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By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A continued challenge for some prospective students and their families in accessing federal financial aid applications, and a corresponding delay in relaying the information from these forms to colleges and universities, is raising...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A development that could include housing and retail on contiguous vacant parcels owned by Hampshire College, between Atkins Farms Country Market and Applewood at Amherst and across West Bay Road from the Eric Carle Museum, begins making its...

By SOPHIE HAUCK

AMHERST — A group of local college students, along with a handful of Massachusetts lawmakers, are advocating to tax nearly a dozen elite Massachusetts colleges and universities, whose multibillion-dollar endowments they say should fund early and...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The four private colleges in Hampshire County generate an annual economic impact of more than $1.5 billion to the Massachusetts economy, including more than 8,000 jobs, according to a report released by the Association of Independent...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Information technology services at Hampshire College are expected to be handled by a private company, rather than college employees, beginning next month, with a full transition to be complete over the course of the fall semester.A message...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A mandate for students, faculty and staff at the University of Massachusetts to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is ending.“Effective July 1, 2023, the university will no longer require faculty, staff and students to receive a COVID-19...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A $1 million donation from the co-founder of Stonyfield Organic is pushing the Hampshire College capital campaign to nearly two-thirds of the $60 million goal set for June 2024.The college recently announced that alumnus Gary Hirshberg and...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A recent Amherst Police response to the Hampshire College campus, leading to a student being placed in handcuffs, is coming under criticism from college officials, as administrators also look into how the incident was handled by the...

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 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

AMHERST — The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment have recognized a Hampshire College building as one of this year’s greenest structures.As part of the institute’s yearly “Top Ten Awards,” the AIA has recognized...

By CHANCE VILES

AMHERST — Families filled white tents at Hampshire College Saturday to watch the 306 graduating students finish a four-year trek to getting a degree.Mild warmth and a light breeze kept the shaded tent temperate, raising spirits of students, faculty...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — In keeping with Hampshire College’s reputation for its interdisciplinary, often quirky curriculum and teaching methods, academics there have founded a scholars-in-residence program for plasmodial slime molds — billed as “the world’s only...

By AMANDA DRANE and AMANDA LEVENSON

AMHERST — Nearly three weeks after a flag burning at Hampshire College and three days after the first in a possible series of protests against the college’s decision to remove the flag, students are leery.Most declined to talk to the Gazette in visits...

By AMANDA DRANE

AMHERST — In an ongoing effort to persuade Hampshire College leadership to once again fly the American flag, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno is scheduled to meet with the college president on Thursday.Sarno pushed for the meeting with President...

National attention is focused on Hampshire College, a private institution that finds itself at the crossroads of a debate that erupted after it temporarily stopped flying the American flag at the heart of its South Amherst campus.While the controversy...