Hampshire College

Hampshire College offers a variety of services to support students' academic work and success.

Advising—The Center for Academic Support and Advising (CASA) provides support and assistance to students and advisors to plan and achieve academic goals. Toward that end, CASA monitors students' academic progress and offers a variety of services to faculty and to students at all divisional levels.

Library and Computer Services—Library and Computer Services includes traditional and electronic library services; audio-visual and advanced media production; academic, administrative and personal computing; network, television, and telephone services; and the college gallery. The staff provides reliable and sophisticated systems and services to the college community. They empower students, faculty, and staff to be self-sufficient users of information and information technologies and provide a variety of training in support of that mission.

Academic Calendar—This section contains an up-to-date calendar that includes information on important deadlines, vacations, and holidays during the current academic year.

Central Records (Registrar)—Central Records provides students access to their academic records; communicates policies and procedures; prepares transcripts; schedules classroom space; certifies enrollment and/or graduation; provides course registration for Hampshire and the Five Colleges; and prepares other college records and statistics.

Community Engagement and Collaborative Learning (CECL) Network is composed of curricular programs, interested faculty, students, and administrative representatives, and is constituted to facilitate the implementation of the new CEL (Community Engagement and Learning) requirement and to extend the capacity of academic programs that already provide off-campus internship and learning opportunities for students.

Diversity and Multicultural Education—The Office for Diversity and Mulitcultural Education, led by the special presidential assistant for diversity and multicultural education, is responsible for the general advancement of diversity in the life of the college. This includes racial, ethnic, gender, and class diversity as well as diversity based on sexual orientation. The primary mission is to safeguard campus wellbeing as it relates to diversity issues. Responsibilities include serving as an information clearinghouse for the whole community with regard to resources and opportunities related to diversity; sponsoring and organizing academic and cultural activities around those topics; and supporting the work of the faculty on curricular and pedagogical innovations that advance the representation of traditionally marginalized or underrepresented groups in the academic program. The office also assists with the creation of opportunities for students to engage such issues in settings inside and outside the United States, including field studies, study abroad programs, and internships.

Quantitative Resource Center—The center supports the study and application of quantitative methods by students across the Hampshire College curriculum. The QRC assists not only students who are studying mathematics or statistics as disciplines in their own right, but also students who are using mathematical, statistical, logical, or computational methods as part of their academic work in other disciplines. Its resources include several PC and Macintosh workstations and a variety of mathematical and statistical software.

Writing and Reading Program—This program offers assistance to all Hampshire students interested in developing their communication skills.  Because writing is important at Hampshire, this program provides a range of services from individual meetings to workshops and formal courses in writing. 

Institutional Review Board—Research that uses human subjects must be reviewed and approved by an independent committee called an Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB provides an opportunity and place for individuals with different backgrounds to discuss and make judgments about the acceptability of projects, based on criteria set out in Common Rule ("systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge").