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A Visit to Hampshire College

In my frequent travels to western New England, I’ve seized upon the opportunity to work my way through campus visits at each member of the Five Colleges Consortium.  On this particular swing through, despite the chilly, gray day and the impending nor’easter, I headed over to Hampshire College, making sure to bundle up against the biting wind.  The youngest of its brethren (and the only one that was founded by the member schools of the consortium itself), Hampshire is also the most unique in its approach to a liberal arts education – a difference that is made no more apparent than when one drives past a flock of college-owned sheep on the way up to the admission and visitor center, which is housed in a converted farmhouse just off the main road that leads to campus!

And indeed, that was my takeaway message from my time at Hampshire – they do many things differently from other schools of their size and of a liberal arts focus, yet that’s the whole idea.  What’s more, at Hampshire, it works!  Read More