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Educating for Change | Changing Education

Through your studies and projects you’ll develop the intellectual audacity and ethical courage to improve your world, and be part of a movement in higher education.

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Results of Removing Standardized Test Scores from College Admissions

One year after Hampshire's decision to stop accepting SAT/ACT scores in admissions, we are seeing remarkable results.

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Hampshire College is Sixth on Forbes' List of Most Entrepreneurial Colleges

More than a quarter of Hampshire graduates start their own enterprises: social ventures, investment firms, advocacy organizations, or creative mashups of those and more.

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Getting Off the Grid Through the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative

The Tern Foundation and an anonymous donor set a matching challenge to fund the solar array for Hampshire’s new living building.

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Jonathan Lash on Why Grade-based Evaluations Fail Students

Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash writes to Education Week on why grade-based evaluation fails students.

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Amherst, MA 01002

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