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Amherst College (/ ˈ æ m ər s t / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
The library is accessible to UMass Amherst and 5-College Students for 7 days a week during the normal academic year. The building is a public library so citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who are 18 years of age can access the majority of the building and its materials. An application for a borrowers card can be made online or on-site.
Amherst College Press, founded in 2014, is a new university press (NUP) [1] sponsored by Amherst College, Massachusetts that specializes in open-access monographs. [2] Initially organized by members of the Amherst College Library, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the press issues books via the Fulcrum publishing platform. [ 5 ]
The Five College Consortium (often referred to as simply the Five Colleges) comprises four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, totaling approximately 38,000 students. [1]
Hitchcock Center for the Environment, an environmental education center on the grounds of Hampshire College; Jones Library; Mead Art Museum at Amherst College: 18,000 items with a particular strength in American art; W. E. B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: the tallest academic library in the United States
The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, is located on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. It showcases fossils and minerals collected locally and abroad, many by past and present students and professors. The museum is located in the Beneski Earth Sciences Building, completed in 2006. It is a member of Museums10.
The Mead hosts free programs throughout the academic school year for the Amherst College and Pioneer Valley community. Regular events include exhibition openings, regular Saturday student-led tours, Study At the Mead, a time during Finals and Midterms Weeks where the Mead has food and desks in the galleries for studying, and Community Day, a ...
[1] [2] In 1965, the Parke family sold the house to the Trustees of Amherst College. The college used the house for faculty housing, but opened portions of the house, including Emily's room, for public tours. Next door, Austin and Susan Dickinson lived at The Evergreens until their respective deaths in 1895 and 1913.