Hampshire’s December Challenge is underway, with the goal of raising $2 million in critical funds by December 31. As an added incentive, starting today, a generous donor will match the next $250,000 dollar for dollar. You can make your gift and follow the challenge total at hamp.it/decemberchallenge

End of a long but satisfying day: oral exams for seniors graduating this month The writing faculty--both Hampshire College @hampshirecollege.bsky.social alums--organized a party for the students. Moments like this make all the hard work worthwhile, remind us why we took this jon

Congratulations to our new crop of Div FREE Hampsters! We celebrated our 30 winter graduates in the R.W. Kern Center with friends, family, cupcakes, and well wishes from Dean of Faculty Gary Hawkins and President Jennifer Chrisler. ❄️🐸🎓🔔

Congratulations to Hampshire Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literary Arts Nathan McClain who has been selected for a 🔥MacDowell Fellowship🔥! www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

Hampshire recently hosted Queer Science's second local multidisciplinary STEM outreach event for high school students. Participants tried out an assortment of STEM demos alongside LGBTQ+ scientists from the Five College Consortium. sites.hampshire.edu/queerscience/ 🔬🧬🦠🏳‍🌈🐸🏳️‍⚧️🧪𝞹📈

Tomorrow at 🌟Amherst Cinema, 7pm: Short Films of Hampshire alum Kelly Sears 96F! "[Her] films traverse the uncanny terrain between documentary and speculative fiction...Each frame becomes a site of possibility, where histories are reexamined and futures imagined." amherstcinema.org/films-and-ev...

Watch President Jennifer Chrisler on InFocus with Patrick Berry talking about the importance of the liberal arts and, of course, what makes Hampshire such a special place. 📺🐸🎓 youtu.be/shESTa-9CSA?...

Hampshire College Professor Emerita & former interim president Marlene Fried has published "Abortion and Reproductive Justice: An Essential Guide for Resistance." The book brings visibility to an inclusive & intersectional framework for reproductive health ✨ www.hampshire.edu/news/former-...

🐝🐝🐝Congratulations to professors Juliet Johnston and Jennifer VanWyk and the members of spring 2025's Bioinformatics: Community Analysis class on their new article examining bee gut health and climate change! It's a very Hampshire collaboration. www.hampshire.edu/news/communi...

⏰ It's about that time! First Year Early Action applications are due one short week from today on Monday, December 1. 📆 It's free to apply: www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

Alum Lysandra Petersson 00F broke into filmmaking after meeting alums Susie & Roy Finch, both 78F, & interning for Susie's Wildwell Films. Today, Petersson has her own full-service production house, Deep Structure, & has made several award-winning series & films. www.hampshire.edu/news/filmmak...

During her time at Hampshire, Div II student Lila Maher F24 has become a true historical fashion scholar, using independent studies to sew her own reproduction vintage clothing. Our flexible curriculum is enabling her to become an expert in a unique field. hampshire.edu/news…

A visit to Hampshire College is now just a click away — at any time and from anywhere. Our new virtual campus tour lets anyone from anywhere in the world get an up-close look at our beautiful campus at their own pace and convenience. Check it out: www.hampshire.edu/admissions/v...

🔥Hey hey🔥—the Early Decision I deadline is THIS SATURDAY, November 15! 🗓️ If you're sure Hampshire is the place for you, it's time to lock in that place! ❤️🐸❤️ www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

Hampshire alum and trailblazing biologist Phyllis "Lissy" C. Coley 70F was recently honored by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with a Barro Colorado Island research trail renamed in her honor www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

Great interview with Izzy Hagerup 16F aka Prewn -- " I was in college, I think my first year is when I joined Blood Mobile and we started playing shows in the dirty basements and it was all exciting and thrilling for me..." post-trash.com/news/2025/10...

Tomorrow, November 1, is the deadline for applications for Spring 2026! apply.hampshire.edu

Thinking about transferring? Want to finish your degree? Hampshire is transfer-credit friendly and 95% of students receive financial aid. The deadline for Spring 2026 transfer students is this Saturday, November 1. www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

The next Hampshire College Open House is coming right up on Saturday, November 8! Register right here: explore.hampshire.edu/portal/open-...

A sunny and colorful fall weekend brought families, friends, alums, faculty, and staff together on the Hampshire College campus to reunite, learn from one another, and have fun. Attendees commemorated 55 years of radical and positive Hampshire changemaking... www.hampshire.edu/news/weekend...

The Hampshire Dance Program is proud to present the 2025 SEED (Show up, Express, Exchange, Dance) concert this Saturday, October 18th at 7:30 p.m. in the Hampshire College Music and Dance Building. \(._.) )_)z / \ Advance sliding scale tix: hampdance.ludus.com/index.php

The deadline for Early Decision I for first-year students is just one month from today! 🗓️ If you're sure Hampshire is the place for you, it's time to lock in that place! ❤️🐸❤️ www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

Congratulations to Hampshire alum Margaret Wickens Pearce 84F, who was named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Pearce is "a cartographer who creates maps that foreground Indigenous Peoples’ understanding of land and place." We're so proud! 🐸 #MacFellow www.hampshire.edu/news/cartogr...

Hampshire College has appointed Jennifer Chrisler as its ninth president. www.hampshire.edu/news/jennife...

