, Hampshire College 2013–14 Stephen Clingman, UMass Amherst

Above: Lorna Peterson and 2014 Peterson Prize winner Liana Gineitis of UMass. Opposite: Dan Sheldon, Five College assistant professor of computer science.

12 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC Five College Academic Events and Programs FACULTY SEMINARS CONFERENCES, COLLOQUIA AND SYMPOSIA

In 2013–2014, faculty members frequently came together Five College programs and committees organize events to COLLABORATIONS in Five College–sponsored seminars to exchange ideas, read inform, explore and celebrate an array of subjects. Among works of their own or of others and host guest speakers in them are the following. the following areas. ACTFL Oral Proficiency Training workshop in Arabic, African Studies Amherst College Afro-Luso-Brazilian Studies Anthropology Student Symposium, Amherst College Architectural Studies Arabic Night, Smith College Atlantic Studies Asian/Pacific/American Studies Symposium, Buddhist Studies Mount Holyoke College Chemistry Chinese Student Speech Contest, UMass Amherst Childhood Studies Coastal and Marine Sciences Student Poster Session, Classics Amherst College Coastal and Marine Sciences DataFest, UMass Amherst Cognitive Science Digital Humanities Symposium, Smith College Crossroads in the Study of the Americans Ethnomusicology Certificate Celebration, Amherst College Economics Feminist Technologies in the Workplace, Mount Holyoke College French Film and Video Student Festival, Amherst College Geometry Film Studies Conference, Mount Holyoke College German Studies Five College Student Game Jam, Hampshire College Global Cultures of the Long 19th Century Geology Faculty Symposium, Amherst College Inter-Asian Political Cultures Geology Student Symposium, Amherst College International Relations Global Student Game Jam, Mount Holyoke College Italian HackUMass, UMass Amherst Late Antiquity Japanese Student Speech Contest, Mount Holyoke College Literary Translation Korean Student Speech Contest, UMass Amherst Marxist and Postcolonial Discourse MakerJam, Mount Holyoke College Medieval Studies Presentation by José Bowen on using technology outside Middle Eastern Studies of the classroom, Hampshire College Native American and Indigenous Studies Queer and Sexuality Studies Conference, Hampshire College Number Theory Student PoetryFest, Amherst College Performance Studies WORD! A Staged Reading of Student Work, UMass Amherst Photography Workshop on time management and scholarly productivity Propositional Attitudes (Philosophy) with Kerry Ann Rockquemore, UMass Amherst Public Policy and Social Innovations Religion Renaissance Slavic Studies Social Movements Social Thought/Political Economy Women’s Studies

fivecolleges.edu 13 LECTURES AND SPEAKERS Ned Blackhawk: “Reckoning: American Indians and the Remaking of U.S. History” The following is a list of speakers, lectures and lecture series Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o: “Democracy and Development in Africa” organized by Five College programs and committees and Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o: “The Political Economy of Health Service funded from Five College budgets, including the Five Delivery in Kenya” College Lecture Fund, in 2013–14. Robyn Ochs: “Real People are Complicated” S. D. Holman: “Butch: Not Like Other Girls” Ana Celia Zentella: “The American Dream Is Not Dreamt in English Sebastian Dobson: “Glass, Paper, and Canvas: John Wilson of Only: Latin@s and Linguistic Intolerance in the USA” Cape Cod and the Advent(ure) of Photography in Japan” Bideew Bou Bess: “Music Is Our Revolution: Hip Hop and Social Scott MacEachern: “Why Is Race a Social Construct?” Activism in Senegal” Scott Stonington: “How Ethics Haunt Places: Lessons from the Eric Charry: “Hip-Hop and Global Citizenship” ‘Spirit Ambulance’ and the End of Life in Thailand” Christine Vachon: “An Afternoon with Christine Vachon” Susan Meiselas: “From the Field to the Archive” Chuck D and Gaye Theresa Johnson: “Music, Social Justice, Tsitsi Jaji: “Africa in Stereo: Music, Modernism and and the Importance of Critical Situated Knowledge in Pan-African Solidarity” the 21st Century” Turi King: “Identifying the Long-lost Remains of King Richard III Dacia Maraini and Nadia Fusini, discussion of Italian authors of England” “Du Bois in Our Time,” exhibition Edna Machirori and Fungai Machirori: “Writing on the Margins in LECTURE SERIES Postcolonial Zimbabwe” Chinese Film Seminar Esther Dischereit: Klagelieder Ethnomusicology Lecture Series Garrey M. Dennie: “Mandela’s Words: Mightier Than the Sword” Kofi Agawu: “The Rhythmic Imagination in African Music” Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte and Abebe Shimeles: “Structural Eric Charry: “Hip-Hop and Global Citizenship” Transformation and the Role of Natural Resources in Africa” Tomie Hahn: “Sensual Orientations—the Senses in Research Horace D. Ballard, Jr.: “Ethics of Beauty: Du Bois and the and Creativity” Importance of Photography” Anne Rasmussen: “Arab Music Aesthetics and the Myth of Continents” International Shakespeare Conference Jane Mount Pleasant: “A New Paradigm for Pre-Columbian PERFORMANCES Agriculture in North America” The following were either performed by or hosted Jefferson Pinder: “Making Art and Making History” by Five College programs. Jeff Smith: “Graphic Novels” Andrew Rangel: Piano recital and lecture, UMass Amherst Lech Majewski: The Mill and the Cross, film, with discussion Anu Yadav: ’Capers, Hampshire College Lisa Hajjar: “Classified Memories: Trying to Try Terror Suspects Tortured by the CIA” Black/queer/diaspora/womyn Festival, UMass Amherst Lorrin Thomas: “Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity Darkmatter: Rainbows are Just Refracted White Light! in New York City” New Music Festival, UMass Amherst Lucilius Conference: “Speaking of the Republic: Lucilius and Pandit Rajan Mishra and Pandit Sajan Mishra: Classical Vocal Music His Contexts” of India, Mount Holyoke College Mumia Abu-Jamal: Long Distance Revolutionary, film Queen Moremi: African folk opera, Mount Holyoke College Street Scene: Five College Opera, UMass Amherst

Above: Elizabeth Alexander, a Five College Digital Humanities Fellow, at the Digital Humanities Student Symposium in April. Opposite: Naomi Darling, assistant professor of sustainable architecture, in class.

14 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC CURRICULAR INITIATIVES Curricular initiatives are programs and events that don’t fit neatly into other categories but have a significant impact on

the way we approach research, teaching and learning. COLLABORATIONS Advancing Cross-Campus Learning through Technology Asian/Pacific/American Studies: Critical Ethnic Studies Symposium Bridging Liberal Arts Undergraduate Programs and Graduate and Professional Programs Architecture and Architectural Studies Environmental and Sustainability Studies Public Policy and Social Innovation Digital Humanities Projects active in 2013–14 Digital Humanities learning communities: The Role RESIDENCIES of Digital Humanities in Gender Studies: From Research to the Classroom Five College residencies bring to the consortium leaders in Digital Literacies Faculty Fellowships a variety of disciplines who work with students in tutorials Digital Medievalia and classes and present public lectures. The following is a list Modern Technology/Ancient Manuscripts of disciplines of residencies. New Technologies and the Curatorial Imaginary Chemistry (Dennis Dougherty) Pixel Sample Grain Contemporary Women Book Artists on the Reading Experience Pompeii Quadriporticus Project (Lara Matta) Teaching & Learning with Objects in Comparative Family Photography and Cultural Memory (Meredith Nash) Contexts: Historic Dress Feminist Technology (Annina Rüst) Geographic Information Systems Curriculum Coordination Gendering Political Communication (Valentina Cardo) Intergroup Dialogue in the Classroom Globalization and Local Resistance in the Media (Noa Milman) Trans-Asia Photography Review International Relations and Environmental Justice (Mukul Sanwal) POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS MULTICULTURAL THEATER Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Noir Genre and Detective Fiction by Contemporary Spanish National Science Foundation, with contributions from Five Female Authors (Eva Paris-Huesca) Colleges and the campuses, postdoctoral fellows teach at Piero Sraffa and His Arguments against Marginalism two or more of our institutions over their years in residence. (Cristina Marcuzzo) In 2012–13, Five College campuses hosted postdoctoral Prometheus Radio Project (Pete Tridish) fellows in the following disciplines. Queer Lesbian Spaces of Postfeminist Cinema Acoustic Archaeology (Clara Bradbury-Rance) African Art History Sex Museums and Transnational Flows of Erotic Discourse Comparative Reproductive Politics (Katherine Sender) Global Health Social Media Potential for Empowering Egyptian Women (Nermeen Sayed Kassem) History of Economic Thought Translatinidades (Amelia Conrado) Islamic Art Women on the Rise Telling HerStory: WORTH (Tina Reynolds) Statistics

Academic Offerings DEPARTMENTS MAJORS CERTIFICATES In several cases, faculty members In several fields, opportunities Five College certificate programs, have come together to form a for Five College majors, typically akin to academic minors, offer Five College department, even combining courses from several students focused study in areas with academic departments and campuses, complement the options most campuses couldn’t provide separate programs on their home for majors at a single institution. In on their own. In the 2013–2014 campuses, particularly to coordinate 2013–2014, there were two Five academic year, 151 certificates programs and undergraduate course College majors: in architectural were issued by 15 programs. offerings. In 2013–2014, there were studies and film studies. two Five College departments: in astronomy and in dance.

