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 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