10/18: Join documentary filmmaker Ken Burns 71F, AI expert Gary Marcus 86F, & Lynn Pasquerella P08, president of the American Association of Colleges & Universities, for a discussion: “Urgent and Unbounded: The Role of Liberal Arts Education in an Age of Rising Authoritarianism.” hamp.it/55years

Congrats to alum Torrey Peters 00F -- her novel Detransition, Baby is number 87 on The New York Times Book Review's list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🍂☀️🌰☕Fall vibes are strong on campus...and of course, happy The Life of a Showgirl ❤️‍🔥day to all who celebrate!

The deadline for Spring 2026 transfer applications is one month from today: www.hampshire.edu/.../apply...... 🐸Transfer students can build a customized program of study drawing upon coursework they've already completed. They're eligible for merit scholarships & are considered upon application. 🐸

Our first fall open house is Monday, October 13—so very soon! ⭐ Register here: hamp.it/OpenHouses2025 ⭐Come meet our unique students, faculty, and staff, see their incredible work, and discover if Hampshire is right for you.

Congrats to Hampshire-based band I Have No Mouth on the release of their debut EP, recorded with Hampshire grad Will Killingsworth of iconic Hampshire-formed band Orchid! 🤘🐸🤘 dailycollegian.com/2025/09/hamp...

Fall is here 🍂 & so is Hampshire’s 55th Anniversary Celebration! 🥳 Join us October 17-19! Stay on campus in Greenwich! Go🦇 bat watching & bug catching with the Animal Behavior Club! Take a wagon ride to the farm 🐑! Show off at the open mic 🎤! And so much more! www.hampshire.edu/alumni/alumn...

2024 was an amazing year for Hampshire alum Sylvia Bashevkin 72F, who was awarded a Canadian Persons Award from Canada’s Minister for Women & Gender Equality AND made an Officer of the Order of Canada, which described her as "one of Canada's top scholars of gender and politics."

Lynne Brill, former director of Hampshire's Early Learning Center, died on August 28, 2025. "She modeled kindness, empathy, creativity, and belief in the power, intelligence, capability, and importance of our youngest children." - alum Josiah Litant 00F www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

Sugar Maple Glacial Lake Station by alum Sara Smith F90 is now on display at the Hampshire College Art Gallery through 11/7. The installation is part of a larger multimedia project & inspired by octopi and Chicana activist and scholar Gloria Anzaldúa. www.hampshire.edu/news/alum-sa...

Two weeks into the semester at Hampshire College @hampshirecollege.bsky.social I love my courses and students. The students--most of them just starting college--are great: smart, lively, engaged. So here's a frog

We're different from every other college. Come let us show you why! An open house is the perfect opportunity to experience our community. Come discover if Hampshire College is right for you. Monday, 10/13 and Saturday, 11/8. Register: hamp.it/OpenHouses2025

I wrote “Hampshire’s Light” — a folk tribute to Hampshire College & Joan Braderman, feminist film pioneer. Class of ’85, I opened my studio that summer. 40+ yrs later, her light still inspires. 🎶 🎧 adamsweet.bandcamp.com/track/hampsh...

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The new academic year is fully underway at Hampshire College @hampshirecollege.bsky.social so here's your frog 1/2

Hampshire ranks 15th out of 1,421 liberal arts colleges! The Washington Monthly rankings consider contribution to the public good in four categories: access for nonwealthy students, overall affordability, academic & financial student outcomes, & how well the college promotes public service. ❤️🐸

Ravett’s 1994 film, “Forgotten Tenor,” will screen on September 3 at Amherst Cinema as part of its “Sound and Vision” series. www.hampshire.edu/news/profess...

Interim President Jennifer Chrisler in the Boston Globe: "We’ve been really clear with our community and our campus that we aren’t going to engage in anticipatory compliance...We’re helping students think critically. We’re helping them wrestle with, ‘What does it mean to be an engaged citizen?'"

Today is the day! Welcome, new students! We can't wait to meet you! 🐸

Hear the fire of Brivele's Spirit, a klezmer folk-punk anthem steeped in Yiddishkeit. Born from Hampshire College alum Stefanie Brendler’s vision Lyrics of community, resistance, and joy. Snag it now and let Brivele’s flame light your soul! adamsweet.bandcamp.com/track/brivel...

First year at Hamp I took a class on puzzles taught by prof. Kelly. He was the sweetest, most charming, quirky old guy. He collected ceramic pigs, obsessed over numbers, lived in a beautiful modern house in the woods, got kids excited about math, and let me profile him for a journalism course. RIP.

And here, especially for the Hampshire College (@hampshirecollege.bsky.social) community--many of whom (well, at least the students) are nightowls--I managed to get a view of a little frog who likewise decided to sit out here and enjoy the cool night air

Brutal? No, beautiful: Holyoke artist [and Hampshire alum!] Michael Karmody 84S has found beauty — and a decent living — in concrete creations valleyadvocate.com/2025/06/26/b...

Children’s book author & Hampshire alum Erica Perl 86F had a school visit canceled after a parent complained about her social media video in which she celebrated Pride and mentioned that one of her characters, Snail, is nonbinary. www.hampshire.edu/news/alum-er...

Emeritus Professor David C. Kelly — known to many simply as Kelly — died on June 10, 2025. He taught mathematics at the College from 1970 to 2015, and was founder and director of the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics program (HCSSiM), which is ongoing. www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

sad news: passing of Hampshire College (@hampshirecollege.bsky.social colleague Joan Braderman "a visionary in the world of experimental and #feminist #video and cinema....a founding member of the art collective Heresies" www.legacy.com/us/ob...#feminist#video#art #feminism #film