fivecolleges.edu 15 Selected Program and Committee Descriptions

AFRICAN STUDIES BUDDHIST STUDIES The African Studies Council oversees a cross-disciplinary This program includes a certificate comprising courses in certificate program and coordinates undergraduate curric- most of the major Buddhist traditions. Faculty members ulum, including a collaboratively taught capstone course as support a study-abroad program, other extended-study well as African-language offerings, in collaboration with the programs in Asia and an academic exchange with the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages (see Central University of Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India. below). The council also coordinates lectures, guest-speaking COASTAL AND MARINE SCIENCES engagements by African scholars and artists and other Africa-focused programming, and sponsors a monthly This program coordinates a certificate and a guest-lecture faculty seminar. Council members co-edit the African series and offers an interdisciplinary curriculum, including a Studies Review, the journal of the African Studies collaboratively taught foundations course that explores major Association. Work in African studies receives support challenges confronting the oceans of the world, to students from three joint faculty appointees. from all of our campuses. It also sponsors field trips and summer-research fellowships and internships at some of ANTHROPOLOGY the nation’s premier centers for marine study. The five departments sponsor an annual symposium of COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE student work. A joint faculty appointee in Latin American archaeology supports their collective and separate efforts. This undergraduate certificate program combines courses in research techniques, basic scientific foundations, neuroscience, ARABIC LANGUAGE INITIATIVE philosophy and cognition with independent research. The Arabic Language Initiative offers four-skill courses COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING (CBL) in Modern Standard Arabic and various Arabic dialects through four years of instruction. Students may take the The leaders of campus-based programs collaborate to introductory course at their home campuses. The Arabic bring together students, faculty members and local Language Initiative, which also offers cultural programming, organizations to advance projects that provide intellectually is supported by six joint faculty appointees. stimulating experiences for students and tangible benefits to communities throughout western Massachusetts. Among the ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES programs are coordinated faculty professional development A cross-disciplinary committee coordinates courses in all and training for students who engage with community partners aspects of the study of the built environment, such as history, in Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts. A committee theory and studio. A Five College major was approved in spring organizes three orientation programs each year: two in 2012. Three joint faculty appointees support these programs. Holyoke (Holyoke Bound) and one in Springfield (Springfield Bound). Annually, more than 250 students ART participate in Holyoke Bound; almost 100 students take Since 1994, each year members of the studio art faculty part in Springfield Bound. The relationships between Five have arranged an advanced seminar for 15 competitively College Community-Based Learning and community selected students. A joint faculty member supports art and partners in Holyoke are guided by the Holyoke Campus technology courses. Community Compact, which outlines principles of mutual respect. ASIAN/PACIFIC/AMERICAN STUDIES A committee oversees a cross-disciplinary certificate CULTURE, HEALTH, AND SCIENCE program and faculty seminar. Two joint faculty This certificate program gives students an opportunity appointees support the program. to explore human health, disease and healing from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. It emphasizes ASTRONOMY the study of health as integrating physical and sociocultural The Five College Astronomy Department, founded even aspects of the human experience. earlier than the consortium, offers a single undergraduate curriculum of intermediate and advanced courses for majors DANCE: THE FIVE COLLEGE DANCE DEPARTMENT and coordinates research programs, among them research The department pools the strengths of five outstanding opportunities and field study for undergraduates. campus-based programs, making it one of the largest dance departments in the nation. It offers all students opportunities for performance and access to guest

16 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

performances and master classes. The department receives graduate-level courses. The program supports an annual support from two joint faculty appointees and three jointly lectureship and an annual residency that focuses on writing funded staff members. history for the general public.

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS This program supports language instruction in Chinese, This program supports a certificate spanning courses in Japanese and Korean, coordinating faculty professional political science, history and economics. It also sponsors development and cultural events. Three joint faculty a faculty research seminar, colloquia, conferences and appointees support the program. study-abroad placements. A joint faculty appointee ETHNOMUSICOLOGY supports the program. This certificate program offers coordinated course options LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN AND LATINA/O STUDIES and cultural events. It is supported by a joint faculty appointee. The LACLS Council supports a cross-disciplinary certificate FILM STUDIES incorporating a team-taught interdisciplinary course. A joint faculty appointee in Latin American archaeology supports The Film Council supports faculty professional development, the program. an annual festival showcasing student-made films and an academic major. The major guides students in exploring LOGIC film in relation to the arts, humanities and social sciences. Two joint faculty appointees in film and video production This certificate program supports students pursuing the supply support. study of logic, drawing on courses in philosophy, mathematics, computer science and linguistics. GEOLOGY MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW The five campus departments organize an annual student research colloquium and regularly offer weeklong field trips Founded in 1959, this 200-page quarterly of fiction, poetry, to locations as distant as the Colorado Plateau and Iceland. essays and the visual arts by both emerging and established They also sponsor speakers, as well as a symposium at which writers, artists and photographers is one of the nation’s leading members of the faculty present new work. Shared efforts literary magazines concerned with pressing public issues. receive support from a joint faculty appointee and specialized METAMORPHOSES lab facilities. The journal of the Five College Faculty Seminar on Literary HISTORY GRADUATE PROGRAM Translation. Published in the spring and fall, the journal The University of Massachusetts Amherst/Five College provides a forum for literary translation out of (and into) Graduate Program in History offers qualified students all languages, and for papers on the theory and practice of combined campus resources to pursue advanced study literary translation. in this major. Faculty members from all our campuses teach

Above: Brazilian scholar and dancer Amelia Conrado leads a workshop during her residency in March.

fivecolleges.edu 17 MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES PEACE AND WORLD SECURITY STUDIES (PAWSS) This program offers a certificate comprising courses and A multidisciplinary endeavor to foster student and faculty opportunities for students to learn about Middle Eastern awareness of major international issues, PAWSS promotes cultures as well as study Arabic and other languages of the undergraduate education in the field of peace and security. region. The program includes offerings in Hebrew, Modern A joint faculty appointee provides support. Standard Arabic and a number of Arabic dialects. The program PHILOSOPHY receives support from a joint faculty appointee in Middle Eastern history and six joint faculty appointees in Arabic. The five campus departments collaborate to enhance the many course options with guest speakers, symposia and MUSIC library resources. Cooperative arrangements among the five campus departments PHYSICS give students access to their combined resources, such as music libraries and guest artists. Some popular events are The five campus departments coordinate the schedules of the Five College Jazz Festival, the Choral Festival, the New course offerings and augment classes with guest speakers, Music Festival and a Five College opera, which is jointly joint undergraduate research symposia and complementary produced every three years. See also Ethnomusicology. library resources.

MUSIC: EARLY MUSIC POETRYFEST A faculty of performers and scholars together with the Five Every year two students from each campus are chosen to College Early Music director—a joint faculty appointee— read their works at the Five College PoetryFest. Their offer students opportunities to study and perform music poems are then assembled as a bound collection and of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque. presented to them.

NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES This cross-disciplinary certificate offers students the opportunity This certificate program offers a collaboratively taught to acquire knowledge and understanding of the development, foundation course and sponsors events of particular interest growth and interactions of the indigenous peoples and nations to students and members of the faculty who work in the around the world. It also supports a monthly faculty seminar. field. It receives support from a joint faculty appointee in history and a collaborative program in Russian language.

Above: Audience members at Poetryfest in March.

18 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC SOCIAL JUSTICE PRACTITIONER-IN-RESIDENCE THEATER A part of the UMass-based Center for Public Policy and Chairs of the five theater departments, costumers and Administration, this program brought to Five College technical directors, and the lighting designers and directors COLLABORATIONS campuses people with experience in shaping or creating work together to host artists in residence, share resources public policy that advances social justice, thus giving stu- and collaborate on various projects. Auditions for campus dents and faculty members opportunities to engage with productions are open to all students from the five colleges. and learn from people who had hands-on policymaking experience. The program concluded in December 2013. The Five College Multicultural Theater Committee supports productions, residencies and workshops that promote an SUPERVISING GRADUATE STUDENTS appreciation of diversity and difference. It also encourages Faculty members at the campuses serve on doctoral student productions with a multicultural focus and orga- dissertation committees at the university; some serve nizes an annual multicultural student play–reading festival as master’s thesis advisers; some others serve as doctoral called WORD! Each student selected for WORD! receives a thesis advisors. prize from the James Baldwin Fund.

TEACHER EDUCATION TRANS-ASIA PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW The teacher licensure coordinator works with students and An international journal devoted to the discussion of historic faculty members from Mount Holyoke, Hampshire and and contemporary photography from Asia. Online and free Amherst colleges to advise students, identify and oversee of charge, it is published in the fall and spring. practicum and pre-practicum placements and to serve as a three-campus representative to the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Academic Committees and Programs

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

fivecolleges.edu 19 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 2013–2014: 5,147

NUMBERS OF ENROLLMENTS LEAVING FROM: NUMBERS OF ENROLLMENTS GOING TO: Study of World Languages 2,200 * FCCSWL = Five College Center for the 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

400 400 200 200 529 1,786 1,353 846 595 1,046 592 655 942 1,682 230 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

NUMBER OF COURSES TAKEN THROUGH FIVE COLLEGE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CROSS-REGISTRATION EACH ACADEMIC YEAR, 2009–2014 WORLD LANGUAGES ENROLLMENT STATISTICS Note: Because of the way graduate students are counted, Key: Red = number of student enrollments the “leaving from” and “going to” totals don’t match. Gray = number of languages studied 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 50 500 25 239/21 0 5,790 5,558 5,763 5,558 5,147 0 139/11 105/15 230/28 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 98–99 03–04 08–09 13–14

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20 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC Five College Academic Centers Five College centers pursue missions aligned with that of the consortium. Some are closely tied to campus academic

programs; others engage in outreach to area communities. Some highlights of the Five College Centers in 2013–14 are COLLABORATIONS described here.

