Five Colleges, Incorporated Annual Report 2010–2011 Amherst College Hampshire College Mount Holyoke College Smith College University of Massachusetts Amherst Mission Inside This Report Five Colleges, Incorporated, sustains and enriches Reflections on the Year .................................................. 1 the excellence of its members — Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges and the Joint Faculty Appointments ......................................... 2 University of Massachusetts Amherst — through academic and administrative collaboration. The Faculty Exhange ............................................................ 3 consortium facilitates intellectual communities and broad curricular and cocurricular offerings, 40th Anniversary Professors ........................................ 5 affording learning, research, performance and social opportunities that complement the distinctive Five College Fellows ....................................................... 5 qualities of each institution. Faculty Seminars ........................................................... 6 On the cover, clockwise, from left: A student at work in the Five College Advanced Studio Seminar (photo Lecture Fund .................................................................. 7 by Nancy Palmieri); Five College Executive Director Emerita Lorna Peterson with Mount Holyoke senior Five College Academic Programs ................................. 8 Sarah Vasquez, recipient of the first Lorna Peterson Prize (photo by Nancy Palmieri); UMass Amherst student Five College Student Cross Registration ...................... 9 Jeremy Fellows at the Hampshire College Farm as part of the Agroecosystems and Sustainable Agriculture course Five College Joint and Shared Administrative taught at Mount Holyoke (photo by Beth Hooker); the Positions and Services .................................................... 10 2010–2011 Five College Fellows (left to right): Andrea Nicole King, Leigh-Anne Francis, Alicia Christoff (photo Academic Collaborations ............................................... 12 by Nancy Palmieri). Five College Academic Centers ....................................... 16 Five College Community Connections ........................... 17 Grants Received ........................................................... 18 Grants in Progress ....................................................... 19 Academic Committees and Programs ........................ 21 Student Symposia, Performances and Presentations ..... 21 Administrative Committees ........................................22 Governance ..................................................................23 Administration .............................................................24 Consolidated Financial Statements .....................insert 2 • www.fivecolleges.edu Reflections on the year or Five Colleges, 2010–2011 was a year of initiating projects, seeing the fruits of work Falready begun and planning for the future. In the fall of 2010 we released Optimizing the Consor- tium Advantage by 2020, the Five College strategic plan. Serving as both a blueprint and a measuring stick for our efforts as we move forward, the plan was the product of collaborative efforts by faculty members, administrators and students at our mem- ber campuses. I’d like to take a moment to high- light some of those collaborations that aren’t easily reflected in the data of an annual report. The fiscal year began with our first Five Col- lege Faculty-Student Summer Research Seminars cant number of other campuses, expanding on the in full swing. The seminars, funded in large part original small program of affiliate memberships. with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foun- With the recent addition of the Tri-College Consor- dation, match faculty members who are carrying tium of Pennsylvania and the CARLI Consortium of out humanities and social science research with Illinois libraries, our number of affiliate institutions undergraduates who assist them while carrying has grown to 179. out research of their own. Also during the year we Collaborations outside our consortium are also hosted the first of a planned series of residencies happening much closer to home. Leaders of the 14 and visiting faculty members. higher education institutions of the Pioneer Valley Later in the year we celebrated students receiv- held the first of a planned series of meetings in spring ing the first two certificates awarded in our newest 2011, exploring possibilities for fruitful collabora- (13th!) Five College certificate program, ethnomusi- tions and deciding to focus on strengthening K–12 cology. During the year we also hosted a lecture series education in the region and encouraging college examining climate change politics, the environmental