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By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — Luma Mufleh, who was shaped by her experience at her beloved alma mater, Smith College, and went on to found the refugee and immigrant education nonprofit Fugees Family, will be Smith’s commencement speaker this year.“I thought it was...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College President Kathleen McCartney plans to step down as the school’s leader in summer 2023, a decade after arriving on campus.In an announcement Friday, the college said that McCartney — Smith’s 11th president — will leave her...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A record-setting enrollment of Black students in Amherst College’s first-year class is garnering attention from a publication that focuses on the status of African-Americans in higher education.For college officials, topping The Journal of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A new academic building for Amherst College will break ground this spring on South Pleasant Street, south of the President’s House.To be known as the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Lyceum, the 18,500-square-foot building includes the...

By BERA DUNAU

AMHERST — Amherst College President Biddy Martin plans to travel and work on writing projects after she steps down as the college’s leader next summer, before returning to the college to teach.Martin has served as college president since 2011, and...

By STEVE PFARRER

AMHERST — It began as a one-building school, with a few dozen students, a tiny handful of faculty, and a curriculum based around math, Latin, oratory, philosophy and, above all, piety. The school’s founders wanted to provide a classical education for...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Ryan Leonard wanted to start his own legacy, not follow his family’s.The Amherst native and former Pope Francis forward announced his commitment to play hockey for Boston College on Sunday in an Instagram post.“It’s nothing against other schools, but...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College knew two decades ago that a faculty member had been accused of sexually abusing a minor, but chose not to act on those allegations, allowing him to teach at the college until recently.On Wednesday morning, the Roman...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Tony Bergeron will no longer be a member of the UMass basketball coaching staff moving forward, the school confirmed Saturday.He’s the latest member of the program to exit after Tre Mitchell and Carl Pierre entered the transfer portal last week.The...

By MIKE MORAN

Colin Minicus thought his lacrosse career was over.With his senior season at Amherst College cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he threw his name into the NCAA transfer portal to see if an opportunity came up.One did, just not from the portal. On...

EDITED BY MAX DUTZIK HENRICKS,PARKER PETERS, NICO RIBADENEYRA and MIRANDA DEBRUYN

Note: This is the first of three narrative reports in a special series produced by Professor Kathy Roberts Forde’s “Longform Narrative” class in the Journalism Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Until the COVID-19 crisis disrupted...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Costs associated with Amherst College’s decision to move instruction online, and sending students home for the remainder of the semester in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, could exceed $10 million, according to a memo sent to students and...

By Steve Pfarrer

At first glance, it looked like a scene from a typical day at Amherst College: about 100 students sat in a lecture hall, on tiered seating on three sides of the room, notebooks and digital devices like iPads at hand, while a professor stood in the...

   By STEVE PFARRER

It began during a warm, beautiful summer, when many still viewed war as a glorious and noble pursuit, a rite of passage for men marked by dressed battle lines, colorful uniforms, dramatic cavalry charges and quick and decisive campaigns.But when the...

By Shell Lin

Every fall, college freshmen arrive on campus, excited to meet their new dorm mates. But what if one of those new neighbors has fur? More and more students are facing this reality with new policies regarding “comfort animals,” which are basically pets...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — When Smith College astronomy professor James Lowenthal got images back from the Hubble Space Telescope this year, his initial response was simple: “Wow!” What he was looking at were the brightest infrared galaxies in the universe —...

The potential scaling back of Pioneer Valley Transit Authority bus routes serving the Five Colleges is troubling because hundreds of people would lose public transportation vital to their studies and livelihoods.We urge the PVTA advisory board, which...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — Here’s a prime example of how to turn a marketing class project into a job.This spring, Sierra Myers, a Northampton native, created a new Instagram account for Thornes Marketplace as part of a group project for a Greenfield Community...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Jim Brassord has competed in a number of marathons and Ironman competitions, but it’s been the near daily rowing of his boat northward along the eastern seaboard that he describes as the most grueling activity he’s ever undertaken.More than a month...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

State Attorney General Maura Healey and advocates have called on lawmakers to approve a tuition recovery fund for students who incurred debt at for-profit education chains that engaged in unlawful practices or closed their doors, including one campus...