CENTER FOR CROSSROADS IN 170 levels. The Mentored Language Program combines THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS (CISA) independent study with small-group conversation sessions Founded in 1997, CISA brings together faculty members and individual tutorials. The Supervised Independent from the five campuses to explore relational aspects of Language Program combines independent study with identity in the Americas. Instead of adopting a North–South native-speaker conversations and evaluations. approach, CISA has developed a triangular model in which During the 2013–14 academic year, students enrolled in the the three sides are formed by the Old World (Africa, Asia following languages in both programs: Afrikaans, Amharic, and Europe), the polities of the New World and the indige- Arabic, Bangla/Bengali, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, nous peoples of the Americas. The program organizes a Burmese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Filipino, Georgian, Greek, year-long seminar for new members of the faculty working Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Malay, in the comparative study of the Americas (CISA fellows). Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, For more than a decade, every semester Five Colleges has Setswana, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, hosted dinner seminars at which fellows present their Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba and Zulu. work. The program connects young faculty members in a cross-campus setting as it supports their scholarship. SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP The 2013–14 CISA fellows: The Schools Partnership offers professional development Julio Capo, history, University of Massachusetts Amherst opportunities for K–12 teachers in math, science and the Sarah Cornell, history, University of Massachusetts Amherst humanities. The partnership’s advisory committee, made  up of faculty members and representatives from area K–12 Tara Daly, Spanish, Latina/o and Latin American studies,  schools, hosts discussions about current issues in educa- Mount Holyoke College tion and fosters connections among the campuses and the Christine DeLucia, history, Mount Holyoke College schools. In 2013-14, the partnership organized and Cora Fernandez-Anderson, critical social inquiry, hosted Native Americans of New England: A Historical Hampshire College Overview, a three-week summer institute funded by a Tanisha Ford, women, gender, sexuality studies, grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Massachusetts Amherst In addition, the partnership continued its National Science Foundation-funded Western Massachusetts Mathematics David Hernandez, Spanish, Latina/o and Latin American studies, Mount Holyoke College Partnership (WMMP), a collaboration among 11 western Massachusetts school districts and faculty members from Bettina Judd, Africana studies/gender studies, Mount Holyoke College 10 institutions of higher education. WMMP organized a summer institute and mathematics professional learning Kiara Vigil, American studies, Amherst College communities that continue beyond the end of the NSF grant. CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES WOMEN’S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER The Five College Center for East Asian Studies, founded The Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, founded in 1976, supports undergraduate programs in the field and in 1991, builds on the interests and strengths of more than works to encourage and improve teaching about Asia in 350 scholars of women’s, sexuality and gender studies at the elementary, middle and secondary schools as well as at other five campuses—one of the largest such concentrations in the two- and four-year colleges in the Northeast. The center world—to make global connections with women activists maintains a resource library; publishes a monthly e-newsletter; and specialists in their fields. The center offers regular and conducts seminars, webinars, institutes, conferences and programs of mentors, speakers, symposia and discussions. workshops for college and precollege educators. It also organizes Every year it also encourages critical feminist scholarship travel seminars for visits to Asia for teachers in the region, most from diverse perspectives by hosting research associates and recently to study teaching about peace during meetings with provides them with access to Five College library resources teachers in Japan, including in Hiroshima. It recently developed and various opportunities to present their work to a broad a directory of Japanese musicians in the United States. activist and scholarly community. In spring 2013, the center CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD LANGUAGES celebrated its 21st anniversary with a symposium examining the impact the Internet, social media and other digital Founded in 1991, the Five College Center for the Study of technologies have on feminism. World Languages coordinates and supports offerings in 41 less commonly studied languages and dialects, those that are not available on any of the campuses. The program has grown to provide classroom-based instruction at more than

fivecolleges.edu 21 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.

FOR FACULTY MEMBERS OF COLOR MUTUAL MENTORING The consortium sponsors regular meetings of faculty Mutual Mentoring fosters the development of a wide variety members of color from the five campuses to encourage of partnerships to address specific areas of need, knowledge networking and mutual support. and expertise. New and early-career faculty members, particularly those from historically underrepresented groups, Patricia Banks, Amber Douglas and Becky Packard (Mount are encouraged to seek out networks of mentors who can Holyoke) and Enobong (Anna) Branch and David Cort address an array of career needs. Each year, UMass’ Office (UMass), with the support of a mutual mentoring grant of Faculty Development provides these opportunities for through the university, created the online Directory of networking to women and faculty members of color from Resources for Faculty of Color for the Five College all five campuses. community, which was first published in 2011–2012. MULTICULTURAL THEATER In May, UMass’ STEM Diversity Institute hosted an The mandate of the Five College Multicultural Theater all-day symposium for the Northeastern Alliance for Committee, supported by the Five College Theater chairs Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP), and Five Colleges, is to further multicultural perspectives where participants discussed strategies for continuing the in performances within our community. For almost two group’s mission to increase the number of underrepresented decades, it has done so by sponsoring visits from guest students undertaking graduate study in a science, technology, artists, consortium productions and workshops that engineering or mathematics (STEM) field. foreground the experiences of people of color. Central FIVE COLLEGE FELLOWS to the committee’s efforts has been WORD!—an annual The four private liberal arts colleges provide residencies play-reading festival designed to encourage student writers for graduate students completing their dissertations. Each who engage multicultural themes in their work. Each year, fellow receives an appointment in an academic department in the spring semester, the committee selects up to 10 short at a hosting institution, usually teaching one course during original works for presentation as staged readings. the year. The program’s goal is to support scholars from underrepresented groups and/or those with unique interests and histories. In 2013–14, the following fellows served at our colleges.

Kalisha Cornett, a PhD candidate in cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago, hosted by Amherst College Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, a PhD candidate in theology and religious studies at King’s College London, hosted by Hampshire College Stephanie Lin, a PhD candidate in religion at Columbia University, hosted by Mount Holyoke College Poulami Roychowdhury, a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University, hosted by Smith College

STUDENT AND FACULTY DIVERSITY

% Degree-seeking % Degree-seeking % Faculty Campus Undergraduates of Color International Students Members of Color Amherst 43 10 19 Hampshire 19 6 21 Mount Holyoke 26 25 21 Smith 32 13 17 UMass Amherst 19 2 19

22 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

ADMINISTRATIVE COLLABORATIONS

Administrative collaborations are among the earliest of the consortium, and some date back decades before 1965, when Five Colleges was incorporated. Joint efforts currently range from maintaining the fiber optic network to promoting campus museums and from coordinating compliance and risk management to developing a joint emergency-response system among the campuses and regional municipalities. Here are some highlights about a few of these collaborations.

FIBER OPTIC NETWORK (ALL CAMPUSES) the campuses, each cross-references holdings and purchase Built by the colleges and now owned by Five Colleges’ requests to know when a duplicate title has been requested, subsidiary, Five College Net, LLC, the fiber optic network— a need that might be met by interlibrary loan. Duplicate which runs 53 miles from Springfield up to and around the purchasing has declined on all campuses since the effort Five College campuses—was completed in 2007. It now went into effect. The second policy ensures that the last provides access to broadband Internet to all five campuses print copy of any particular title is retained in the Five and dark fiber for the towns of Amherst, Hadley and South College library collective. Hadley and the cities of Chicopee and Northampton. FCN LIBRARY DEPOSITORY COLLECTION (ALL CAMPUSES) also leases fiber routes that give alternate (backup) pathways to Internet services in Boston. The five campus libraries have placed more than 550,000 volumes in a high-density off-campus (but nearby) library LIBRARIES (ALL CAMPUSES) annex. Items are managed as a shared collection and consist Extensive and long-standing cooperation among the libraries, of mainly print copies of journals and serials now available dating formally from 1951, gives Five College campus to all campuses electronically; the collection also contains community members access to the combined collections some selected, less frequently used monographs. The Five of all campus libraries, currently totaling some 10 million College Library Depository Collection has more than 180 print volumes and thousands of electronic subscriptions. associate members, who contribute to the operating cost in In addition to open borrowing privileges, any member of exchange for access to the print backup copies. the Five College community may search the collections and place a borrowing request online by using an integrated MEAL EXCHANGE (ALL CAMPUSES) online library catalog system, which is overseen by a shared By special arrangement among the food-service directors, integrated library system coordinator. The libraries also a student enrolled in a meal plan may receive permission share a librarian/cataloger for their East Asian collections. to eat at other campuses, particularly when course cross-registrations leave the student far from her home The libraries recently put in place two policies to leverage campus at mealtime. Each year hundreds of students take their interlibrary loan agreements into cost savings. First, advantage of the meal exchange. to reduce unnecessary duplicate-book purchases among Opposite: Five College fellows (l-r): Stephanie Lin, Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, Poulami Roychowdhury, Kalisha Cornett. Photo by Paul Schnaittacher. Above: Line work on the Five College Fiber Optic Network.