access and completion by local residents. costs of war and media portrayals of environmental As the academic year was winding down, Lorna issues, as we were laying the foundation for another Peterson — my predecessor at Five Colleges — and I certificate program proposed by a Five College faculty joined other colleagues serving as faculty members working group — in sustainability studies. of the Association for Consortium Leadership’s first As we launched and planned for new programs, Summer Institute in Consortium Leadership, held we also began a process of systematically reviewing at the Claremont University Consortium. Created our existing programs, starting with the Five College to provide senior administrators with training and Astronomy Department, a collaboration that actually insight toward strengthening their leadership roles predates the founding of the consortium itself. within higher education consortia, the inaugural in- A recent milestone worthy of note is the 40th stitute spanned three days and offered workshops in anniversary of Hampshire College admitting its first six strategic areas. Five Colleges will host the second students in the autumn of 1970, five years after break- Institute, in June 2012. ing ground in South Amherst and four years after the Finally, the year also saw the presentation of the consortium confidently changed its name from Four first Lorna Peterson Prize for student commitment to Colleges, Inc. in expectation of that moment. collaboration. Sarah Vasquez, a Mount Holyoke se- One key Five College service is now shared nior and Frances Perkins Scholar and an active leader more widely by campuses outside the consortium. in area community service programs aimed particu- Located in the Holyoke Range in the former Cold larly at high schools students, received the award. War bunker now owned by Amherst College, the I hope this note and the following reports give Five College Library Depository has long stored you greater insight into the work and successes of little-used but important print copies of books and the Five College consortium. Please keep up with periodicals, particularly those journals now avail- us online at www.fivecolleges.edu. able electronically. Last year we welcomed a signifi- — Neal B. Abraham, Executive Director www.fivecolleges.edu • 1 Joint Faculty Appointments hrough Joint Faculty Appointments, cam- beginning, in 1973, some 80 joint appointments have puses share specialized instruction that been made and 28 were current in 2010–11. Guide- T they might not be able to afford to do alone lines for joint faculty positions can be found at the while preserving the breadth of the curriculum as Resources for Joint Faculty Appointees site: faculty members retire or leave. Since the program’s www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/jointappointments. Joint appointees and their fields of study 2010–2011 Other Participating Name Department/Field of Study Home Campus Campuses Heba Arafah Arabic Mount Holyoke All campuses Abdelkader Berrahmoun Arabic Smith All campuses Fumiko Brown Japanese Amherst Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith Richard Chu* History/Asian Pacific University All campuses American Studies Jane Hwang Degenhardt English/Renaissance University All campuses Evgeny Dengub Russian Amherst Mount Holyoke Robert Eisenstein Music/Early Music Mount Holyoke All campuses Sergey Glebov History/Russia University All campuses Yasmine Hasnaoui Arabic Amherst All campuses Constance Valis Hill* Dance/History Hampshire All campuses Baba Hillman Film Studies/Production Hampshire All campuses Mohammed Jiyad Asian Studies/Arabic Mount Holyoke All campuses Agnes Kimokoti Swahili Hampshire All campuses Michael Klare* Peace and World Security Hampshire All campuses Studies Elizabeth Klarich Latin American Archaeology Smith Amherst, Mount Holyoke Thom Long Architecture and Design Hampshire Amherst, Mount Holyoke Suk Massey Korean Smith All campuses Elizabeth Mazzocco* “Languages, Literatures and University Five College Center for the Cultures/Italian” Study of World Languages Bernadine Mellis Film Studies/Production Mount Holyoke All campuses Marilyn Middleton-Sylla Dance Smith Amherst, Mount Holyoke Catharine Newbury* Government/African Studies Smith All campuses Bode Omojola Ethnomusicology Mount Holyoke All campuses Sujani Reddy American Studies/Asian Pa- Amherst All campuses cific American Studies J. Michael Rhodes* Geology University All campuses Nadya Sbaiti Middle Eastern History Smith Mount Holyoke Teresa Shawcross Medieval History Amherst Mount Holyoke John Slepian Art and Technology Hampshire Smith Jon Western* “International Relations/ US Mount Holyoke All campuses Diplomacy” *Tenured faculty member (long-term faculty member at Hampshire College) 2 • www.fivecolleges.edu