Five College Consortium

Five College vice presidents of student affairs and their senior staff gathered for an excellent three-day training in higher ed law and policy, led by higher ed law expert Peter Lake, a lawyer and professor of law at Stetson College of Law.

The lupines are in bloom at Hampshire!

Congratulations to Juana Valdés and Stephen Platt for being named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows! Stephen is also an active instructor in the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, educating K-12 teachers on East Asia!

✒ On Saturday comes the Folger Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Birthday Celebration! Celebrate the writer with activities like quill writing, trying out costumes and face paint, stage combat demonstrations, and more. Birthday cupcakes will be served in the afternoon as well!

🎉 Doors open at 11am. To party, or not to party, that is the question!

🍛 This Friday, the UMass African Graduates' and Scholars' Association presents the UMass Diasporic Rice Festival. Open to all members of the Five College community, this event centers the grain that connects cultures around the world—rice!

🌎 Visit the UMass Campus Center at 4:30 p.m. on April 10th to enjoy rice recipes, storytelling, a keynote talk, and more. RSVP is encouraged, check the link in our bio to do so!

Support from the Mellon Foundation was instrumental in paving the way for the creation of Five College Museums Collections Online, now providing enriched access to 100,000 museum objects from six museums. Thank you, Mellon!

New Five College museums website unlocks access to more than 100,000 objects online - Athol Daily News Five College Museums: Collections Online is a new website that provides access to more than 100,000 objects from campus art museums in Northampton, Amherst and South Hadley, and at Historic Deerfield, making it easier for the public to search and discover items in the collections.

The Annual African Community Dinner, sponsored by the Five College African Studies Program, discussed ideas, celebrated community, and enjoyed dancing at the UMass Campus Center last week. Photos by Dan Little.

Coming this Thursday to UMass--check it out!