fivecolleges.edu 23 MESSENGER (ALL CAMPUSES) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT The Five College messenger makes two daily round-trips The Emergency Preparedness Committee meets regularly among all campuses to transport intercampus mail and and functions as the Regional Emergency Planning interlibrary loans and to make deliveries to and pickups Committee for the consortium’s member institutions from the Five College Library Depository. and the communities of Amherst, Hadley, Northampton and South Hadley. In addition to carrying out extensive MUSEUMS planning, the committee coordinates group purchases of Museums10 (all campuses) emergency equipment and supplies and organizes group A collaboration of seven Five College campus museums trainings and tabletop exercises. and three affiliated independent museums located nearby, Museums10 combines the resources of its members with The UMass Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), open to all grant funding to promote broadly varied exhibitions as Five College campus members, provides educational, well as cultural tourism in the region. research and leadership opportunities for student and faculty volunteers in the fields of public health and Museums10 Member Institutions emergency preparedness. The MRC also assists with Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College mass vaccinations and a variety of actual emergencies. Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst College The consortium office helps the MRC obtain grants. Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE Hampshire College Cultural Village (ALL CAMPUSES) Hampshire College Art Gallery Historic Deerfield, Archaeology Field School, UMass Amherst Through this collaboration, the human resources offices Mead Art Museum, Amherst College combine their efforts to provide greater access to training and professional-development programs for employees of all Mount Holyoke College Art Museum five campuses. Programs are developed based on the needs Smith College Museum of Art of each campus as well as on the needs of the entire consortium. University Museum of Contemporary Art The collaborative has sponsored a range of programs for Yiddish Book Center, Hampshire College Cultural Village campus employees, such as conferences on leadership development and supervising employees, in recent years. Mimsy and Mobius The collaborative also partnered with the Social Justice Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield maintain two Education Program of the School of Education at the shared databases of the collections of Amherst College’s University of Massachusetts Amherst to offer programs Mead Art Museum, the Smith College Art Museum, the supporting intergroup dialogue. Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, the Hampshire College Gallery, the University Museum of Contemporary TRANSPORTATION (ALL CAMPUSES) Art and Historic Deerfield. One database, Mimsy, is used The campuses are linked by daily bus service provided by the by collections managers to maintain a variety of information Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA); the Five College about each museum’s holdings. The other, Mobius, is Buses that operate on the direct intercampus routes are available to faculty members, students and community subsidized by the consortium during the academic year. members to search and review the collections of these museums. Some routes include stops in downtowns and shopping COMPLIANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT areas. In fall 2011, PVTA added more Five College buses to (AC, HC, MHC, SC) its routes and improved its schedules. Overall, the number of rides on Five College routes now exceeds 1 million annually. Providing information about compliance with regulations as well as risk management and insurance services for the FIVE COLLEGE FUNDRAISING four private colleges and the consortium, this program aims See tables on page 26–28. to reduce the insurance costs and mitigate the risks associated with the operations of the colleges and the consortium. The Five College director of development works with The colleges also support through this program a captive consortium programs and collaborative projects to find insurance company. external support from public and private grant-makers. The director of development prepares and submits proposals and budgets and monitors compliance with award requirements, such as preparation and submission of reports. The development director coordinates with colleagues in corporate and foundation relations offices on the five campuses.

24 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ADMINISTRATIVE Shared Positions and Services Collaborations through the consortium have inspired its campuses to pursue collaborations directly with one another outside the consortium. Among those are (or have been) in the areas of 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 others. COLLABORATIONS

CAMPUS POLICE (HC, MHC, SC) PURCHASING In 2004, Mount Holyoke and Smith began sharing a director When possible, the campuses collaborate on purchasing of public safety; they were joined by Hampshire in 2008. contracts, such as for multifunction devices, local food Since fall 2009, Mount Holyoke has managed a merged purchases and composting. Often best prices offered by dispatch system and a merged employee workforce for all a vendor to one campus are available to the other campuses three campuses. by negotiated contract provisions. The Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium (MHEC), which consolidates CENTER FOR WOMEN AND COMMUNITY (ALL CAMPUSES) the buying power of 87 schools throughout New England Based at UMass Amherst, this center offers the Five College by drawing up common contracts for goods and services, community rape-crisis services, counseling, Latina community was founded as a Five College buying group in 1967. services and other information and referral services for women. Together the four colleges explored e-marketplace solutions ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (HC, MHC) with the potential to consolidate campus purchasing from selected vendors with lower negotiated costs. Mount Beginning in 2006, Hampshire contracted with Mount Holyoke and Hampshire are beginning to implement the Holyoke to provide environmental health and safety services chosen-marketplace system. under the direction of a Mount Holyoke administrator. RELIGIOUS LIFE (AC, HC, MHC, SC) GRANT SUPPORT (AC, MHC) Over the decades, from time to time several institutions Mount Holyoke and Amherst share a grant accountant who have shared religious-services staff members. works with faculty members and administrators to support applications for external grants and grant reporting. RENTAL-PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (AC, MHC, SC)

HEALTH SERVICES (AC, HC, UM) The three campuses share a management team created in 2000 to oversee rental properties. Amherst and Hampshire contract with UMass to provide health services for their students. WFCR PUBLIC RADIO (ALL CAMPUSES)

LIBRARY CATALOGING (MHC, UM) Founded in 1961, WFCR, then Four College Radio, was a product of campus collaboration before the consortium UMass provides library-cataloging services for Mount Holyoke. (or Hampshire College) even existed. Today, UMass holds MAIL SERVICES (HC, SC, UM) the broadcast license for WFCR. The New England Public Radio Foundation, renamed in 2011, provides support for Hampshire and Smith utilize UMass’ full-service mail and WFCR and the operation of a number of other AM and distribution services. FM broadcast frequencies. All five campuses contribute to PRINTING SERVICES (HC, SC, UM) the station’s operating budget and have also participated UMass Printing Services offers digital duplicating, full-color in each of the major capital fund drives. NEPR/WFCR digital printing, offset lithography, binding and finishing for has named its studios in Hampshire House, on the UMass Smith and Hampshire. campus, The Five Colleges Studios.

Above: Launch meeting for the Northeast Regional Library Print Management Project in July, 2013.

fivecolleges.edu 25 FCI Annual Report Active Grants July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014

PROGRAM GRANT TITLE FUNDER DESCRIPTION AWARD SUPPORTED PERIOD Five Colleges, Incorporated

Sustaining High-Quality and Contemporary Curricula The Andrew Five Colleges, Joint faculty tenure-track 7/1/05– Through Collaboration: New W. Mellon $2,000,000 Incorporated appointments 6/30/15 Shared and Joint Appointments Foundation at the Five Colleges

Faculty Recruitment, The Andrew Funding for postdocs in humanities 7/1/09– Retention, and Regeneration: W. Mellon disciplines and summer $1,750,000 6/30/15 A Collaborative Response Foundation faculty-student research teams

Supporting administrative staff The Andrew Infrastructure Endowment for members who facilitate academic 3/18/11– W. Mellon $1,500,000 the Five College Consortium programs and whose pilot or perpetuity Foundation external funding has lapsed

Curricular Innovations: To strengthen connections Bridging Liberal Arts and The Andrew between teaching liberal arts and 10/01/11– Professional Education and W. Mellon professional/graduate education $1,500,000 9/30/15 Embedding Digital Humanities Foundation and to expand digital humanities at the Five Colleges teaching and student research

Supporting pilot projects to A Consortial Approach to The Andrew improve student learning outcomes 1/1/14– Exploring Blended Learning W. Mellon by incorporating technology into $1,000,000 6/30/17 in the Humanities Foundation courses in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Hybrid Learning in the Consortial projects bringing Residential Liberal Arts The Teagle technology and assessment 6/1/14– $280,000 Institutions of Five Colleges, Foundation of student learning to 5/31/17 Incorporated undergraduate courses Western Region Five College Joint Homeland An exercise to test an 1/1/13– $14,950 Information System TTX Security emergency communications plan 8/31/13 Advisory Council

Program Support

Planning phase for Northeast Exploratory and Planning Academic The Andrew region academic libraries Activities for Managing 5/1/13– Libraries of W. Mellon for joint management of $50,000 Infrequently-used Library 10/31/14 the Northeast Foundation infrequently used print materials, Print Materials especially monographs

Boston Architectural Five College Holyoke Design Exploratory phase for 11/1/12– Foundation for $3,000 Studies Center community design projects 11/30/14 Architecture

Support for hosting three Asian Arts Spotlight Taiwan in Taiwan Ministry 7/1/14– Taiwan artist companies and $50,000 and Culture the Five Colleges of Culture 9/30/15 associated activities

26 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ADMINISTRATIVE

PROGRAM GRANT FCI Annual Report Active Grants July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014 TITLE FUNDER DESCRIPTION AWARD SUPPORTED PERIOD

PROGRAM GRANT Program Support continued TITLE FUNDER DESCRIPTION AWARD SUPPORTED PERIOD American Center for East Asia for Teachers Institute for Support for editorial and 1/1/08–

Five Colleges, Incorporated COLLABORATIONS East Asian $30,000 Newsletter Foreign Study publication costs 6/30/14 Studies Sustaining High-Quality and Foundation Contemporary Curricula The Andrew Study tour to Japan with Five Colleges, Joint faculty tenure-track 7/1/05– Peace Education in Japan and Japan Foundation 3/15/13– Through Collaboration: New W. Mellon $2,000,000 curriculum development for $68,629 Incorporated appointments 6/30/15 the United States: Curriculum Center for Global 3/14/14 Shared and Joint Appointments Foundation K–12 teachers across the for United States Classrooms Partnership at the Five Colleges United States Faculty Recruitment, The Andrew Funding for postdocs in humanities 7/1/09– National Consortium for The Freeman Seminars and K–12 teacher 7/1/13– Retention, and Regeneration: W. Mellon disciplines and summer $1,750,000 $291,650 6/30/15 Teaching about Asia, Year XVI Foundation professional development 6/30/14 A Collaborative Response Foundation faculty-student research teams

Supporting administrative staff Windows on Japan: United Development of webinars on The Andrew 1/1/13– Infrastructure Endowment for members who facilitate academic 3/18/11– Webinars for the States–Japan topics relating to Japan for $9,438 W. Mellon $1,500,000 12/31/13 the Five College Consortium programs and whose pilot or perpetuity Classroom Year Two Foundation K–12 teachers Foundation external funding has lapsed Center for Languages for Independent The Andrew Funds for Arabic teaching and Curricular Innovations: To strengthen connections the Study 7/1/10– Learners: Mainstreaming W. Mellon creating benchmarks for student $498,000 Bridging Liberal Arts and The Andrew between teaching liberal arts and of World 6/30/15 10/01/11– the LCTLs Foundation credentials in FCCSWL programs Professional Education and W. Mellon professional/graduate education $1,500,000 Languages 9/30/15 Embedding Digital Humanities Foundation and to expand digital humanities Achieving a Sustainable at the Five Colleges teaching and student research The Andrew Future for the Five College Funding administrative support 4/1/13– W. Mellon $800,000 Supporting pilot projects to Center for the Study of for FCCSWL 3/31/17 Foundation A Consortial Approach to The Andrew improve student learning outcomes World Languages 1/1/14– Exploring Blended Learning W. Mellon by incorporating technology into $1,000,000 6/30/17 CultureTalk: Exploring United States Development of video materials in the Humanities Foundation courses in the humanities and 9/25/09– Critical Languages Dept. of for learning less commonly $328,470 humanistic social sciences 9/24/13 and Cultures Education IRS taught languages Hybrid Learning in the Consortial projects bringing Peace and Residential Liberal Arts The Teagle technology and assessment 6/1/14– The Paul and $280,000 World Institutions of Five Colleges, Foundation of student learning to 5/31/17 Program Support Edith Babson Program Support 6/1/12– $15,000 Security Incorporated undergraduate courses Foundation Studies Western Region Five College Joint Homeland An exercise to test an 1/1/13– National $14,950 Schools Native Americans in Summer Institute for 10/1/12– Information System TTX Security emergency communications plan 8/31/13 Endowment for $149,088 Partnership New England K–12 teachers 12/31/13 Advisory Council the Humanities

Program Support Ten school districts and eight MSP: The Western Planning phase for Northeast National Science higher ed institutions working 4/15/11– Exploratory and Planning Massachusetts Mathematics $299,854 Academic The Andrew region academic libraries Foundation together on professional 6/30/14 Activities for Managing 5/1/13– Partnership Libraries of W. Mellon for joint management of $50,000 development in teaching math Infrequently-used Library 10/31/14 the Northeast Foundation infrequently used print materials, An Innovative Model for Post-docs in statistics work Print Materials National Science 7/1/09– especially monographs Statistics Workforce Development in with liberal arts college faculty $600,000 Foundation 6/30/15 Statistics members and students Boston Architectural Five College Holyoke Design Exploratory phase for 11/1/12– Foundation for $3,000 UMass National Studies Center community design projects 11/30/14 Administrative assistance Architecture Amherst Association of 2/15/14– Capacity Building 2013–2014 for the UMass-Five College $3,500 Medical County and City 12/31/14 Support for hosting three Medical Reserve Corps Asian Arts Spotlight Taiwan in Taiwan Ministry 7/1/14– Reserve Corps Health Officials Taiwan artist companies and $50,000 and Culture the Five Colleges of Culture 9/30/15 associated activities National Course development and Personal Preparedness 101 Association of 2/15/13– training manual for student $7,000 for the College Student County and City 12/31/14 emergency preparedness Health Officials

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PROGRAM GRANT TITLE FUNDER DESCRIPTION AWARD SUPPORTED PERIOD Year 1 of grant to support Western in-library and off-site access Massachusetts 10/1/13– Massachusetts Program Support to online newspaper archive $25,000 Library System 6/30/14 Libraries for public libraries in western Massachusetts

Sponsored Research

MRI: Acquisition of an RFID Computer Testbed Using Renewable Equipment acquisition for Science, National Science 10/1/09– Energy for Object computational radio frequency $450,010 Engineering Foundation 9/30/13 Identification and Habitat ID and energy harvesting and Biology Monitoring

TUES: Collaborative Pilot curriculum development Engineering Research: Authoring Tool National Science 4/1/11– for engineering technology $43,143 Education for a Hands-on, Online, Lab Foundation 7/31/13 students Curriculum Peace and Peace and War/Ecology and World Samuel Rubin 10/1/09– Resources—Exploring the Support for book research $4,000 Security Foundation 9/30/15 Connections Studies

Above: Five College Executive Director Neal Abraham addresses the launch meeting for the Northeast Regional Library Print Management Project.

28 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ADMINISTRATIVE Administrative events and activities Staff members and senior administrators from member campuses frequently meet to share ideas and plan projects. The following list represents events that included people from beyond our member institutions.

Affordable Care Act workshop for human resource directors; Raymonda Burgman, director of HERS Institutes; Five Colleges COLLABORATIONS Mount Holyoke College Seminar by Peter Dorman, president of the American University Higher education delegation from Ireland (Trinity College, Dublin of Beirut; UMass Amherst Institute of Technology, University College Cork); Five Colleges Tour of all five campuses for high school guidance counselors, Northeast Regional Library Print Management Project kickoff hosted by Five College admissions deans meeting; Hampshire College United International College presidential delegation from Zuhai, Object-based teaching professional-development workshop China; Five Colleges for area K–12 teachers, organized by Museums10 educators; Workshop for Museums10 educators by Steve Seidel, Harvard Hampshire College, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College School of Education, and Ron Berger, founder of Expeditionary Presentation by Joe Thompson, founder and director of MASS Learning; Five Colleges MoCA, at Museums10 summit; Amherst College Presentation to high school guidance counselors by Five College deans of admission; Tarrytown, New York, and New York City

Five Colleges, Incorporated Consolidated Financial Statements* Excerpts and Summary of Revenue and Expenses

REVENUE FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2014 EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2014 $10,793,200 $9,899,744

4% Other 31% 16% Joint Faculty Investment Appointments Income 17% Five College 62% Operations Member 18% Grants Institutions and Gifts 34% 6% Cooperative Fiber Optic Programs Network

6% Transportaion

*Consolidated financial statements available at the Yearbook 6% Library and link at fivecolleges.edu/publications and upon request by calling (413) 542-4000. Depository

fivecolleges.edu 29 STUDENT LIFE

Much of the social life among Five College students occurs informally, as students from all campuses attend dances and parties on each campus. At the center of efforts to bring together students from all our institutions in social, extracurricular and academic settings is the Student Coordinating Board (SCB), which comprises the presidents and representatives from the schools’ student governments. The SCB financially supports other student groups as they make plans for multicampus events, and also organizes some of its own.

RECENT EVENTS ORGANIZED BY THE SCB Chinese Speech Contest, UMass Amherst Orientation social for all spring-semester arrivals, UMass Amherst Coastal and Marine Sciences Poster Session, Amherst College Reception and dinner for student-government cabinets, Smith College DataFest, UMass Amherst Ice-cream social for members of student government, Digital Humanities Symposium, Smith College Hampshire College Ethnomusicology Certificate Celebration, Amherst College Film and Video Festival, Amherst College RECENT EVENTS AND PROJECTS RECEIVING SCB SUPPORT Film Studies Conference, Mount Holyoke College First Generation College Student Summit, Amherst College Five College Game Jam, Hampshire College ASK Conference for social activism, Hampshire College Geology Symposium, Amherst College Five College Game Jam, Mount Holyoke College Global Game Jam, Mount Holyoke College In5ync, Five College online student calendar, Smith College HackUMass, UMass Amherst Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Conference, Japanese Speech Contest, Mount Holyoke College Hampshire College Korean Speech Contest, UMass Amherst STUDENT SYMPOSIA AND PERFORMING ARTS EVENTS MakerJam, Mount Holyoke College New Student Orientation Social, UMass Amherst Each year, students present their research and performances at multicampus events in a variety of disciplines. These Opera: Street Scene, UMass Amherst enable students to meet peers from other campuses who PoetryFest, Amherst College have similar interests and to gain valuable experience Queer and Sexuality Studies Conference, Hampshire College presenting their work in public settings. In many cases, WORD! A Staged Reading of Student Work, UMass Amherst the symposia also offer students and faculty members the opportunity to hear from well-known figures in their fields.

Anthropology Symposium, Amherst College Arabic Night, Smith College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Symposium, Mount Holyoke College Above: A scene from the Five College Opera production of Street Scene. Opposite: Participants in the Five College Center for East Asian Studies trip to Japan talk to the press in Nagasaki. Photo by Anne Prescott.

30 Five College Yearbook 2013–2014 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

The economic, social, educational and cultural connections among Five College institutions and their communities are many and varied. Together employing some 10,000 people, the campuses have a combined payroll of about $800 million, pay city fees and real-estate taxes of about $2.5 million, make more than $15 million in local purchases and each year invest tens of millions of dollars in construction projects. Most of the hundreds of lectures, plays, exhibitions and other cultural opportunities at our campuses are open to the public.

ACADEMIC CAREER NETWORK The Academic Career FIVE COLLEGE ASSOCIATES The Five College Associates Network (ACN) helps campuses accommodate dual-career program was established in 1982 to provide scholars in the couples seeking employment in higher education in the re- region professional affiliation in support of their research gion by providing easy access to job postings at institutions in and careers. It serves, among others, former faculty members New England and New York. In addition, member campuses as well as scholar spouses and partners of current members belong to a listserv on which deans and human-resources of the faculty affiliated with one of the five institutions. directors share résumés of job-seeking partners and spouses. LEARNING IN RETIREMENT Five College Learning in CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES The Five College Retirement serves members from around western Center for East Asian Studies supports, encourages and Massachusetts with peer-led seminars and workshops. improves the teaching of East Asian cultures in elementary, To learn more, visit www.5clir.org. middle and secondary schools. The center maintains a resource MUSEUMS10 A collaboration of campus and affiliated library; publishes a newsletter and conducts seminars, independent museums, Museums10 combines the resources webinars, institutes, conferences, study tours and workshops of its members to organize a variety of collaborative projects, for college and precollege educators. It also organizes travel including professional-development workshops for elementary, seminars on Asia for local teachers. middle and high school educators. For more information, COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING (CBL) The CBL program visit museums10.org. coordinates campus-based efforts to bring together students, MASSACHUSETTS HIGHER EDUCATION faculty members and staff members with local organizations COLLABORATIVE OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY to provide tangible benefits to the campuses and the greater Since spring 2011, presidents and other top administrators community. (For more on Community-Based Learning, see from the 14 colleges and universities of the Connecticut River page 16.) Valley of Massachusetts, from Springfield to Greenfield, have FIBER OPTIC NETWORK The Five College Fiber Optic been meeting to explore areas for potential collaboration. Network, owned by Five College Net, LLC, provides SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP The Five College Schools high-speed access to Internet services for all five campuses Partnership offers professional-development opportunities and dark fiber connecting the towns of Amherst, Hadley for K–12 teachers in math and science education and the and South Hadley, along with the cities of Chicopee and Northampton, to a hub of Internet providers in Springfield. humanities. (For more on the Schools Partnership, see page 21.) (For more on the Fiber Optic Network, see page 23.)

fivecolleges.edu 31 GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP GROUPS OF FIVE COLLEGES, INCORPORATED 2013–14

Officers of the Corporation David Powicki, Director of Technical Jean Baxter, Dance Production Manager, Infrastructure and Systems Support, Five College Dance Department Lynn Pasquerella, President Mount Holyoke College Rick Beaudry, Five College Messenger Jonathan Lash, Vice President David Gregory, Chief Information Officer, Cynthia Bright, Program Coordinator, Neal B. Abraham, Clerk Smith College Five College Coastal and Barbara Lucey, Treasurer Julie Buehler, Vice Chancellor for Information Marine Sciences Program Yvette Morneau, Assistant Treasurer Services and Strategy, UMass Amherst Melinda Buckwalter, Program Assistant, Heidi Dollard, Associate Chief Information Five College Center for East Asian Studies BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officer, UMass Amherst Elizabeth Carmichael, Director, Five College Carolyn Martin, President, Amherst College Chris Misra, Associate Chief Information Officer Compliance and Risk Management Jonathan Lash, President, Hampshire College for Security and Executive Director of Hilary Caws-Elwitt, Information Technology Analyst Networking, UMass Amherst Lynn Pasquerella, President, Mount Holyoke College James Coleman, Chair, Five College Dance Department Liaisons: Neal Abraham and Maria Toyofuku Kathleen McCartney, President, Smith College Sue Dickman, Academic Programs Liaison Kumble Subbaswamy, Chancellor, UMass Amherst LIBRARY DIRECTORS Nancy Eckert, Business Office Coordinator Robert Caret, President, University of Massachusetts Bryn Geffert, Librarian of the College, Suzan Edwards, Chair, Five College Neal B. Abraham, Executive Director, Amherst College; chair Astronomy Department Five Colleges, Incorporated Jennifer Gunter King, Director of the Library, Nancy Goff, Director of Development Hampshire College Kyla Hakim, Developer for Advising and Committees Alex Wirth-Cauchon, Chief Information Officer Information Resources and Strategies and Executive Director, Library AUDIT COMMITTEE Five College Center for the Study of Information and Technology Services, World Languages Kevin Weinman, Treasurer, Amherst College Mount Holyoke College Ida Hay, Depository Assistant, Five College Lynn Pasquerella, President, Christopher Loring, Director of Libraries, Smith College Library Depository Mount Holyoke College Jay Schafer, Director of Libraries, UMass Amherst Kevin Kennedy, Director of Communications Jonathan Lash, President, Hampshire College Liaison: Neal Abraham Stacie Kroll, Insurance and Claims Specialist, Five College Compliance and Risk Management INVESTMENT COMMITTEE PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OFFICERS Linda Kurowski, Depository Associate, Mauricia Geissler, Chief Investment Officer, Kevin Weinman, Treasurer, Amherst College Five College Library Depository Amherst College Mark Spiro, Vice President for Finance and Susan Lander, Information Technology Specialist Administration, Hampshire College Shannon Gurek, Vice President for Finance Sarah Lince, Coordinator for Academic Programs and Administration and Treasurer, Shannon Gurek, Vice President for Finance and Barbara Lucey, Treasurer Mount Holyoke College Administration and Treasurer, Ruth Constantine, Vice President for Finance Mount Holyoke College Julie Martyn, Staff Accountant and Administration, Smith College Ruth Constantine, Vice President for Finance Elizabeth Mazzocco, Director, Five College Barbara Lucey, Treasurer, Five Colleges, Incorporated and Administration, Smith College; chair Center for the Study of World Languages Neal B. Abraham, Executive Director, James Sheehan, Vice Chancellor for Administration Yvette Morneau, Business Manager and Five Colleges, Incorporated and Finance, UMass Amherst Assistant Treasurer Yvette Morneau, Assistant Treasurer and Business Liaisons: Neal Abraham and Barbara Lucey Marie Muir, Administrative Assistant for Five College Manager, Five Colleges, Incorporated Academic Programs and Communications PRINCIPAL STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICERS Gwendolyn Niven, Dance Production Assistant, Major Leadership Groups Jim Larimore, Dean of Students, Amherst College Five College Dance Department (fall 2013) Taliesin Nyala, Communications Specialist for DEANS COUNCIL Suzanne Coffey, Chief Student Affairs Officer, Five Colleges and Museums10 (spring 2014) Gregory S. Call, Dean of the Faculty, Amherst College Amherst College (spring 2014) Anne Prescott, Director, Five College Center for Eva Rueschmann, Vice President for Academic Byron McCrae, Dean of Students, Hampshire College East Asian Studies Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Hampshire College Cerri Banks, Vice President for Student Affairs Karen Remmler, Director, Five College Women’s Sonya Stephens, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Studies Research Center and Dean of Faculty, Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Robyn Rodman, Graphic Designer/Communications Marilyn Schuster, Provost and Dean of the Maureen A. Mahoney, Dean of the College and Specialist (fall 2013) Faculty, Smith College Vice President for Campus Life, Smith College Nayiree Roubinian, Program Coordinator, Five Joseph O’Rourke, Associate Provost and Dean Enku Gelaye, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs College Women’s Studies Research Center for Academic Development, Smith College and Campus Life/Dean of Students, Elke Ryan, Catering Assistant Joel Martin, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel UMass Amherst Marla Solomon, Director, Five College and Dean of Faculty, UMass Amherst Liaison: Neal Abraham Partnership Programs James Staros, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic There are other important Five College Nate Therien, Director for Academic Programs Affairs and Provost, UMass Amherst administrative committees, peer groups and Rebecca Thomas, Program Assistant, Five College Liaisons: Neal Abraham and Nate Therien advisory groups; and many academic councils Center for the Study of World Languages INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORS and program steering committees that have Liz Tiley, Program Coordinator, chairs, directors, or coordinators who are Five College Learning in Retirement Program Gayle Barton, Chief Information Officer, continuing faculty members employed at the Maria Toyofuku, Director of Information Technology Amherst College campuses and appointed to those roles by the Megan Valcour, Administrative Assistant, Five John Manly, Director of Systems and Five College Deans. Networking, Amherst College College Compliance and Risk Management Bob Crowley, Director of Information Consortium Staff Members Joanna Faraby Walker, Administrative Coordinator, Five College Dance Department Technology, Hampshire College; chair 2013–2014 Alex Wirth-Cauchon, Chief Information Officer Amy Wordelman, Associate Director, Five College and Executive Director of Library, Neal Abraham, Executive Director Center for the Study of World Languages Information, and Technology Services, Carol Aleman, Assistant to the Executive Director Mount Holyoke College John Bator, Gardener

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Auditors’ Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors’ judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditors consider internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Opinion

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Five Colleges, Incorporated and Subsidiary as of June 30, 2014, and the changes in their net assets and their cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

-1- Blum, Shapiro & Company, P.C. An independent member of Baker Tilly International Other Matter

The consolidated financial statements of Five Colleges, Incorporated and Subsidiary as of June 30, 2013 were audited by other auditors whose report dated February 5, 2014 expressed an unmodified opinion on those statements.

West Hartford, Connecticut December 19, 2014

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2014 2013

ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,368,749 $ 1,216,034 Short-term investments (see Note 2) 6,768,058 7,067,919 Due from member institutions 99,082 158,820 Other assets 55,962 274,431 Contributions receivable, net (see Note 3) 39,774 37,523 Investments, at fair value (see Note 2) 12,214,097 10,881,115 Property and equipment, net (see Note 5) 3,622,010 3,699,589

Total Assets $ 24,167,732 $ 23,335,431

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Liabilities Accounts payable $ 84,169 $ 17,013 Accrued liabilities 246,536 245,517 Due to member institutions 1,590,278 1,818,182 Funds on deposit 1,877,087 1,778,513 Total liabilities 3,798,070 3,859,225

Net Assets Unrestricted 4,461,162 4,565,877 Temporarily restricted (see Note 6) 11,867,434 11,033,773 Permanently restricted (see Note 7) 4,041,066 3,876,556 Total net assets 20,369,662 19,476,206

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 24,167,732 $ 23,335,431

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements -3- FIVE COLLEGES, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARY CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2014

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total

Revenues, gains and other support: Member institutions $ 6,588,063 $ - $ - $ 6,588,063 Student governments 152,759 - - 152,759 Investment income 58,156 937,829 - 995,985 Net realized and unrealized gains 20,914 667,551 - 688,465 Other revenue 357,217 106,441 - 463,658 Gifts and grants 279,233 1,460,527 164,510 1,904,270 Net assets released from restriction 2,338,687 (2,338,687) - - Total revenues, gains and other support 9,795,029 833,661 164,510 10,793,200

Expenses: Cooperative programs 4,464,018 - - 4,464,018 Joint faculty appointments and development 3,074,401 - - 3,074,401 Operation of buses and vans 607,060 - - 607,060 Affiliated programs 115,581 - - 115,581 Administration and business office 1,606,473 - - 1,606,473 Investment expense 32,211 - - 32,211 Total expenses 9,899,744 - - 9,899,744

Change in net assets (104,715) 833,661 164,510 893,456

Net assets - beginning of year 4,565,877 11,033,773 3,876,556 19,476,206

Net assets - end of year $ 4,461,162 $ 11,867,434 $ 4,041,066 $ 20,369,662

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements -4- FIVE COLLEGES, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARY CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2013

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total

Revenues, gains and other support: Member institutions $ 6,933,593 $ - $ - $ 6,933,593 Student governments 152,759 - - 152,759 Investment income 56,124 436,982 - 493,106 Net realized and unrealized gains 1,020 718,649 - 719,669 Other revenue 211,355 100,242 - 311,597 Gifts and grants 606,607 1,232,897 - 1,839,504 Net assets released from restriction 2,516,199 (2,516,199) - - Total revenues, gains and other support 10,477,657 (27,429) - 10,450,228

Expenses: Cooperative programs 4,719,250 - - 4,719,250 Joint faculty appointments and development 2,923,637 - - 2,923,637 Operation of buses and vans 583,459 - - 583,459 Affiliated programs 215,480 - - 215,480 Administration and business office 1,565,350 - - 1,565,350 Investment expense 65,725 - - 65,725 Total expenses 10,072,901 - - 10,072,901

Change in net assets 404,756 (27,429) - 377,327

Net assets - beginning of year 4,161,121 11,061,202 3,876,556 19,098,879

Net assets - end of year $ 4,565,877 $ 11,033,773 $ 3,876,556 $ 19,476,206

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements -5- FIVE COLLEGES, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARY CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2014 AND 2013

2014 2013

Cash Flows from Operating Activities Change in net assets $ 893,456 $ 377,327 Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation 454,740 559,598 Net realized and unrealized gains on investments (688,465) (719,669) Contributions restricted for long-term investment (164,510) - (Increase) decrease in operating assets: Due from member institutions 59,738 (83,229) Other assets 218,469 22,594 Contributions receivable (2,251) (2,124) Increase (decrease) in operating liabilities: Accounts payable 67,156 (59,747) Accrued liabilities 1,019 104,440 Due to member institutions (227,904) 1,011,977 Funds on deposit 98,574 260,798 Net cash provided by operating activities 710,022 1,471,965

Cash Flows from Investing Activities Purchase of property and equipment (377,161) (862,507) Purchases of short-term investments (67,052) (1,572,118) Sales/maturities of short-term investments 372,303 1,453,816 Purchases of investments (1,181,963) (4,771,846) Sales/maturities of investments 532,056 4,397,252 Net cash used in investing activities (721,817) (1,355,403)

Cash Flows from Financing Activities Proceeds from contributions restricted for long-term investment 164,510 - Net cash provided by financing activities 164,510 -

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 152,715 116,562

Cash and cash equivalents - beginning of year 1,216,034 1,099,472

Cash and cash equivalents - end of year $ 1,368,749 $ 1,216,034

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements -6- FIVE COLLEGES, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARY NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE 1 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Organization - Five Colleges, Incorporated is a consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose mission is to sustain and enrich the excellence of its members through academic and administrative collaboration. The consortium facilitates intellectual communities and broad curricular and cocurricular offerings, affording learning, research, performance and social opportunities that complement the distinctive qualities of each institution. The five member institutions conduct other cooperative activities outside of the Corporation, which are, therefore, not included in these consolidated financial statements.

On January 30, 2004, Five Colleges, Incorporated, as sole member, established Five College Net, Limited Liability Company (LLC). The purpose of the LLC is to construct, manage and maintain a fiber optic cable system.

Principles of Consolidation - The consolidated financial statements of Five Colleges, Incorporated and Subsidiary (the Corporation) include the accounts of Five Colleges, Incorporated and its wholly owned subsidiary, Five College Net, LLC. All intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated in consolidation.

Basis of Accounting and Presentation - The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Accordingly, the accounts of the Corporation are reported in the following net asset categories:

Unrestricted Net Assets - Unrestricted net assets represent available resources other than donor restricted contributions. These resources may be expended at the discretion of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors has established designations of unrestricted net assets for future use.

Temporarily Restricted Net Assets - Temporarily restricted net assets represent contributions that are restricted by the donor as to purpose or time of expenditure and also includes accumulated investment income and gains on donor-restricted endowment assets that have not been appropriated for expenditure.

Permanently Restricted Net Assets - Permanently restricted net assets represent resources that have donor- imposed restrictions that require that the principal be maintained in perpetuity but permit the Corporation to expend the income earned thereon. These permanently restricted net assets include permanent endowment funds.

Classification of Revenues, Expenses, Gains and Losses - Funds on deposit result from unspent program allocations designated for specific future projects. Contributions are reported as increases in the category of net assets dependent upon the donor’s restriction, if any. Expenses are reported as decreases in unrestricted net assets. Gains and losses on investments are reported as increases or decreases in unrestricted net assets unless their use is restricted by explicit donor stipulations or by law. Expirations of temporary restrictions recognized on net assets (i.e., the donor stipulated purpose has been fulfilled and/or the stipulated time period has elapsed) are reported as reclassifications from temporary restricted net assets to unrestricted net assets. Temporary restrictions on gifts to acquire long-lived assets are considered met in the year in which the assets are acquired or placed in service. Exchange transactions are recorded as unrestricted revenues when they are earned.

Use of Estimates - The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect certain reported amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates include those used in determining the valuation of certain investment securities.

Cash Equivalents - Cash equivalents are defined as highly liquid investments with original maturities of 90 days or less. Management believes that the Corporation’s deposits are not subject to significant credit risk.

Short-term Investments - Short-term investments include amounts invested with maturity dates greater than three months but less than one year, as well as certificates of deposit and other vehicles whose intended use is between one and five years. -7- FIVE COLLEGES, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARY NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE 1 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Continued)

Contributions - Contributions, including unconditional promises to give and nonexchange grant awards, are recognized when pledged or received, as applicable, and are considered to be available for unrestricted use unless specifically restricted by the donor. Contributions receivable expected to be collected in more than one year are discounted to their present value. Amortization of the discount is recorded as contribution revenue in the appropriate net asset category. Allowance is made for uncollectible contributions based upon management’s judgment and analysis of the creditworthiness of the donors, past collection experience and other relevant factors. The Corporation reports nongovernmental contributions and grants of cash and other assets as temporarily restricted support if they are received with donor stipulations that limit their use. When a donor restriction expires, that is, when a stipulated time restriction ends or purpose restriction is accomplished, temporarily restricted net assets are reclassified to unrestricted net assets and reported in the statement of activities as net assets released from restrictions. Conditional promises to give are recognized when the conditions on which they depend are substantially met.

Investment Valuation and Income Recognition - Investments are reported at fair value. Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. See Note 2 for a discussion of fair value measurements.

Purchases and sales of securities are recorded on the trade date basis. Realized and unrealized gains include the Corporation’s gains and losses on investments bought and sold as well as held during the year. Realized and unrealized gains and losses and investment income on donor restricted endowment assets are classified as increases or decreases in temporarily restricted net assets until appropriated for expenditure.

The Corporation’s Investment Committee determines the Corporation’s valuation policies and procedures utilizing information provided by investment managers. The Corporation’s Investment Committee reports to the Board on an annual basis.

Endowment funds represent unrestricted and restricted monies to be retained in perpetuity, with an annual distribution, based on a spending policy approved by the Board, to be expended for the Endowment’s intended purposes.

Property and Equipment - Property and equipment acquisitions and improvements thereon that exceed $5,000 are capitalized at cost, except for contributed property and equipment, which are recorded at fair value at date of gift. Depreciation and amortization are charged to expense using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, or for leasehold improvements, over the shorter of the estimated useful life or the lease term. When an asset is sold or retired, the related cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and the resulting gain or loss is reflected in operations for the period. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred.

Funds on Deposit - The Corporation assesses each of the five member institutions for its share of the current year expenditures determined on a formula basis and recognizes this revenue in the year that the related expenses are incurred. Amounts collected but not spent are recorded as funds on deposit in the accompanying consolidated statements of financial position.

Functional Allocation of Expenses - The costs of providing various programs and other activities have been summarized on a functional basis in the consolidated statements of activities. Accordingly, certain costs have been allocated among the programs and supporting services benefitted.

Income Taxes - Five Colleges, Incorporated is exempt from federal and state income taxes as a public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Five Colleges, Incorporated’s tax returns for the years ended June 30, 2011 through 2014 are subject to examination by the IRS and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The LLC is a disregarded entity for federal income tax purposes.

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NOTE 1 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Continued)

Risks and Uncertainties - Investment securities are exposed to various risks, such as interest rate, market and credit risk. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities and the level of uncertainty related to changes in the value of investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in risk in the near term could materially affect the amounts reported in the statements of financial position and activities.

Reclassifications - Certain amounts in the 2013 consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform with the current year’s presentation.

NOTE 2 - FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

Generally accepted accounting principles establish a framework for measuring fair value. That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are described below:

Level 1 - Inputs to the valuation methodology are unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the Corporation has the ability to access.

Level 2 - Inputs to the valuation methodology include:  Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets;  Quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in inactive markets;  Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability;  Inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.

If the asset or liability has a specified (contractual) term, the Level 2 input must be observable for substantially the full term of the asset or liability.

Level 3 - Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.

The asset’s or liability’s fair value measurement level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement. Valuation techniques used need to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. When, as a practical expedient, an investment is measured at fair value on the basis of net asset value, its classification as Level 2 or 3 will be impacted by the ability to redeem the investment at net asset value at the measurement date. If there is uncertainty or the inability to redeem an investment at net asset value in the near term subsequent to the measurement date, the investment is categorized as Level 3.

The following is a description of the valuation methodologies used for financial instruments measured at fair value:

Mutual Funds - Mutual funds are valued at the quoted net asset value of shares reported in the active market in which the mutual funds are traded.

Limited Partnerships - Interests in limited partnerships are valued by external investment managers taking into consideration the fair value of the underlying assets and liabilities, current distribution rates and discounts for redemption and liquidity restrictions. The valuations involve assumptions and methods that are reviewed by the Corporation’s Investment Committee. Because investments in these partnerships are not readily marketable, their estimated fair value is subject to uncertainty and may differ significantly from the value that would have been used had a market for such investments existed.

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NOTE 2 - FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS (Continued)

There have been no changes in the methodologies used at June 30, 2014 and 2013.

The methods described above may produce a fair value calculation that may not be indicative of net realizable value or reflective of future fair values. Furthermore, while the Corporation believes its valuation methods are appropriate and consistent with other market participants, the use of different methodologies or assumptions to determine the fair value of certain financial instruments could result in a different fair value measurement at the reporting date.

The following tables set forth by level, within the fair value hierarchy, the Corporation’s assets at fair value as of June 30, 2014 and 2013:

2014

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total

Mutual funds: Equity $ 2,867,068 $ - $ - $ 2,867,068 Fixed income 5,223,902 - - 5,223,902 Multi strategy - 8,605,125 - 8,605,125 Global real estate 170,987 - - 170,987 Limited partnership - - 29,055 29,055

Total assets at fair value $ 8,261,957 $ 8,605,125 $ 29,055 $ 16,896,137

2013

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total

Mutual funds: Equity $ 2,828,148 $ - $ - $ 2,828,148 Fixed income 5,017,195 - - 5,017,195 Multi strategy - 7,595,956 - 7,595,956 Global real estate 148,630 - - 148,630 Limited partnership - - 30,769 30,769

Total assets at fair value $ 7,993,973 $ 7,595,956 $ 30,769 $ 15,620,698

There were no transfers between levels of investments during the years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013.

The Corporation does not develop its own quantitative unobservable inputs for the limited partnership but uses pricing information supplied by the fund’s investment managers.

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NOTE 2 - FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS (Continued)

Additional information regarding investments that report fair value based on net asset value per share or unit as of June 30, 2014 is as follows:

Redemption Liquidity Fair Unfunded Redemption Notice or Other Value Commitments Frequency Period Restrictions

Level 2: Mutual funds: The Investment Fund for Foundations Multi-Asset Fund (a) $ 8,605,125 $ - Daily 1 day None Level 3: Investment partnerships: Provides for CommonFund Capital liquidation Partners 2000 LP (b) 29,055 1,882 None - distributions

$ 8,634,180

The investment strategies of these investments are as follows: (a) To achieve a total return (price appreciation plus dividends) that, over a majority of market cycles, exceeds inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) plus 5% per annum. (b) To invest in limited partnerships that make venture capital investments primarily in emerging growth companies, domestic and international private equity investments with the objective of obtaining long-term capital growth and in equity securities, warrants or other options that are generally not actively traded at the time of investment.

The table below sets forth a summary of changes in the fair value of the Corporation’s Level 3 assets for the years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013:

Limited Partnership

Balance - June 30, 2012 $ 42,371 Unrealized losses relating to investments still held at the reporting date (1,532) Purchases 117 Redemptions (10,187)

Balance - June 30, 2013 $ 30,769 Unrealized gains relating to investments still held at the reporting date 6,167 Purchases 117 Redemptions (7,998)

Balance - June 30, 2014 $ 29,055

Gains and losses (realized and unrealized) included in changes in net assets for the years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, are reported in net realized and unrealized gains in the consolidated statements of activities.

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NOTE 3 - CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVABLE

Unconditional contributions receivable as of June 30, 2014 and 2013, are expected to be collected as follows:

2014 2013

Due in less than one year $ - $ - Due in one to five years 50,214 50,214 Total contributions receivable 50,214 50,214 Less discount to net present value (10,440) (12,691)

Net contributions receivable $ 39,774 $ 37,523

Contributions receivable in more than one year are discounted at 6%.

NOTE 4 - ENDOWMENT

The Corporation’s endowment consists of nine individual funds established for a variety of purposes including both donor-restricted endowment funds and funds designated by the Corporation to function as endowments (quasi endowment).

Interpretation of Relevant Law - The Corporation has interpreted relevant state law as generally permitting the spending of gains on endowment funds over a stipulated period of time. State law allows the Board of Directors to appropriate all of the income and a specified percentage of the net appreciation as is prudent considering the Corporation’s long- and short-term needs, present and anticipated financial requirements, expected total return on its investments, price level trends and general economic conditions. The Corporation compares the performance of its investments against various benchmarks.

The Corporation follows the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the management of its endowment. The Corporation classifies as permanently restricted net assets (a) the original value of the gifts donated to the permanent endowment, (b) the original value of subsequent gifts to the permanent endowment, and (c) accumulations to the permanent endowment made in accordance with the direction of the applicable donor gift instrument at the time the accumulation is added to the fund. The remaining portion of the donor- restricted endowment fund that is not classified in permanently restricted net assets is classified as temporarily restricted net assets until those amounts are appropriated for expenditure by the Corporation in a manner consistent with the standard of prudence prescribed by UPMIFA.

Endowment Net Assets - Endowment net asset composition by type of fund is as follows as of June 30, 2014 and 2013:

2014 Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total

Donor-restricted endowment funds $ - $ 7,733,032 $ 4,041,066 $ 11,774,098

Quasi (Board-designated) endowment funds 238,665 - - 238,665

Total $ 238,665 $ 7,733,032 $ 4,041,066 $ 12,012,763

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NOTE 4 - ENDOWMENT (Continued)

2013 Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total

Donor-restricted endowment funds $ - $ 6,771,610 $ 3,876,556 $ 10,648,166

Quasi (Board-designated) endowment funds 201,065 - - 201,065

Total $ 201,065 $ 6,771,610 $ 3,876,556 $ 10,849,231

Changes in endowment net assets for the years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013 are as follows:

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total

Endowment net assets - June 30, 2012 $ 167,118 $ 6,164,954 $ 3,876,556 $ 10,208,628

Investment return: Investment income 8,827 398,976 - 407,803 Investment gains 26,635 730,244 - 756,879 Total investment return 35,462 1,129,220 - 1,164,682

Appropriation of endowment net assets for expenditure (1,515) (522,564) - (524,079)

Endowment net assets - June 30, 2013 201,065 6,771,610 3,876,556 10,849,231

Investment return: Investment income 21,897 900,993 - 922,890 Investment gains 16,240 662,877 - 679,117 Total investment return 38,137 1,563,870 - 1,602,007

Contributions - - 164,510 164,510

Appropriation of endowment net assets for expenditure (537) (602,448) - (602,985)

Endowment Net Assets - June 30, 2014 $ 238,665 $ 7,733,032 $ 4,041,066 $ 12,012,763

Amounts classified as temporarily restricted net assets (endowment only) of $7,733,032 and $6,771,610 at June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, are subject to a time and purpose restriction.

Funds with Deficiencies - From time to time, the fair value of assets associated with individual donor-restricted endowment funds may fall below the level that the donor or UPMIFA requires the Corporation to retain as a fund of perpetual duration. There were no such deficiencies as of June 30, 2014 and 2013.

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NOTE 4 - ENDOWMENT (Continued)

Return Objectives and Risk Parameters - The Corporation has adopted investment and spending policies for endowment assets that attempt to provide a predictable stream of funding to programs supported by its endowment while seeking to maintain the purchasing power of the endowment assets. Under this policy, as approved by the Board of Directors, the endowment assets are invested in a manner that balances the preservation of principal with the long-term growth of the fund assets with the goal of preserving the real value of the endowment over time. All dividends from the endowment’s investments will be reinvested. The target return of the endowment is the average annual rate of inflation (measured by the Consumer Price Index) plus 4.5%. Actual returns in any given year may vary from this amount.

Strategies Employed for Achieving Objectives - To satisfy its long-term rate-of-return objectives, the Corporation relies on a total return strategy in which investment returns are achieved through both capital appreciation (realized and unrealized) and current yield (interest and dividends). The Corporation targets a diversified asset allocation that places a greater emphasis on equity-based investments to achieve its long-term return objectives within prudent risk constraints.

Spending Policy and How the Investment Objectives Relate to Spending Policy - The Corporation has an endowment total return spending policy, which is within the guidelines specified under State law, limiting the annual distribution of return to 4.5% of a three-year average market value. In establishing this policy, the Corporation considered the long- term expected return on its endowment. The Corporation’s Investment Committee periodically reviews this spending policy.

NOTE 5 - PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT

Property and equipment at June 30, 2014 and 2013, consist of the following:

Estimated Useful Lives (In Years) 2014 2013

Land - $ 5,271 $ 5,271 Construction in progress - 128,945 38,476 Leasehold improvements 15 329,375 329,375 Equipment 5 to 20 7,165,645 6,896,953 Vehicles 5 19,456 17,580 7,648,692 7,287,655

Less accumulated depreciation (4,026,682) (3,588,066)

$ 3,622,010 $ 3,699,589

NOTE 6 - TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS

During the years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, temporarily restricted net assets of $2,338,687 and $2,516,199, respectively, were released from restrictions to support the Corporation’s program activities.

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NOTE 6 - TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS (Continued)

Temporarily restricted net assets as of June 30, 2014 and 2013, are available for the following purposes or time periods:

2014 2013

Unexpended gifts and grants $ 4,277,773 $ 4,392,452 Accumulated realized and unrealized gains on endowment 7,589,661 6,641,321

$ 11,867,434 $ 11,033,773

NOTE 7 - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS

Permanently restricted net assets as of June 30, 2014 and 2013, are restricted to investment in perpetuity, the income from which is expendable to support the following purposes:

2014 2013

Neill Fund $ 1,028,000 $ 1,028,000 National Endowment for the Humanities 1,307,504 1,307,504 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment Fund 1,500,000 1,500,000 The Jackie Pritzen Fund 164,510 - Center for World Languages Endowment Fund 41,052 41,052

$ 4,041,066 $ 3,876,556

NOTE 8 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

The Corporation is provided with office and program space at no cost by the member institutions.

NOTE 9 - RETIREMENT PLAN

The Corporation has a contributory retirement plan with Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) and College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF). Contributions of $176,058 and $169,036 were made in 2014 and 2013, respectively, by the Corporation to TIAA/CREF for eligible and enrolled employees based upon 10% of their salaries. In addition, employees enrolled in the plan contribute 5% of their salaries to the plan.

NOTE 10 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

As of June 30, 2014, the Corporation had open commitments under contracts with vendors of $804,710.

NOTE 11 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

In preparing these consolidated financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events through December 19, 2014, which represents the date the consolidated financial statements were available to be issued.

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